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Mon, Sep 14
|Book Society
Read to Lead Workshop: Creative Medicine
Read to Lead Workshops are evenings built around a practice, not a book report — a single theme, anchored to a great book. This session, Creative Medicine, draws on Daisy Fancourt's Art Cure to explore why creativity is essential to our health, and how to cultivate it in everyday life.
Time & Location
Sep 14, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Society, 2945 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
About the event
Read to Lead Workshops are evenings built around a practice, not a book report. Each session takes a single theme, anchors it to a great book, and gives you the space, ideas, and guidance to actually put it into practice.
Our first session is about creativity — and the surprising case that making things is truly medicine.
We spend so much of life being productive that we forget the things that actually restore us — an afternoon in a gallery, a song that stops us mid-step, an hour lost in making something. What if tending to your creativity wasn't an indulgence, but a practice worth protecting?
We'll draw on Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt, the Sunday Times bestseller (and 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist) making the scientific case that the arts are a fifth pillar of health, right alongside sleep, food, exercise, and nature. Fancourt's decade of research shows how…
Tickets
Book Society Members
Ticket rate for active Book Society Members only. One ticket per member. Additional guest tickets should be purchased at General Admission rate. Or tell your friends to join ! Learn more about how to become a member today at www.booksociety.social/membership
$50.00
+$1.25 ticket service fee
General Admission
General admission for non-members
$70.00
+$1.75 ticket service fee
Member Ticket + Book
Book Society Members-Only Ticket + Art Cure NOTE: Ticket rate for active Book Society Members only. One ticket per member. Additional guest tickets should be purchased at General Admission rate. Or tell your friends to join ! Learn more about how to become a member today at www.booksociety.social/membership
$82.00
+$2.05 ticket service fee
General Admission + Book
General Admission Ticket + Art Cure
$102.00
+$2.55 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00