Experience Talks 11/29 @ 5 PM PT: Gary Glazner (Alzheimer’s Poetry Project)

 

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Sunday, November 29 @ 5:00 PM PT
Gary Glazner
with host Dr. Connie Corley

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GARY GLAZNER is the Founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP). The APP has been a recipient of numerous awards and has been featured on the PBS News Hour, NBC’s TODAY show, and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Events have been held by the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project in half of the states in the US and in 4 countries internationally (Australia, Germany, Poland, and S. Korea).

 

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Glazner is also the founder of the Institute for Dementia Education and Arts (IDEA), and he’s a poet who was a key figure in the poetry slam movement. Among his published books are: How to Make a Living as a Poet, How to Make a LIFE as a Poet, and his latest book, Dementia Arts: Celebrating Creativity in Elder Care, is published by Health Professional Press. Gary talks about this book and the amazing stories that unfold in it.

 

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Happy Thanksgiving from Everyone at EngAGE!

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Cotton’s Point: Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation Art and Creativity Classes

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The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation and EngAGE teamed to provide Art and Creativity classes to Cotton’s Point residents for all of 2015.

Picerne Artist/Art Class Instructor Susie Stockholm: We’re continuing work on our cubist-style drawings. They are a bit challenging in that one must look carefully at the detail. Which lines intersect? Which ones need to be completed to make the shape? Where should each color go? We took some time to show off the collages again, and I took pictures of each of them. Everyone was really tickled with how the cubist paintings turned out. We started on the new assignment, which was to use the eraser as a drawing tool. We created shapes with graphite pencils, then erased to bring out interesting shapes. This is also an interesting exercise to do on the iPad in Paper 53. They all loved this drawing with graphite lesson, and the electric eraser makes such fun designs.

Photo editing was addressed, too. The class re-learned how to open/edit/crop a photo. Next we imported a photo into Procreate. The color wheel lesson was well-received. They created a monochrome color palette, then painted with just those colors.

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Creativity Class provides an opportunity for residents to explore their creativity through various mediums. This class supplements and compliments the Art Class, providing an alternate teacher, day, and time for creative expression. This month’s topics included collage paper art using various fall print papers, how to make 3D creations using paper, ways to communicate with old friends through art, painting fall images using stencils, and shading your figures to create a 3D appearance.

Creativity Class Instructor Jennifer Fallon: I pulled out some fall magazines to facilitate our project. Residents said how much they like to color in their adult coloring books in their apartments. They find that it stimulates their minds, as well as makes time go by more quickly. In class, they improvised by creating autumn cards using holiday art paper, and helped each other by creating stencil leaves out of cardboard.

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~ Nancy Goodhart, Vice President

EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.

 

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Casa Bonita: Residents Enjoy EngAGE Senior Olympics

Casa Bonita residents worked hard on their Senior Olympics t-shirts. Twenty-eight enthusiastic residents participated in this year’s Games.

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~ Sandra Vargas, Regional Programs Director

EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.

 

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Metro Chinatown: Olympics, Jewelry Making, and Art Class

Sixteen residents of Metro Chinatown participated in the eagerly anticipated EngAGE Senior Olympics, some bringing home medals for their efforts.

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Instructor Toni Byrd’s Jewelry Class offers students the opportunity to learn how to design and create jewelry for themselves and others. This month, residents crocheted a pair of earrings. There is great enthusiasm and interest in this hands-on art class.

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Instructor Fabian Debora introduced art class participants to charcoal and sketching. Residents are so excited about the new art class that they have requested that Fabian teach more days.

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~ Sandra Vargas, Regional Programs Director

EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.

 

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Worth Repeating: Artist Faith Ringgold Updates Sudoku for the Artistic Mind

“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 11/24/14:

WORTH-REPEATING“One of Sudoku’s millions of admirers, Faith Ringgold, has turned a brain teaser into a digital work of art – and who better to do so given her stature as an artist whose primary medium is quiltmaking? Sudoku’s rows of single-digit numbers, arranged in nine-by-nine grids, bear more than a passing resemblance to quilts.” Ringgold, 84, is a painter, mixed-media sculptor, author and educator whose work is in the collections of major museums. She describes her new app as “an art-making game.” Quiltuduko replaces the game’s customary numbers with drawings. “[W]hen you complete one of Ringgold’s Quiltuduko puzzles, you find that you’ve created an artwork. In addition to the brain workout, each game now also comes with an aesthetic payoff.” Read more and see images in this interview.

 

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Tim Carpenter: Trainer at Eisner Foundation Event

On November 18th, the Eisner Foundation held its annual Intergenerational Convening and Training. The purpose of the event was to inspire Eisner Foundation grantees and potential grantees by illustrating the benefits of intergenerational solutions, and sharing a rich variety of practical examples and tools. Tim Carpenter, Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE appeared on the panel along with Marie Brown-Mercadel, Regional Manager, San Diego County; Marianne Haver-Hill, Executive Director, MEND (Meet Each Need with Dignity); Tom Kamber, Executive Director, OATS (Older Adults Technology Services); and Carrie Ryan, Generations United 2009 Outstanding Youth Volunteer & current doctoral student; the moderator was Donna Butts, Executive Director, Generations United.

The panel was followed by breakout sessions with each of the panelists. Tim’s inspiring session focused on using the arts to connect generations, and on place-based strategies connecting unlikely facilities & people, such as the projects between the Burbank Senior Artists Colony and the Burbank Community Day School. (See our recent post about the community garden.)

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EngAGE is grateful for the support of the Eisner Foundation for our “EngAGE Across Generations” programming.

 

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