Which will you attend? Here’s hoping I get to meet up with you!
Thx for all of your support for Celebrating Art for Senior Engagement.
You are the BEST! Lynn
Tuesday, May 3
St. Louis County Library, Daniel Boone Branch
Creativity: Redefining Retirement Panel
Tuesday, 3rd May, 9:45 am
9:45 am . Performance by the St. Louis Showstoppers
10:00 am Panel Discussion
300 Clarkson Rd. Ellisville, MO 63011-2222
When you think of retirement, what comes to mind: a second career, volunteerism or free time to explore interests? Join us as we talk with an engaging panel of notable St. Louis “retirees” about using creativity in retirement to maximize your happiness. Sharon Stevens of HEC-TV will moderate the discussion and audience Q&A. Prior to the panel, enjoy a sneak peek performance of the St. Louis Showstoppers’ summer show. Presented in partnership with the
Craft Alliance
Free Poetry Reading: Michael Castro and Shirley LeFlore
Tuesday, 3rd May, 6:30pm
6640 Delmar Blvd, STL, MO 63130
Michael Castro is the poet laureate of St. Louis, MO. He is a founder of the literary journal River Styx. Shirley LeFlore is one of St. Louis’ most influential performance poets and has been a part of many underground activist poetry organizations including the Black Artists’ Group and Harmony. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information please go to http://www.craftalliance.org/
Wednesday, May 4
Center of Creative Arts
Move for your Health/Dance for your Spirit
Wednesday, 4th May, 10am-10:30am (performance) 10:30-11:30am (class)
524 Trinity Ave, St. Louis, MO 63130
Alice Bloch leads a movement class designed especially for seniors emphasizing core strength, balance, and creative movement. Then she and her dancers perform the hilarious “Old Lady Skin,” plus selections from her repertoire and choreography by the revolutionary modern dancer, Isadora Duncan.
For more information you can contact Alice at abloch45@gmail.com or call (314) 725-6555
Guided Tour of the Saint Louis University Museum of Art
Wednesday, 4th May, 10:30-10:55
3663 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
Join us for a walking tour of the Saint Louis University Museum of Art. Tara McCarthy, the Education Associate and Docent for Museums and Galleries at Saint Louis University will guide you through 3 floors of SLUMA and give brief descriptions of some of the highlights of the collection. The tour will run conclude 5 minutes prior to Dr.John Morley’s lecture on Art and Aging which will also be held at SLUMA. This event is handicapped accessible.
Contact Tara McCarthy at mccarthyt@slu.edu or call 314 977 6630. For more information about Saint Louis University’s Museums and Galleries please visit our website: http://www.slu.edu/sluma-home
A Talk with Dr. John Morley About Arts and Aging
Wednesday, 4th May, 11:00am
Saint Louis University Museum of Art, 3663 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
Noted geriatrician, Dr. John E. Morley, M.B., B.Ch., Dammert Chair of Gerontology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine Geriatrics Division, will provide an engaging lecture on the intersection of art and the aging process.
For more information you can contact aging@slu.eduor go to www.aging.slu.edu
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)
MOCRA Tour
Wednesday, 4th May, 1:00-1:45pm
MOCRA, 221 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103
Join us for a 45-minute tour of MOCRA’s current exhibition with Assistant Director David Brinker. Learn about great French artist Georges Rouault and his landmark print series Miserere et Guerre, plus discover highlights of the MOCRA collection.To register please email David Brinker at brinkerd@slu.edu
Art Unleashed
Arm Knitting
Wednesday, 4th May, 1:30-3:00 pm
13379 Olive Boulevard, 63017
Learn how to knit without any needles! During this workshop, you will learn how to cast on, cast off and the basic knit stitch, using your arms as the needles. Participants will leave with a finished scarf. This event is handicapped accessible.
$35 registration fee. To register, visit www.ArtUnleashed.org or call 314-628-0124 for more information
OASIS
Treasure or Trash: Antique Appraising
Wednesday, 4th May, 1:00-2:30
Chesterfield OASIS, Chesterfield City Hall 690 Chesterfield Parkway West Chesterfield, MO 63017
Maria Gianino, Legacy Appraisals, has owned an antique estate jewelry and decorative arts retail store as well as an art gallery in St. Louis. She will share her expert tips to help you identify whether that something old is treasure or trash. This event is handicapped accessible.
$13 fee. Please call 314-862-4859 or visit www.oasisnet.org to register for these classes.
The Improv Shop
Open House
Wednesday, 4th May, 3:30-4:00pm
510 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63115
Come learn more about improv and our work! We are a local improvisational-comedy institution featuring regular showcases and various classes. This event is handicapped accessible.
