New York City Creative Aging Initiative

Project Components & Partners

The New York City Creative Aging Initiative, made possible through generous support from The New York Community Trust (NYCT), is a two-year project designed to advance a more sustainable and robust Creative Aging field in New York City. The Initiative’s three partners LiveOn NY, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College and Lifetime Arts will focus their efforts on SU-CASA, the City’s community arts engagement initiative serving older adults.

Over the course of 2018 and 2019, Lifetime Arts provided in-person training sessions, webinars, and networking salons to staff at 250 senior centers, 50 arts organizations as well as up to 175 teaching artists.

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Professional Development Opportunities

Webinars

From February through October 2019, Lifetime Arts offered 6 webinars designed to coordinate with 2019 SU-CASA residency timelines. Each webinar was recorded and links were shared via social media, and emailed to SU-CASA residency teaching artists, senior center program managers, and arts organization staff members.

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Salons

Also beginning in February the Initiative will also offered a series of 4 networking salons designed to both impart best practices in Creative Aging programming, and to allow those involved in planning and offering 2019 SU-CASA programs to get to know each other and share experiences in a social setting.

Live Training

In-person training sessions for year two began in March and ran through October. There were a variety of sessions customized for the teaching artists, senior center program managers, and arts organization staff members working on 2019 SU-CASA residency teams, as well as opportunities for cross-discipline learning.

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