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| NCCA Network Newsletter
June 2011
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| Organizational Member Announcements |
Research Center for Arts & Culture
The Research Center for Arts & Culture presented its latest study, "Still Kicking," at Jazz at the Lincoln Center last week. The study explored the lives of older dancers, choreographers, actors, and musicians in NY and LA. For more information visit arts.tc.columbia.edu. Transitional Keys Transitional Keys is launching a wellness kit for caregivers, Seasons of Care, which will provide hands-on tools for all caregivers to strengthen inner resilience. For information contact in...@TransitionalKeys.org. |
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After Trauma: Finding Peace and Healing Conference July 7-9 Washington, DC This institute is a multi-disciplinary educational program focusing on various aspects of trauma and grief. Marsha Weiner, Co-Founder of Transitional Keys, will present the Transitional Keys programs.
More Information> Village Music Circles Training July 29-August 1 Darlington, MD August 5-14 Oahu, HI Learn how to incorporate Village Music Circles (VMC) training into your creative aging programming. VMC offers rhythm events, interactive rhythmical experiences, and facilitation trainings to unify and inspire organizations and communities worldwide and that reaches out to a wide range of audiences. Village Music Circles™ Facilitation Trainings teach the techniques and skills required to successfully lead any type of rhythm-based event for small or large groups. All VMC programs promote core community building values, develop leadership skills, and utilize the Drum Circle Facilitation techniques developed by Arthur Hull.
More Information> HealthRHYTHMS Training September 16-18 Danbury, CT Join trainers Barry Bittman, MD, and Christine Stevens, MSW, MA, MT-BC and learn how to facilitate this cost-effective, sustainable life enhancement strategy encompassing enjoyable, accessible and fulfilling group music-based activities that unite people of all ages. More Information> |
Encore Chorale Summer Programs Encore Chorale presents several summer programs, including two Summer Institutes and a Singing at Sea Journey on the Queen Mary 2. Detailed information about each of these programs is available on their website.
More Information> 50+ Primetime Expo
July 26-27
Morton, MN MnCAAN will be providing an Interactive Art of Aging Center at this year's Expos, giving boomers and older adults a chance to find out where they can take classes and get involved in the arts. They will get to meet the teaching artists and staff of arts organizations to get firsthand information.
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Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Expo August 5 Minneapolis, MN The Uptown Art Fair in Minneapolis has chosen Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Network as its charitable partner for this year's event. The Network will have an outdoor booth offering interactive arts activities, as well as hosting the Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Expo on the opening day of the Fair, August 5. Adults 50 and older will have a chance to get acquainted with arts learning opportunities offered by arts organizations and teaching artists in the metro area. More Information> Ladies Rock Camp 2011 October 21-23 Portland, OR Ladies Rock Camp is a weekend day camp for adult women to let loose for the weekend and play rockin' music together. Learn drums, bass, keyboards, vocals, or guitar, or improve your skills: all levels of skill and experience are welcome, including total beginners. Meanwhile you'll also form a band and work together to write an original song that your band will play on stage at the showcase on Sunday. Tuition is $390 and benefits Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls; Ladies Rock Campers of 2007-10 collectively generated over $100,000 for Rock Camp! More Information> The Art of Creative Aging Through June 30 Montpelier, VT The Central Vermont Council on Aging presents a juried exhibit of current work of visual artists ages 70 and older living in the Montpelier area in celebration of Older Americans Month. For more information please contact Margaret Harmon at 802-476-2681 ormh...@cvcoa.org. More Information> |
Innovation in Caregiving Award Submissions due June 30 Nationwide Benjamin Rose Emerita Board Member Betty Rose seeks to reward up to three innovative caregivers with $1000 each and a commemorative plaque. Caregivers who have developed a new technique, device or application for existing technique or device are encouraged to apply. More Information> Journeys -- Healing Through Art Submissions due June 30 Edina, MN The Edina Art Center invites you to submit artwork that expresses your personal healing journey for an exhibit on display from August 11 through September 14. More Information> |
