News from Magnolia @ 9th: Crafting for the Community Cup

Posted on September 4, 2017 by EngAGE

The Craft Class at Magnolia@9th in San Bernadino, CA,  is gearing up for the EngAGE Community Cup (formerly the EngAGE Senior Olympics). Residents are attending the class with extra enthusiasm and dedication because they have been working on the project they will present at the event on September 16th. The spirit of competition drives them: they won the Art trophy last year and now they are getting ready to win again!  They are putting in their best effort to work as a team and use their abilities to complete the project successfully. What’s the project? Well, they’re not revealing the details until the Community Cup exhibit!

~ Alma Wright, Regional Program Director

 

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Labor Day: Lewis Wickes Hine

Posted on September 3, 2017 by EngAGE

“Lewis Hine, a New York City schoolteacher and photographer, believed that a picture could tell a powerful story. He felt so strongly about the abuse of children as workers that he quit his teaching job and became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.” Learn more at the National Archives: Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor

Garment Workers, New York, NY
January 25, 1908
National Archives and Records Administration
Records of the Department of Commerce and Labor, Children’s Bureau
Record Group 102
National Archives Identifier: 523065

 

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News from Burbank Senior Artists Colony: Healthy Cooking

Posted on September 2, 2017 by EngAGE

Program Director Megan Hocking showed residents how to use items from the Community Garden in healthy recipes. They made a Greek Turkey Meatloaf, Greek Cucumber Salad, and a Lemon Yogurt Sauce.  Residents got to taste the finished product, take some meatloaf home to freeze, and take the recipe to make on their own at home. Below are some of the residents enjoying seconds after the class was completed.

~ Megan Hocking, Program Director

 

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News from ACE/121: “Color Up” Art Show Opens 9/15

Posted on September 1, 2017 by EngAGE

Save the Date!

“Color Up”
A Group Show

Preview Showing: Friday, September 15 from 7-10 p.m. at ACE/121

Avenue 50 Studio is partnering with the ACE/121 Gallery in Glendale for an exhibition entitled “Color Up” which will take place September 16 through October 30, 2017. Featured artists include some of our most well know and beloved artists, and many who are currently being recognized: Bobby Rojas, Heriberto Luna, Isabel Martinez, Leo Eguiarte, Margaret Garcia, Melly Troches, Peter Tovar, Ramon Ramirez, Raoul de la Sota, Roberto Gutierrez, Susanna Urquiza, Yolanda Gonzalez.

“Reflections” © 2016 Margaret Garcia – oil on wood panel, 48″ x 48″

ACE121 Gallery
121 North Kenwood
Glendale, CA 91206

~ Marshall Nalle Ayers, Program Director

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Experience Talks 9/3: The Actors’ Gang Prison Project – Sabra Williams & Chris Bingley

Posted on August 31, 2017 by EngAGE

 

Tune in to Experience Talks, our weekly “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener,” on Sundays at 5:00 PM PT on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online, and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations! Experience Talks is produced by the non-profit EngAGE, Inc.

 

 

Miss the show? You can always hear it as a podcast on the Listen Page of our website! You’ll also find an archive-in-progress of all of our previous shows there for you to enjoy. New shows are usually posted within 48 hours after broadcast.

 

 

SUNDAY 9/3 @ 5 PM PDT
SABRA WILLIAMS & CHRIS BINGLEY
THE ACTORS’ GANG PRISON PROJECT
Host: TIM CARPENTER

Chris Bingley and Sabra Williams

Eleven years ago, SABRA WILLIAMS, an actress at The Actors’ Gang, approached the company’s Artistic Director, Tim Robbins, about starting a prison program. And The Prison Project was born at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

The Actors Gang Prison Project now conducts weekly and seven-day-intensive workshops in eight California prisons, as well as Juvenile and Reentry programs.  In each workshop, 20-25 inmate participants work with Actors’ Gang teaching artists with the goal to unlock human potential.

 

In class with Tim Robbins

Also on the show is CHRIS BINGLEY, a participant in the Prison Project when he was incarcerated at the California Institute of Men. Chris now serves as a teaching artist for the Actors’ Gang and works at The Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Listen in as Tim Carpenter talks to Sabra Williams and Chris Bingley of The Actors’ Gang Prison Project about crime, punishment, and what might set us free.

 

 

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News from Olivera: Party!

Posted on August 30, 2017 by EngAGE

EngAGE CAO Nancy Goodhart reported from Olivera Senior Apartments in Pomona, CA, this evening: “Rockin’ now!”

 

 

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Your Health: High Blood Pressure

Posted on August 29, 2017 by EngAGE

We were recently contacted by a reader named Sally, a former nutritionist and gym instructor who now works as the content manager for a senior care site. She was writing because her mother has always had a problem with her blood pressure, which got worse as she got older, worrying her and her doctors. Sally reports, “Together we devised a simple diet and exercise routine which helped lower it. Basic cardio, simply from going on walks around the neighborhood, has really improved her blood pressure and overall health.”

Here’s the link to the informative article Sally helped prepare, explaining what is known about the causes of high blood pressure and what you can do to lower it or help avoid it.

 

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