Category: Just for Fun

Would you like to learn a new skill or pick up a fun hobby?

Join Healthy Living@Himmelfarb for a Weaving Workshop, taught by Sandy Hoar.  The workshop will be held at the Himmelfarb Library in Room 202 on Wednesday, March 23rd at 12:00 PM.

In the past, Sandy taught a chain mail jewelry workshop at  Himmelfarb Library. Healthy Living@Himmelfarb is excited to welcome Sandy back this year to teach a selection of weaving projects to GW participants. Sandy is an Assistant Clinical Professor at George Washington University with an enviable arsenal of crafts knowledge. All weaving enthusiasts are welcome, from beginner to advanced levels.

Bring your creativity and a smile. Materials are supplied. Registration for the event is FREE but space is limited. A wait list is available so if you are a late-comer, sign up anyway!

Registration link: http://rooms.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/event/2358473

About the presenter: 
Sandy Hoar is an experienced teacher of Celtic crafts. She has been doing handicrafts her whole life and Celtic crafts for a decade. Sandy enjoys teaching these crafts to adults and families at Celtic MAD week, and has exhibited crafts annually at George Washington University’s DC Art Exhibit. She also teaches at the annual Kids Euro Festival as a representative for the Irish Embassy.

Sandy is a nationally certified Physician Assistant in Primary Care, with specialty training in public health, pain medicine, infectious disease, and tropical medicine, teaching at the George Washington University in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Milken Institute School of Public Health.

Sandy gives her time in many ways, including giving local, regional, national, and international presentations on medicine and public health. She also provides direct care to uninsured patients at the Holy Cross Health Center. She is a former EMT and Instructor, Instructor-Trainer in all areas of first aid and CPR with the American Red Cross and she has been the Health Officer for MAD week since its inception.

Himmelfarb Library Instagram and Twitter Photo Contest

SMHS, SPHHS, and SON students!  We know that you are all working hard to balance school, work, family, and personal life.  Healthy Living @ Himmelfarb would like you to show us how you maintain that balance and stay healthy.  Do you make an effort to eat healthy, exercise, meditate or otherwise reduce stress?  Show us through an original photo and post it to either Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #healthyhimmelfarb between February 2^nd and February 27^th.

All submitted photos should be originally created work in good taste.  Specifics of contest rules are here. Three winning entries will be selected for prizes by a panel of judges representing the three schools.

Good luck and start taking and sharing those selfies with hashtags #healthyhimmelfarb and #himmelfarbGW on February 2^nd!

The 2014 Art Show will take place from April 3rd to May 2nd on the first floor of the library. We will have an opening reception (with refreshments!) on April 3rd from 4pm-5:30pm.

We encourage all Students, Faculty & Staff of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Services, and the School of Nursing to submit artwork.

Prior submissions have included paintings, drawings, photography, weavings, sculptures, pottery, and craft work.

Submissions will also have the option to be displayed in the virtual art show.

We will accept submissions (maximum of five) at the reference desk from March 3rd to March 28th. (Monday-Friday: 8:30am-8:00pm; Saturday: 12pm-4pm).

Please contact Kelly Knight at kknight@email.gwu.edu or 202-994-2963 with any questions.

Due to cool weather, the cherry blossoms still haven't arrived so we have postponed the Cherry Blossom Walk!  The new date is Tuesday, April 9 at 4 p.m.  You can check blossom conditions via the National Park Service's Cherry Blossom Web Cam.

New to DC and haven’t seen the cherry blossoms?  Lived here for years and can’t get enough?  Take a study break and enjoy the cherry blossoms on a brisk afternoon hike around the tidal basin.  Led by a Himmelfarb librarian and part of Healthy Living @ Himmelfarb, the walk will start at Himmelfarb, pass under the cherry blossoms along the Potomac and around the tidal basin, and then loop back to Himmelfarb via the National Mall and the reflecting pools.  We will head out at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9 for this 4.3 mile, approximately 2 hour walk.  If you’d prefer a shorter walk, we’ll also let you know about partway through so you follow the path back to Himmelfarb.   Register and join us!