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| Dear Members,
It's hard to believe the year is nearly half over, if only because there's so much more to come. In what has already been an exciting year for NCCA, we are happy to reveal our most thrilling news yet: The Research Center for Arts and Culture (RCAC) and Professor Joan Jeffri, its renowned founder and director, will be joining us! In September RCAC will leave its current home at Teachers College, Columbia University, where for the last 26 years it has provided data and information on a variety of topics including concerns for aging artists. Joan Jeffri envisions that when the RCAC becomes part of the NCCA, the RCAC will continue to be the premier research organization dedicated to issues that affect professional artists, and also will expand its reach more deeply into the field of creativity and aging. NCCA offers Joan Jeffri a prime position to pursue that research, and we couldn't be more delighted to welcome her and the RCAC! For more information on both the move and the RCAC's previous work, press releases can be found on our website. The addition of Joan Jeffri to NCCA brings back fond memories of the last giant of the field to share our offices, Dr. Gene Cohen, whose memory we honor by awarding the annual Gene D. Cohen Research Award in partnership with the Gerontological Society of America. Nominations for this year's award will be accepted until July 1. We will choose the candidate whose research in the field of creativity and aging best demonstrates Dr. Cohen's approach to longevity, asking what wonders can be achieved not in spite of age, but because of age. Learn more about the nomination requirements. Also, potential candidates may be interested in our upcoming "Gene. D. Cohen Research Award in Creativity and Aging" webinar on June 22. The webinar will explore more of the research from last year's winners, Drs. Tony and Helga Noice, and look at their fascinating work investigating how acting classes for older adults can delay cognitive aging. Also, Dr. Linda Noelker will present on her meta-analysis covering research in creativity and aging. Other news for the month of June includes the opening of online voting for the 2011 Beautiful Minds campaign. Our corporate partner, life'sDHA™, has named 16 semifinalists on the Beautiful Minds website. The semifinalist with the most votes will be named the "People’s Choice Winner" and will join nine other finalists to be selected by the review committee as the 2011 Beautiful Minds. Finalists will receive a $500 prize package plus a $500 donation to a charity of their choice. Please read the semifinalists' incredible profiles and cast your vote for the one who inspires you most! And finally, don't forget to register for the "NCCA – MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters! Lifelong Learning through the Arts" symposium on July 27. We hope many of you can make it to hear keynote speaker Dr. Peter Whitehouse discuss his groundbreaking work at The Intergenerational School. It will certainly be a day at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC well-spent! Sincerely,
Gay Hanna, Executive Director
Katie Fitzgerald, Program Manager
Alecia Torres de Valdez, Operations and Development Manager
Liz Anderson Simmons, Communications Manager
Adam Gallagher, Communications Associate
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Beautiful Minds: Evelyn T. Beck |
Evelyn Torton Beck began her college career at Brooklyn College in 1950, and fifty four years later her formal education may have reached its peak when she received her second Ph.D., this one in Clinical Psychology. A lifelong learner, Dr. Beck's desire to learn was only heightened by the intervening years she spent as a professor of literature of women's studies at the University of Wisconsin and then at the University of Maryland. Today, having left the higher education scene behind for the most part, she continues her lifelong learning as a student and teacher of dance in many locations throughout the United States as well as Scotland and Mexico...
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Calls for Submission Gene D. Cohen Research Award in Creativity and Aging Nominations accepted until July 1
The Gene D. Cohen Award, sponsored by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA), recognizes and honors the seminal work of Dr. Gene Cohen, whose research in the field of creativity and aging has shifted the conceptual focus from a problem paradigm to one of promise and potential. The award consists of: - Travel and lodging (limited to $1,000) to attend the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting
- GSA Annual Scientific Meeting Registration
- A profile included in GSA's Annual Meeting Program
- And more!
