Hope Most cancers
The Wellness Middle for Hope at Hope Most cancers Sources gives a yoga, meditation and health class for most cancers sufferers and caregivers in particular person, through Zoom and YouTube.
Their crew of counselors and social staff assist most cancers sufferers and their households each day with a concentrate on emotional well being, irrespective of the circumstances.
A licensed tobacco remedy specialist is out there to assist these trying to stop smoking with nicotine alternative remedy and counseling.
These in want of medical provides, liquid diet or sturdy medical tools, corresponding to bathe chairs or walkers, are requested to succeed in out. Donations of recent or gently used objects are additionally accepted.
Info: (479) 361-5847 or hopecancerresources.org.
UAMS
The College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Mindfulness Program is providing the Mindfulness-Primarily based Stress Discount Program on-line beginning Sept. 28.
Individuals be taught mindfulness strategies that foster positivity, internal energy and peace, whereas offering helpful expertise for navigating problem, stress, sickness and ache.
This system is an eight-week, nine-session coaching in conscious consciousness and meditation expertise. Lessons meet weekly on-line for about two hours and for an all-day session towards the tip of the course.
Orientation is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept. 28. Lessons one by eight meet from 5:30 to eight p.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 5 to Nov. 23. The all-day class and retreat is 9 a.m. to three p.m. Nov. 13.
The associated fee for the course is $300 and covers supplies. Scholarships are additionally accessible.
Info: mindfulness.uams.edu, or e mail FBYu@uams.edu.
Writers’ Colony
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hole is providing the “Illuminating Black Lives” author’s fellowship.
This fellowship invitations writers to discover the African American expertise. The work could also be in any literary style: fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, or a mixture. It could happen now or prior to now. It could draw upon the lifetime of the creator or probe different lives. There isn’t a expectation of a sure angle or kind of expertise. Reasonably, the profitable utility will exhibit perception, honesty, literary benefit, and the probability of publication.
Two fellowship winners will every obtain a two-week residency on the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hole to permit the recipients to focus fully on their work.
Fellowship functions should be accompanied by a writing pattern and a nonrefundable $35 utility payment. Writers proposing multiple undertaking should submit a separate utility and payment for every one. The submission deadline is midnight Nov. 29. The winner shall be introduced no later than Dec. 29. Residency should be accomplished by Dec. 31, 2022. Exceptions shall be made if covid-19 makes a residency inadvisable.
Info: writerscolony.org/fellowships.
Museums
Every year, Arkansas Heritage awards greater than $30,000 in grant cash to small museums across the state. Grants for 2022 will promote schooling, consciousness and pleasure of Arkansas historical past or assist community-based small museums or organizations in analysis and preservation regarding Arkansas historical past. Eligible museums are historical past museums, historic societies, historic homes and websites and navy museums.
Jimmy Bryant, director of the Division of Arkansas Heritage, offered ceremonial checks to fifteen museums in a hybrid in-person and digital ceremony Sept. 2 on the Arkansas Heritage constructing.
Recipients embrace:
Calico Rock Group Basis, Inc., for the Calico Rock Museum working bills, $2,500.
Metropolis of Altus for the Metropolis of Altus Heritage Home Museum working bills, $2,209.
Clark County Historic Museum for the CCHM Museum working bills, $2,305.
Cross County Historic Society for the “Corridor of Honor” and show circumstances for navy artifacts, $2,500.
Fort Smith Heritage Basis for upkeep and maintenance, $2,500.
Greene County Historic and Genealogical Society for microfilm and publication paper, $2,493.
Helena Museum of Phillips County for carpet/flooring alternative, $2,500.
Sizzling Spring County Museum for working bills, $2,500.
Sizzling Spring County, Arkansas Historic Society for working bills, $2,500.
Howard County Historic Society for working bills, $2,500.
Johnson County, Arkansas Historic Society and Heritage Middle for heritage conservation tasks, $2,500.00
Lonoke County Museum for Lonoke County heritage conservation tasks and vitality environment friendly lighting upgrades, $2,490.00
Outdated Independence Regional Museum for program provides and utilities, $2,410.00
Rector Group Museum, Inc., for utilities, $2,500
Saunders Memorial Museum for sustainability tasks, $2,500.00
Info: arkansasheritage.com or e mail debra.fithen@arkansas.gov.
OLLI
The Osher Lifelong Institute on the College of Arkansas pronounces the next lessons for the upcoming week:
• Sept. 13: “Refresher Bridge,” (in particular person), $35 OLLI Members Solely; “Paleo Weight loss plan vs Vegetarian Weight loss plan,” (in particular person), $19 members, $34 nonmembers; “And 5, 6, 7, 8: Be taught a Well-known Broadway Routine,” (in particular person), $45 members, $60 nonmembers; “Protest to Constructing Political Energy,” (Zoom), $25 members, $40 nonmembers.
• Sept. 14: “Inform Your Story,” (in particular person), $29 members, $44 nonmembers; “OLLI PRESENTS: What Arkansas Reads,” (in particular person), free; “It is Alive! (There’s Mildew on My Cheese?),” (in particular person), $55 members, $70 nonmembers.
• Sept. 15: “Yoga for Wholesome Getting old,” (in particular person), $55 members, $70 nonmembers; “Exploring Crystal Bridges: Tour and Shut Look,” (in particular person), $25 OLLI members solely; “Exploring Mars,” (in particular person), $29 members, $44 nonmembers; “Walmart – The Hometown Retailer that Grew to be a Retail Large,” (in particular person), $25 Members, $40 nonmembers; “Butterfield Overland Mail Route (1858-1861),” (in particular person), $25 members, $40 nonmembers.
• Sept. 16: “Alice Munro: Nobel Prize Winner,” (Zoom), $29 members, $44 nonmembers.
• Sept. 17: “Harness Your Breath, Quiet Your Thoughts, and Age Properly,” (in particular person), $19 members, $34 nonmembers.
Info: (479) 575-4545.
