Author Archives: EngAGE
California Council for the Humanities
Great article in the CCH Newsletter about Tim Carpenter and EngAGE, including information about our Talk Story grant! Click here and scroll down to page ten to read the PDF. This also happens to be the 100th post on the EngAGE … Continue reading
EngAGE Receives Grant for Talk Story
EngAGE is very pleased to have received a $10,000 California Story Fund grant from the California Council for the Humanities this year to support our project “Talk Story: Democracy – How Immigrant Senior Citizens View American Democracy.” The project seeks … Continue reading
Norma Duffy: Butter Cow Sculptor
EngAGE appreciates and enjoys creativity in all of its many wonderful and surprising manifestations, including butter sculpture! The late Norma “Duffy” Lyon, the “butter cow lady,” created sculptures that were a main attraction at the annual Iowa State Fair from 1960 until her retirement … Continue reading
Posted in Art/Architecture
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News from San Antonio Gardens
Lots of activity lately at San Antonio Gardens, including a rousing intergenerational drum circle and a class in making origami vases! (You can click on any pictures in any EngAGE Blog post to enlarge them.) Contributed by Robin Hart
Posted in Community News, San Antonio Gardens
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Focus on Blogs: Advanced Style
Although our society is obsessed with youth, style is not confined to the young. Click here for a slide show of some very fashionable older women! And click here to peruse photographer Ari Cohen’s lovely and inspiring blog, Advanced Style: “Proof … Continue reading
Posted in Focus on Blogs, Style
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Experience Talks 7/2: TV Producer Shawn Ryan with Music by David Garfield & The Cats
Tune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Summer schedule: Saturdays at 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time for one hour on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, streaming live online and now syndicated on … Continue reading
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Summer Reading
Are you going to spend some of the holiday weekend reading? Take a look at the recommendations from The Big Read, a National Endowment for the Arts blog devoted to reading. There’s also a wealth of information — essays, radio shows, videos … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Writing/Storytelling
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