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advancing arts educational activity programming in Brooklyn public libraries — has proven to serve as an anti-isolation remote plan model for public library systems.
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The post-obit are examples of programs offered in museums across the U.S. — during and immediately prior to the pandemic — in which teaching artists centered their curriculum in Blackness cultures and history and/or taught media inspired past Blackness and Brown artists.
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In contempo years, Lifetime Arts' work has focused largely on land, organisation, and sector-wide capacity edifice initiatives. In this post, nosotros provide an overview of our grooming and executive coaching appointment on this front from July through mid-October.
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A run-downwardly of creative aging work we have been doing with state agencies, urban library systems, museums, and arts organizations around the U.S.
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In Apr, Maura O'Malley, Lifetime Arts' co-founder and CEO, was joined past fellow creative aging practitioners in the virtual series, "Thriving Better Together: Creative Crumbling & Resilience."
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In this post, we highlight a series of programs that are happening this summer as part of new and ongoing creative aging initiatives.
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"What has been fascinating to me ... is that each arts agency — whether with a staff of 10 or 100 — has embraced this opportunity with serious, strategic and passionate try," said Maura O'Malley.
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Fifteen Wyoming libraries will soon offer arts-based programming that will enrich the lives of older adults (55+) in their communities through the Creative Aging in Wyoming Public Libraries Project. The project is fabricated possible through a partnership betwixt the Wyoming State Library, Wyoming Arts Quango, and Lifetime Arts with funding from the Wyoming Community Foundation and the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust.
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On February x, Lifetime Arts Director of Educational activity, Annie Montgomery, and Pushcart Prize Nominated Poet, Mary Moore Easter, delivered the virtual workshop, "Combating Ageism in a Socially-Distanced World," during Roowork, an online learning serial hosted past the National Guild for Community Arts Education.
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FOR Firsthand RELEASE February 16, 2021 CONTACT Jenina Podulka, National Guild for Community Arts Teaching jeninapodulka@nationalguild.org nationalguild.org Shannon McDonough, Lifetime Arts smcdonough@lifetimearts.org Research shows participatory arts learning for older adults provides significant wellness benefits critical to counteracting social isolation New York, NY—The National Guild for Community Arts Education and Lifetime Arts are pleased to announce that …
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I decided to look effectually our apartment to meet which of the things that I own have real meaning to me and that I would miss if I lost them. In most cases, it's the art on my walls. In all cases it's not just the pieces, but what they represent, that holds significant for me.
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On February x, 2021, Lifetime Arts' Manager of Education, Annie Montgomery and Pushcart Prize Nominated Poet, Mary Moore Easter, will present the virtual workshop, "Combating Ageism in a Socially Distanced World," during the National Social club for Community Didactics's online learning series, Rootwork. During the workshop, participants will learn how artistic aging arts education programs gainsay ageism and are a pathway to reconnect older adults to one another, and to their communities in the midst of the pandemic.
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Earlier this year Michael Matthew Ferrell, founder of Alive & Kickin', a touring vocal ensemble of older adults "who rock," collaborated with Sandy Boren-Barett, the CEO and Artistic Manager of Stages Theatre Company, an educational theatre program for children and youth, to create the intergenerational music program, "Peace four the Ages." The program paired older adults and …
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Lifetime Arts is proud to launch The Creative Crumbling Resources website (http://www.creativeagingresource.org), the first dedicated place on the web to offer artists, customs educators, program administrators, senior service professionals, and funders a browsable directory of hundreds of hand-curated pieces of research, media, case studies, experts and organizations related to the field.
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When the pandemic initially hit, NEC knew they had to quickly adapt to a virtual world and maintain the connection between their older adult students, faculty, college students and community partners. Faculty and staff addressed this head-on and transitioned their two older adult music programs to a responsive and interactive virtual format.
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I started re-evaluating my relationship with Zoom. It wasn't Zoom's fault. Zoom had been loyal and reliable. I didn't want to go out Zoom for another platform, just another medium, similar, maybe a volume. As I was about to engage Zoom with the, "Information technology'southward not you, information technology'due south me" approach, I had a realization; zoom is the only matter that gives me a connection, yet tenuous, to other people.
