With attention spans and the willingness to make and keep commitments seeming to be on the decline, I suppose it’s to be expected that we’d see the advent of “instant theatre,” or the 24-hour play projects. While I’ve seen these promoted in some New York City Off-Off Broadway theatres, the concept has come to Westchester …
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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; …
Westchester County Senior Hall of Fame
The Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services sponsors the Westchester County Senior Hall of Fame, celebrating outstanding older adults in this New York state county for their achievements and contributions to their communities and beyond. Since 1983 over 1,100 seniors have been inducted into this prestigious group at the awards luncheon that hosts over 500 …
Teaching Artist of the Month: November 2015
Bill Wertheim What is your primary artistic medium? Writing, both memoir and poetry. How did you get started as a teaching artist? I was a middle school English teacher for 4 years during the late 1960s, and made writing projects the center of my teaching. In 1976, a poet-friend told me about the possibility of …