Like many arts service organizations, Lifetime Arts is recalibrating its offerings to best suit the circumstances surrounding COVID-19.
Our #ConnectThruCreativityNow campaign is just one of the things that we are doing to advocate for continued artistic and social engagement for older adults while under quarantine.
Below you may access all of our campaign posts, which will also be findable on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook via the hashtag.
Connect Through Creativity Now: Social Distancing Doesn’t Have to Equal Social Isolation
April 14, 2020From my own work creating original theater with, and about, the real lives of older adults, I know firsthand that the research is correct. It… Read more
Teaching Creative Aging Classes Online: 1. Troubleshoot, 2. Don’t Sweat the Details
April 15, 2020“We’re all doing this really new and hard thing by trying to translate in person experiences to the virtual platform,” he says, “Don’t stress yourself… Read more
Final Critiques and Closure via Google Hangouts in San Juan
April 15, 2020The Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, part of the Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Cohort, were at the end of their… Read more
Online “Pop-Up Pages” Workshop Offered to Older Adults in Queens, NY
April 27, 2020MAKING A POP-UP MEMORY PAGE with Spica Wobbe & Karen Oughtred | PART 1: Materials and Tools | Making the Base Page Queens, NY is… Read more
Greenwich House Brings Classes Online, Launches Virtual Art Show
April 27, 2020“I think Zoom is a good platform because our members have the option to call in [by phone] — even from a landline,” said Laura… Read more
DOROT’s Online Arts Ed Programs “Put the Light Back into My Heart”
May 26, 2020When 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… Read more
Online Storytelling Class at The Wallis Retains Intimacy of In-person Workshop
May 27, 2020Debra Pasquerette, teaching artist and Manager of Community Engagement at The Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts in Beverly Hills CA, was teaching, “Staged Stories,”… Read more
Myriad Ways to Tap Older Adults’ Creativity and Combat Social Isolation
May 28, 2020While our campaign, “Connect Through Creativity Now,” highlights teaching artists, arts and service organizations working within the traditional Creative Aging model (sequential learning, skill-building, social-engagement)… Read more
The Home/Body Warm-up for Homebound Times
August 13, 2020Lifetime Arts Roster Teaching Artist, Greacian Goeke, has been teaching her signature class, “Free to Move: Expressive Movement & Rhythm for Brain & Body Health,”… Read more
Finding an “Oasis in the Abyss”
August 13, 2020Teaching Artist, Susan Willerman, was teaching her workshop, “Writing From Life” at Morningside Retirement and Health Services in Washington Heights, NYC before COVID-19 halted her… Read more
Stagebridge Explores an Infinite Digital Landscape
August 13, 2020When COVID-19 forced teachers and students to shelter in place, Stagebridge’s programming was between sessions. Staff were able to take this time to decide how… Read more
“Tell me about a time when you were resilient.”
August 13, 2020For the past three years, teaching artist, Dane Stauffer, has been teaching his storytelling programs to the same group of students at the Park Square… Read more
Online Choir Program Retains “Friendships, Solidarity and Community”
September 21, 2020Since March 2020, the CMC has developed several new ways to adapt their Older Adult Choir Program (OACP), which serves nearly 400 older adults in… Read more
Keeping Generations Connected at New England Conservatory
October 13, 2020When the pandemic initially hit, NEC knew they had to quickly adapt to a virtual world and maintain the connection between their older adult students,… Read more
“Peace 4 the Ages” Forges Intergenerational Bonds During COVID-19
November 5, 2020Earlier 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… Read more