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Since March 2020, the CMC has developed several new ways to adapt their Older Adult Choir Program (OACP), which serves nearly 400 older adults in senior centers throughout San Francisco, to a successful online learning platform. To keep their dynamic choir communities connected during COVID-19, the center worked with their senior center partners to create remote instructional videos and zoom sessions.
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On September 30, Lifetime Arts' Director of Teaching, Annie Montgomery and Education Associate, Julie Kline, will deliver an interactive virtual session on the topic of creative crumbling programming during COVID-19, part of the 2020 Louisiana Arts Meridian and hosted by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge in partnership with the Louisiana Division of the Arts.
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FOR Firsthand RELEASE Shannon McDonough Lifetime Arts smcdonough@lifetimearts.org This innovative collaboration promotes wellness and combats social isolation through anti-ageism training and community-based arts didactics programming. NEW ROCHELLE, NY: Today, Lifetime Arts announced that in addition to the professional person development training for teaching artists and library programmers previously announced equally part of the Creative Aging …
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On Baronial 25, Lifetime Arts' Education Acquaintance, Julie Kline, will evangelize the virtual workshop, "Creative Crumbling During COVID," office of the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artists Virtual Retreat. This upshot will have place via online video conferences over a period of four weeks, from August 10 through September 2, 2020.
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For the past three years, teaching artist, Dane Stauffer, has been teaching his storytelling programs to the same group of students at the Park Foursquare Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Dane was in the middle of teaching his program when COVID-19 forced the theater to shut. With Park Square Theater's approval, Dane shifted his program to an online format and reclaimed it as, "Storytellers Online: Bringing Our Stories to the World."
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When COVID-xix forced teachers and students to shelter in place, Stagebridge'south programming was between sessions. Staff were able to take this time to decide how to continue with their popular Performing Arts Institute, and discovered that the digital shift to online learning could be the next step to building their community of artists and older developed learners.
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Lifetime Arts Roster Education Artist, Greacian Goeke, has been teaching her signature class, "Free to Motion: Expressive Move & Rhythm for Brain & Body Health," at the Albany Senior Eye outside of Oakland, CA for the last 10 years. When COVID-xix forced the Albany Senior Heart to close downwardly and in-person programming and live performances to disband, Greacian immediately reached out to her students to keep her weekly movement classes via Zoom.
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To me, not wasting time means non wasting the opportunity to create something. So if we're trying to write NOW for the theatre, are we writing for what theatre is now or sometime in the (hopefully not too distant) futurity? Why can't we do both? There are many theatre makers who are working difficult to keep the medium alive in any way they can — some more successfully than others.
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This a personal reflection on ageism written past Lifetime Arts' Director of Education, Annie Montgomery. This commodity was originally published in the National Lodge for Customs Arts Teaching's Guild Notes, 2020, Issue 1.
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While our campaign, "Connect Through Inventiveness Now," highlights pedagogy artists, arts and service organizations working within the traditional Creative Aging model (sequential learning, skill-building, social-engagement) while stay-calm orders prohibit in-person social gatherings, there are a number of other efforts emerging that warrant mention. Below are several examples of others working outside the traditional model, who …
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Debra Pasquerette, teaching artist and Manager of Community Engagement at The Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts in Beverly Hills CA, was teaching, "Staged Stories," a storytelling/memoir program when the crunch forced her to cancel the culminating event. Debra designed a new extended curriculum that stretches well across the original 8 week series that allows students to encounter every week through a two-hour Zoom session.
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Educational activity creative person and Lifetime Arts Trainer, Vinny Mraz, was education his third "Comedy Workshop" to students at the Wartburg in Mt. Vernon, NY, before he had to disband the class due to the COVID crisis. While the program is on pause, he continues to share his appreciation for his students past painting their portraits and sharing them on his Instagram.
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When the COVID crisis hit, DOROT was adamant to proceed serving their customs members, who have come to capeesh high-quality arts programming and social interaction with their friends and staff. In simply 1 month, DOROT was able to move all of their onsite programs to what they are calling DOROT Onsite @Home via Zoom video conferencing.
