Archived Webinars & Symposia

 

 

 

Webinars

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Interested in hearing any of these webinars?  Email info@creativeaging.org.

 

October 13, 2010 - Chapter 1: Understanding the Context for Arts and Aging Programs; Chapter 2: How Arts Participation Benefits Older Adults
Susan Perlstein, MSW, Founder of NCCA and Elders Share the Arts
Gay Hanna, PhD, MFA, Executive Director, NCCA
Do you need a compelling reason why arts are important for older adults?  This session will go through Chapters 1 and 2 in the Creativity Matters Toolkit covering topics including an overview of the of why arts programs for older adults matter, the aging process, the demographics of aging and the big picture for arts and aging programs.  After an overview of why the creative arts are important for older adults, Chapter 2 will be covered, exploring how exactly arts participation benefits older adults highlighting convincing research in the field.

 

 

November 10, 2010 - Chapter 3: The Aging Services Field
Janice Blanchard, MSPH, Director, Aging in Community Network Initiative
Chapter 3 will address the ins and outs of the aging services field including home and community based care, addressing staff turnover and caregiver burnout, building infrastructure through federal, state, local and foundations as well as how the arts can play a key role in addressing these issues.

 

 

December 8, 2010 - Chapter 4: The Arts Field
Jonathan Katz, Chief Executive Officer, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Chapter 4 will address the Arts field delving into arts education, arts participation, professional development for teaching artists and art therapists as well as community engagement through the arts.  This chapter will also discuss how to build infrastructure through federal, regional, state, local, arts education, art therapy and foundations.

 

 

January 12, 2011 - Chapter 5: Effective Practices
Judith-Kate Friedman, Founder and Director, Songwriting Works
Chapter 5 will define what outcomes and goals an effective arts program should have including mastery and social engagement as two highlighted results.  This chapter will also showcase best-practices across the country including: New Horizons Music, Kairos Dance Theater, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute with featured guest Judith-Kate Friedman discussing her program, Songwriting Works.

 

 

February 9, 2011 - Chapter 6: Program Design
Alvin H. Reiss, Author and Editor of Arts Management Newsletter
When designing an arts program for older adults, there are many factors to take into account.  Chapter 6 will highlight the step-by-step process to creating a successful program including how to conduct an assessment of your audiences, determining the mission and goals of your program, designing activities and evaluation.  Mr. Reiss will address the nuts and bolts of how to establish trust, set realistic challenges, encourage participation and accommodating needs for participants in your program. 

This chapter will also address the importance of developing these partnerships to foster a learning community, how to secure funding streams by making a compelling case to funders, and marketing your program to potential participants. 

 

 

March 9, 2011 - Chapter 7: Program Implementation
Jorge Merced, Associate Artistic Director, Pregones Theater
Now that you’ve got your program designed, it’s time to implement.  Chapter 7 will go through the steps of setting the stage for your program – providing realistic expectations for the group and keeping your program on track by assessing its progress.  The chapter will also discuss how to effectively vet, train and provide support to training artists.

 

 

April 13, 2011 - Chapter 8: Evaluation
Craig Dreeszen, PhD, Director, Dreeszen & Associates
Program evaluation is key to not only determine whether your program was effective, but also to making the case to future funders and partners.  We will discuss the benefits of evaluation, how to plan an evaluation, determining what you want to learn, implementing the evaluation and how to evaluate programs that include people with dementia. 

 

 

May 11, 2011 - Chapter 9: Public Awareness; Chapter 10: Looking to the Future
Tim Carpenter, Founder and Director, EngAGE
The last webinar in this series will discuss how to create public awareness around your arts program including identifying your audiences, developing messages and dissemination.

 

 

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Caring for the Caregiver Summer Webinar Series
The Artful Juggler: Creating Balance in the Life of the Caregiver
The arts can be a powerful tool in relieving stress, alleviating depression and uniting the caregiver with their loved one.  This webinar series presents programs including dance classes for health care professionals and visual arts programs for those who work in hospice.  Professional discussions with the creators and directors of these innovative programs explain how their programs began, what works and what doesn’t when working with caregivers, as well as resources and next steps.

 

Caring for the Caregiver Webinar 3:
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Katherine Blossom will delve into Connecticut Hospice's innovative caregiving programs including their Musical Spa Program, Wellness Empowerment Program for homecare caregivers and Rekindling Nurses program focused on nurses who are caregivers.  Blossom will discuss the Connecticut Hospice Arts Program's work in these three areas in the context of the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team, and will describe the daily Arts interventions with family members who are caregivers in home care and in-patient.

 

Caring for the Caregiver Webinar 2:
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Michelle Pearson, lead artist of the MetLife Foundation Healthy Living Initiative at Dance Exchange, will discuss the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and their work in healthcare and aging services that combines movement, verbal expression, creative challenge and collaboration to facilitate artistic activities with patients, healthcare professionals, and other caregivers.  Pearson will delve into the ways that that Dance Exchange has worked historically and currently with caregivers through training, artistic work and work with leaders, will give examples of concrete tools that caregivers can use in their professional or personal settings, and will lead call participants in an interactive experience that acknowledges and honors the multiple roles that caregivers—and all of us—embody.

