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Art4Life Inc.

From the Art4Life Inc. Website:  Art4Life Inc. is a for-profit social enterprise committed to championing Creative Aging and to bring its benefits to Canadians. We are passionate about the potential of this approach as an …

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Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing

Websites

From the Website: The Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing (CISP) is a new national hub to link people and share practices that connect people to community-based supports and services that can help improve their health …

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Culture and Antiracisms in Adult Education: An Exploration of the Contributions of Arts-Based Learning

via Adult Education Quarterly   |   Reports

From the abstract: Increasingly, practices of collective arts-based learning are being used by adult educators and community organizations as creative and participatory ways to respond to contemporary social or environmental issues. Investigating the potential contributions …

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GeriActors & Friends Intergenerational Theater Company (Canada)

Websites

GeriActors & Friends (Edmonton, Canada) is an intergenerational theater company organized by a group of older people seeking ways to become involved with theater. Through instructional lessons led by a professor of Theater Arts at …

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Participatory Arts Programming for Older Adults in Museums: Trends in Europe, the UK, and Canada

Creative Aging Resource Journals

In this issue of The Creative Aging Resource by Lifetime Arts, Diantha Dow Schull (Curator for Lifetime Arts) shares a curated collection of programs that align with the tenets of the creative aging arts education …

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ROM Launches New Wellness Program Providing Free Visits to the Museum

Press Releases

From the Press Release: The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce a new health and wellness initiative that will enable thousands of people from across the province to visit the Museum at no cost, with …

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Rx: Community – Social Prescribing in Ontario

Programs and Initiatives

From the Website: September 2018 marked the launch of an exciting chapter at Alliance as we initiated a first-of-its-kind pilot project in Ontario, called Rx: Community – Social Prescribing. As we learned about the core values …

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The State of Our Art: A Review of Theories Used in Intergenerational Program Research (2003–2014) and Ways Forward

Articles and Blog Posts

This article conveys the process and results of the authors’ examination of 10 years of recent research on intergenerational programs. Their core question was whether and how, “theory is being used in the field of …

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Visibility, Creativity and Community: Theatre Arts Programming Offers a New Pathway for Older Adults

Creative Aging Resource Journals

In this issue of The Creative Aging Resource Newsletter, Diantha Dow Schull talks with theatre professionals,  Julie Kline, Lifetime Arts’ Director of Education & Training, and Ed Friedman, Lifetime Arts’ Co-Founder and Executive Director (retired), …

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