Arts for the Getting older engages older adults and care partners in health improvement and life enhancement by means of common participation within the multi-disciplinary arts. Immersion in visual, musical, performing, literary, and intergenerational arts programs ignites self expression, sparks reminiscence and creativeness, lifts spirits and creates social bonds-all so important to older adults, particularly those that have gotten more isolated and lonely because they’re creating health impairments.

From 2013 to 2015, in association with an active community of collaborators and supporters, I engaged with companions across the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and Europe to determine what kind of initiatives may very well be developed to help this creative dynamism that had emerged in North Africa within the post-revolutionary years and to supply alternate options ways of partaking and exchanging.