American Liver Foundation Programs

The American Liver Foundation offers five free health education sessions and activities:

Liver Wellness

This program increases understanding of the liver and its role in maintaining health, liver illnesses, and liver transplant. The Liver Wellness program seeks to make liver wellness part of everyone's concern, whether or not they have liver disease.

Hepatitis C Treatment Choice Initiative (TCI) Program

The program is designed to address the needs of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) positive individuals, caregivers, and providers by providing them with the information they need to make informed choices. We will educated on nutrition, liver viruses, liver cancer, and liver transplantation.

THINK B

The American Liver Foundation's THINK B national campaign is designed to increase hepatitis B awareness, screening and treatment among at-risk populations, especially Asian Americans. It provides outreach and education to health care providers and patients.

Love Your Liver Youth Program

This program is an interactive education session geared towards elementary and high school aged youth to provide health education and support regarding important liver-related topics, including liver viruses, transplantation, as well as, family physical activity and nutrition.

Fatty Liver Information Program (FLIP)

This program is targeted to the general public, as well as people with liver disease. The program facilitates a greater understanding of the liver and its functions, discusses the development and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and offers a multi-discinplinary approach for maximizing liver health.

Details:

Each program is 30-45 minutes

Various target audiences-see descriptions above

Free

Contact:

Suzanna Masartis, smasartis[at]liverfoundation.org

412.434.7044

www.liverfoundation.org

Alex Jones, Quintet and Trio

Alex Jones, principal clarinet of the Pittsburgh Philharmonic works with two musical groups that offer programming for libraries:

The Clarinet Quintet: A Musical Tour

Alex Jones has teamed up with the Washington Symphony String Quartet to bring you this program that begins and ends in Vienna, Austria. It starts with a recently discovered work fragment by Mozart for clarinet quintet in B flat. Then the tour moves to the opera house of Italy with Rossini's "Introduction, Theme and Variations" for clarinet and string quartet, based on two of Rossini's unfinished opera works. Then travel to Russia via the Orient Express with Glazunov's "Oriental Reverie." Head back to Vienna via the Black and Mediterranean Seas and stop off at Jerusalem to explore the three Hebrew Sketches of Russian composer Alexander Krein. Upon a brief respite, the program concludes with a Viennese daytrip to Budapest with Johannes Brahms's arguably best chamber work, the clarinet quintet in B minor, an expansive opus that couples Brahms late-romantic German compositional style with Hungarian folk melodies still heard today by street musicians playing the clarinet.

The Morningside Trio presents, It's Beethoven! Or is it?

Ludwig van Beethoven is a household name amongst classical music novices and experts alike due to his amazing command of the musical language and his innovation in pushing the envelope of musical expression. While arguably most famous for his symphonic works, he was a master craftsman of chamber music. His late piano sonatas contained notes that were not available in pianos of his time and his string quartets foreshadow the construction of pieces by much later composers. As part of his vast collection of chamber compositions, Beethoven wrote two trios for clarinet, cello, and piano. Beethoven's influence reaches composers even today, so it is not surprising that many composers have also embraced the trio of clarinet, cello, and piano. This program explores works written in the style of Beethoven. During each performance the audience is exposed to a work and asked to guess whether the piece was composed by Beethoven or another composer. Programs may include multiple works by Beethoven, ore even none, but what's for sure is you'll love the music. The Morningside Trio is a trio of clarinet, cello, and piano. Venues that have a functional piano are preferred.

Details:

1- 1.5 hours

Fee is negotiable

Contact:

Alex Jones, akj850[at]gmail.com

Morningside Trio website

Washington Symphony String Quartet Facebook page

Checks for Vets

Award winning author and veteran advocate Joseph Scott McCarthy will present his program Checks for Vets, a guidebook to help wartime service veterans and surviving spouses receive VA pensions to pay for long-term care (assisted living and home care).

Billions of dollars in VA pension benefits are available, but many disabled wartime service veterans and surviving spouses may not know how to take advantage of them. Joseph Scott McCarthy reveals the secrets that money is set aside for long-term care for those who served our country. The pension can pay up to $23,000 tax free for assisted living, nursing home, and non-medical home care, which can be the difference between living a safe, dignified life or struggling at home.

The guidebook, Checks for Vets, contains samples of all the forms needed, step-by-step directions, and tips for successfully filing a pension claim.

Details:
1 hour including questions
Free
Signed copies of the book available presentation

Contact:
Joe McCarthy
info[at]checksforvets.com or 412-715-8741
www.checksforvets.com

John Craig

Photographer and artist with 20 years of experience, John Craig, has two programs to offer libraries:

Taking Great Photographs
A two-part workshop geared towards learning professional photography. Topics include understanding exposure, ISO, F/stops, and shutter speed; how to use manual mode; natural light techniques; understanding your lens; and understanding white balance. While not mandatory for the program, participants are asked to bring a DSLR camera, if they have one.

CLAV hosted the workshop and had 40 participants with a waiting list of 25! Many other Allegheny County libraries have also hosted this workshop.

Details:
2 two hour workshops
library is asked to provide a projector and white board
$100 fee for photographer
Teens and adults

Unleashing Your Creativity
This discussion class is intended to inspire participants to pursue creative efforts. John will share his "10 Commandments for Creativity."

Details:
1 hour
$55 fee

Contact for both programs:
John Craig
craigphotograph[at]mac.com
724.355.9079
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