Join us for our first art show at The Metro@Hollywood Senior Apartments!
Community Spotlight: Long Beach Senior Arts Colony
LBSAC is the EngAGE community currently featured in our website spotlight.
The Long Beach Senior Arts Colony, which opened in December 2012, is a multifamily community that delivers a fully arts-enriched lifestyle to seniors ages 55+. Through this unique concept, Meta Housing Corporation and EngAGE help seniors redefine retirement and improve their overall well-being by discovering and rediscovering their passions through free, on-site professional arts programs.
The property was designed to encourage complete engagement among residents, and features extensive arts amenities, including art studios and an art gallery, as well as a 99-seat performance theater. In addition, the community offers over 15,000 square feet of community space, including a fitness room, yoga/meditation room, large main lobby with piano, computer room, game room, dog park, community gardens, outdoor spa, and outdoor BBQ and seating area with a fireplace.
Residents also enjoy free, comprehensive arts and social activities provided by EngAGE.
Long Beach Senior Arts Colony
200 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90813
(562) 951-1188
Management: WSH Management
Partners/Lenders:
Meta Housing Corporation
Wells Fargo Bank
California Community Reinvestment Corporation
Long Beach Housing Development Corporation
FHLB Affordable Housing Program
Housing & Community Development Dept. of the State of CA (IIG-TOD)
National Equity Fund, Inc.
Century Housing
California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC)
California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC)
EngAGE to be Resident Services Provider at El Verano Apartments
EngAGE is pleased to announce that we will be the Resident Services Provider at El Verano Apartments, a new community in Anaheim, CA. El Verano will provide 54 units of affordable housing for low-income and formerly homeless seniors. Developers are Innovative Housing Opportunities, Inc., and Kingdom Development, Inc.
News from San Antonio Gardens: Farewell, EngAGE
July 10th marked the end of an era for the partnership between EngAGE and the San Antonio Gardens community in Norwalk, CA. EngAGE Program Director Essence Parker and Property Manager Dianne Alcaras celebrated with the residents while enjoying food, drinks, music, and fun. Favorite stories and memories were shared around the room.
Program Director: Essence Parker
Date: July 2019
Made possible with support from WSH Management
San Antonio Senior Apartments is a Meta Housing Corporation community
Posted in Community, Community News, San Antonio Gardens
Tagged changing aging, creative aging, Meta Housing, WSH Management
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News from Magnolia@Highland: The Magnolia’s Art in Black & White
Regional Program Director and Art Instructor Alma Wright reports: For the last 10 weeks, I have been teaching charcoal drawing at The Magnolia @ Highland in San Bernardino. Twelve residents have worked really hard to put the techniques they’ve learned into practice, and you won’t believe how amazing their pieces look! Please join us for this wonderful show!
News from BSAC: Postcards from the Imagination
Thanks to Sarah Jacobus, LCSW, MFA, of Imagine That! for preparing this wonderful video, Postcards from the Imagination, which she describes as “random and fanciful postcard messages from Burbank Senior Artists Colony’s ‘Writing for Life’ creative writing class.” Sarah led this thought-provoking class to the delight of her students.
News from Tavarua: Extra Point Appreciation Dinner
“Trust your impact” is a quote that rings true to The Extra Point crew. At Tavarua Senior Apartments in Carlsbad, CA, the young Extra Point volunteers serve dinner to residents once a month. But at the 2nd annual Appreciation/Back to School dinner in August, the tables were turned when the residents served the kids! From start to finish, it was amazing to see the kids using their best manners at dinner, playing bingo, and even during the water balloon toss! Thank you to every family who stepped out of their comfort zone and stepped up to a cause that pulls heart strings in our community. Let’s keep collecting these annual traditions – Trust Your Impact!
The Extra Point youth volunteer group was founded by Becky Vermillion, a member of the Board of Directors for Carlsbad Youth Baseball, specifically to benefit Tavarua residents. Becky started the group to teach athletes to serve their community off the field, and to do this they serve — literally! — a free, hot meal to residents at Tavarua every month as part of EngAGE’s intergenerational programming funded by The Eisner Foundation.
~ Tracy Ligon, Program Director
Posted in Community News, Intergenerational, Tavarua
Tagged changing aging, creative aging, Meta Housing, The Eisner Foundation
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