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Experience Talks ZoomCast 4/20: National Poetry Month

Register here: https://bit.ly/3mxflb6 Melanie Luja, Author – Speaker – Educator – Poet Melanie Luja (known creatively as Queen Socks) is a soul-work practitioner, life-purpose coach, educator, author, and award-winning poet.  She is also the co-founder of The Vibrations Enrichment Group, … Continue reading

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“Yours Truly” Art Exhibition Opens in San Francisco

“Yours Truly,” the first group art exhibition by residents of the Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing (DISH) community, opened March 12, 2021, at Swim Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Organized and curated by EngAGE Program Director Mattie Loyce, the exhibit … Continue reading

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Our Pandemic Year

On March 17, 2020, EngAGE announced that we had made the difficult decision to pause our in-person programming at the communities we serve. We pledged to continue to support all of our essential food programs, and to shift all non-food-related … Continue reading

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Park Plaza Artist Ira Harutyunyan

Ira Harutyunyan, a resident of Park Plaza Senior Apartments in North Hollywood, CA, has been taking care of herself during the pandemic by creating paintings, working with EngAGE art teacher Polet Zargarian. To adapt to COVID-imposed restrictions, Polet has found … Continue reading

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Video: The Book Club at Magnolia @ Highland Discusses “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

EngAGE Program Director Alma Wright, who created this wonderful video, reports: “We finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez a couple of weeks ago, and these are clips of our final discussion on the book. I … Continue reading

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Experience Talk ZoomCast 3/16: Creating Cultural Community

Register here: http://bit.ly/3bAS3xa Collette Williams Alleyne, Chief Education Officer, Inner-City Arts Collette Williams Alleyne has over a decade of experience in alternative and arts education. After starting with Opportunities for Learning as an Academic Recovery Teacher, she entered into the … Continue reading

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Tavarua Senior Apartments: Grocery Grab and Helpful Honda Surprise

Residents felt the love last week in the form of free groceries, thanks to two wonderful organizations. Nolan Meija, a Carlsbad teen, created a free grocery shopping service called Grocery Grab, which he and his classmates at Sage Creek High … Continue reading

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