Region 2 Arts Council invites artists and arts program leaders
to increase their capacity to develop/expand opportunities that more successfully engage arts patrons and participants with memory loss, and related cognitive or sensory impairments, in the arts experience.
This workshop includes:
- A Virtual Dementia Tour facilitated by Judi Weiss from the Dancing Sky Area Agency on Aging.
- An opportunity to learn successful strategies for engagement from artists and arts program leaders who have done this work.
- Time to debrief the Tour with fellow participants and discuss potential applications to various arts disciplines.
February 20, 2019
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Watermark Art Center
505 Bemidji Ave.
Bemidji, MN
Free to participants.
Please register via email or phone by February 18.
**Round trip mileage will be offered to a limited number of participants coming from Northern Beltrami, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and Clearwater counties at the current federal rate.
This activity is made possible by combined funding from the McKnight Foundation and the voters of Minnesota, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