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Symposia NCCA-MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters! Lifelong Learning through the Arts
July 27
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
This day-long symposium, being held in conjunction with the 2011 Generations United Conference, will feature a blue ocean summit on lifelong learning, showcasing how the arts can be a tool to create learning opportunities across the lifespan as well as build social and economic capital in the community. Keynote speaker Dr. Peter Whitehouse, neurologist and gerontologist at Case Western Reserve University and co-founder of The Intergenerational School will discuss his groundbreaking work in Cleveland, OH. Following Dr. Whitehouse will be a best practice panel with programs from around the country including theatre, chorale, music-making, and intergenerational programs. The day will conclude with an open discussion on resource and policy development along with new business models for access to arts education.
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NCCA-MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters! Civic Engagement through Intergenerational Gardening
and Arts Programs
Rescheduled for August 29
Miami, FL
Gardening is a unique and engaging tool for all generations and adults from healthy to frail; garden activities can be a catalyst in building bonds between younger and older generations, or between people with Alzheimer's and their caregivers. Intergenerational community gardens are an engaging way to improve the nutrition, health and social wellbeing of all communities from rural to urban. This symposium will focus on intergenerational gardens that cultivate green communities and improve the health and wellbeing of people of all ages and will feature keynote speaker Dr. Marianne Krasny, Professor and Chair of the Department of Natural Resources and Director of Mosaics Intergenerational Garden, Cornell University. Other experts in garden design, nutrition, accessibility, and intergenerational program development will present best practices and hands on gardening activities. Garden projects featured will include those in schools, museums, health centers and community spaces.
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Distance Learning Gene D. Cohen Research Award Webinar
June 22 | 1:00-2:00 pm EDT
This webinar will feature Helga Noice, PhD, and Tony Noice, PhD, of Elmhurst College, winners of the 2010 Dr. Gene D. Cohen Research Award in Creativity presented by NCCA in partnership with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). NCCA board member Dr. Linda Noelker, Senior Vice President, Planning and Organizational Resources and Director, Katz Policy Institute at the Benjamin Rose Institute will also present a meta-analysis of existing creative aging research.
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Forums WAGECC.NCCA Best Practices Forum Thank you to everyone who came to the Best Practices Forum on June 3, 2011. It was an astounding success, and some fascinating ideas were shared. Please see the Compendium for a complete description of the Best Practices discussed. |
n4a Conference and Tradeshow July 16-20 Washington, DC n4a is hosting five days of workshops, forums, and tradeshows on topics dealing with aging as well as opportunities to network with professionals in the aging field.
MORE> Generations United: Rethinking and Revitalizing Intergenerational Connections
July 26-29
Washington, DC
Generations United invites you to embark on a unique journey to transform the future of intergenerational programming, practice, and policy across the world. The Generations United 16th International Conference is a place for innovation and regeneration where presenters and participants will have the opportunity to rethink and revitalize the future of intergenerational connections and delve deeply into the exploration of conference topics. MORE>
Gerontological Society of America 64th Annual Scientific Meeting
November 18-22
Boston, MA
GSA's Annual Scientific Meeting brings together more than 3,500 of the brightest minds in the field of aging. This meeting is the premier gathering of gerontologists from both the United States and around the world. They participate in over 400 scientific sessions including symposia, paper, and poster presentations. With dynamic and engaging speakers, pre-conference workshops, educational sessions, networking and more, be sure to save the date for Boston!
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Professional Development Program: Workshop Subsidy Grants
Application Deadline: June 17
Creative Capital will be offering new Workshop Subsidy Grants through its Professional Development Program, which helps artists to manage the business side of their art with greater efficiency and results. Thanks to the generous support of the Kresge Foundation, funding for Workshop Subsidy Grants is earmarked to increase the diversity of participating artists. Organizations can apply for grants to offer these workshops to artists for a significantly reduced fee. Subsidies ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 are available for a limited number of workshops in planning, internet, and verbal communications, as well as a workshop in Spanish, to be held in 2012. Full details including guidelines can be found on Creative Capital's website. Contact Suzanne Callahan at 202-955-8325 or via email at PDPSu...@ForTheArts.org with questions.
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National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works
Application Deadline: August 11
To support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. Within these areas, innovative projects are strongly encouraged. An organization may request a grant amount from $10,000 to $100,000.
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