SENIOR RECREATION: PARTNERSHIP CLASSES Location: Works Progress Agency 811 East Burnside Street #124 | Portland Accessible to those using a wheelchair, walker or motorized scooter. Storytelling | Age 60+ Share in celebrating each other’s stories and gain deeper selfunderstanding through this fun and interactive workshop series. Facilitators will utilize methods of social practice art, such as movement, writing, prompts, interviews and more as we experiment with creative storytelling and narrative performance. Materials: Bring a notebook and writing tool of choice. Monday 1/21, 1/28, 2/4 1:00-4:00pm $89 1099460 Facilitators Erica and Emily are founding members of Works Progress Agency, a socially engaged art and design studio. They are both practicing artists and creative consultants who met while earning MFAs from Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice program. As artists, they make collaborative work with other people, about where they come from and what’s important to them. In addition to being artists, they consider themselves educators, producers, writers, photographers, and storytellers, among other things. This unwieldy path has led them to become pretty good at facilitating dialogue that helps people better understand themselves, and each other. Both have created or produced many projects for, and with, senior citizens. They hold a deep commitment to social justice, which informs their art and life. Though Erica and Emily love working together, Emily’s favorite collaborator was her grandmother.
Shaping Your Path | Age 60+ Explore your lifelong personal, professional, and creative growth. This workshop series will offer individual and small group facilitation as we dig into hopes and desires, discover possibilities, and work through challenges and changes. Materials: Bring a notebook and writing tool of choice. Wednesday 1/23, 1/30, 2/6 1:00-4:00pm $89 1099462
To register or learn more, contact Senior Recreation at 503-823-4328 or visit us online: portlandoregon.gov/parks/senior
To register call 503-823-4328 or go online at portlandparks.org
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