The Power of Personal Narrative: The Grit, The Guts, The Glory

Join artist and Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health Kunle Adewale as he celebrates the virtual launch of his memoir ÀTÚNBÍ. The Grit, the Guts, The Glory. Panelists will join Kunle to discuss the power of personal narrative to reveal themes of equity, brain health, the arts, resilience, and more. A Zoom link to join will be provided after you register.

Program

Thursday, October 1, 2020

11 AM PDT | 7 PM GMT+1 | 7 PM WAT

Keynote Speaker:

Bruce Miller, Director, UCSF Memory and Aging Center; Co-Director, GBHI

Speakers:

• Kunle Adewale, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at GBHI; Founder, Arts in Medicine Projects

• Pelu Awofeso, Journalist, Non-Fiction Writer. Author

• Anne Browning, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at GBHI; Assistant Dean for Well-Being, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro, Founder, MitiMeth

• Kate Possin, Associate Professor of Neuropsychology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, GBHI

Moderator:

• Wemimo Onikan, Communication Specialist

• Camellia Rodriguez-SackByrne, Alumni Relations Manager, GBHI

Dance Performance:

Magda Kaczmarska, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at GBHI; Teaching Artist and Creative Aging Advocate

Music Interlude:

• Sinmidele Ayodeji, Arts in Medicine Fellow, Musician

• Arts in Medicine Orchestra, Tender Arts Nigeria

The book will be released on Amazon soon. Stay tuned.

For more information or questions, email carmen.hart@gbhi.org or olakunle.adewale@gbhi.org.

Book Synopsis

In ÀTÚNBÍ, Kunle Adewale answers difficult questions about the process and journey to success for the ordinary man in a world increasingly political, where gatekeepers, money and connections seem to be the thoroughfare to dreams and accomplishment.

ÀTÚNBÍ serves as a guide, a light through the story of the author’s process, the author’s reconnection to his childhood fascination with colors, designs and patterns. How through the darkness of despair and the mire of incessant abuse in a domestic climate of polygamous rancor and poverty, Kunle found a shimmering light of hope through sheer determination, courage, persistence, endurance, and by playing deaf to the voices of doubt.

Kunle is today a renowned Artist in Health and well-being. His project in Nigeria, Art in Medicine, has found a nexus of disciplines in order to provide hope, succor, refreshment and expression to health and physically challenged persons in hospitals and health centers. The second of August was earmarked as Kunle Adewale Day in honor of his selfless passion and development work in Nigeria, the US and around the globe.

The answer, from ÀTÚNBÍ, is the same age-long wisdom today’s generation has been “trained” to ignore. Because while everybody sought avenues to earn the highest pay, Kunle sought a space where he could be of the most valuable service, regardless of material compensation. And it is in that path of genuine service that every other thing took shape. ÀTÚNBÍ makes it clear that the process is not for the fainthearted, neither for those seeking the easy way out. Instead, it shows another way; a way that not only requires one to trust and respect the process but a way that shows a gleaming end that faith in the process guarantees.