What a lovely job the Today Show crew did -click here to watch it. they were genuinely open to and moved by the storytellers – and I think it showed in their editing/narration of the segment. A hopeful image/story of dementia… Let us know what you think!
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Today Show Segment on TimeSlips
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2011 |
TimeSlips on the Today Show
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2011 |
Back in October 2011, the Today Show crew came to Milwaukee to shoot a segment on TimeSlips creative storytelling. The project had just launched a huge new website with free, interactive storytelling software designed to bring creativity to families with dementia wherever they live, as well as a 5-module online training in the method. Looks [...]
Aging Together
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The long plane flight to Brussels gave me a long overdue chance to read/finish a couple of books, including Susan and John McFadden’s Aging Together: Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities. I’m a long time fan and friend to both John and Susan, and I have them both to thank for the development of my own [...]
Leading Age Preconference on Creative Engagement
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2011 |
Thanks to Kirsten Jacobs of Leading Age for bringing together an inspiring group of folks working in creative engagement for the Sat. Oct 15th 4.5 hour preconference session. Kirk Murphy of Sandglass Theater in VT provided an overview of their project with Renya Larson and the folks at Holton House in Brattleboro. They used the [...]
Greetings from Maastricht
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a jam packed 5 days here in Maastricht, Netherlands for the meeting of the European Network in Aging Studies and the 7th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology. It has been an incredible experience to see aging from an international perspective, and to be among so many humanities and arts scholars. There is some [...]
LAUNCHED!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2011 |
The new TimeSlips.orgwebsite is now available to the world – so go ahead world! Start playing! Several years in the making, this site was designed to bring creative storytelling (and a bit of joyful play) to people with cognitive disabilities wherever they live. Here’s what we hope to be a common scenario: Patty lives at [...]
adventures in reading…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aging in community, Anne Basting, Everyone Leads, long term care and community, Paul Schmitz on September 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In a singularly rare gift of academia…I recently started my year-long sabbatical. As is my tendency, I have so many goals for this year that it will be a miracle if I accomplish 1/2 of them. All my goals could be melted down into one single goal: to evolve my work in using the arts [...]
Laughter and a Focus on the Present Moment
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2011 |
Here’s a well done article from today’s (July 13th, 2011) Chicago Tribune on something that those of us in the field of theatre know – Improvisation is funny and fun, demands that you hone all your senses, and draws you closer to those you practice it with. Improvisation has been the base of the TimeSlips [...]
Anne’s Interview on Joy Cardin…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2011 |
I rattled off a whole bunch of references this a.m. and thought that I would provide the links here… 1) John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan just opened Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts and the show (it’s amazing)… and will be up until Dec. 31st. Tell your friends! 2) The TimeSlips Creative storytelling [...]
On “Our Irrational Fear of Forgetting”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alzheimer's, fear of forgetting, forget memory, Margaret Gullette on June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Margaret Gullette’s opinion piece “Our Irrational Fear of Forgetting” in the Sunday New York Times on May 21st, 2011 strikes a provocative chord. That’s one of the many things that Margaret is exceedingly good at – striking chords. She’s also a painstaking researcher, an eloquent writer, a keen observer of culture, and a tenacious, on-message [...]
