Creative Aging - Creative Life Writing: Sharing Memories
In this course, we'll focus on different themes, central to our lived experience of the world. Themes will include gratitude, adversity, happiness, and courage. Instructor Ari Satok will start each class by bringing in a variety of artistic reflections on that theme (quotes, cartoons, songs, photographs, paintings) to spark discussion among the group. The discussion will be followed by a short writing lesson, after which participants will be assigned a prompt to write on, focused on their personal experiences. Participants will write on the prompt, and will have ample opportunities to share their writing with fellow classmates. Through this workshop, participants will not only have the opportunity to write about their lives, but also to forge community with others on the basis of personal storytelling and sharing memories.
Registration Required. Zoom link will be sent by 10am the morning of he program.
Please note: you only have to register once. No need to register for every session. Thank you.
If you have any questions, please call 718.230.2442.
Hosted by Services for Older Adults
Creative Aging programs at BPL are made possible with support from The Sills Family Foundation; Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric Life Improvement; Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation; Apple Bank, celebrating over 25 years in Brooklyn and 160 years of neighborhood banking in greater New York (Visit applebank.com for more information); and several BPL Friends Groups, private funders, and volunteers.
In this course, we'll focus on different themes, central to our lived experience of the world. Themes will include gratitude, adversity, happiness, and courage. Instructor Ari Satok will start each class by bringing in a variety of artistic reflections on that theme (quotes, cartoons, songs, photographs, paintings) to spark discussion among the group. The discussion will be followed by a short writing lesson, after which participants will be assigned a prompt to write on, focused on their personal experiences. Participants will write on the prompt, and will have ample opportunities to share their writing with fellow classmates. Through this workshop, participants will not only have the opportunity to write about their lives, but also to forge community with others on the basis of personal storytelling and sharing memories.
Registration Required. Zoom link will be sent by 10am the morning of he program.
Please note: you only have to register once. No need to register for every session. Thank you.
If you have any questions, please call 718.230.2442.
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