the role of arts & creativity in your senior center
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Today we bring you…
THE ROLE OF ARTS & CREATIVITY INYOUR SENIOR CENTER
The Pennsylvania Association of Area Agencies
on Agingwelcomes you to the
TOOLS FOR THE TRADEWebinar Series.
Aging PositivelyRennie Cohen
Presented by Mary Catherine Dabrowski
REMEMBER . . . 50+ = 3 Generations
Boomers ≠ G.I. Generation Interest, NOT Age Center Without Walls
Effective Programming Needs a Plan
Community Partners
Creativity Matters
whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form.
Creativity is the ability to produce something new through imaginative skill…
Studies also show that intelligience has little correlation with creativity.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia:
“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”
~ George Sand, French novelist & memoirist
James Taylor Stevie Nicksborn 1948 born 1948
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Paul McCartneyAretha Franklin
born 1942born 1942
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Toni MorrisonTony Bennett
born 1931born 1926
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Betty White Stan Leeborn 1922 born 1922
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Shirley S. Allen
published by Mainly Murder Press in 2010
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MarkWilliams International Digital Publishing
relaunchedShirley S. Allen’s
first novel as an ebook in 2012
born 1921
(when Shirley was 81)
Julie Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way
Mark McGuinness,poet & coach for artists
“Seeing logical associations between seemingly unrelated
things is a hallmark of creativity.”
“Yes. I believe that everyone is creative. Whether you declare yourself an artist or not, you
make creative choices every day.”
“Creativity is inherent in everyone, can be nurtured throughout life.
Through creativity,the expertise gained with aging has the potential to offset the complications of aging.”
Creativity Matters: Arts & Aging in America ~ Gay Hanna & Susan Perlstein
Dr. Gene
Cohen
Arts participationis proven
to increase the health & wellbeing
of older adults
YES - your brain loses neurons throughout life
In The Mature Mind, Gene Cohen says:
BUT - it’s not about the number of neurons
IT IS - about the connections between neurons – the dendrites
HOW ? – dendrites develop & grow when the brain is exposed to a rich, stimulating environment.
Art Matters
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced,
Leo Tolstoy in What Is Art? (1896)
and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling —
this is the activity of art.
WHAT?
“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint.
Writers have words.” ~ Lisa Fantino, author
Painting
Studio at
Home
Painting at the Center
Teaching Artist
Book Discussion at
the Center
or the Library
or the local Coffeehouse
share the joy of dance
KAIR
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“We are part of the emerging national field of Creative Aging, working alongside professionals in the arts, health care, social service and community development to raise awareness about the importance of creative involvement across the lifespan.”
kairosdance.org
HOW?
REMEMBER . . . Effective Programming Needs a Plan
bestdayofmylifesofar.org“I feel like one of the loveliest parts of this project is that at every given moment in time, it is both larger than life and can be tucked right inside each of our hearts.”
bestdayofmylifesofar.org
More?
REMEMBER . . .
Center Without Walls
Community Partners
seniortheatre.com/senior-theatre-articles
pahumanities.org
“Inspiration is for amateurs…
~ Chuck Close, one of America's most influential & collectable artists.
If you wait around for the clouds to part & a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process;
Things occur to you…
& something else that you reject will push you in another direction.”
~ Chuck Close, one of America's most influential & collectable artists.
they come out ofthe work itself.
if you just get to work, something will occur to you & something else will occur to you
48Chuck Close born 1940
“Art saved my life”
73quadraplegic 1988
Art transforms everyone who experiences the art.
PRODUCT?
Art Exhibit Reception/Event
ArtVenture
Handcrafts Exhibit
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
~ Kurt Vonnegut, American writer
Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward.
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.
You will have created something.”
No Magic Wand Needed
Thank you to P4A for this Tools for the Trade Webinar!
Aging PositivelyRennie [email protected]
IMPROVING YOUR CENTER’S BOTTOM LINE
GROWING A MEMBER SUPPORT TEAM
ASKING FOR MONEY IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK!
EXPANDING YOUR SENIOR CENTER PROGRAMMING ~ Part 1
This presentation, along with the following webinars in this series, will be archived on the P4A website.
EXPANDING YOUR SENIOR CENTER PROGRAMMING ~ Part 2
Photo Credits
• Creativity by mrsdkredbs• Gillian Ayres Painting “Sang the Sun in Flight” by Jim Linwood• A Midsummer Night, Gillian Ayres by Thomas Guest • 40/365 by tiff_ku1• The Power of Creativity by The Shifted Librarian • Uphill by g.wu.• Writing by jjpacres• Pottery Selection by violetknows • “Creative Hands” – Mindy by dalydose • Creative Hands by LijoJose• Poetry Reading 001 by pennstatenews• Plaza Dancing by Alex Ristea• 30a.FSGW.Crafts.32ndWFF.GlenEchoParkMD.3June2012 by Elvert Barnes• Playing Red Roses for a Blue Lady-1= by Sheba_Also• 90cb by rearl • Quilt-art-of-inclusion010 detail3 by stella_beli• IMG_3641 by davidgrinnell• Get with the rhythm by mjevenstar • My Easel by Marcia Furman• A Great Books Discussion Group met at the Newton Free Library on April 12 to learn about The Power of the Majority
by De Tocqueville by Newton Free Library• Supper Sleuths book discussion group by Lucius Beebe Memorial Library • One Book Discussion - Java Room by chelmsfordpubliclibrary • Evita at the Forest Theatre in Carmel with Library Folks by Squid!• Poetry reading by Palmerston North City Library• Harlequin Art Exhibit, NYC, 5/29/09 – 139 of 145 by rtbookreviews• Dover OSC Craft Show by Nerissa Alford Designs • Magic Wand by Nieve44/Luz• Questions? by Rajiv Patel (Rajiv’s View)