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Dear Friends,
We are really glad to share news about our growing national impact and expanding opportunities. Take a look at our 2014 accomplishments and stay tuned for an exciting 2015!
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The Library Initiative "Goes West"...
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...and North and South and East!
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During a very full and successful Year 1 of Creative Aging in America's Libraries, we launched the Lifetime Arts Affiliate Network, a peer group of 20 library systems from 12 states around the country, along with 67 partnering local libraries.
In New York this past July and in San Diego in October, over 70 Affiliate Network members attended multi-day training institutes where they worked with national experts in library services, arts education, ageism and adult learning. Attendees sang, danced, painted and wrote their way through mini Creative Aging workshops led by professional teaching artists. Said one librarian,
"Love, love, loved getting to do a culminating experience together. I'm looking forward to seeing what programs we all create next."
Over the next 18 months, with ongoing support from Lifetime Arts - these intrepid librarians will partner with local professional teaching artists and host creative aging programs for over 1200 older adults in their communities.
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Librarians participate in social engagement techniques during the multi-day training institute.
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Creative Aging Combats Social Isolation
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With funding from AARP Foundation, Lifetime Arts supported 11 new Creative Aging programs in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester County, Miami, and upstate New York. Over 160 older adults took part in these library based workshop series. This is what one participant had to say,
"So you develop like a family relationship. This group started to develop like a family, a little family of singing people. And, you know, it was rewarding that way, because, you know, you walk out of there and you feel loved."
AARPF, who believes, as we do, that participation in Creative Aging programs helps reduce isolation in older adults is analyzing program surveys to determine the impact of participation on social isolation. A report will be issued in 2015.
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Participants take a group photo at the culminating event exhibition of the creative aging program at the Homestead Branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library System.
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Lifetime Arts on the Road - Building the Field
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From Saratoga to San Diego and from Maine to Minnesota, Lifetime Arts and our team of arts, aging and library experts conducted training, professional development and presentations at arts, aging, philanthropy and library conferences and forums.
These included:
- American Society on Aging
- Community Word Project
- Connecticut Community Foundation
- Grantmakers in Aging
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
- Metropolitan Library Service Agency
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- Maine Arts Commission
- The Actors Fund
- The Creative Center
- National Center for Creative Aging
- New York Library Association
- Virginia Commission on the Arts
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Lifetime Arts Co-Founders, Maura O'Malley and Ed Friedman, at the Minneapolis Central Library to deliver a training for the Metropolitan Library Service Agency.
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New Board Members and a New Website!
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We welcomed three dynamic new board members and published a new website! Take a look: www.lifetimearts.org
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Shannon McDonough
Digital Media Strategist at the JFK Library Foundation, Boston.
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Raymond Santiago
Recently retired Director for the Miami-Dade Public Library System.
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Doug Wingo
Principal at Wingo, Inc. Fundraising Studio, New York City.
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Thank you for your continued interest in Lifetime Arts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday season,
Maura O'Malley
CEO/Co-Founder | & | Ed Friedman
Executive Director/Co-Founder |
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LIFETIME ARTS is a tax exempt, 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization that exists at the intersection of aging and the arts.
To learn more about our groundbreaking work, the organization, our funders, and our leadership, please:
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81 Centre Avenue, Suite 307, New Rochelle, NY 10801
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