Arts & Minds in The Heights: A Columbia Community Partnership for Health
You are invited to attend this weekly event happening in The Heights.
Have you or a loved one been touched by memory loss?
- Arts & Minds, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is presenting a FREE bilingual, English/Spanish, series of art workshops designed for people with memory loss and their care partners.
- Arts & Minds workshops enhance verbal and nonverbal communication, reduce isolation and build community.
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WHEN: Thursdays, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM. Register for individual workshops or for the entire 9 session series.
Space is limited.
April 24
May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
June 5, 12, 26
WHERE: Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH)
390 Fort Washington Avenue (@178th St.) Ground Floor
Explore new ways of connecting with art that:
Space is limited.
April 24
May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
June 5, 12, 26
WHERE: Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH)
390 Fort Washington Avenue (@178th St.) Ground Floor
Explore new ways of connecting with art that:
- Activate the senses
- Stimulate the brain
- Enliven the imagination
- and touch the heart!
- Workshops combine bilingual (English/Spanish) art conversation and art making.
- Arts & Minds host greets you in the reception area where you can have a snack, enjoy music, and chat with others.
- Columbia Medical Center staff will be active members of this workshop community.
- This time before the art workshop gives everyone a chance to get to know each other.
- The classroom has a big screen for viewing art, and tables set up with art supplies.
- A work of art viewed on the big screen sparks a freewheeling conversation.
- As a group, participants make discoveries and connections that become the inspiration for art making.
- The teaching artist demonstrates ways to use the art materials.
- A curated playlist of background music enhances your art making experience.
- At the end, everyone shares their artwork in a “gallery show,” where they can reflect on their own and each other’s creations.
