PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEWS
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NYC:
A Creative Aging Kind of Town! Year Two of Major Initiative Launches
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Building on the success of the 2018
NYC Creative Aging Initiative, funded by
The New York Community Trust, in early February we launched the second series of in-depth training workshops, webinars and networking opportunities across the City. With our partners,
LiveOn NY and the
Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College, we are shifting older adult services towards an inclusive, creative and modern model.
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Addressing Ageism Through the Lens of Creative Aging
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In January, the
Community Word Project/Teaching Artist Project, in partnership with Lifetime Arts and several other NYC based arts organizations, kicked off a professional development series designed specifically for teaching artists. The workshops will run from January through May. On January 14, Lifetime Arts’ Education Director, Annie Montgomery, and Program Coordinator, Abigail Jefferson, co-led "Ageism and Overview of the Field of Creative Aging," the second workshop offered in the series.
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Learn How to Jump-start Creative Aging in Your Community
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Webinar, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2PM EST
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Register for tomorrow's webinar during which Lifetime Arts co-founder and CEO, Maura O'Malley, and Program Director, Nathan Majoros, will provide you with an overview of what you need to know to get started with Creative Aging programming in your community. We are pleased to partner with engAGED which is funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging, is a part of the Administration for Community Living, and is administered by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a.)
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Upcoming City-wide Creative Aging Training in Chicago
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In March we will deliver two days of teaching artist training in Chicago with
Silk Road Rising, an art-making and art service organization that shapes conversations about Asian and Middle Eastern Americans. Day 1 will focus on Chicago arts organizations. On Day 2 Lifetime Arts will work extensively with the
Silk Road Risi
ng teaching artists and staff to lay the groundwork for successfully launching their program plans.
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The Transformational Power of Arts in Aging
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On January 31, Lifetime Arts' Annie Montgomery and Abigail Jefferson gave a talk on the power of sequential, skill-building arts workshops to an audience of NYC-area senior service organization professionals at LiveOn NY's 29th Annual Conference and Vendor Expo. Everyone was engaged, thoughtful, and inquisitive in this process and several people commented how this made them see the capacity of older adults and what they can do in a whole new way.
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Seeding Vitality Arts Minnesota Re-convening
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On February 25 and 26, Lifetime Arts traveled to Minneapolis to meet with with the Minnesota organizations who were awarded funding from
Aroha Philanthropies'
Seeding Vitality Art
s (SVA) Initiative in 2018 and who have been invited to continue their programs in 2019. During the two days the cohort members drew on one another's experiences to construct action steps to implement their 2019 programs (and beyond) with even more success.
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Artful Aging: What Museums and Arts Educators are Learning from Each Other about Creative Aging
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In May, Lifetime Arts will participate in a panel titled, "Artful Aging: What Museums and Arts Educators are Learning from Each Other about Creative Aging," at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums in New Orleans.
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Arts: Improving the Aging Process
Executive Director, Ed Friedman, was interviewed for a feature article on the relationship between active participation in the arts and healthy aging in a residential programming context in the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of
Senior Living Executive magazine.
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TEACHING ARTIST OF THE MONTH
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Lisa Spraragen
A graduate of Brown University with a Master’s in Music Performance from NYU, Lifetime Arts Roster teaching artist,
Lisa Spraragen
is a classical and flamenco guitarist and dancer. This past year she taught three Creative Aging programs for us as a part of the Catalyzing Creativity in New York City initiative made possible by the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.
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Recently, I was on the train with a young actor, Julia, who related a story. Her father, who is around 60 years old, came into New York to see her perform and on a subsequent evening, the two went to a Billy Joel concert. After the concert Julia's father said, "You know if I had it to do over I would be a songwriter. Julia replied, "Why not start now?"
Read the latest Ed Talk
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New Year Brings Newcomers
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Jeany DonPierre
Administrative Coordinator
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Jacqueline DuMont
Digital Media Coordinator
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Tomorrow is the last day to apply for "Workspace" a nine-month studio-based program that focuses on the creative process and cohort development of emerging artists. For the 2019-2020 session, only emerging artists that self-identify as visual artists will be eligible to apply. DEADLINE: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 5pm EST
Learn more and apply
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