Art of Yoga: Zen Survival Session

The Educational Arts Team will hold a reflection session on the book, Station Eleven. Afterward, Jamie Wilson Murry of Mindful Play Yoga will lead an emotional and physical survival family yoga workshop inspired by the NEA Big Read. We strongly recommend bringing your own yoga mat, a limited number of mats will be available.

The NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. For a full schedule of citywide events, visit www.jerseycityculture.org/nea-big-read.


ABOUT THE BOOK

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.

Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it. www.emilymandel.com

EDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM

Through the arts, the Educational Arts Team helps children increase their self-worth, discover their individuality, gain pride in their heritage and community, heighten their academic achievement, and create a vision of a larger world where they can achieve their goals. www.educationalartsteam.com

MINDFUL PLAY YOGA

Mindful Play Yoga brings out the kid in all of us. Working with children, adults, and caregivers through mindfulness, play, and yoga to see the best in everyone. MPY is committed to inspiring children ages 3 -15 and families to be curious life-long learners. Mindful Play Yoga Facebook Page

All events are FREE and open to the public.

For up-to-date program and event information, visit www.hccc.edu/cultural-affairs.