Seniors Create Project performance
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In the fall of 2016, South Granville Seniors Centre and the Seniors Create Project held workshops at several seniors' centres, collecting stories on how it feels to be a senior in today's social media and youth-centric society. The inspiring stories collected have been worked into a script and an amazing cast of senior-aged actors has been assembled, Yvonne Adalian, Bernard Cuffling, Richard Newman and Gina Stockdale. This project highlights long lives lived, full of joy and sadness with great strength and resiliency and how there is joy and great privilege in aging. Help us meet our fundraising goal so we can share the stories with you this winter!
About the project:
About four years ago, project lead Marnie Perrin’s father-in-law mentioned that as a senior-aged person he feels invisible. “How did I become invisible? I walk down the mall, people bump into me, people cut in front of me in the grocery store. It’s as if I’m not even there. What happened?” Thus began the journey of the South Granville Seniors Centre and the Seniors Create Project. After many months of collecting stories, the fall of 2017 saw stories edited into a performance script and rehearsals set. We now want to share this meaningful piece with the community.
The performance is at times funny, at times touching, but overall it represents a snippet of senior-aged people that you won’t see anywhere else.
Fundraising Goals:
The money raised will pay the professional senior-aged actors and help increase the number of performances we can offer to seniors’ organizations. Every little bit helps, please give what is possible.
This project hopes to give seniors a voice and an opportunity to be heard:
From a current research project called the Arts and Health Project we know that engaging seniors in creative projects improves not only their sense of community and belonging but also their health.
“The seniors in this project experienced improved physical well-being, higher degrees of social inclusion, increased confidence and an enhanced sense of accomplishment”
(The Arts and Health Project: Healthy Aging Through The Arts coordinated by The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and Vancouver Coastal Health )
Everyone deserves to be treated like a person and to be heard. Please help us reach our goal of creating an incredibly unique opportunity for seniors. A huge thank you to South Granville Seniors Centre for having the vision to partner with the Seniors Create Project. Thank you to everyone that has supported the project so far. Please spread the word!
About the project:
About four years ago, project lead Marnie Perrin’s father-in-law mentioned that as a senior-aged person he feels invisible. “How did I become invisible? I walk down the mall, people bump into me, people cut in front of me in the grocery store. It’s as if I’m not even there. What happened?” Thus began the journey of the South Granville Seniors Centre and the Seniors Create Project. After many months of collecting stories, the fall of 2017 saw stories edited into a performance script and rehearsals set. We now want to share this meaningful piece with the community.
The performance is at times funny, at times touching, but overall it represents a snippet of senior-aged people that you won’t see anywhere else.
Fundraising Goals:
The money raised will pay the professional senior-aged actors and help increase the number of performances we can offer to seniors’ organizations. Every little bit helps, please give what is possible.
This project hopes to give seniors a voice and an opportunity to be heard:
From a current research project called the Arts and Health Project we know that engaging seniors in creative projects improves not only their sense of community and belonging but also their health.
“The seniors in this project experienced improved physical well-being, higher degrees of social inclusion, increased confidence and an enhanced sense of accomplishment”
(The Arts and Health Project: Healthy Aging Through The Arts coordinated by The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and Vancouver Coastal Health )
Everyone deserves to be treated like a person and to be heard. Please help us reach our goal of creating an incredibly unique opportunity for seniors. A huge thank you to South Granville Seniors Centre for having the vision to partner with the Seniors Create Project. Thank you to everyone that has supported the project so far. Please spread the word!
Organizer
Marnie Perrin
Organizer
Vancouver, BC