 

Caring for the Caregiver Webinar 1:
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Andrea Sherman, PhD, cofounder of Transitional Keys, will present an overview of the importance of bringing high quality arts programs to caregivers and the positive benefits they have on the mental and physical health as well as the relationship between the caregiver and their loved one. Sherman will delve into her program which uses  the multi-arts of ritual to bring care to the professional and family caregiver. Join in to learn about the form and function of ritual, the Keys to Caring toolkit and creating rituals/ceremonies  that honor, celebrate, and support  caregiving experiences.  Julia Riley, RN, MN, AHN-BC, Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator; Certified Sage-ing(r) Leader; President, Constant Source will discuss her work facilitating expressive arts in a hospice setting with clients, caregivers, and staff and a guidebook, Art in Small Spaces: Art at the Bedside.

 

 

 

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Generating Community Webinar 3:
The Art of Active Aging in Community
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Janice Blanchard, MSPH, Researcher, Writer, Consultant
Tim Carpenter, Executive Director, EngAGE

Aging organizations across the country strive to create a whole-person approach to creative and healthy aging.  Join Tim Carpenter, Executive Director of EngAGE, named an Exemplary Program for Best Practices in Lifelong Learning by The National Endowment for the Arts and Janice Blanchard, Director, Aging in Community Network Initiative, one of the frontrunners on policy and advocacy for creativity in aging explore how thoughtful arts-making activities invigorate the mind and bodies of older adults, providing them with a new sense of meaning and purpose.  Carpenter has also started the first-of-its-kind 141-unit senior apartment community, Burbank Senior Artists Colony.  Burbank Senior Artists Colony features a theater group, film company, fine arts collective and intergenerational arts program for older adults.

 

 

Generating Community Webinar 2:
Community Partnerships - Focus on Arts, Health and Aging Resources
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Gay Hanna, PhD, MFA Executive Director, NCCA
Johanna Misey Boyer, Author of Creativity Matters: Arts and Aging Toolkit, Representing The National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts

Join us for an insightful presentation by Johanna Misey Boyer, author of Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit.  Misey Boyer and Gay Hanna, Executive Director of NCCA, discuss the ins and outs of creating, building, evaluating and sustaining arts programs for older adults.  They also discuss the importance of building partnerships within your community, and how the Toolkit can aid in learning how to create these relationships – with real life examples of letters of supports, budgets, and much more.

 

 

Generating Community Webinar 1:
Communities for All Generations - Focus on Intergenerational Programs
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Susan Perlstein, Founder, Director of Special Projects, NCCA; Founder, Elders Share the Arts
Marsha Gilden, Elders Share the Arts (ESTA)

Thoughtful and engaging arts programs can be a magnificent tool in bridging the gap between young and old and building community through these bonds.  Susan Perlstein, Founder of NCCA and Elders Share the Arts and Marsha Gliden of Elders Share the Arts give an overview of intergenerational arts programs and explain how arts-making can unite generations, providing older adults with a reinvigorated sense of purpose as they mentor younger generations.  ESTA specializes in creating sustainable arts programs that generate meaningful and lasting connections between people of all ages through arts-making.

  

 

Engaging Arts Webinar 3:
Creative Advancement in Later Life - Focus on Dance and Drama
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Stuart Kandell, PhD, Founder and Director, Stagebridge
Maria Genne, M.Ed Founder and Artistic Director Kairos Dance Theater

Join us for an interactive professional conversation between the directors of two award-winning best practice programs: Stagebridge Senior Theater, the oldest Senior Theater Company, and Kairos Dance Theater, winner of the Archstone Award of Excellence in Program Innovation from The American Public Health Association and the 2008 Mind Alert Award from the American Society on Aging.  Both programs use dance, music, theater and storytelling to improve the minds, bodies and spirits of older adults as well as bridge the gap between generations.

 

 

Engaging Arts Webinar 2:
ABOVE GROUND: Older Artists as Role Models for Society with a Focus on Visual Arts
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Joan Jeffri, Director of Program in Arts Administration and Research Center for Arts and Culture, Teachers College Columbia University

Joan Jeffri explores Above Ground, a study which explores the lifestyles of older adult artists in New York City.  These findings combat common stereotypes and reinforce the knowledge that older adults remain contributing, savvy, productive members of society serving as role models for society at large.  The study explores older artists’ sense of mastery and social engagement in their everyday lives.

 

 

Engaging Arts Webinar 1:
Participation in the Arts Across the Aging Spectrum with Music Making
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Susan Perlstein, Founder and Director of Special Projects, NCCA; Founder, Elders Share the Arts
Jeanne Kelly, Executive Director, Encore
Anthony Hyatt, Master Teaching Artist, Arts for the Aging

This first webinar in the Engaging Arts Series presents an overview of the field of creativity and aging, highlighting research on the importance of music.  Two best practice programs demonstrate how music can be an effective tool in bringing purpose and meaning to lives of all older adults, from active to frail.

