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Project Components: Series of Public EventsWorking through partnerships established with community groups, Big & small has brought the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School together with Seniors from the Orleans Senior Center and other nearby communities to discuss the themes of the legend (Cape Codder, ), and in portrait drawing and mask-making and movement workshops (Cape Cod Times, February 9, 2007). We are bringing the message of the legend to the community at large through engaging local libraries and senior centers, and "Walking and Talking" with our local leaders in the areas of government, health and education. An intergenerational program between the Lighthouse Charter Middle School and the Orleans Council on Aging.This seven-month residency involved students and elders together to discuss the themes of the legend, and demystify aging through the arts
and other events and gatherings. Art, masks and movements created in workshops
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"One Book, One Cape and Two Old Women"This Cape-wide public event dramatizes the journey of the Two Old Women legend as the community engages in "Walk and Talk" - a walk to several libraries and Councils on Aging around the Cape to raise awareness of the issues of aging, creativity and health. From Bourne to Provincetown, they will become gathering places to extend the conversation about these and other relevant themes in the legend, explore Big & small's motivation for the project and inform the community of the many ways to become involved. Each leg of the "journey" will be video-documented. (Beginning May 2007) A panel discussion comprised of National Leaders in the field of aging including a mini sample of the show.Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of the Commonwealth and co-author of Shock, Gene Cohen, PhD, M.D. researcher and prolific author on the arts, health and aging, Gay Hanna, Executive Director for the National Center for Creative Aging, and Janice Blanchard, Director of Aging in Community Network and advocate for the recently adopted national referendum 58 and 60. The symposium was held at the Cape Cinema in Dennis, MA with a reception following at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, adjacent to the cinema. (June 16, 2007) And, with much anticipated excitement, the stage production of the adaptation of the legend Two Old Women will premier on Cape Cod.Broadway and screen leading lady Pat Carroll, who will turn 80 in 2007, will star in the production. Staying true to Big & small's performance style and process, the show will have an intergenerational cast and include novice as well as professional performers. (Fall 2007) |
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