Author Talk with Andrea Gilats, “Radical Endurance”

Author Talk with Andrea Gilats: Join us for this evening Author Talk with Andrea Gilats as she discusses and reads from her latest work, Radical Endurance: Growing Old in an Age of Longevity. The talk will begin at 6 pm, the floor will open for discussion and questions after the reading and presentation, and afterwards Gilats will be available to sign books.

Event is free, open to the community, and accessible via ramp. 

A personal guide to the transformations, hard truths, profound pleasures, and infinite possibilities of aging.

Enlightening and deeply moving, alive to the sadness and joy of time passing, Radical Endurance is a guide and a companion through the experience of growing old. Andrea Gilats explores her fears of failing health and loss of independence while navigating the terrain of an ageist culture. She also finds fresh and unexpected ways of understanding herself, offering readers an unconventional coming-of-age story to celebrate a new stage of life.

Andrea Gilats is a writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher. She is author of After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief (Minnesota, 2021), which received a Foreword INDIES honorable mention, and Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age. The cofounder and longtime director of the University of Minnesota’s popular Split Rock Arts Program, Gilats also created and directed two University of Minnesota lifelong learning programs for older adults, LearningLife and Encore Transitions: Preparing for Post-Career Life.

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