This course is Lifetime Arts’ core curriculum recommended for anyone planning to run, teach, or sustain creative aging
programs. The 6-hour course will be offered via a series of two-hour Zoom sessions over three consecutive days.

Curricular topics covered include:
     - Current research on arts and aging;
     - Inherent biases about aging;
     - Best practices in the field;
     - What’s different about adult learning;
     - How to apply arts ed expertise to 55+;
     - How to develop responsive programming that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable;
     - The planning, implementation, and sustainability of successful programming;
     - Developing impactful cross-sector and community partnerships;
     - How to deliver both in-person and remote programming;

Participants will receive a $300 stipend for participation in this program. (This training is limited to a total of 25 participants.)  Two participants from each organization mw sign up.

Participants will receive priority assistance in applying for the Maine Arts Commission's Creative Aging grants. Grants of up to $2,500 are available, and the deadline is April 7, 2022.

Founded in 2008, Lifetime Arts is a nonprofit arts service organization that offers a positive, modern, artistic and social lens through which to serve, inspire and engage America’s growing population of older adults.

Our mission has three main components:

- Encourage creative aging by promoting the inclusion of professional arts programs in organizations that serve older adults;
- Prepare artists to develop the creative capacity of older adult learners;
- Foster lifelong learning in and through the arts by increasing opportunities for participation in community based programming;

Our approach releases provider and participant from outdated stereotypes that define older people as needy, incapable or frail. While we partner with and advocate for creative aging initiatives that serve all people within this range, we focus on serving independent adults interested in exploring creative expression in a social group setting.