The Arts and Older Adults

Miranda Handford

Theatre

I teach acting, and in my experience working with older adults, they generally are more at ease with themselves, more brave, and have more life experience to draw on in their work. Actors get better with age!

Sample workshop:

6 hour couse (2 or 3 classes):
Before the first class, students will be paired up and given a short scene to prepare. Memorization is not required! The first class will consist of introductions and a short warmup. Then each pair will present their scene to the class, with notes given afterwards. The subsequent classes will start with a warmup, and then each pair will present their scene again. This time we will spend more time on each scene, repeating it with notes and acting exercises in between.
Each scene student will have a different experience, depending on their scene and character.

Materials:

Your script and a pencil

Available for:

In-person workshops, On-line workshops

Language(s) of facilitation:

English

Contact:

handfordmr@gmail.com

https://www.mirandahandford.ca/

Montreal

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.

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