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Wyoming Arts Quango Receives $xx,000 Grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation for Creative Crumbling Training in Partnership with the Wyoming Land Library and Lifetime Arts The Wyoming Arts Council is pleased to denote the receipt of a $20,000 grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation's McMurry Library Endowment Fund. Through a partnership between the Wyoming Arts …
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"I call up Zoom is a good platform because our members have the option to telephone call in [by telephone] — even from a landline," said Laura Marceca, Director of Greenwich Business firm Senior Middle on the Square. Laura has been thrilled to run into that classes are very well attended and are alluring new students.
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MAKING A Pop-UP MEMORY Folio with Spica Wobbe & Karen Oughtred | Office ane: Materials and Tools | Making the Base of operations Folio Queens, NY is one of the most international places in the earth. The Flushing Council on Civilisation and the Arts have fix a program called FTH at Abode: Global Arts for Global …
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The Museo de Historia, AntropologÃa y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, part of the Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Cohort, were at the end of their self-portrait program when COVID-19 impacted in-person programming. With two classes left unfinished, the museum's staff and teaching creative person joined forces to blueprint and implement an online session which gave students the opportunity to socially engage with 1 another, share their culminating work, and terminate the program equally a community.
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"We're all doing this really new and difficult thing past trying to translate in person experiences to the virtual platform," he says, "Don't stress yourself out trying to brand it perfect. Be upfront with folks well-nigh the experiment of it and leave space for them to requite feedback."
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From my own work creating original theater with, and nigh, the real lives of older adults, I know firsthand that the research is right. It is the social interaction part of arts education that is of the greatest physical and mental benefit to older adults.
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John Prine died this past week — a victim of Covid19. "Hullo in At that place" is being performed and shared again, and is a potent reminder of the toll this pandemic is taking on older adults in particular — and information technology is a call for u.s. all to achieve out.
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These days that indecisiveness is compounded past being thrust into a situation that has no precedent, for which there is no handbook, and has no end that anyone tin see. The future is ever a mystery and non knowing is always part of the equation in trying to figure out your life moves. But this is off the nautical chart unknown.
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I recently read a guest column on Next Avenue written by Karen Grassle, who played Caroline Ingalls on the "Little Firm on the Prairie" TV series that ran from 1974-1983. Her story focused on how younger people she encountered negated her historic period, meaning it as a compliment.
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A while back in this column, I took the position that art-making wasn't merely most "fun,"...science has confirmed my musings.
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In Jan, at the culminating event for, "A Storied Life," a 12-week digital storytelling workshop offered by the Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) in partnership with The Knolls, a Bethel Community, viii filmmakers — all aged 55+ — wowed a packed screening room with digital film shorts depicting personal stories of dearest, loss, and discovery. …
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This year marked a turning point in our work and in the Creative Aging motion. More and more organizations and agencies beyond the land take realized that arts education for older adults isn't near filling empty time, information technology's about creativity, customs-edifice, health, and helping people realize creative potential.
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Lifetime Arts is humbled to admit the contributions of our small, full-time professional staff who lead Education, Programming, Digital Media, Project Management, and Operations efforts in support of our piece of work in the burgeoning field of Creative Aging. We are likewise very fortunate to be able to attract and retain summit talent to work with us …
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With attending spans and the willingness to brand and go along commitments seeming to exist on the decline, I suppose it's to be expected that we'd run across the appearance of "instant theatre," or the 24-hour play projects. While I've seen these promoted in some New York City Off-Off Broadway theatres, the concept has come to Westchester …
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In this, the second and concluding twelvemonth of the New York City Artistic Aging Initiative, Lifetime Arts delivered about 20 free, in-person training sessions, networking salons and webinars to hundreds of NYC education artists, arts organization and senior center staff members. These training events were designed by our Director of Education, Annie Montgomery, to non only share …
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Earlier this year, Mayor Martin J. Walsh along with the Age Stiff Committee and the Part of Arts and Civilisation appear a partnership with Goddard House Community Initiatives and Lifetime Arts that has brought free participatory arts programming to older adults in the city's Jamaica Plain, Mattapan and South End neighborhoods. The Artistic Aging Program (CAP) …
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Public funding for the arts at the state and national levels has always supported arts education. Historically, that has meant funding programs serving the chiliad-12 population. Soon after nosotros launched Lifetime Arts more a decade ago, ii country arts agencies, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, expanded …
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This month, the Marriage County Historical Society and Heritage Museum held their culminating result for the workshop, Journeys Through Clay, part of the Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Initiative. The programme was funded by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy and preparation and technical assistance was provided by Lifetime Arts. Beneath are videos that captured the workshop, which featured …
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of a three-region Creative Aging Initiative to provide hands-on art-making programs that support comprehensive physical and mental health benefits for older New Yorkers and gainsay social isolation. Created past a new partnership of the New York Land Council on the Arts and the New York State Role for the Aging, the Creative Aging Initiative takes an innovative, evidence-based approach to healthy crumbling, underscoring New York's leadership as the first age-friendly land in the nation.