Artist’s Guild: Riverwork Project
Fiber Art with Suzy Farren
Wednesday, 4th May, 6:30pm
St.Louis Artis’s Guild Clayton, 12 N. Jackson (at Forsyth) 63105
If you love to knit, felt, stitch, hook rugs, quilt, make books, eco-dye, make baskets, and more, plan to attend. We’ll be treated to a gallery walkabout with Sun Smith-Foret and Riverworks Project artists. Hear the stories behind the vast 200’ textile installation. Lynn Hamilton, Maturity and Its Muse, will say a few words about its festival Celebrating Art for Senior Engagement.
Riverwork Project is a 300+linear foot series of textile segments made with participation of 100+ mostly regional artists. It is based on the idea ‘River”, including history, settlement, nature, flora, fauna, light and reflection, dreams, memories, family commerce, slave trade, Native American, Immigrant and African American experience. Text includes references to films, songs, writing and poetry about ‘River’ and human response to WATER as primary life source, holder of emotional content, symbol.
Textiles will be installed throughout Artist’s Guild space with Glass Sculpture and Photographs by Libby Reuter and Josh Rowan of Watershed Cairns. The exhibition runs from 22nd April to 8th May. The event is handicapped accessible.
For more information you can contact Sun Smith-Foret at sunforet@earthlink.net
Thursday, May 5
University of Missouri Extension Community Arts Program in partnership with the St. Louis Storytelling Festival, Missouri Humanities Council, and Missouri History Museum
St. Louis Storytelling Festival Programs
Thursday, 5th May, 9:30am and 10:30am
AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room, 5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112
Now in its 37th year, the St. Louis Storytelling Festival amazes and entertains thousands of children and adults. Join Bobby and Sherry Norfolk, along with a talented group of youth tellers from Taiwan, for the 9:30 K–2 session. At 10:30, Carole Shelton and Larry Brown will weave their tales of magic for upper elementary and older children. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information please go to http://stlstorytellingfestival.com/
Center of Creative Arts
Move for your Health
Thursday, 5th May, 10:00-10:30am (performance) 10:30-11:30am (class)
524 Trinity Ave, St. Louis, MO 63130
A healthy body has strength, flexibility and endurance. In this class, students will split time between Pilates-based exercises designed to strengthen core abdominal, back and pelvic muscles and modern dance movements that contribute to overall balance, coordination, grace and creative expression.
For more information you can contact at registration@cocastl.org or call (314) 725-6555.
The Missouri History Museum and Maturity and Its Muse
The Silver Stages “Forever Young”
Thursday, 5th May, 10:30am
5700 Lindell Blvd. Forest Park
Robert Denison leads the joint Gatesworth-One McKnight Place & Covenant House Chorale in a morning of happy song and entertainment. Come and sing along. Several of the chorale members have appeared on Broadway! This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information you can contact Lynn Hamilton lynn@maturityanditsmuse.org (314) 420-1444
St. Louis Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (St. Louis NORC) and St. Louis Storytelling Festival
St Louis Storytelling Festival
Thursday, 5th May, 11:00am
JCC #2 Millstone Campus Dr. 63146
The St. Louis Storytelling Festival, now in its 36th year, renews and celebrates an ancient art. It is the largest free storytelling festival in the world. Throughout its history, it has won many awards for its innovative and masterful celebration of storytelling, and for its outreach to the St. Louis metropolitan community. The event is hosted by the St. Louis NORC, a neighborhood aging-in-place program, provides socialization, health and wellness, intellectual programming, and support services to older adults living in their own homes. Operating since 2004, it reaches 1400+ individuals in a three mile area in St. Louis County. This event is handicapped accessible.
Please call (314) 442-3255 to reserve a space.
ANNONYArts, Tom Brady and Monica Newsam
Man in the Box Artist Talk, FREE RESERVATIONS
Thursday, 5th May 2016, 8:00pm
Satori, 3003 Locust St. St. Louis MO 63103
The artist, Tom Brady, will offer preview and artist’s discussion. Come hear Tom talk about his artistic journey and share yours…in an open dialogue, where we can discover from our collective wisdom.
We are in the middle of the night – alone with Self on an island – a strange geography forged by the ebb and flow of life’s gifts and obstacles surrounded by blackness – the sound of water rippling.
The fog surrounds us but for this moment of clarity.
Light in this place of Self is sparse and fleeting.
For more information please go to www.satori3003.net.
