Thanks to Helene Weinberg, Arts Program Manager at Long Beach Senior Arts Colony, for producing this cool video of the recent “Reflections” art show held there on July 15th. The show featured work by professional and emerging resident artists who live and thrive at this unique senior artists community. A live, interactive art installation was created, in addition to a showcase of the musical and spoken word talents of the residents. Looks like everyone had a great time!
Tune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Saturdays 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time 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! You can also enjoy hearing all of our previous shows on the Listen Page of our Experience Talks website.
Saturday, 8/2 at 8 AM PT: Host Tim Carpenter presents a special hour-long program of live music!
Tim Carpenter welcomes INTERSTATE 10, our “Experienced” house band for the morning, featuring Gee Rabe on accordion, Candy Chase on bass/vocals, Craig Stull on guitar/vocals, and Chris Ross on drums. Zoe Carpenter, the youngest guest in the history of the show, will also sing with the band.
This special KPFK Fund Drive show will offer some great premiums to listeners who pledge to KPFK.
We’ll be giving away Gregg Hurwitz books, audio recordings, and graphic novels, personally signed by Gregg to listeners who pledge during this hour.
And we’ll be giving away two tickets to the Japanese American Cultural Center “Concert for Peace” with Melissa Manchester and David Lindley, on Saturday night, August 2nd.
Don’t miss this lively hour of music and fun!
CALL (818) 985-5735 DURING OUR SHOW AND BE SURE TO TELL THE FUND DRIVE VOLUNTEER YOU ARE PLEDGING FOR EXPERIENCE TALKS!
We asked for plays where great, juicy, older characters can be played by older actors, and we received some wonderful plays. Thank you, all playwrights!
Outside readers and theatre professionals read and scored the entries
…….and the WINNER is….
MARC MANTELL has directed both stage musicals and plays in California. He has just returned from directing concert versions of “Fiddler On The Roof” and “South Pacific,” which tour major theatres in Florida, playing to sold out houses.
His writing credits include documentary and eight original screenplays, including the sequel to the cult hit “Easy Rider.” An accomplished playwright, Marc’s work has been produced on both coasts:
“Apartments” (Critics Choice: LA Times).
“Duck Dancing” had staged readings with Renee Taylor and Dom DeLuise.
“Intimate Strangers”, his first musical (book,lyrics, direction), was mounted by the Long Beach Civic Light Opera.
“Identical Twins From Baltimore” ( Critics Choice , NAACP Image Award) was optioned as a film project for Martin Short and produced Off-Broadway.
“Madly In Love” had workshop productions in NY & LA.
This season, his musical “Por Siempre Navidad” premiered in Bogota, Columbia.
But the back story is the real winner –
Marc lives at NoHo Senior Arts Colony in North Hollywood, CA.
He said that if his characters had lived in the Arts Colony, the play would never have been written!
More to come on Marc and the cast of older actors……….
[This announcement is hot off the presses from EngAGE C.O.O. Maureen Kellen-Taylor!]
EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter gets quoted in “When You Want to Live Among Your Tribe,” an article by Next Avenue contributor Beth Baker on Forbes.com:
Tim Carpenter, executive director of the nonprofit EngAGE, based in southern California, is actively developing new affordable senior artist colonies around the country. The arts represent just one niche Carpenter imagines. For himself, he dreams of creating a community based on wellness — with neighbors who are enthusiastic hikers, cyclists, organic gardeners and fabulous cooks of wholesome fresh food.
“What’s the ideal community?” Carpenter asks. “You can walk next door and know you have something in common with this person. You have a fused passion.”
Read the entire article here.
The internationally renowned dance company, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, will appear at the 2014 Summer Amphitheater series at the Skirball Cultural Center on Saturday, August 23, at noon and two p.m. Click here for ticket information for this special performance for families, in celebration of African American history. Click here to read an interview Lula Washington did for the Skirblog and learn more about her thirty-year career as a dancer, choreographer, and mentor on the LA dance scene.
From the Denver Post [hat tip to Ann Davis Garvin for the link]:
Guess how much time the average physician spends listening to a patient describing her symptoms during an outpatient office visit. Sixty seconds? Fifty?
“Ten,” says Leana Wen, attending emergency department physician at George Washington University Hospital, and co-author of “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests.”
“Studies show that doctors will interrupt you 10 seconds after you begin talking. Doctors are under pressure to see more patients in less time. So learn how to make those 10 seconds count.”
Have you ever felt rushed at your doctor’s office? Even if you haven’t, it’s always a good idea to maximize the value of the time you spend there. Click here to get the list of things you need to remember when you visit your doctor.
“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 7/30/13:
Jack Handey’s long career as a comedy writer pretty much guarantees that he’s made you laugh. Handey s[65] old his first jokes to Steve Allen in 1977. By the ’90s, he was sharing his surrealistic “Deep Thoughts” on “Saturday Night Live” and in novels. He continues to write books and numerous short magazine pieces. Read more about him here.
