Get Free Admission to the Midwest Arts and Aging Conference

Volunteers Needed to help with set-up, registration, traffic, breakfast, lunch, workshop assistance, errands, tear-down and more.

Volunteer Perks include: 

1) Free parking for the day

2) Ability to attend great conference sessions prior to or following your shift

RSVP can connect you to these opportunities and more. 

Volunteers 55 and over receive special RSVP benefits.

                                                         

For more info: Call 952-945-4162 or Email 

Midwest Arts and Aging Conference

Presented by ArtSage
Friday, June 20, 2014
8:45am - 6:00pm   *download schedule
St. Paul Union Depot
214 4th St E
St Paul, MN 55101

Join ArtSage for a day long conference with respected leaders in the field of arts and aging, including keynote speaker Gary Glazner, founder of the national Alzheimer's Poetry Project; Maria Genne founder of Kairos Alive!; Jeanie Brindley Barnett, co-founder of MacPhail Center for Music's Music for Life™ Program; Joey Clark, master teaching artist, Zoe Bird, Alzheimer's Poetry Project and others.

Gary will lead a workshop on on using poetry for older adults with memory loss. In addition, he will be signing his new book during our happy hour reception and answer your questions about using poetry and the arts to reach older adults with memory loss.

Additional presenters will also share information on new evaluation strategies for arts programming to adults with memory loss. Additional sessions will provide time for networking and feature the first-ever Teaching Artist Showcase where you can meet teaching artists trained to work with older adults and learn about their approach in your setting, experience interactive workshops filled with tips and tools on arts and aging and much more.

Network with arts and aging professional, workshops, vendors, and more.REGISTER HERE >>

Free Fun Event! Documentary and Discussion:

The Power of Creative Aging   November 14, 2011

View tpt's Emmy award-winning documentary about four older women artists in the Twin Cities who use their art to reflect on aging.

Hear Lucy Rose Fischer, one of the featured artists, talk about her work with paper collage. Pat Samples, (Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Network) MnCAAN's coordinator, will talk about the creative spurt that comes with aging.

WHAT: The Power of Creative Aging, a film and presentation by Pat Samples and Lucy Rose Fischer

WHEN: Monday, November 14, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

WHERE:
The Kenwood
The Fine Arts Room
825 Summit Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone: 612-374-8100.

Free--Open to the public

Lucy Rose Fischer is an award-winning artist and author, who also has a background as a gerontologist. Her most recent book, I’m New at Being Old, which has a series of colorful collages, received a Midwest Book Award and an Independent Publishers Gold Award. Her art has been shown in over 50 exhibits and is on permanent display in public institutions and private collections.

To learn more about the Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Network and creative opportunities for older people, visit http://www.mncaan.net/

Teach Your Art Form to Older Adults

Workshop for Teaching Artists, October 3
How To Teach Older Adults

The creative burst that older adults experience relates to their needs for legacy leaving, meaning, purpose, and belonging. This workshop is designed to help the teaching artist learn what works when teaching older adults - and why.

Presenters will share tips and techniques on how to work with older students who may have spent the majority of their lives believing they were not creative. They will also demonstrate activities and approaches that can transform individual stories and experiences into artistic expression.

Sponsored by: Springboard for the Arts
Location: Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave. So., Mpls
Time: 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Presenters:
Pat Samples, MnCAAN Coordinator, who teaches older adults using multiple art forms including writing and theatre and who has coordinated 27 residencies with a variety of visual, performing, and literary artists in senior housing in the past two years

Anne Krocak, visual artist, who has a conducted numerous tile-making and watercolor residencies in senior housing and served as a mentor for other teaching artists

Cost: $45; $30 with discount code

If you've been wanting to to teach your art form in senior housing, senior centers, or other places that serve older adults, this fun, interactive workshop will introduce you to key information and skills and boost your confidence. Bring your questions and ideas to share too.

MnCAAN: Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Network
763-560-5199
www.MnCAAN.net
artsandaging@mncaan.net

Good News From RSVP’s Own Weatherman:

Barry ZeVan Says This Should be the Last of the Subzero Temps!

Officially, he’s retired, but you’d never know it. Not only is he busy with volunteer work and projects across the country—he still keeps a keen eye on the weather.

I was among those grumbling about the cold at a recent meeting.

“Oh, this is the last of it,” he assured us.

“Well--we’ll see,” I said—forgetting who I was talking to.

“No, really, it is,” he said. “I’ve been watching the satellite pictures, and there’s a big shift in the upper air pattern; the Arctic air is moving off, and Pacific air—"

“Oh--duh--I forgot!” I said. “Barry ZeVan, the Weatherman! Do you mind if I quote you?”

Graciously, he said that I could.

Barry is an RSVP volunteer, serving on the board of our partner organization, MnCAAN, the Minnesota Creative Arts and Aging Network, which works to expand opportunities for older adults to express themselves through the arts.

If you’d like to see one of Barry’s numerous projects, go to http://www.startribune.com/video/115223339.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU

He does a weekly video on the StarTribune website, called--A Senior Moment. (Did I mention he has a great sense of humor?)