Friday, May 6
Saint Louis Art Museum
Free Drop-in Tours
Friday, 6th May, 11:00am
1 Fine Arts Dr, St. Louis, MO 63110
Free drop in tours led by our engaging senior docent guides. Tours will highlight works in our permanent collection that showcase the creativity of older artists and topics relevant to later life. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information please go to http://www.slam.org/
Lifelong Learning Institute
LLI Art Fair
Friday, 6th May, 1:30pm
9 N. Jackson 63105
Join us at the Lifelong Learning Institute at Washington University for our Spring Art Fair where we will have paintings, sculpture, photographs, ceramics, needlework and more by our talented students on display. Culinary artists will have their baked goods on hand for your pleasure as well. Free and open to all. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information you can contact Katie Compton at ccompton@wustl.edu.
Laclede Groves
Senior Art Show
Friday, 6th May, 3:30pm
723 S Laclede Station Road
Laclede Groves Auditorium, Webster Groves, MO 63119
Laclede Groves will be hosting an art show displaying art worked on by residents in all four levels of care on our campus. This art will include ceramics, watercolors and basket weaving that they have worked on in our Art Studio, art completed during the Artfully Aging Watercolor classes in the Care Center and projects completed during the 10 week project with the Maryville University Occupational Therapy students this past semester. More information will be available on the Music and Memory program which is being utilized on the Laclede Groves campus in both the Care Center and Assisted Living Memory Care. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information please go to www.lssliving.org
Magic House
Fit Kid: Free Kid at The Magic House
Friday, 6th May, 4:00-7:00pm
516 S. Kirkwood Rd. 63122
Fit Kid: Free Kid gives families the opportunity to play their way to a healthier lifestyle and features a variety of health and fitness activities as well as special art activities in the Art Studio. Children 14 and under and their grandparents will receive free admission with pre-registration. This event is handicapped accessible.
Register for Fit Kid: Free Kid May 6 at www.magichouse.org. Children 14 and under and their grandparents are eligible for free admission.
The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries
Printmaking in St. Louis Now
Friday, 6th May, 6:00-8:00pm
The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
The event will give gallery-goers an informal opportunity to talk with artists and printmakers from the St. Louis area, who will be available to answer questions about their work. Artists attending will be Ken Botnick; Terrell Carter, Stephen Da Lay, Sage Dawson, Joan Hall, Cheri Hoffman, Alicia LaChance, Tom Lang, Travis Lawrence, Kevin McCoy, Benjamin Pierce, Sharon Pollack, Jeff Sippel, Ken Wood and Maryanne Simmons, from Wildwood Press. The Evil Print Crew will be on hand with the Evil Prints Mobile truck, parked in front of The Sheldon, and will provide live printing demonstrations and cool giveaways. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information, call The Sheldon during normal business hours, Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at 314-533-9900 or visit www.TheSheldon.org.
St. Louis Mercantile LIbrary
Benefit Preview Party and Silent Auction
Friday, 6th May, 6:00-9:00pm
General admisssion $50/ea, Mercantile members $40/ea, Young collectors $25/ea
For more information please go to http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/
St. Louis Storytelling Festival
Later Tales
Friday, 6th May, 7:00pm
Faith des Peres Presbyterian Church, 11155 Clayton Rd, St. Louis, 63131
The St. Louis Storytelling Festival, now in its 37th year, celebrates and renews an ancient art. At Later Tales, audiences can enjoy a wide variety of stories and storytellers, including spiritual and faith-based stories, a GHOST Slam! concert, and performances by our six nationally recognized Festival Featured tellers. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information on the tellers, please visit www.stlstorytellingfestival.com.
Lilly’s – Music & Social House
Andrew Patrick & his Jazz Trio
Friday, 6th May, 7-10pm
Andrew Patrick is a baritone Jazz Singer and pianist rooted in the standard jazz repertoire from composers like Harold Arlen, Lorenz Hart, and Cole Porter. He is also a highly competent improviser, able to sing a scat solo on par with any jazz instrumentalist. He has performed at The Sheldon Concert Hall, collaborated with musicians across the St. Louis area, sang two new compositions with Lola Hennicke at Siteman Cancer Center in collaboration with Webster composition students, and has performed at nursing homes through the Webster Works Worldwide volunteer program. He also sang in the chorus for the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s jazz-influenced Champion (2013) at Opera Theater St. Louis. Currently he is working on his BM in Jazz Performance at Webster University. He studies voice with Debby Lennon, piano with Carolbeth True, and for a term in Spring 2014 studied voice with Sheila Cooper in Vienna, Austria.
