"The Fun and Fitness Expo brings together
students from New College, [the University
of South Florida] Sarasota-Manatee and the
surrounding Sarasota and Bradenton commu-
nities to engage with aspects of health and
wellness that go beyond the conventional
experiences of a health fair," Robinson said
in the release.
The Fun & Fitness Expo will be held from
1 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6, outside the
Counseling and Wellness Center (across from
Jane Bancroft Cook Library) on the bayfront
campus of New College of Florida. For more
information, contact the Counseling and
Wellness Center at 487-4254.
The Institute for the Ages, co-host of the
Seventh Annual International Conference
on Positive Aging next month in Sarasota,
has announced that more than a third of the
speakers who will be making presentations
come from the Tampa Bay area.
The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency
Sarasota Feb. 9-12.
More than 350 attendees are expected for this
interactive conference, with approximately
75 speakers visiting from other countries, a
news release notes. Click here for a confer-
ence schedule.
Among the keynote speakers will be Marc
Freedman, founder and CEO of Encore.
org, whose topic will be The Generativity
Revolution: A New Movement of Americans
in the Second Half of Life. Freedman has
established himself as "a leading voice in
discussions nationwide about the changing
face of retirement," The New York Times has
written, by founding a nonprofit organization
that promotes post-retirement — "encore" —
careers and by establishing himself as a leading
author on retirement issues, the news release
says. He was named to AARP Magazine's list
of the 50 Most Influential People Over 50 for
2013, and he has been honored with the Skoll
Award for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford
University.
Ina Jaffe, national desk correspondent at
National Public Radio and an aging issues
expert, will present the dinner keynote
address, the release adds. Jaffe has been
honored with an award from the Society of
Professional Journalists and a Gracie Award
from the Alliance for Women in Media.
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