Families and children got their “Thriller” on at the Parc Derian Halloween party in Tustin, CA, hosted by EngAGE and Innovative Housing Opportunities. A candy-filled scavenger hunt, a spooky game of musical chairs, and a mummy wrapping contest, along with pizza and treats, made for a fun filled evening. Dancing to Halloween-themed hits, the superheros, princesses, dragons, along with their mummies and daddies, were a magical sight.
EngAGE’s tech teacher Miles Morse and Innovative Housing Opportunities’ Leon Yu get mummified.
Spiderman and his Dad take a breather.
The dance party gets ghouling!
EngAGE changes lives by transforming affordable senior and multigenerational apartment communities into vibrant centers of learning, wellness, and creativity.
~ Amie Mack, Regional Arts Director
Parc Derian is an Innovative Housing Opportunities community.
Mark is an award-winning actor, director, and producer. He was featured in Sophocles’ Electra in Greece as part of the International Symposium on Greek Drama in Delphi celebrating the birth of Sophocles. He was named Atlanta’s Best Actor 2003 for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Directing credits include Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Menotti’s The Medium, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Schwartz’ Pippin and Godspell, Big River, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, Cabaret, As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac, and An Evening with Stephen Schwartz featuring Ben Vereen and the composer himself. Producing credits include The World Goes ‘Round, directed by Kay Cole; Go Busk Yourself, a documentary about street performing in America; Where I’m From, a travelogue for young people; and Ladies Most Deject, a short film that he co-wrote. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Mark has taught at the University of Virginia‘s College at Wise, at College of the Canyons in California, and for Stagebridge, Smart Actors, and Appalachian Children’s Theatre, a program serving young people in the Central Appalachia region where he grew up. He has curated and produced several master class series in Los Angeles featuring top teaching artists from film, television, and theatre. Since 2012, he has been the director and lead teacher for NewStages, a performing arts program for LGBTQ seniors at the LGBT Center in Los Angeles.
DR. CONNIE ZWEIG is former executive editor of Jeremy P. Tarcher Publishing and contributor to Esquire magazine and the Los Angeles Times. She recently retired from a career as a Jungian-oriented therapist in the Los Angeles area, specializing in shadow-work and spiritual counseling. She is co-author of the bestsellers, Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow; author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and A Moth to the Flame: The Life Story of the Sufi Poet Rumi (a novel). She is currently writing The Reinvention of Age: Mastering Late Life from the Inside Out, which extends her work on the shadow into late life. Her intention is to guide Baby Boomers to reimagine and reinvent age, just as we’ve reinvented other arenas of life. You can read excerpts of her book-in-progress on her blog, and find her elsewhere online:
Over the past year, EngAGE has been enjoying the benefits of working with Encore Fellow Michael Dowlan (see his bio below). We asked him a few questions about his work which he kindly answers here:
