EngAGE in Creativity Party Photos

The party at Burbank Senior Artists Colony on Saturday was a huge success! Fine weather, fine food and wine, and fine company! Take a look below at just a handful of photos taken at the event. (Click on any picture to enlarge it, then you can scroll through the entire album by clicking the links just below and to the right of the enlarged pictures.) We’ll be creating an album on Flickr with more pictures and we’ll let you know when it’s posted. If you have photographs from the party that you’d like to contribute, please send them to engageblog at yahoo dot com [spelled to avoid spam]. Be sure to include your full name and you’ll get a photo credit!

(Photos: Cynthia Friedlob & Elizabeth Sampson where indicated. Please send in your party photos for the Flickr album! (e-mail: blog at engagedaging dot com )

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LA and OC Senior Centers

SENIOR-SERVICESIn addition to the many great classes and programs offered by EngAGE for residents of our apartment communities, Los Angeles area seniors can find a variety of creative and educational opportunities available to the public through their neighborhood senior centers. Day trips, social events and voluteer opportunities abound, as well as special services such as nutrition programs and legal aid.

If you’re not familiar with everything that’s going on at your local senior center, you can find out more at these links:

Burbank Senior Centers: The city of Burbank Park, Recreation, and Community Services Division oversees 3 senior citizen centers.

Los Angeles Senior Centers: The Department of Recreation & Parks operates 27 senior citizen centers.

Los Angeles County Senior Centers: LA County Community and Senior Services lists 14 senior centers on its site.

Orange Country Senior Centers: This site has links to 47 senior centers throughout OC.

Take a look, then take advantage of all that our senior centers have to offer!

 

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EngAGE Explained in Less Than 90 Seconds!

Sally: a resident at Burbank Senior Artists Colony.

If you want to know what EngAGE is all about in less than 90 seconds, click here to take a look at this video on David Slater’s blog, “Creativity, Arts and Older People.”

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Experience Talks 4/2 Phoebe Beasley and John Outterbridge

Experience_Talks_logo_FB-WETune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener,” Saturdays at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, streaming live online and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations!

This week: “Experiencing Art in LA.” Join host Tim Carpenter as he talks with Phoebe Beasley and John Outterbridge, respected artists who celebrate the African-American experience. Recorded live at Piedmont Senior Apartments in North Hollywood.

If you miss the broadcast, you can find this show on our Experience Talks website!

[Update: Show postponed until 4/9]

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Unless You’ve Walked In My Shoes . . .

EngAGE believes in the value of communication between the generations. To facilitate that communication, Stacy Sims, founder of the True Body Project, brought “Walk in Our Shoes” inter-generational projects to the residents of two EngAGE communities and the students of their neighboring schools. The seniors and students were asked to write to the prompt, “Unless you’ve walked in my shoes, you cannot know . . .” They then collaborated on theatrical works using their stories as scripts. The Burbank Senior Artists Colony mentors and Burbank Community School students performed their work at the BSAC Theater. The Piedmont mentors and the Country School students performed their work at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. Both the students and the mentors agreed that the project was a great success!

Burbank Senior Artists Colony mentors and Burbank Community School students.

Country School 5th graders rehearse at Piedmont.

Learn much more about the projects and see additional photos at these blogs:

Walk In Our Shoes – Burbank Senior Artists Colony and Burbank Community School

Walk In Our Shoes – Piedmont Senior Apartments and Country School 5th Graders

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Did You Miss Dick Cavett?

 

ExperienceTalks-logo-VimeoDid you also miss hearing Tippi Hedren or Tony Curtis or anyone else on the Experience Talks radio show? You’re in luck! Check out the Listen Page at our Experience Talks website to enjoy podcasts of previous shows. You can catch recent programs from the last 90 days in the KPFK archives, too.

We’ll announce upcoming Experience Talks shows right here on our EngAGE blog. Subscribe and you’ll stay informed about this and so much more!

 

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You’re Entitled to Know about Social Security and Medicare

SENIOR-SERVICESAre you concerned about possible changes to Social Security and cuts to Medicare? You can keep track of what’s going on in Congress by following “Entitled to Know,” the blog of the National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare, a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group that fights to protect Social Security and Medicare. The group was founded in 1982 and is now led by former Congresswoman Barbara B. Kennelly. The mission of the NCPSSM is “to protect, preserve, promote, and ensure the financial security, health, and well being of current and future generations of Americans.” “Entitled to Know” helps sort fact from fiction and keeps readers informed about these two important programs.

 

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