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Using visual art, poetry, story and movement in various combinations, participants in Connecting Through Creativity use their imagination to learn about poets and artists while engaging in discussions, writing collaborative stories and poems, and making
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Art for Everyone uses an interdisciplinary approach in artistic engagement to accommodate diversity, process, and enticement of participants to put their artistic expression in words, drawing, painting, and sculpture.
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Dancing Heart is a program which engages older adults of all abilities (including those who are physically frail, with Parkinson's, early-mid-to-late stage Alzheimer's, and other forms of dementia) in weekly arts participation and health education through
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Intergenerational Dance Hall is a revival of the dance hall as the community center of artistic, physical and social involvement. Designed for all ages and abilities, with elders at the center. These intergenerational, intercultural events feature live
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Tremble Clefs is a therapeutic singing program dedicated to empowering people with Parkinson's through strengthening voices and enabling communication. This starts with singing together and leads to enhanced quality of life, mutual support and friendship
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Artists-In-Residence are carefully selected and trained to work within the hospital setting to offer elderly patients the opportunity to participate in the creative process. AIRs commit to a minimum of one year of work, working one day each week, as a
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Artists Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt invite the public to embroider a message onto a bandana which they will incorporate into a large-scale sculpture for the Each/Other exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. The work will become a monument to
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The goal of CLAN is to reduce substance abuse among at-risk urban American Indian Youth by offering experiences that both challenge the youth and help them reconnect to their culture. Youth and their families participate in cultural activities, allowing
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Here Song is an interactive app for your mobile device created by artists Cannupa Hanska Luger & Ginger Dunnill. Using this application connects the user to place through unique coding which encourages users to scan the world around them and create a one
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Jeremy Dennis, an artist and photographer from the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, presents Plugged In: The Shinnecock Monument as a creative imagination of what an artist might present to local non-indigenous residents if given free control of the
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