Brain Awareness Week Film Screening

Presented by: University of Regina
Category: Other Event
Date: March 19, 2015 – March 19, 2015
Address: 3737 Wascana Pkwy, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2
Website: http://www.uregina.ca/events/brain-awareness-week-film-screening

Alan Berliner’s First Cousin Once Removed is the story of poet, translator, critic, and teacher Edwin Honig and his experience with Alzheimer’s disease. In the film, Berliner shows us five years of Honig’s life with Alzheimer’s but also glimpses of his poetry, home movies, and beautiful visual metaphors. Ultimately, the film captures the importance of memory and language for poets, but really for everyone. As Honig says a few times in the film, “memory is a picture of your life.” A discussion with members of the University of Regina Departments of English and Psychology will follow the film. More information: http://www2.uregina.ca/cah/news-and-events/events/2015-brain-awareness-week-film-screening

More information at: http://www.uregina.ca/events/brain-awareness-week-film-screening


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3737 Wascana Pkwy, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2
I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, “I don’t think you can be focused on, ‘Oh gee, I want to make a difference.’ It has to be spontaneous. If it’s not…there’s some kind of egotistical thing going on. That’s a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don’t. You’re trying.
Lisa Shannon, A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman

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