New York Memory Center & Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Launch
New York
State’s First Memory Arts Café
Memory Arts Café is a new series of free art events
for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, their caregivers and the general
public, and is co-produced by New York Memory Center and the Alzheimer’s Poetry
Project. The series takes place on the 2nd Wednesday of each month and includes
light refreshments and the opportunity to chat with the guest artists.
Wednesday, June 13 at 6 pm
New York Memory Center
199 14th Street at 4th
Avenue • Brooklyn, NY 11215
(Take the R to Prospect
Ave.)
For info: call (718) 499-7701 or visit alzpoetry.com
About the performers:
Legendary
jazz critic, Nat Hentoff, has praised Roger’s work as "the most joyously
encouraging way of expanding the audience for jazz." In partnership with the NYC Alzheimer
Association Chapter and jazz singer, Peter Eldridge, Ms. Rogers has produced
two Alzheimer's benefit concerts entitled “For Those We Love.”
(louiserogers.org)
The
Boston Globe wrote of pianist, composer, educator, and bandleader Mark Kross
"Kross digs hard with a bright contemporary piano style with Monkish bop
influences.” He is the Head of the Music Department at the Middlesex School, an
independent high school in Concord, MA and has released five CD’s with his
band, The Mark Kross Five-Piece Trio.
About
the producers:
Founded in 1983, the mission of New York Memory Center is to help older adults who have cognitive, physical, and emotional limitations, to maintain or improve their level of functioning so that they may enjoy their later years at home and within the community. Through an innovative wellness center, New York Memory Center meets the needs of individuals living with Alzheimer’s and related dementia disorders and their Caregivers. NYMC offers two primary programs: Lotus Club, an early intervention and support program for those experiencing the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s and related dementias; and Memory Life Services, a program which provides more extensive services suitable for adults in the community with middle to later stage memory loss. For additional information, please visit nymemorycenter.org.
Founded in 1983, the mission of New York Memory Center is to help older adults who have cognitive, physical, and emotional limitations, to maintain or improve their level of functioning so that they may enjoy their later years at home and within the community. Through an innovative wellness center, New York Memory Center meets the needs of individuals living with Alzheimer’s and related dementia disorders and their Caregivers. NYMC offers two primary programs: Lotus Club, an early intervention and support program for those experiencing the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s and related dementias; and Memory Life Services, a program which provides more extensive services suitable for adults in the community with middle to later stage memory loss. For additional information, please visit nymemorycenter.org.
Gary Glazner founded the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP)
in 2004. The APP was awarded the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging
in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement. The National Endowment for the
Arts listed the APP as a “best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative.
NBC's “Today” show, NPR's “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have
featured segments on the APP.