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Lifetime Arts is thrilled to welcome Seungil Shawn Choi as Role Manager and David Woehr every bit Program Coordinator. Shawn assists u.s.a. in the management of our organization's expanding piece of work. A 2015 Binghamton University graduate, Shawn earned a BA in Fine art and Design with a concentration in Sculpture. Previously, Shawn worked every bit a recruiter and as well equally a …
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To meet the growing demand for Creative Aging programming beyond the U.S., for the start time e'er, the National Guild for Community Arts Education introduced a Artistic Crumbling Track at their 82nd national conference held recently in Austin, TX. The Conference brought together more than 700 leaders and educators from all backgrounds to share knowledge, …
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FOR Immediate RELEASEOctober 22, 2019 Arts didactics programs designed to engage the vitality of older adults New York, NY—Twenty nonprofit arts teaching organizations from 13 states take been selected to participate in the tertiary cohort of the National Guild for Community Arts Didactics's Catalyzing Creative Crumbling Plan. This multi-phase plan is provided in partnership with …
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On October 15, the National Guild for Community Arts Pedagogy presented the professional development workshop, "Historic period Equity: The Touch on of Ageism on Arts Funding and Programs," at the 2019 Grantmakers in the Arts Briefing: Cultural Intersections in Denver, CO. Adam Johnson, Chief Operating Officeholder at National Social club for Community Arts Education, moderated the workshop, which too featured …
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Arts programming throughout the Urban center to be tailored to older adults BOSTON – Friday, Oct 11, 2019 – Mayor Martin J. Walsh along with the Historic period Strong Committee and the Office of Arts and Culture today announced a partnership with Goddard House Community Initiatives and Lifetime Arts that brings free arts programming to older adults …
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Debra Pasquerette, teaching creative person and Manager of Customs Engagement at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, CA, has worked with people of all generations across the community. She afterwards shifted to working with older adults and developed a passion to pursue Artistic Aging programming in her community. Every bit role of …
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I've never lived more thirteen miles away from Yankee Stadium. As I enter my "tertiary human action" I'thou feeling psychologically prepare to retire, which impels me to enquire the question, "Where do I want to live?" I've spent parts of the final 16 summers in the Berkshires. The Berkshires is a highland region mostly located …
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On September 18-twenty, Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts presented, "Collaborations in Creative Crumbling," at National Assembly of State Arts Agencies' 2019 Leadership Plant, hosted by Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in Providence, RI. In 2016, Aroha Philanthropies adult a major multi-year initiative, Seeding Vitality Arts (SVA), to seed artistic aging programs nationally. Using a learning cohort model, Aroha and its …
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Lifetime Arts Trainer, Vinny Mraz, has been selected to join the 5th international accomplice of National Arts Strategies (NAS) 2019 Creative Community Fellows for his crucial work in creating stronger and more than inclusive communities through arts and culture. In addition to being a trainer for Lifetime Arts, Vinny is a playwright, pedagogy artist and theater maker …
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On July 29 and 30, Aroha Philanthropies and the Minnesota State Arts Board offered the third in a series of Creative Crumbling trainings for teaching artists working in all arts disciplines. The event, held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, was designed to equip teaching artists with the skills to design and teach successful, skill-based, …
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Now in its 10th year, the Community Arts Education Leadership Institute (CAELI) program, offered past the National Guild for Community Arts Educational activity in collaboration with Partners in Performance, Inc., provides an intensive and transformative feel, designed to strop and advance fellow member leadership skills and effectiveness by engaging seasoned and emerging leaders with acme leadership trainers, …
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An commodity by Jill Smolowe in Next Avenue posed the question: "Do nosotros slow down considering we retire? Or do nosotros retire considering we slow downwards?" Ms. Smolowe described her life in "retirement" and information technology sounded similar anything but retiring. She described her electric current life equally consisting of volunteer piece of work, exercise, meditation, getting together with …
