An informative new e-book is available from Next Avenue and Aroha Philanthropies entitled, Artful Aging: How Creativity Sparks Vitality and Transforms Lives.
Download it free as a PDF at this link. We’re pleased that EngAGE is featured in Chapter One.
At Portofino Villas in Pomona, Art with Matt is a dynamic class that introduces residents to an array of art techniques and media while encouraging their own creativity potential.
Projects:
Instructor Matt McMillon notes: My class is very interested and engaged in the printmaking process. Last session, we created approximately 30 prints from the plates they had created over the last few months. One thing that makes me so incredibly proud of this class is their dedication to craftsmanship and their ability to always rise to the challenge. They are producing high quality work and learning printmaking processes and techniques at a college level.
~ Alma Wright, Regional Programs Director
EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter will be a featured speaker at the Sarnat Symposium for Geriatric Care in November. Save the date!
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 6/12/15:
Did you know that there’s a blog that serves everyone in the U.S.A.? Yes, blog.usa.gov is the non-partisan, official blog for our country, and its posts offer a wide array of useful information and fascinating tidbits. You can learn about a variety of topics, such as how to prepare for hurricane season, get tips about how to fly with your pet, see some great historical photos, and much, much more.
EngAGE Blog reader Sally Castiglia sent along a link to a blog post about an unusual topic: What happens to groceries at the White House in a Presidential transition? This note from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bess Truman explains what happened in 1945.
EngAGE Regional Programs Director Alma Wright reports from the Magnolia at Highland Senior Apartments in San Bernardino:
We had a culminating event to celebrate our residents’ participation in Cal State University at San Bernardino’s Art Instruction Dept. community outreach program. About 10 residents took the 8-week “Discovery through Art” course taught by two CSUSB students. Very cool things happen whenever we have inter-generational programs in place! In the end, 10 lucky people got to have their own art exhibition complete with food, family and friends.
EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.
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.
JOHN SACRET YOUNG is an author, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work on the TV series China Beach and The West Wing. John has won or been nominated for multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, Humanitas, Peabody, Christopher, and Writers Guild Awards. From childhood, John gained a love and appreciation of art as both a collector and writer, and now he has written a new book about how works of art have provoked and propelled his own work and changed his life. Listen in as Tim Carpenter talks to John Sacret Young about his new book, Pieces of Glass: An Artoire.
BARBARA TARBUCK trained as an actress on a Fulbright Grant to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Barbara’s acting resume includes stints on the New York stage, regional theaters around the country, many feature films, and hundreds of TV guest starring roles, where she is probably best known for her role as Australian Jane Jax on General Hospital. Barbara wrote and currently stars in her one-woman show STOPPING BY, based on her own story of scattering her husband’s ashes at Burning Man. The show is at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica on June 4, 11, 18, and 25. Tim Carpenter talks to Barbara Tarbuck about life and death and art in the burning sands of the Black Rock desert.
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