[Isl] FW: Help needed: Engaging FSU community in Opening Minds Through Arts Lecture and workshops next week!!

[Neil Charness]

Hi Folks:

Please respond directly to Dawn Carr (see below) for suggested attendees for events being planned around OMA.

Best, Neil

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From: Dawn Carr <dccarr at fsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 9:10 AM
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Subject: Help needed: Engaging FSU community in Opening Minds Through Arts Lecture and workshops next week!!

Hi Friends and Colleagues -

I'm looking for help and suggestions to invite the right FSU folks to attend a lecture the CPC is hosting next week. I'm particularly interested in folks with an interest in arts therapy, mindfulness, loneliness/social engagement, intergenerational engagement, and/or dementia interventions. Do you have suggestions (names/emails)? Or feel free to forward this email to any folks you think should be included if that's easier.

Description:
This Fall, the Claude Pepper Center (CPC) launched a new program called Opening Minds through Arts (OMA) - an evidence-based, intergenerational art-making program for people living with dementia that allows older people living with dementia opportunities for self-expression and social engagement. See info, pictures and videos of the FSU-OMA program: https://claudepeppercenter.fsu.edu/opening-minds-through-art/.

Next week, we are hosting OMA founder Elizabeth Lokon and her team members Meghan Young and Krysta Peterson (see attached flyer for details). The OMA team will provide a lecture about this art-making program and describe a new online intervention platform they recently developed - "ScrippsAVID." ScrippsAVID leverages key strengths of the in-person OMA program but focuses on those in community settings with all levels of cognitive function and has potential to reduce loneliness and dementia risks. I believe there is great potential to partner with the Scripps team and seek funding to test the ScrippsAVID platform as a dementia intervention.

We are also hosting two hands-on workshops for folks to see what the in-person OMA program looks like - one will be on Thursday the 18th from 10:30-11:30 and the second will be Friday the 19th from 3-4 pm. Participants will create an abstract art project using the no-fail OMA "recipe."
Heads up - there could be glitter involved...

Please let me know who you think is important to invite to these events and who I should reach out to! Thank you!!!

Links to the sign-ups for the art-making events:
Sign up for the Thursday January 18 10:30-11:30 am art-making session here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oma-art-making-workshop-thursday-session-tickets-791135978007?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl>
Sign up for the Friday January 19 3-4 pm art-making session here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oma-art-making-workshop-friday-session-tickets-793884589177>

We are providing parking for the Thursday morning art-making workshop and the afternoon lecture in the adjacent lot to the Pepper Center.

Thank you so much for any help you can provide so we can engage members of the FSU community in this event!
Dawn


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Dawn C. Carr, PhD MGS FGSA
Director, Claude Pepper Center
Professor, Department of Sociology
Co-Director, Aging Research on Contexts, Health and Inequalities
Florida State University
dccarr at fsu.edu<mailto:dccarr at fsu.edu>
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