Art is part of maintaining the brains’ neuroplasticity and building resilience. Art coupled with community can be even more powerful. Dr. Langdon’s research in intergenerational art learning and community art comes together in this participatory presentation that lets everyone contribute, while learning the therapeutic value of the act of coloring pages. Langdon will share multiple examples from her research that demonstrates why and how coloring and other forms of creative expression support and extend being fully alive.

Join us on this first Sunday of Advent, a Christian liturgical season that starts four Sundays before Christmas. This was created as a way for people to prepare their hearts for the Christ child, but we Unitarian Universalists can use it to prepare our hearts for love. In this season of darkening days, how can we prepare for the Light so that we, too, may be ready when the call is sounded? Stay after service and help us decorate the building with holiday cheer!