6-09-09 E Mail update to facilities
Greetings once again from ElderAudience! Some updates that may be of interest…
**New listing! Quintessence Language and Imagination Theater. This is a small company of actors who often portray multiple roles. They perform at the Mago Hunt Center at the University of Portland. This summer they present their own adaptation of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice. Schedule includes Sunday matinees at 2pm. Senior rates, and group rates. For more details please see Quintessence’s listing in our Theatre category, or go to their website at www.qlit.org. **Congratulations to the winner of our latest contest drawing: McLoughlin Place Senior Living in Oregon City (activity director Dorothy Nelson)! The prize is a program by Craig Brown of Hi-Fi Entertainment, a party host and DJ with many years experience in senior settings. Please find Craig’s listing in the Party Host/DJ category on ElderAudience. Also, Craig offers to put on a free mini-program as a demonstration for you and your residents, to see if you’d like to book him for a future event! **This just in! Patricia Labat, one of ElderAudience’s listed musician/singer/songwriters, is performing a FREE program open to the public on Saturday 6/20 at 2pm at Calaroga Terrace, 1400 NE 2nd Ave in Portland (in the Terrace Auditorium).Playing with Patricia is special guest Logan White, a guitarist, singer/songwriter. You can learn more about Patricia, who also travels to facilities, through her ElderAudience listing under Music. **Anne Rutherford is a supremely talented storyteller who is listed on ElderAudience. She enjoys spinning her tales for seniors:”The first time I sacrificed myself for love, I was madly in love with a boy in my kindergarten class. But so was my best friend,Paula…” So begins Anne’s opening tale in Fools for Love, a program she performed this spring at senior residences and assisted living facilities in the greater Portland area.”I hear as many great stories as I tell when I perform for the older generation,” Anne said. “I told an O. Henry in this show that featured a manual typewriter, so I brought along my 1940′s Royal Typewriter.Talk about sparking memories!”Audience members chimed in with their own reminiscences, including an audience member who regaled the crowd (at Anne’s invitation) with a verse of Oh My Darlin’ Clementine not found in most songbooks.”You brought a lot of joy to folks here today,” one resident told Anne as she packed up after performing at a care facility in Gresham. “All I could say was, ‘It’s mutual!’ Anne said. “This generation is such a gracious, generous audience. Not to mention connoisseurs of a good story.”Anne is performing a new program In the Good Old Summertime at senior centers and retirement facilities June through August. Contact Anne at (503) 235-2633 or anne@annerutherford.com to book her storytelling for your elder story-lovers. **Check out Lunacy Stagework’s latest production of Sight Unseen, a play about “love, success and sell-out in the world of art”. This play, presented at the Sellwood Masonic Lodge, is being performed until June 27, and tickets for Sunday 2pm matinees are 2 for 1! And Thursday performances are “Pay what you Will”! Go to Lunacy Stageworks’ website at http://www.lunacystageworks.org. Also, Lunacy hosts “open mic” nights where anyone, young or old, with a talent to share (traditional or zany) is welcome to step up and perform!! Please check out Lunacy Stagework’s listing under ElderAudience’s Theatre or Outings categories. **With many thanks to Debbi Finn of Hillside Retirement in McMinnville for this suggestion, I have started a new category of Archived E Mail Updates, where you can find previous e mails I have sent out, in case you missed any of them or don’t want to store them. I am still in the process of loading all of them in, starting with the most recent and working back. Hope you find this useful.
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