Category Archives: Community News

EngAGE25 Celebration: Pacific Avenue Arts Colony

Posted on August 23, 2024 by EngAGE Editor

In 2015, Meta Housing Corporation finalized its first “family arts colony” apartment project with programming provided by EngAGE. The Pacific Avenue Arts Colony is in the SPACE (San Pedro Arts, Culture, and Entertainment) district in San Pedro, CA, an area … Continue reading →

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EngAGE25 Celebration: “A Dose of Creativity”

Posted on August 16, 2024 by EngAGE Editor

Get a taste of life at an arts colony! Aroha Philanthropies (now E.A. Michelson Philanthropy), our generous partner, produced this wonderful five-minute video about EngAGE in 2015. It features residents from Burbank Senior Artists Colony, North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony, … Continue reading →

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EngAGE25 Celebration: Long Beach Senior Arts Colony

Posted on August 2, 2024 by EngAGE Editor

LBSAC is a 200-unit senior affordable housing community at the northern gateway into downtown Long Beach. It’s adjacent to light rail and the city’s major bus corridor. EngAGE provides residents with stimulating programming that promotes creative, healthy aging. Among the amenities … Continue reading →

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EngAGE25 Celebration: Resident-led Programs

Posted on July 26, 2024 by EngAGE Editor

EngAGE encourages and empowers residents in our communities to share their special talents through teaching a class or performing for their neighbors. Examples are these resident-led programs at Pacific Avenue Arts Colony (PacArts) and Burbank Senior Artists Colony (BSAC). We … Continue reading →

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EngAGE25 Celebration: Crafting Creativity

Posted on June 26, 2024 by EngAGE Editor

Over the years, our arts programming has always been eclectic, embracing music (vocal and instrumental performance and music appreciation), writing (including poetry and screenwriting), acting (including improv), dance (including hip-hop), visual arts (including sculpture and painting), and crafts (including pottery, … Continue reading →

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EngAGE25 Celebration: Burbank Senior Artists Colony Opens in 2005

Posted on June 21, 2024 by EngAGE Editor

Located just south of downtown Burbank, California, the Burbank Senior Artists Colony was a breakthrough senior housing model when it opened in 2005. EngAGE Founder Tim Carpenter and John Huskey of Meta Housing Corporation formed a partnership that brought the … Continue reading →

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“Naturally EngAGEd” Contest Winner!

Posted on June 14, 2024 by EngAGE Editor

Congratulations to the winning community in our “Naturally EngAGEd” photo competition: ACE/121, our intergenerational arts community in Glendale, CA! The challenge for residents was to explore nature in their own neighborhoods. We received photographs ranging from expansive landscape views to … Continue reading →

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