$5 admission at the door. Call 314-312-6398 to make reservations.
Saturday, May 7
Perennial
Community Workshop
Saturday, 7th May, 11:00am
7413 S. Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63111
Come down to Perennial’s shop to work on your own creative reuse projects. Perennial staff will be on hand to offer design and build advice! You’ll have access to our space, our tools, and our creative reuse pros. You can even scrounge through our found junk pile to discover a project to work on or find the pieces and parts you need for something you bring in. This event is handicapped accessible.
Suggested fee is only $10 an hour! For more information you can contact (314) 832-2288 or go to http://perennialstl.org/
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Artist Talk: Great Rivers Biennial
Saturday, 7th May, 11:00am
3750 Washington Blvd
Great Rivers Biennial artists Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Nanette Boileau, and Tate Foley are joined by Chief Curator Jeffrey Uslip for a conversation about their practices and exhibitions at CAM. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information you can contact (314) 535-4660 or go to http://camstl.org/exhibitions/main-gallery/great-rivers-biennial-lyndon-barrois-jr-nanette-boileau-and-tate-foley/
Contemporary Art Museum
Lunch at CAM
Saturday, 7th May, 12:00pm
3750 Washington Blvd
The Museum’s café offers fresh, seasonal lunch fare curated by CAM, featuring Mississippi Mud Coffee, Winslow’s Home scones and cookies, Breadsmith baked bread, and Serendipity ice cream. The café is open during Museum hours, Wednesday through Sunday, with bar service until 8:00 pm every Thursday and Friday. CAM members receive and participants of the festival will receive a 10% discount.
Menu: http://camstl.org/cafe/
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Spotlight Tour
Saturday. 7th May, 1:15pm
3716 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
Enjoy a tour of the exhibition on view, Ellipsis. This group show invites visitors to listen, look, touch, taste, and pause— celebrating the senses and embracing a range of individual and collective experiences. Spanning artistic practices and eras, Ellipsis brings out unexpected variations in perception, interaction, and awareness. This event is handicapped accessible
For more information please go to http://pulitzerarts.org/program/spotlight-tours
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective, St. Louis Storytelling Festival, and Kranzberg Arts Center
Not Another One! A Studio Theater Performance
Saturday, 7th May, 11:00am-12:00pm
Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N. Grand Blvd, 63103
As part of the 37th annual St. Louis Storytelling Festival, Story Stitchers Artists Collective and teen members will be joined by local seniors to present a thoughtful one-of-a-kind performance. Not Another One! is based on the Collective’s ongoing work addressing gun violence prevention. Along with a music and video screening, and original storytelling performances, the Collective will add a new dimension through the live onstage interviews of invited senior citizens in conjunction with the Celebrating Art for Senior Engagement Festival. The Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective is a 501 (c ) (3) non-profit that brings teens and artists together in documenting our community through art, word, video, and music. This event is handicapped accessible.
Please contact storystitchers@gmail.com or chris@kranzbergartscenter.org for more information.
Parc Provence Memory Care Facility and Creve Coeur Arts Committee
Sharing Stories: Sweets, Toys and Superheroes
Saturday, 7th May, 1:00pm
Tappmeyer House, 2 Barnes West Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Vaughn Cultural Center
Joint Reception and Gallery Talk – Bedazzled: The Art of Sandra Payne
Saturday, 7th May, 4:00pm-6:30pm
Vaughn Cultural Center, 3701 Grandel Square, St. Louis, MO, United States
Gallery Hours 10:00 am – 4:00pm Monday through Friday. Free and open to the public. To arrange a special tour contact curator Freida L Wheaton at 314.494.4660
Congregation Temple Israel
Performance by Chavurat Shira Choir
Saturday, 7th May, 7:30pm
#1 Rabbi Alvan D. Rubin Drive St. Louis, MO 63141
Temple Israel is going to have a dessert reception at 7:00, followed by a concert by Chavurat Shira, our congregational choir, at 7:30. Temple Israel’s choir, Chavurat Shira, will perform a concert of a wide selection of music, including musical theater, opera, liturgy and more. Led by Molly Stehn, with accompaniment by Dan Vizer, and joined by Rabbi Feder, this talented group of congregants started out as a circle of friends (chavurah) and has been leading High Holiday and Shabbat worship for several years.
We are delighted to offer free transportation for those in need through the generosity of the Gershman Fund of Temple Israel. We will also be reaching out to local retirement facilities to see if they would like to attend as well. This event is handicapped accessible.
For more information or to arrange for transportation please contact Sydney Masin at TI, 432-8050 or smasin@ti-stl.org
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