Tag: NYC

DOROT’s Online Arts Ed Programs “Put the Light Back into My Heart”

Pictured are participants in one of DOROT's Onsite@Home classes via Zoom.

When the COVID crisis hit, DOROT was determined to continue serving their community members, who have come to appreciate high-quality arts programming and social interaction with their friends and staff. In just one month, DOROT was able to move all of their onsite programs to what they are calling DOROT Onsite @Home via Zoom video conferencing.

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Online “Pop-Up Pages” Workshop Offered to Older Adults in Queens, NY

MAKING A POP-UP MEMORY PAGE with Spica Wobbe & Karen Oughtred | PART 1: Materials and Tools | Making the Base Page Queens, NY is one of the most international places in the world. The Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts have set up a program called FTH at Home: Global Arts for Global …

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Summer Creative Aging Training Roundup

Cohort of arts organizations across the U.S. and Lifetime Arts staff in Minnesota

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 …

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Lisa Spraragen

Photo of teaching artist Lisa Spraragen. She has dark hair and has a guitar in her hands. She is smiling.

A graduate of Brown University with a Master’s in Music Performance from NYU, Lifetime Arts Roster teaching artist, Lisa Spraragen is a classical and flamenco guitarist and dancer. This past year she taught three Creative Aging programs for us as a part of the Catalyzing Creativity in New York City initiative made possible by the Fan Fox …

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Fall 2018 Highlights

As a result of three major Creative Aging initiatives running programs this fall as a result of our training and technical support — The Catalyzing Creativity initiative in New York City, funded by the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Catalyzing Creative Aging, a project in partnership with the National Guild for Community Arts Education; …

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NYC Senior Center, Teaching Artist, and Arts Organization Training Update

Lifetime Arts is currently training teaching artists and staff at New York City senior centers and arts organizations how to plan, design, and deliver Creative Aging programming. Annie Montgomery, Lifetime Arts’ director of education, led a training for senior center staff this month at the Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch. Through our experiential, hands-on seminars …

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