 

 

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Webinar: Creativity Matters
The Sciences of Creativity and Cognitive Enhancement
Friday, January 15, 2010
Roger Anunsen, cofounder of mindRAMP & Associates, LLC 
Michael Patterson, cofounder of mindRAMP & Associates, LLC
 

 

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Webinar: Forget Memory
The Power of Creative Engagement in Dementia Care
Wednesday December 16, 2009
Anne Basting, PhD, Director of the Center on Age & Community and an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Founder of TimeSlips; Author of Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People With Dementia and The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture.

 

 

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NCCA Fall Webinar Series
Gene D. Cohen, MD, PhD
Founder and Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities of The George Washington University, Dr. Cohen was the principle investigator for the landmark study (funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts) The Impact of Professionally Conducted Cultural Programs on the Physical Health, Mental Health and Social Functioning of Older Adults.  He is the author of numerous articles and two books: The Creative Age and The Mature Mind. 

 

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: What is Aging After All
Creativity and Positive Changes Because of Aging, Not Despite It
Monday, September 14, 2009

 

The Landmark, Multisite National, Creativity & Aging Study
Demonstrating the Impact of Creative Engagement on Improving Physical and Mental Health Among Those with an Average Age of 80 (Greater Than Life Expectancy in the U.S.)
Monday, October 5, 2009

 

A New Theory of Psychological Growth and Development in the Second Half of Life 
Reflecting Positive Changes that Occur Because of Aging, Not Despite it, And Offering New Explanations for Creative Capacity in Mid and Later Life
Monday, October 19, 2009

 

Innovative Psychosocial Interventions for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Including A New Comprehensive Intervention Strategy for AD
Featuring 2 Novel Projects Awarded First Place in The International Healing Arts Competition Administered by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

 

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NCCA Summer Webinar Series

Research in the Creative Aging Field
July 29, 2009
Susan Perlstein, MSW, Founder & Director of Special Projects, NCCA; Founder, Elders Share the Arts

Best Practice Creative Arts Programs for Older Adults
August 5, 2009
Andrea Sherman, Curriculum Director, The National Center for Creative Aging,
Director, Transitional Keys

Resource Development, Funding, Partnerships for Creative Arts Programs
August 12, 2009
Gay Hanna, PhD, MFA, Executive Director, NCCA 

 

 

Symposia

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NCCA/MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters: Health, Wellness & the Arts Symposium
Developing Engaging Programs for People with Alzheimer’s & Memory Loss and Their Caregivers
Miami, FL
August 3, 2010

 

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NCCA/MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters: Lifelong Learning through the Arts Symposium
Mountain View, CA
June 15, 2010

 

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NCCA/MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters: Civic Engagement and Gardening Symposium
Washington, DC
April 12-14, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

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NCCA/MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters: Civic Engagement Symposium
San Francisco, CA
June 15, 2009

 

 

 

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NCCA/MetLife Foundation Creativity Matters: Health, Wellness & the Arts Symposium
Washington, DC
March 30-April 1, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Archived Programs

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Dr. Gene D. Cohen Lecture at Ithaca College Creativity and Aging Conference
The Gene Cohen Lecture has been placed on the public access site of Ithaca College iTunes U! Go to the following link: https://itunes.ithaca.edu/

 

Directions:
1. Click on - Ithaca on iTunes U (public)
2. You will be prompted to launch your iTunes application. (If you need the iTunes software, go to apple.com for a free download.)
3. You will be taken to Ithaca College iTunes site for a content list within the IC iTunes server.
4. Click on Interdisciplinary and International Studies link.
5. Then click on Gerontology Institute for list of video clips.
6. Double click title to view video onscreen in iTunes.
7. Enjoy!

  

 

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Creative Aging: The Next Frontier

The National Cathedral recently presented its Dean, Sam Lloyd, and creative aging expert Gene Cohen in a conversation that explored what's next for America's Baby Boom Generation. Order the DVD of the event or view the archived presentation online.

 

 

 

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Archived Presentations from Recent Arts & Aging Webinars

The NCOA/Caresource's Healthy Aging Briefing Series recently presented two recent webinars on arts and aging with NCCA staff. Both webinars focused on the practical strategies the arts and aging services network can use at the community level to move from a mindset of deficit based to asset based aging through the arts in service of healthcare. A first session with Gay Hanna an Dr. Gene Cohen focused on recent research into creativity and aging and a second session with Gay Hanna and Susan Perlstein looked at best practices in developing arts and aging programs. Find the archived presentations and others on topics related to aging at ncoa.org/briefings and at AgingInStride.org/NCOA_Archives.

 

 

 

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Americans for the Arts Webinar