Trip Planning

The reason that I have been quiet for this last couple of weeks is that I have been finishing off one project and starting another. I have also been finalising the details of my trip.

Ireland

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust have agreed for me to travel around Ireland during the last two weeks in May for the Bealtaine Festival. For those unaware or uninitiated, the Bealtaine is the Irish national festival of creativity in later life and takes place every May. (http://bealtaine.com/) Highlights that I am already looking forward to include The Dawn Chorus events, Ink, and Serendipity. A Winston Churchill Fellow from the 2010 cohort Karin Diamond co-runs the Re-live theatre company which I may not be able to see but which also sounds great. (Karin is going to Japan for her fellowship later in the year).

USA

After a quick stop-over in UK, I am travelling around USA during June and have meetings / visits and interviews scheduled with organisations and people in Washington DC, Maryland, Woburn / Boston, New York City and California.

Washington DC / Maryland:

• National Endowment for the Arts / AccessAbility Team: http://arts.endow.gov/resources/Accessibility/index.html
• National Centre for Creative Ageing: http://www.creativeaging.org/
• Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: http://www.danceexchange.org/
• IONA: http://www.iona.org/
• Arts For The Ageing: http://www.aftaarts.org/

Woburn / Boston:

• Artz is For Alzheimer's / Hearthstone Foundation: http://www.artistsforalzheimers.org/ / http://www.thehearth.org/index.html
• Whilst in this area I will be staying with friends of family at Cambridge Co-Housing: http://www.cambridgecohousing.org/

New York City:

• Museum of Modern Art, Alzheimer's Project: http://www.moma.org/learn/programs/alzheimers
• Lifetime Arts: http://www.lifetimearts.org/
• Elders Share The Arts: http://www.elderssharethearts.org/

California:

• Burbank Seniors Artist Colony: http://www.seniorartistscolony.com/
• Engage Arts: http://www.engagedaging.org/

More to follow.