Are seniors embracing technology more than most people think? “According to the PEW Research Center’s 2011 study, ‘Generations and their Gadgets,’ the most popular technology that older Americans own are cell phones, desktop computers and laptop computers.” Read a few personal stories here.
Crafts Class
Contributed by Robin Hart
“Chicagoan Olivia Neubauer started teaching at Pullman Tech High School in 1935. Seventy-seven years later, she’s still at it.” Neubauer, who will turn 100 on March 11, teaches reading to kindergarten and pre-k students at Ashburn Lutheran School. Click here to see a 2:11 video interview.
Congratulations to Christopher Plummer. At 82, he is the oldest Acting category Academy Award winner in history. Read more here.
Uggie was Top Dog at the Golden Collar Awards and is undoubtedly celebrating with his fellow cast members the Academy Award for Best Picture won by The Artist. The senior dog, at ten years of age, will retire from films after the Oscars due to a rare neurological disorder (more here). His trainer has said that he’ll have an encore career in commercials, which require much shorter hours.
Leonid Goldin started painting at the age of 71 and is now a devoted and prolific artist. Originally an economics professor and economist in Latvia, he and his lawyer wife, Leona, now live in North Hollywood where he attends as many EngAGE painting classes as he can, just to have company when he paints. Leona both inspires him and advises him and, although she does not paint, is very interested in his work. He likes to paint landscapes and also scenes from his home and places where he has traveled. The paintings below include scenes from Jerusalem, Israel, and Riga, Latvia. (Please click on each picture to enlarge it.)
Talk Story: DEMOCRACY
A live taping of a Radio Show.
Thursday, February 23 @ 5:00 p.m. – The Grove
and
Saturday, February 25 @ 3:00 p.m. – BSAC Theater
Hear stories from EngAGE community residents about coming to America and “What Democracy Means to Us,” then tell us your response in an Audience Discussion Panel with Dr. Katie Mills & Professor Alicia Sedwick.
The Talk Story project is supported by the California Council for the Humanities.
In The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television, Beat studies scholar Katie Mills examines how road stories, which have offered declarations of independence to generations of rebellious Americans, have been transformed by media, technology, and social movements. Katie Mills is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English Writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She has published essays on the Beat generation and the alternative youth culture in a number of journals and books.
Alicia Sedwick produces and directs Talk Story for EngAGE. She is a professional actor, writer, and professor, as well as a strategic researcher. She is a producer for the storytelling program Spark Off Rose, a professor at the Art Institute Hollywood, and is a teacher in creative writing, storytelling, performance and movement. She received her MFA from American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and was a NYC-based theatre actor for 10 years.
