UNC Asheville Well-A-Bration 2014 set for Monday, Oct. 20

Posted on — Jeff Fobes

UNCA announces:

UNC Asheville will host its fourth annual Well-A-Bration, celebrating healthful living and wellness, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20. The day-long celebration will feature cooking and exercise programs, health lab open houses, and the fifth annual student-run health fair.

Well-a-Bration highlights that are free and open to the public include:

UNC Asheville Health Fair—11 a.m.-2 p.m., Kimmel Arena Concourse. This fifth annual student-led health fair will feature booths from more than 50 local health organizations, businesses and student groups. Health care providers and community partners including Mission Health Systems and the North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness will exhibit. In addition, the health fair will offer free chair massages and feature acupuncturists, chiropractic practitioners, and health specialists.

Fit Lab Open House—10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sherrill Center room 409. Learn about individual and group fitness assessments, and have your grip strength and flexibility checked.

Biofeedback Lab Introduction and Open House—11 a.m. -12 p.m., Sherrill Center rooms 442 and 451. An introduction to biofeedback and the services of the Biofeedback Lab on campus. Explore the different techniques available to help in managing stress.

HAPI Lab Open House—11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m., Sherrill Center room 351. Learn about the Healthy Aging Program Initiative (HAPI) and experience balance, strength and training activities.

Teaching Kitchen Open House—12-1 p.m., Sherrill Center Teaching Kitchen, room 346. Taste local food cooked fresh in the Teaching Kitchen, featuring ingredients grown in campus gardens.

This year’s Well-A-Bration coincides with National Health Education Week, which aims to pay tribute to the next generation of health educators. For more information, visit https://ncchw.unca.edu/content/well-bration-2014, or call 828.258.7712.

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About Jeff Fobes
As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes
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