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The following organizations and initiatives offer interesting examples of recognizing and promoting engagement in the arts in later in later life.
Canada
Creative Expressions Newsletter, Calgary, AB
Creative Age Festival, Edmonton, AB
Mapping the Arts & Health in Alberta
Halifax Seniors Art & Photography (Ongoing) Exhibit
Society for the Arts in Dementia Care
Vancouver Arts and Health Project
Vancouver Seniors Week 2008
Victoria Senior Celebration Festival 2008
Ryerson University's Silver Screens Arts Festival: Aging Creatively, Creativity in Aging
Learning through the Arts @ SERC (Oakville, ON)
Western Gold Theatre (Vancouver)
Performing Arts Lodge Canada Foundation
Performing Arts Lodge (Toronto)
Performing Arts Lodge (Vancouver)
Performing Arts Lodge (Calgary)
Performing Arts Lodge (Halifax)
Raging Grannies
Canadian Organization of Senior Artists and Performers (COSAP)
Chartwell's National "Senior Star Competition"
US
National Centre on Creative Aging
The Center on Aging, Health & Humanities
Westchester Center for Creative Aging
ESTA – Elders Share the Arts (NYC)
Stagebridge Seniors Theatre Company
Kairos Dance Company – The Dancing Heart
Society for Creative Aging - Colorado
UK
Age Exchange
Capital Age Festival
Bealtaine Festival
Gwanwyn - Celebrating Creativity in Older Age
Other Links
Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council
Edmonton Arts Council
… The Art of Living: A Plan for Securing the Future of Arts and Heritage
Art Gallery of Alberta
Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
Edmonton Lifelong Learners Association
Calgary Public Library
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
MacEwan College
Reseau sante albertain
Resource list and links courtesy of Pamela Brett-MacLean and the Creative Age Festival (Edmonton).
If you have any other links or information about other initiatives, please contact us.
Feel free to submit your upcoming event of interest to info@creativeagingcalgary.ca.
Submissions now being accepted for the December 2011 Creative Expressions Newsletter.
Contact the editor at editor@creativeagingcalgary.ca.
May 2011 Creative Expressions issue;
August 2011 Creative Expressions issue.
Content for December 2011 needed - please email the editor.
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