Creative Minds brings leaders, experts and pioneers in a wide range of fields to share their wisdom in open, community-wide forums in Savannah.
This annual speaker series, which runs throughout the 2008-2009 school year, is designed to stimulate dialogue and spark debate about important issues that affect us all. This year’s series showcases the largest and most diverse line-up to date, featuring leading experts in areas including brain science, American history, jazz and literature. Please mark your calendar to attend these exciting discussions, which are open to the public.
The first lecture will feature Sharon Begley’s lecture, "The Minds Brain" on Tuesday September 16, 2008 at 6:30 pm. An award-winning science columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former science editor at Newsweek, Sharon Begley is the co-author of The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force and the author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves. In her discussion, she will share exciting new scientific discoveries with regard to neuroplasticity and examine the important ways in which the human brain is subject to positive, ongoing change.
"Begley holds out hope that our emotional lives and personalities, far from being carved in stone by our genes and early experiences, will prove as sculptable through mental training as our bodies are through physical training." Discover Magazine
All Creative Minds events will be held in Jelks Auditorium at Savannah Country Day School, located at 824 Stillwood Drive 31419, in Savannah, Georgia.
Tickets will go on sale August 19, 2008. Individual ticket prices are $10 for advance purchase, $12 at the door, (based on availability). Season Tickets are available for $50 per person for advanced purchase and includes admission to all six 2008-09 lectures.
Due to the possibility of sell out events, seats not occupied by 6:25 p.m. will be resold to a waiting list.
For additional information about the Creative Minds series, please call 912-961-8828.
Tickets for all events are available at the SCDS Administrative Office located in Triol Hall. For additional information about the Creative Minds series, please call (912) 961-8828.
Savannah Country Day School is a pre-k through twelve independent school that seeks to prepare students of academic and personal promise to meet with confidence, imagination, and integrity the challenges of college and of life. In partnership with supportive families, we strive to cultivate in each student the desire and the discipline to grow wise, to lead lives of personal honor, to appreciate beauty, to pursue physical well being, and to serve others with a generous and compassionate spirit.
For more information about Savannah Country Day School, its mission, and its programs, please visit www.savcds.org.
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