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The National Club for Community Arts Teaching and Lifetime Arts are pleased to announce that 10 nonprofit arts pedagogy organizations from 9 states have been selected to receive seed grants of $7,000 each to support the launch of new, innovative arts education programming for older adults in their communities. The population of older adults in …
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Our population of adults over age 55 in the U.South. is speedily growing, and enquiry shows that participatory arts education programs for older adults foster positive aging and healthier lives. To support the establishment of new programs similar this at Guild member organizations across the state, the National Social club for Community Arts Education is …
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In Adjacent Avenue'due south most recent Vitality Arts Study, I came across an article championing the benefits of music making to older adults. To anyone who has read, "Ed Talks," or spent any time on the Lifetime Arts website, this is not news. What I establish more than dramatic as I explored the written report farther, was the …
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Lifetime Arts' Roster Instruction Artist and accolade winning storyteller, Robin Bady, has been didactics theatre, writing and storytelling for as long as she tin can remember. Her career began with education children in schools and later branched out to teaching in libraries, theaters, parks and senior centers. In 2012, Robin was awarded the National Storytelling Network's J.J. …
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Lifetime Arts conducted training events in May to back up the arts organizations, didactics artists, and senior center staff offering Creative Aging programming in NYC as part of the NYC Artistic Aging Initiative, fabricated possible through the generous support of the New York Community Trust, and offered in partnership with the Brookdale Center for Healthy Crumbling at Hunter College and LiveOn …
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Lifetime Arts' Deputy Manager, Nathan Majoros, has been selected to join the 2019 class of the Customs Arts Pedagogy Leadership Institute (CAELI), a leadership program designed for individuals in the nonprofit arts education sector and run past the National Guild for Customs Arts Education in collaboration with Partners in Performance, Inc. Nathan is one of …
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Every bit nosotros at Lifetime Arts always notation, no two Creative Aging programs are the same. They are shaped by the teaching artists, the participants, and the venue. This past year, our initiative, Creative Crumbling in Westchester County, supported by the Westchester Customs Foundation, resulted in v new programs including two that focused on memoir writing. …
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"We compartmentalize our community, and especially when information technology comes to age, this begins early on on in our lives. We are missing huge opportunities for intergenerational noesis to be shared in a reciprocal experiential mode that provides the space for connectedness and empathy in means that traditional educational experiences do not. I would say that things …
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On Monday, May 20, the American Brotherhood of Museums (AAM) held a panel titled, "Aesthetic Crumbling: What Museums and Arts are Learning from Each Other well-nigh Artistic Crumbling" during their annual conference in New Orleans. Ed Friedman, Executive Managing director at Lifetime Arts moderated the panel which also featured Annie Montgomery, Director of Instruction at Lifetime …
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I've written in this space about the pleasure of not existence condescended to equally an older adult in an acting visitor made upward of much younger theatre artists. My near recent experience acting in the Ruddy Monkey Theatre/Thou&Yard Production of Chekov's, "The Seagull" was very positive, merely the reality is, engaging parts for older actors …
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On Friday, May 17, the Association of Teaching Artists (ATA), the oldest, independent organization serving instruction artists in the country, held its 2019 Awards ceremony in New York City, to accolade creative person educators who have fabricated a significant impact on the field of Teaching Artistry and to kick-off Pedagogy Artist Appreciation Week (May twenty-27). Lifetime …
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Each May, the Administration for Community Living leads our nation'south observance of Older Americans Month. This year's theme is Connect, Create and Contribute, which encourages older adults and their communities to: Connect with friends, family unit and services that support participation Create by engaging in activities that promote learning, wellness and personal enrichment Contribute fourth dimension, talent …
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Lifetime Arts conducted several training events in March to support the arts organizations, teaching artists, and senior center staff offering Artistic Aging programming in NYC as part of the NYC Creative Aging Initiative, made possible through the generous support of the New York Customs Trust, and offered in partnership with the Brookdale Eye for Healthy Aging …
