Community Engagement
Chairman of the Senate
Special Committee on Aging
Upcoming
Recent
Media Festival of the 2008 Joint Conference of the National Council on Aging and American Society on Aging, March 28. Do Not Go Gently was honored with the American Society on Aging's 2008 National Media Award for Best Electronic Media. Community Engagement Workshop co-presented with Arts for the Aging. This session showed footage from a pilot creative aging outreach project done in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Effective uses of Do Not Go Gently for community engagement was explored.
New York Festivals Film & Video Awards, Jan. 31, 2008 Screening at the Tribeca Rooftop. Frederic Franklin accepted a Gold World Medal in Humanities for Do Not Go Gently.
Mickey Jarson Kaplan Performance Space, Cincinnati Ballet, Jan. 27, 2008 Screening with the Cincinnati MacDowell Society. Group dialogue followed moderated by the dance scholar/advisor for the film and President of the Cincinnati MacDowell Society, Janet Light.
American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., Jan. 14, 2008 Screening for the National Coalition for Mental Health and Aging with Dr. Gene Cohen.
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL, Jan. 19 & 20, 2008 Screening and discussion in a visionary art museum with the film's director, Melissa Godoy.
Eckerd College , St. Petersburg, Florida, Dec. 7, 2007
Evening theatrical screening of Do Not Go Gently at the National Positive Aging Conference ¨Beyond the Cutting Edge.¨ Filmmakers and outreach partners from AFTA and the National Center for Creative Aging in attendance.
Walter Cronkite, Joanna Simon, and Frederic Franklin at the National Arts Club, New York, April 12.
Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 2, 2007
The Canadian premiere of Do Not Go Gently kicked off at the Canadian Association on Gerontology´s annual conference. Combined with a photography exhibit by artists from Calgary and a buffet dinner and cash bar, this energizing evening symposium was sponsored by the Kerby Centre of Excellence and PAL-Calgary.
Reeve Memorial Union Theatre, Oshkosh, Wisc., Oct. 12, 2007
Theatrical screening of Do Not Go Gently sponsored by the Winnebago County Artists for Arc at the Earth Charter Summit at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Talkback followed with Mary Bouche, Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Wisconsin and Jo Mellen, Director of NEWIST.
Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, August 26, 2007
Screening and discussion with the planning committee for the annual meeting of the Older Persons Division of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Participants included representatives from state mental health authorities who are the contacts for older adult services in their agencies andfederal agencies.
Dr. Gene Cohen at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Milwaukee Art Museum, June 22, 2007
Presented by the Helen Bader Foundation, a film premiere and symposium on creativity and aging with filmmakers and subjects, including special guests Dr. Gene Cohen, Adekola Adedapo, Maria Antonietta, and Edith Valentine, daughter of late composer Leo Ornstein. Moderated by Anne Basting.
Anthony Hyatt and Julia Burger from Arts for the Aging lead workshops in Green Bay.
Meyer Theatre, Green Bay, Wisconsin, June 14, 2007
Arts for the Aging came to Wisconsin to train area caregivers and staff of nursing homes, senior centers and dementia centers in the use of dance, poetry, writing and music. In cooperation with the Area Agency on Aging, Alzheimer's Association of Northeastern Wisconsin, Arts Council of Northeastern Wisconsin, Senior Center of Green Bay, AARP, Green Bay Film Society and other volunteers. Event capped off by a screening of Do Not Go Gently at the Meyer Theatre. Funded by the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Board, Northeastern Wisconsin Arts Council, and the Helen Bader Foundation.
Mary Lee Bendolph at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Ornstein biographers Michael Broyles and Denise VonGlahn.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 10, 2007
A film premiere event in collaboration with Arts for the Aging, Inc. This pre-broadcast screening was followed by a panel discussion and reception with artists, guests, and biographers from the film.
Indianapolis International Film Festival, April 29 & 30, 2007
Talkback after the screening with the filmmakers and Kathy Segrist, from the Community Center for Vital Aging.
Dr. Anne Basting leads a discussion.
Madison, Wisconsin, April 15, 2007
Do Not Go Gently at the Wisconsin Film Festival Bartell Theatre. A talkback followed with the filmmakers and Anne Basting, Director of the Center on Age and Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
LaGuardia Community College, April 12, 2007
To celebrate the power of imagination on the aging process, LaGuardia Community College hosted a conference on creativity and aging that featured an advance screening of Do Not Go Gently.
The event at LaGuardia was intergenerational. Dianne Kevelier-Smith, Instructor of American Sign Language with her mother, Fay Kevelier.
Minia Moszenberg with her daughter, event leader Professor Paula Nesoff.
Other activities scheduled included a meeting with the filmmakers, a panel discussion led by experts in the field and a distinguished group of artists and writers, and experiential intergenerational activities.
The panel discussion featured Susan Perlstein, National Center for Creative Aging; Judith Zangwill, Sunnyside Community Services; Melissa Godoy, filmmaker; Eileen Littig, filmmaker; Constance Maltese, artist; Ellen Stewart, author; and Khosrow Moradian, architect, artist, and teacher. Read More
Montclair Art Museum, April 11, 2007
Susan Perlstein, Eileen Littig, Frederic Franklin, Melissa Godoy and Jerry Caracciolo, Montclair Arts Council.
The Montclair Art Council’s Senior Initiative in collaboration with the Montclair Art Museum hosted a special film screening of Do Not Go Gently .
The program was introduced by Susan Perlstein, Director of the National Center for Creative Aging. A talkback with the filmmakers followed. After the Q &A, Susan Perlstein facilitated a discussion with service providers, arts, cultural and educational organizations on Community Models for Enhancing Creativity in Senior Citizens. Read More
Cincinnati Art Museum, March 3 & 4, 2007
Film premiere presented by Cincinnati World Cinema with talkback by Frederic Franklin, Cincinnati Ballet principal dancers Kristi Capps and Dmitri Trubchanov, cinematographer Mike Bizzarri, and Melissa Godoy. Resource tables represented by the Cincinnati Recreation Commission, Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio, Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Cincinnati, and CET. Read More
Ongoing
Community Engagement ideas for Do Not Go Gently at the National Center for Outreach
Resources
Please see the website of our national outreach partner, the National Center for Creative Aging.
Find creative aging resources in your community through the National Directory of the National Center for Creative Aging Network (soon to be an expanded).
Timeslips
Innovative creative storytelling technique for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.
Training from leaders across North America on using the arts and imagination to improve the quality of life for people with memory loss.
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