AUG 24, 2021

HFM Ruby Connection: Game Night with Anne Henningfeld and Michael Jay Garner

Join HFM’s women’s group, the Ruby Connection. Alternating between noon-1pm and 7-8pm the fourth Tuesday of the month, adult women in the bleeding disorders community will come together for an online social experience that will include an educational speaker or activity and connection with other women in the community. The group is open to women affected with a bleeding disorder or involved in the bleeding disorder community. There is no obligation to attend every month, come when you can.

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TOPIC: Game Night with Anne Henningfeld and Michael Jay Garner

Get ready for an hour of fun with HFMā€™s favorite gameshow host Michael Jay Garner and his lovely business partner, wife, and our good friend Anne Henningfeld. Ā 

Get into the spirit of being a ā€œRubyā€ and wear something red! Have some fun and step into a red evening gown, shirt, boa, hat, ruby slippers, or whatever makes you feel fabulous and lucky! Ā 

You will need to have the following items handy:Ā 

  • Dry erase board or paperĀ 
  • Dark markerĀ 
  • Your game-faceĀ 

Our Speakers:

Speaker: Anne Henningfeld

Anne has over ten yearsā€™ experience directing summer resident, day, and travel camps for a variety of populations, including hemophilia, traumatic brain injury, and at-risk youth. Since 2014, she has spent her summers executing her favorite part of summer camp: staff training. Anne completed her masterā€™s degree in therapeutic recreation from the University of Toledo in 2011 and is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. A two-time recipient of the Health Education Award of Distinction from the National Hemophilia Foundation, and the 2009 Michigan Hemophilia Professional of the year, Anne is in demand as a speaker and presenter. She was the 1998 Central Florida Yo-Yo Champion and toured the United States doing motivational school assembly programs. Prior to Covid-19, Anne spent the off-season researching and improving her staff training modules while accompanying her husband Michael as he performed in the global tour of Cirque du Soleilā€™s Kooza. Currently, Anne develops virtual programming and produces virtual events and camps for non-profit organizations.

Speaker: Michael Jay Garner

Michael started his performing career like many who pursue this type of work: by accident. He received a BA in psychology from Emory University, where he also learned how to juggle, play various musical instruments, and find comfort and joy playing on stage as a four-year cast member of the nationā€™s oldest college improv troupe. After college, Michael worked in the corporate world, but took many side gigs as a performer. And while preparing an audition piece for The Big Apple Circus, he realized that by assembling this random assortment of skills, he had inadvertently been training to be a clown for ten years ā€” without even realizing it. Since then, Michaelā€™s life has been a swirling vortex of clowning and circus arts ā€” from working as a hospital clown with The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, to being the Resident Clown at The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp (a childrenā€™s medical camp founded by Paul Newman). He has also toured with Britney Spears on her World Circus Tour and has been touring interna- tionally with Cirque du Soleil since 2016, playing the Handyman clown in KOOZA. Michael is also very proud to work with Cirque du Monde, an outreach program of Cirque du Soleil that teaches circus arts to at-risk and underserved youth. And finally, he would like to apologize for the camera being too close to his face in the posted profile photo.
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