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"Grooming Chicago teaching artists was and so inspiring. They are hungry for this work and the day was filled with the space to share ideas and work together to imagine what Creative Aging programs in Chicago could be like." -Annie Montgomery Managing director of Teaching Lifetime Arts Lifetime Arts delivered two days of extensive teaching creative person grooming …
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"I appreciated the enthusiasm of the presenters and the possibility of inspiring my community." On April 4 and 5, in continuation of a statewide grooming being conducted by Lifetime Arts, Education Director, Annie Montgomery, and teaching artist, Julie Kline, traveled to northern Wisconsin to deliver ii full-day professional development workshops on Creative Aging programming for public librarians …
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Schoolhouse of Drag, a Creative Aging program collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Fine art in Tucson, AZ (MOCA) and Fluxx Productions, is a ten-calendar week workshop series that invites 55+ LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual, non-binary, pansexual, etc.) community members to explore art, narrative and performance which culminates into a showcase featuring performers …
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This calendar week long training programme draws people from around the country and focuses on the role of the arts in healthcare and creative aging, providing theoretical and didactic approaches to implementing and sustaining high-quality arts programming in a diverseness of settings serving older adults across the crumbling spectrum. Lifetime Arts is a regular presenter at …
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Now in its second grant wheel, the National Guild for Community Arts Education's Catalyzing Creative Aging Initiative is helping arts organizations beyond the U.S. to better serve older developed learners. For instance, since last fall, enrollment has chop-chop increased and continues to practise so at Pasadena Solarium of Music. In fact, the "summer camp" programs beingness offered …
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In an attempt to encounter the growing, nationwide demand for our professional development services, we held a train-the-trainer effect at our headquarters in New Rochelle, NY on March 25, 26 and 28. For this series, we invited our already established master teaching artists on our roster of trainers, Antonia Perez and Julie Kline, and identified …
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Written well-nigh 20 years agone, and a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, Kenneth Lonergan'southward, The Waverly Gallery, is very much a "retention" play. It depicts a multigenerational family unit of non-religious, Jewish, NYC intellectuals. The focus of the play, and the family'southward energies, is the rapid cognitive decline of the eighty- something grandmother, Gladys, a …
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On February 25 and 26, Lifetime Arts traveled to Minneapolis to take function in a re-convening of the Minnesota organizations who were awarded funding through Aroha Philanthropies' Seeding Vitality Arts Initiative in 2018 and who have been invited to continue their programs in 2019. The event historic the accomplishments of 2018 and reflected on whatever challenges the …
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Lifetime Arts is thrilled to welcome Jacqueline DuMont as Digital Media Coordinator. Reporting to our Deputy Director, Jacqueline assists in the development and management of Lifetime Arts' digital content and information. After receiving a B.A. in Communication and Media Studies from Penn State Behrend, Jacqueline served as the Electronic Communications Assistant for Materials Research Lodge. Jacqueline'due south passion …
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A graduate of Brown University with a Primary'due south in Music Performance from NYU, Lifetime Arts Roster teaching creative person, Lisa Spraragen is a classical and flamenco guitarist and dancer. This past year she taught three Creative Crumbling programs for us as a office of the Catalyzing Creativity in New York City initiative fabricated possible by the Fan Flim-flam …
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Recently, I was on the train with a young thespian, Julia, who related a story. Her begetter, who is around sixty years quondam, came into New York to meet her perform and on a subsequent evening, the two went to a Billy Joel concert. Afterward the concert Julia's father said, "You know if I had …
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On Thursday, Jan 31, Lifetime Arts presented to over 70 social workers, senior center program coordinators, directors, arts therapists, advocates, and other senior staff interested in bringing high quality arts programs to the older adult constituency at Alive On's 29th Annual Conference and Vendor Expo. The Creative Aging Lifelong Learning Model (registration-based, sequential fine art workshop …
