Lifetime Arts, in partnership with Westchester Library System and with the support of the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation, has named 10 Westchester Libraries as grant recipients of this year’s Creative Aging in Our Communities: the Westchester Libraries Project. Beginning in January 2010 - from Yorktown to Mount Vernon - 14 teaching artists will lead instructional workshops for over 150 older adults in a variety of art forms. Through sequential, hands-on learning, participants will be creating art in all disciplines including drawing, painting, memoir writing, singing and even Rumba dancing!

All programs are FREE and will culminate with public exhibitions or performances at the respective libraries.

Funded Libraries are:

• Bedford Free Library
• Eastchester Public Library
• Mount Vernon Public Library
• North Salem (Ruth Keeler Memorial Library)
• Peekskill (The Field Library)
• Pelham (Town of Pelham Public Library)
• Somers Public Library
• Tarrytown (The Warner Library)
• Yonkers (Riverfront Library)
• Yorktown (John C. Hart Memorial Library)
Click here to learn more about each project.



Thanks to a grant from the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Lifetime Arts will pilot a program in 2010 to promote collaborations between teaching artists and branch libraries in the New York Public Library (NYPL) system. Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island libraries will be able to apply for grants to fund instructional arts workshops for older adults. A series of workshops throughout the city will orient library staff and teaching artists to the principles and best practices of creative aging programs. We’re excited to launch this partnership with the New York Public Library and hope that the pilot leads to a more expansive program

With the expansion of CREATIVE AGING in OUR COMMUNITIES into New York City we are proud to announce an important new partnership for Lifetime Arts. Fordham University’s Ravazzin Center on Aging will work with us to assess the impact of the program on older adult participant’s quality of life.

The New York Public Libraries Project will kick off in January, so watch this space for a schedule of workshops and grant application information.




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Click here to learn the details about each of the funded projects from the 2008-2009 season of Creative Aging in Our Communities: The Westchester Libraries Project. Funded by the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation, and administered in partnership with the Westchester Library System.




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