Posted By admin on August 8, 2010
On Wednesday, August 18, Children’s Theatre Company will be kicking off the 2010 Neighborhood Bridges Conference with a keynote address from Dr. Stuart Brown. Dr. Brown is a foremost expert in the field of play and has founded the National Institute for Play to assemble knowledge and research demonstrating the effect play has on human brain development.
Below is an invitation to the event along with a full bio of Dr. Brown’s work; admission to the keynote is free for those who RSVP by August 11th. Please feel free to pass this along to friends and colleagues you think may be interested in attending an enlightening discussion about the importance of play in our children’s lives. We hope you will be able to join us!
Children’s Theatre Company
cordially invites you to the
2010 Neighborhood Bridges Conference Keynote Address
WHAT: Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play and author of PLAY: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
WHERE: Cargill Stage, Children’s Theatre Company
WHEN: Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
(Q&A and reception immediately following)
Please RSVP with the number of attendees to John Sessler at jsessler@childrenstheatre.org or 612-872-5306 by August 11th, 2010.
Dr. Stuart Brown’s Bio
Trained in general and internal medicine, psychiatry and clinical research, Dr. Stuart L. Brown’s years of clinical practice affirmed the importance and need for healthy play throughout the human life cycle. His broad based evaluations of highly creative individuals revealed the centrality of playfulness to their success and well-being. His recent years of independent scholarship and exploration of the evolution and neuroscience of human and animal play have helped to focus a central commitment bringing the promises and stories of play into general cultural consciousness and to the establishment of the National Institute For Play (NIFP). With the help of the distinguished Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute, newly acquired play-affirming knowledge is being assembled that is helping to establish a new Science of Play. The NIFP has produced a 3-hour PBS series, The Promise of Play, published a companion book to the PBS film, Where Do the Children Play, as well as conducted The First NIFP Conference on the Status of Play Science at Stanford University. Dr. Brown has authored the recently released Avery/Penguin book PLAY, How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. He continues to actively present keynotes and play workshops, is a frequent consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and has been featured on NPR, The New York Times Magazine, PBS NewsHour, ABC Nightly news, and is soon to be featured on CBS Sunday Morning, and Nightline.
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