The New York Community Trust Awards $600K Grant for NYC Creative Aging Initiative
Lifetime Arts to lead major effort to advance Creative Aging movement in NYC.
Lifetime Arts, Inc. announced today the receipt of a $600,000 grant from The New York Community Trust (NYCT) in support of a two-year effort to evaluate and strengthen Creative Aging programs in New York City. Taught by professional teaching artists, Creative Aging programs are arts education courses for older adults in the visual, performing, and literary arts.
Lifetime Arts will conduct more than 20 live training sessions around New York City designed to educate and inspire the staffs of over 250 senior centers, 50 arts organizations as well as up to 175 individual teaching artists. In partnership with LiveOn NY and Dr. Ruth Finkelstein, incoming Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College, efforts will focus on SU-CASA, the city’s community arts engagement initiative serving older adults. Jointly administered by the New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and the Department for the Aging (DFTA), SU-CASA is the largest program of its kind in the U.S, operating in senior centers across 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs. ...