Worth Repeating: Earth Day: Gray is Green

“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 4/21/15:

WORTH-REPEATINGIf you’d like to celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd, check out Gray is Green (the Senior Conservation Corps),  the leading environmental education, advocacy, and action organization for older adults. Gray Is Green serves as a clearinghouse for older adults interested in greening their lives, learning about sustainability, advocating for sound climate change policy, and serving as resources for younger people involved in sustainability.

 

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News from NoHo SAC: Walter Hurlburt’s Gallery Show Opening

Residents from NoHo SAC, BSAC, and the public turned out to enjoy the artwork of Walter Hurlburt at the opening night reception for his solo show at North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony. Walter had a thirty year career as a sign painter and for seven years worked as a technical illustrator for Lockheed Corporation. He began painting in oils in 1995 and likes to paint in a realistic manner. He paints portraits, figures, and landscapes, and recently a series of paintings of grain elevators came from his fascination with those structures.

Walter’s paintings are in private collections in California, Arizona, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. He is a member of the Valley Artists Guild, The San Fernando Art Club, The Burbank Art Association, and the Fine Arts Federation of Burbank. He was a featured artist in the recent “It’s Never Too Late to Create!” art exhibit at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.

Walter is a beloved artist at Burbank Senior Artists Colony and brought many of his friends and neighbors from the community to the reception. In addition to enjoying the art, everyone also loved the snacks from Porto’s and live music by Doug MacDonald.

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Walter Hurlburt with watercolorist Charlene McDonald

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~ Megan Hocking, Creative Programs Director

dca-logoEngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample. This art exhibition was supported by DCA.

 

 

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Experience Talks 4/17: Suzanne Lloyd

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01 - KPFK ListenLiveButtonTune 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.

 

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SUNDAY, APRIL 17 @ 5 PM PT
From the Experience Talks 2014 Archives
SUZANNE LLOYD
with host JOHN SEMPER JR.


Suzanne Lloyd - SaintCanadian-born actress SUZANNE LLOYD is best known for her work in film and television in the ’60s and ’70s. She appeared in the feature films “Seven Ways from Sundown” (1960), “Pepe” (1960), “The Return of Mr. Moto” (1965), “That Riviera Touch” (1966), and “The Champagne Murders” (1967).

 

Suzanne Lloyd-zorro-2She was a frequent guest star on both British and American television, including “Bourbon Street Beat,” “The Islanders,” “Rescue 8,” “Buckskin,” “The Texan,” “Laramie,” “Lawman,” “Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” “The Avengers,” “Thriller,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Bat Masterson,” “Perry Mason,” “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color,” and six episodes of “The Saint.” Lloyd also had a recurring role as Raquel Toledano on the classic “Zorro” television series.

 

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Learn more about Suzanne Lloyd at IMDB.com.

 

 

 

 

 

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Celebrate Garden Discovery Day on Thursday, April 14th

You may have followed the progress on this blog of the Burbank Community Day School Garden. The school and garden are adjacent to Burbank Senior Artists Colony, and some of our community residents were instrumental in getting the garden growing, starting in  2011. See photos and read about the story of the garden here and here.

Join us on Thursday, April 14th, from 4 PM to 6 PM to celebrate this very successful intergenerational community project! Special thanks to EngAGE’s own Sharon Springer Gardener, Assistant to our C.O.O. and very appropriately named Master Gardener, who was instrumental in making this project happen.

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“Freeway Lady” Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony on 4/14

Here’s another great opportunity to celebrate the work of a brilliant Los Angeles artist: Kent Twitchell. Twitchell has been painting murals since the late ’60s and has painted over 100 across the country to date. His work can be found on walls, in art textbooks, magazines, newspapers, and film. Some of his work is in permanent collections in several art museums. He’s also a co-founder of the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles, which is actively restoring murals throughout the city.

Many Los Angelenos  know well the story of Kent’s “Freeway Lady” mural, designed as a tribute to his grandmother. Originally titled “The Old Woman of the Freeway,” the beautiful mural came to life in 1974 on the side of the Prince Hotel in Echo Park where it was enjoyed daily by thousands of travelers on the 101 Freeway. The mural was destroyed twice — illegally painted over by a billboard company in 1986, then vandalized while being restored in 2000. There was a short-lived second chance for the mural in 2004 on the side of the now-defunct Valley Institute of Visual Art gallery in Sherman Oaks, but plans fell through.

In 2010, the LA Valley College Public Art Committee approved the installation of the “Freeway Lady” mural on the side of the college’s Student Services Center, where it is now complete. LAVC will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Freeway Lady” on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 5:30 p.m., outside the Student Services Center. Immediately following the ribbon-cutting ceremony, there will be a special preview of the Freeway Lady documentary, which is currently still in production, in the Student Services Center, Multipurpose Room (SSC 245).  For more information about the ribbon cutting event, contact Jennifer Borucki in the LAVC Public Relations Office at (818) 947-2433.

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Ed Moses: “Moses@90” Art Exhibition

William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica will present “Moses@90,” an “expansive survey exhibition” of venerable Los Angeles art world fixture Ed Moses’ drawing and painting. The artist celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday. Read more about the show here; read “9 Quotes from Ed Moses” here. It you are interested in abstract art, this is an exceptional opportunity to view selected work from his 60+ year career.

Ed Moses at 90

 

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Worth Repeating: Jorge Tello: L.A.’s Master Mariachi Tailor

“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 4/12/15:

WORTH-REPEATING“Tailor Jorge Tello’s store feels more like a mariachi shrine than a tailor shop. Photos of Mexican stars like Pedro Infante fill the walls. And a glass case features one of Tello’s most intricate suits — a crisp, three-piece outfit with gold, flowerly designs down the lapel. . . It’s all on display at La Casa de Mariachi, the shop Tello has run in East Los Angeles for three decades. The store has become so synonymous with Mexican folk music, here and around the world, Tello has become known as El Maestro, The Master, to his customers. But it wasn’t always that way. Tello wasn’t even born in Mexico.” Read and listen to the story here.

 

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