Let's start your week with some Verdi! One Saturday in April, the Opera Company of Philadelphia teamed up with the Reading Terminal Market's Italian Festival for a "Flash Opera" event! Over 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and cast members of La Traviata performed "Brindisi" while roaming Reading Terminal Market.
Bravo!
Happy Monday!
(Can't see the video? Go to Artful Aging and enjoy!)
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
It's Monday, it's November, and Life is Beautiful!
Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world, will celebrate her 107th birthday this month, November 2010. She will probably celebrate with music.
Take some time from what you are doing right now and watch this video. The music alone will make you feel great. And Alice's story will inspire you.
Here is the official trailer for "Alice Dancing Under the Gallows," a documentary short due to come out in 2011.
In Alice's own words,
Take some time from what you are doing right now and watch this video. The music alone will make you feel great. And Alice's story will inspire you.
Here is the official trailer for "Alice Dancing Under the Gallows," a documentary short due to come out in 2011.
In Alice's own words,
"Only when we are so old ... only, we are aware of the beauty of life."
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Experience Aging through Art at the ASA East Coast Conference here in Philadelphia
Creative Arts & Aging Network
is presenting
is presenting
"Creative Connections: Experience Aging through Art."
at the American Society on Aging's (ASA)
East Coast Conference on Aging
East Coast Conference on Aging
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
at the
Philadelphia Corporation for Aging
Philadelphia Corporation for Aging
642 North Broad Street (Broad and Wallace Streets)
Center City Philadelphia.
This September ASA, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, is offering cutting-edge programs and continuing education for professionals who work with older adults. And Creative Arts & Aging Network will be there! “Creative Connections: Experiencing Aging through Art,” will feature two sessions:
Morning Session:* Experiencing Aging through Art Part I (9:30-12:30)
The morning intensive is designed to help staff working in the aging field find and develop the resources necessary to implement arts programming for older adults. A panel of arts, humanities and local professionals will discuss the opportunities available that provide professional arts programming and/or funding.
Afternoon Session:* Experiencing Aging through Art Part II (1:30-4:30)
During the afternoon intensive, professional teaching artists (experienced working with older adults) will explore the opportunities for to artists to bring creativity to aging services The need for older adults to nurture creative expression and find meaning through the arts will be explored from the vantage point of artists as teachers. Adaptations for well elders will be the focus, but frail elders, and elders with dementia will be discussed as well. Workshop participants will also engage in a hands-on sensitivity learning activity focused on what it may be like to have diminished senses as part of the natural aging process.
Half-Day: $70 each (Members) or $85 each (Non-Members)
Full-Day (includes box lunch): $150 each (Members) or $170 each (Non-Members)
Late/On-site Registration (Paid registration received on or after September 1, 2010 and for on-site registrants, Last day for online registration is Sept 10, 2010 Midnight EST)
Half-Day: $85 each (Members) or $100 each (Non-Members)
*Yes, we know. The Conference Brochure (p. 13) lists our morning program as the teaching artists session and our afternoon program as the arts and humanties professionals panel. However, the session times ARE as listed above. What would a conference be without just a little confusion?!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
AARP is Looking for Older Artists to Interview
Freelance writer Jamie Katz is looking for outstanding American artists to interview for a feature article in AARP—The Magazine, Not just any outstanding American artist though. Katz is looking for older artists who have discovered their creativity after reaching age 50 (or later) and who have gone on to become recognized and accomplished practitioners. In other words, people who have entered the arts as an encore career and whose work has now earned some recognition through gallery shows, published work, awards, accolades, performances in serious venues—as opposed to being very talented amateurs and hobbyists.
Katz is interested in the arts, broadly defined—music, writing, painting, sculpture, dance, theater, performance art, digital art, folk crafts, and so on. And she is especially interested in people with a compelling personal story.
She is not looking for lifelong artists who only earned recognition late in their career. Katz is looking for folks who only became serious artists later in life. Folks who typically had another occupation altogether before that point: a waitress-turned choreographer, a soldier-turned-clarinetist, an accountant-turned–Off-Broadway actor...