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I've become hyper-enlightened of the plethora of articles being published on the electronic and print media with titles such as, "The Best Places to Retire," "The Ten Best Places to Age," and "Places Where Your Retirement Dollars Volition Go Farther." Most of these stories feature places with warm climates (Florida and rest of the Sunday …
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Built-in in Minneapolis, MN, Peyton's earliest memories as a child were making art and being creative. This connected into loftier school where he discovered graffiti art from the motion picture Style Wars in 1984. This consumed his art interest. A portfolio of traditional fine art and graffiti influenced works helped earn acceptance into the School of the …
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This fall Lifetime Arts has delivered of live Artistic Aging preparation sessions in New York Metropolis, around the state, and across the country. Community Centers In October, Lifetime Arts fabricated two split up trips to the YMCA of Greater Syracuse. On the commencement trip, the team oriented the executive managing director and key programme leaders to the …
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Equally a upshot of three major Creative Crumbling initiatives running programs this fall every bit a effect of our training and technical support — The Catalyzing Creativity initiative in New York Urban center, funded by the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Catalyzing Artistic Crumbling, a project in partnership with the National Guild for Customs Arts Education; …
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October 2018 On October 25, our Executive Director, Ed Friedman, delivered the opening Keynote Address, "Creative Aging in Customs Settings" at the Brookdale Foundation Group's 2018 Annual Conference held at the Marriott Hotel in Teaneck, New Jersey. The conference was attended by over 200 people representing organizations from 35 states. The Group's major initiatives are: …
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As mentioned earlier this fall, Lifetime Arts, Inc. is proudly teaming up with the Didactics Creative person Projection (TAP) Accomplice, a division of Community-Discussion Project (CWP). TAP is a comprehensive training and internship hosted by CWP and designed to set artists to bring their craft into K-12 classrooms. The TAP Cohort is a network of arts organizations …
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The Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services sponsors the Westchester County Senior Hall of Fame, celebrating outstanding older adults in this New York land county for their achievements and contributions to their communities and beyond. Since 1983 over i,100 seniors take been inducted into this prestigious group at the awards lunch that hosts over 500 …
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Earlier this twelvemonth I surmised in this cavalcade that things may be irresolute for older actors (especially female) who seem historically to take fewer and fewer opportunities as they age. I wrote almost a quartet of older actors starring in the popular film Book Club. Of grade these were all "A" list actors and box …
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Mr. DeBlieck's teaching credits include faculty lecturer at the Academy of Hawaii (1995-1997), where he taught courses in modern dance technique and advanced Labanotation, Augsburg Higher (2005-2015) where he taught Artistic Drama, Introduction to Theatre, Dance for Musical Theatre and Introduction to Dance, and at St Cloud Land University (2009-2015) where he taught trip the light fantastic composition …
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Attend a Artistic Aging Effect Near You Thanks to the generous support of Aroha Philanthropies, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the NAMM Foundation, and the Music Human being Foundation, this fall virtually 100 culminating events in 15 states will showcase older adults making art and friendships beyond the United States. The culminating events (a.k.a., …
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This year more than 900 people aged 55+ from New Mexico to New Hampshire attended 65 Creative Aging programs in public libraries, arts organizations, and community spaces where they mastered new art-making skills such as digital photography, acting, creative writing, singing, and dancing. How do these programs work? These arts workshops were offered through several …
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Marta Sanchez is a educational activity creative person and visual artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She has taught at several customs centers and universities including the Tyler School of Art, St. Joseph's University, Taller Puertorriqueño, and The Isle of man Senior Center. Her piece of work is part of several permanent collections including Yale Academy, University of Michigan, University …
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This week, Stria, a new media platform focusing on the longevity market, published a cavalcade by our co-founder and executive director, Ed Friedman, on retirement choice and how those developing products and messaging for this demographic might think differently near their approach. Visit strianews.com to read Ed's column and to explore trends, topics, ideas, and …
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