Earlier this year Michael Matthew Ferrell, founder of Alive & Kickin’, a touring vocal ensemble of older adults “who rock,” collaborated with Sandy Boren-Barett, the CEO and Artistic Director of Stages Theatre Company, an educational theatre program for children and youth, to create the intergenerational music program, “Peace 4 the Ages.” The program paired older adults and …
On July 29 and 30, Aroha Philanthropies and the Minnesota State Arts Board offered the third in a series of Creative Aging trainings for teaching artists working in all arts disciplines. The event, held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, was designed to equip teaching artists with the skills to design and teach successful, skill-based, …
Lifetime Arts conducted training events in May to support the arts organizations, teaching artists, and senior center staff offering Creative Aging programming in NYC as part of the NYC Creative Aging Initiative, made possible through the generous support of the New York Community Trust, and offered in partnership with the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College and LiveOn …
Each May, the Administration for Community Living leads our nation’s observance of Older Americans Month. This year’s theme is Connect, Create and Contribute, which encourages older adults and their communities to: Connect with friends, family and services that support participation Create by engaging in activities that promote learning, health and personal enrichment Contribute time, talent …
On February 25 and 26, Lifetime Arts traveled to Minneapolis to take part in a re-convening of the Minnesota organizations who were awarded funding through Aroha Philanthropies’ Seeding Vitality Arts Initiative in 2018 and who have been invited to continue their programs in 2019. The event celebrated the accomplishments of 2018 and reflected on any challenges the …
Born in Minneapolis, MN, Peyton’s earliest memories as a child were making art and being creative. This continued into high school where he discovered graffiti art from the film Style Wars in 1984. This consumed his art interest. A portfolio of traditional art and graffiti influenced works helped earn acceptance into the School of the …
Mr. DeBlieck’s teaching credits include faculty lecturer at the University of Hawaii (1995-1997), where he taught courses in modern dance technique and advanced Labanotation, Augsburg College (2005-2015) where he taught Creative Drama, Introduction to Theatre, Dance for Musical Theatre and Introduction to Dance, and at St Cloud State University (2009-2015) where he taught dance composition …
Thanks to the Laura Jane Musser Fund of Minneapolis, MN for their generous grant to support our NYC Library Project. Librarians and artists all over Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx and Manhattan are working together to design programs for this coming year. Stay tuned for news about the funded proposals. Announcements coming in early December.