If you know someone who has become an accomplished artist (performer, dancer, musicisian, etc.) after age 50 (or you are that someone!), please send a brief description with contact information to Jamie Katz at jamiekatz44@gmail.com by Sunday, March 7.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Rockstars are Ageless
"Out of the way son, and give me that guitar…” Thursday, October 22
5:30-8:00 pm
Philadelphia Senior Center
Join Generation Appreciation Philadelphia for a screening of the award-winning documentary Young@Heart, a film about an elder vocal group from Northampton, Massachusetts that has earned an international reputation for their unique interpretations of songs by Sonic Youth, The Ramones, and The Clash.
Check out the documentary trailer (persevere through the brief commercial and enjoy a wonderfully unique experience).
The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Meaghan Brown, President of the Creative Arts and Aging Network, on the importance of engaging older adults in intergenerational arts programming though out the city. Audience members will be encouraged to capitalize on the energy and enthusiasm of older Philadelphians, an essential part of forging an Age-friendly Philadelphia.
The Chorus. This isn’t some teenage garage band attacking the classic punk rock songbook — the Young@Heart Chorus is comprised of 22 senior citizens whose average age is 80, and under director Bob Cilman they’ve gained a degree of fame for their enthusiastic a cappella renditions of well-known Rock & Roll tunes.
Filmmaker Stephen Walker spent several weeks with the members of the Young@Heart Chorus as they rehearsed for their annual concert in Northampton, and the documentary offers a look at their rigorous rehearsal process, the background of several members, and their efforts to stay active and think positive, even as their friends succumb to old age. Produced for British television, Young @ Heart was screened in competition at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Young@Heart will be performing in NYC at St. Ann’s Warehouse from April 20-May 2, 2010.
Meaghan Brown is the President of the Creative Arts and Aging Network, and is the Director of Adult Day Care Services for Mid County Senior Services in Broomall. A graduate of Saint Joseph’s University with a Masters Degree in Gerontology, Meaghan is committed to providing opportunities for adults of all ages to participate in arts and cultural programs in their community. Prior to her work in the Philadelphia region, Meaghan created an accessibility program for the National Gallery of Art and spent several years working with low-income older adults in Tucson, Arizona. Meaghan is a Generation Appreciation Philadelphia Steering Committee member.
Philadelphia Senior Center is located at 509 S Broad St, between Lombard and South Streets. Founded in 1949, Philadelphia Senior Center has been serving the region’s older adults for over half a century. The Center is the largest in Pennsylvania and the third oldest in the country. Over 8,000 senior citizens are served annually: those who come into the Center and those who are homebound.
Filmmaker Stephen Walker spent several weeks with the members of the Young@Heart Chorus as they rehearsed for their annual concert in Northampton, and the documentary offers a look at their rigorous rehearsal process, the background of several members, and their efforts to stay active and think positive, even as their friends succumb to old age. Produced for British television, Young @ Heart was screened in competition at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Young@Heart will be performing in NYC at St. Ann’s Warehouse from April 20-May 2, 2010.
Meaghan Brown is the President of the Creative Arts and Aging Network, and is the Director of Adult Day Care Services for Mid County Senior Services in Broomall. A graduate of Saint Joseph’s University with a Masters Degree in Gerontology, Meaghan is committed to providing opportunities for adults of all ages to participate in arts and cultural programs in their community. Prior to her work in the Philadelphia region, Meaghan created an accessibility program for the National Gallery of Art and spent several years working with low-income older adults in Tucson, Arizona. Meaghan is a Generation Appreciation Philadelphia Steering Committee member.
Philadelphia Senior Center is located at 509 S Broad St, between Lombard and South Streets. Founded in 1949, Philadelphia Senior Center has been serving the region’s older adults for over half a century. The Center is the largest in Pennsylvania and the third oldest in the country. Over 8,000 senior citizens are served annually: those who come into the Center and those who are homebound.
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