CREATIVE AGING NEWS | OCTOBER 2019
This fall Lifetime Arts will offer a series of professional development workshops and sessions in service of several large-scale creative aging initiatives, each designed to equip creative aging stakeholders and programmers with the information, insight, best practices, and tools they need in order to plan, offer, and sustain great creative aging programming in their communities. We look forward to seeing you in NYC, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver.
Credit: Julia Xanthos Liddy for the NYC Creative Aging Initiative
Year Two of NYC Creative Aging Initiative Concludes
Over the past two years, Lifetime Arts has offered 30 trainings, webinars, and networking salons to hundreds of teaching artists, senior center and arts organization staff members across the five boroughs as part of the New York City Creative Aging Initiative , generously supported by the  New York Community Trust .

The final two sessions in this series will be offered in October and December. We will host a convening in February 2020 with our partners Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College and LiveOn NY.

Partnership with National Guild Grows
As part of the 2019-2020 cycle of Catalyzing Creative Aging , an initiative offered in partnership with the National Guild for Community Arts Education and generously supported by Aroha Philanthropies , the Moca Foundation, and the NAMM Foundation , Lifetime Arts will again provide training and coaching to the arts organizations selected to participate. The grantees for this latest round will be announced by the Guild in late October.

On October 15 at the 2019 Grantmakers in Aging Conference in Denver, we will partner to offer, " Age Equity: The Impact of Ageism on Arts Funding and Programs ." Lifetime Arts has also designed a deeper dive into these topics which we will deliver during a 5-hour mini-institute on November 2 at the National Guild's Annual Conference in Austin, TX .  Earlier that week on October 30, we will offer the Catalyzing Creative Aging Institute as a pre-conference workshop.
SPOTLIGHT ON THE TEACHING ARTIST OF THE MONTH
This month we are highlighting Debra Pasquerette , teaching artist and Manager of Community Engagement at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, CA, who is currently teaching “Staged Stories,” a Creative Aging workshop series that is a part of Catalyzing Creative Aging. Debra on why she thinks it is important to work with older adults: "At The Wallis, we believe that people of all ages should have the opportunity to learn and grow through the arts." We couldn't agree more!
Teaching Artist Training in MN Continues
L to r: Annie Montgomery (Director of Education at Lifetime Arts); and Lynda Monick-Isenberg (Lifetime Arts Trainer) with Teaching Artist Panelists; Thern Anderson and Mary Moore Easter (Movement at TU Dance); Dr. Louis Porter II (Memoir at Walker Methodist); Matt Abernathy (Music/Choir at Minnesota Opera); Dane Stauffer (Theatre at Park Square Theatre); and Masanari Kawahara (Mask Making at Pillsbury House and Theatre). Credit: Lindsey Francis
In July, Aroha Philanthropies and the Minnesota State Arts Board offered the third in a series of Creative Aging trainings for Minnesota 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, socially-engaging arts education workshops for older adults. Lifetime Arts and Aroha recruited a diverse cohort of artists, the largest teaching artist training that the two organizations have partnered to design and deliver. The next session in the series will occur on October 21-22.

Read a comprehensive recap of the summer session: 50 More Minnesota Teaching Artists Trained in Creative Aging Program Model
NASAA Leadership Institute Explores Creative Aging
L to r: Teresa Bonner, Executive Director, Aroha Philanthropies; Maura O'Malley, CEO, Lifetime Arts; and Diana Champa, Director of Literacy Engagement, School One, Providence, RI. Credit: Jennifer Borman
On September 20, Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts presented, “ Collaborations in Creative Aging ,” at  National Assembly of State Arts Agencies' 2019 Leadership Institute (NASAA) , hosted by Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in Providence, RI. The session was designed to share outcomes reported by participants, what it takes to develop successful collaborations and how the arts ecosystem is being strengthened by engaging older adults as art makers.
The Unexpected Joys of Launching a Creative Aging Program
In an inspiring blog post published by the American Alliance of Museums , Lisa Ortega-Pol, museum educator at the Museo de Historia, Antropologia y Arte of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR Museum) , shares the overwhelming response she has received from the 55+ community there after the museum launched a creative writing workshop last year, as part of Aroha's Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Initiative .
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Conversations with GIA: The Power & Impact of Creative Aging Programs

Creative aging programs provide older adults with a renewed sense of purpose, improved wellbeing and connection but aging services have been slow to embrace them.

Speakers: Teresa Bonner, Executive Director, Aroha Philanthropies; Maura O’Malley, CEO and Co-Founder, Lifetime Arts. Moderator: John Feather, CEO of Grantmakers In Aging.
Foster a Creative Social Community to Help Older Adults

While creative expression is the main thing that people think about when they consider creative aging, the social engagement aspects of this type of programming are key to what makes these arts workshops so gratifying for participants. Lifetime Arts presents a webinar on this topic as part of their partnership with the engAGED National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults offered by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a).
Team News
Credit: National Guild for Community Arts Education
Lifetime Arts Deputy Director Joins National Arts Leadership Cohort
In July, Lifetime Arts’ Deputy Director, Nathan Majoros, participated in this year’s Community Arts Education Leadership Institute (CAELI) program, offered by the National Guild for Community Arts Education in collaboration with Partners in Performance, Inc. Nathan was selected to join the 2019 class along with 26 other individuals representing arts organizations from across the nation.

Seunghil "Shawn" Choi Joins as Office Manager

To assist us in the management of our expanding work, we are pleased to welcome Shawn Choi to Lifetime Arts. A 2015 Binghamton University graduate, Shawn earned a BA in Art and Design with a concentration in Sculpture. Previously, Shawn worked as a recruiter and also as a general manager at an art import company. In addition to sculpture, Shawn is passionate about drums and digital editing.
Lifetime Arts Trainer Named 2019 Creative Community Fellow

Lifetime Arts Trainer, Vinny Mraz, has been selected to join the fifth international cohort of National Arts Strategies (NAS) 2019 Creative Community Fellows for his crucial work in creating stronger and more inclusive communities through arts and culture. He is one of 25 fellows selected to join a network of nearly 200 leaders working to drive positive change in our world. Congratulations, Vinny!
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