A Walk in the Woods: May 28, 2024
In partnership with the Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging, the Centre for Health Policy and the Calgary Public Library.
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Where: Central Library, 800 3 St SE, Calgary, AB
Doors Open: 5:30 pm
Begins at: 6 pm
About the film:
Author Bill Bryson (played by Robert Redford) decides to hike the Appalachian Trail and, on his wife’s insistence that he does not go alone, invites long-lost friend Stephen (played by Nick Nolte). What ensues is a hilarious and physically demanding adventure leading to reflections on their lives, relationships, and mortality, and ultimately to the appreciation in the beauty of nature and the importance of friendship.
After the movie, join the University of Calgary's Dr. Sonya Jakubec, RN, PhD, and Dr. Cindy Barha, PhD, for a discussion and Q&A about physical activity, outdoor experiences, and wellbeing as we age.
FREE admission and popcorn, seating is first-come, first-serve.
Meet the Panelists
Dr. Sonya Jakubec, RN, PhD
Dr. Jakubec is a community mental health nurse and researcher. Her current work examines the health and wellbeing benefits of inclusion in parks and nature for people of all abilities and ages – including long-term, palliative and grief care. Dr. Jakubec is an adjunct professor in Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, UCalgary, and a professor in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at Mount Royal University.
Dr. Cindy Barha, PhD
Dr. Barha is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Neuroscience, Brain Health and Exercise, and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at UCalgary. Dr. Barha’s expertise is in behavioural neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, and exercise neuroscience. Her research aims to promote healthy brain aging through effective and personalized exercise interventions. Her current work investigates benefits from exercise, considering biological sex and genetics, and optimal intervention timing with emphasis on critical neuroendocrine transition states (i.e., pregnancy, midlife, older age), and the brain’s response to exercise.
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