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Interested in learning how to create engaging arts programs for people with Alzheimer's and Memory Loss? Join the National Center for Creative Aging in Miami, FL for:
The NCCA-MetLife Foundation "Creativity Matters! Health, Wellness & The Arts Symposium: Developing Engaging Programs for People with Alzheimer's and Memory Loss and Their Caregivers."
Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Florida International University
Featuring lectures and intensive, hands-on workshops on topics
including:
How to increase your brain fitness through creative activities and the science behind creativity and cognitive enhancement
· The Time Slips Storytelling Method which focuses on forgetting memory and instead using communication, imagination and the present to inspire people with memory loss to tell stories
· MoMA Programs in Art and Dementia developed through the Museum of Modern Art in New York City which brings arts engagement programs to people with dementia and their caregivers.
· "I Remember Better When I Paint," a documentary film about a person
with Alzheimer's who finds meaning and purpose through painting narrated by Olivia de Havilland.
Non Member Cost: $75.00
Members of NCCA, the Miami
Alliance on Aging, Florida International University Faculty and Students, Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs, Society for the Arts in Healthcare, the Alzheimer's Association: $25.00
Scholarships and CEUs Available!
For more information and to register visit: www.creativeaging.org/symposia-miami/
Sponsors Include: MetLife Foundation, NAMM Foundation, Society for the Arts in Healthcare, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Time Slips , MindRAMP, Miami Alliance on Aging
SEE http://www.creativeaging.org/symposia-miami/ to register.
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