This fall Lifetime Arts has delivered of live Creative Aging training sessions in New York City, around the state, and across the country.

Community Centers

In October, Lifetime Arts made two separate trips to the YMCA of Greater Syracuse. On the first trip, the team oriented the executive director and key program leaders to the field of Creative Aging, and trained them in program implementation, marketing, community engagement, and vision planning. During the second visit, we trained the their roster of teaching artists in anti-ageism, best practices in program and curriculum design, social engagement, and working in community settings. Both workshops were wonderfully successful and the participants were engaged and inspired

Museums

In November, we led a three-day training in Minneapolis for Aroha Philanthropies’ Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums grantee recipients. These sessions, offered in partnership with the American Alliance of Museums, were a deep-dive for executive directors, education directors and program staff from 20 museums from across the United States.

The goal of the training was to prepare the museums to align their Seeding Vitality Arts Vision to their own museum’s missions, to build a national cohort of museums that will be the gold standard models for best practices in Creative Aging that other museums can be replicate. Furthermore, the museums were trained on program implementation best practices in preparation for their Seeding Vitality Arts programs that will run through 2019.