Senior Arts Foundation
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 10:00PM
Fabian Lewkowicz in Music, Senior Citizens

 

(top) Broadway Music Singer, Don Paris, performs at the Main Library  during The Senior Arts Foundation's (SAF) Arts & Community Forum "Discovering Your Talent in Music" on Thursday, April 23, 2009, Jeong Woo Jin, Ph.D., accompanies on the Piano. (above) Gloria Women's Choir, senior citizen women over 75 years old from Korea, sing during the Arts & Community Forum. SAF aims to encourage senior citizens over 50 years old who are interested in the arts by providing opportunities to demonstrate their creativities through juried exhibitions and other art activities, to educate them with the open arts and community forum, to connect them to art events with transportation assistance and to utilize their talents in getting them involved in intergenerational programs. SAF has its origins with a group of instructors at Santa Monica College (SMC) and SMC Emeritus College. In working with older adults they began to understand the importance of the arts in the process of aging not only as a therapy but also as a valuable asset which these seniors can offer to society

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