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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Julia Cameron: How to Get Creative in Later Life

…creative actions. One of the book’s messages is that creativity is not limited to the arts. We are all creative beings and live creative lives. In what ways can an…

Monday, February 24, 2020

Aging with Attitude: Stella Nash

…go to the performing arts center, go to museums, go to concerts. I play a lot of Scrabble in my neighborhood. You know what I’m doing when I get off…

Monday, September 17, 2018

Back to School: It’s Never Too Late for Online Learning

…of psychedelia, and the maturity of Abbey Road. Learn more here. Offbook Offbook is an episodic PBS series of brief videos featuring cutting-edge experts in the arts, from video games…

12/08/2023 EDT

The Art of Face Drawing

This session is offered in collaboration with Sktchy, a global arts community. Anyone, at any age, can learn to draw the human face. Join Tiffany S. DaVanzo, a portrait artist…

Friday, July 26, 2019

Senior Planet on the Small Screen

…the Arts and Entertainment Channel, the Hallmark Channel, HG TV, Destination America, Animal Planet and other stations. Missed it? Check it out at the Senior Planet YouTube** Channel here. Want…

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Singing for Health – and Happiness

…says Jo Rasi, program director, the Daily Antidote of Song, sponsored by Carpe Diem Arts, a nonprofit based in Silver Spring, Maryland. “We began in April 2020. In April 2024,…

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

To Live 10,000 Years: Arlyne’s Will to Keep on Going

arts & crafts sale, where she made big-time cash selling her handmade jewelry. Arlyne sells to a clown. Months later when I was down south, on my way to New…

Friday, March 15, 2019

Keeping it in Balance

…Clements has more than forty-five years of experience as a personal trainer and teacher of many movement arts, techniques, and methods. She is a performer and choreographer, holds a BS…

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Seniors in the Oscar Spotlight

…President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “The worlds these artists bring to the screen transcend generations and speak to something we all share. If anything, their…

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

’60s Poster Boy David Edward Byrd

…collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and Le Musee des Arts Decoratif at the Louvre, and it’s featured in an L.A. Skirball exhibit. How does it feel to have…

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Travel solo? No problem!

…Challenging.” Cost: $600 for two days to $12,000 for six weeks. Another option: Smithsonian Journeys, a similar non-profit travel group affiliated with the Smithsonian Museum. Artsy vacation: Fletcher Farm School…

Monday, January 25, 2021

Get Creative – and Social!

…a slate of activities and interactive classes from Freestyle Arts and Crafts to Virtual Acting. The schedules and offerings change, so check their online listings calendar here. The NYPL sometimes…

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Health: The Health Benefits of Optimism

…older adults recover from mild cognitive impairment (having more memory and thinking problems than others your age) and do so sooner than their more negative counterparts do, according to a…

Friday, July 12, 2013

5 Professions That Say Yes to Older Workers

…in the painting world until her death in 2009 at 93. Spero was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, at 90. Politics With Congress’s approval…

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Senior Planet Debuts with Seniors in Play

…into the fold as a weekly virtual class offering on seniorplanet.org. “Technology has revolutionized the way older adults can express themselves during COVID-19,” Cuellar says. “The performing arts is no…