The Arts and Older Adults

Ariana Pedrosa

Music & Sound

I believe the encouragement of personal creativity and awareness is the treasure of the wellness for everyone. The arts for everyone, and older adults in particular, can be a relief, an opportunity to re-activate, strengthen and increase an existential joy. I’ve been giving workshops for adults since I move back to Montreal in 2022, in addition to several decades of leading intergenerational music-making in the Brazilian tradition of choros.

Sample workshop:

Based in the Brazilian music tradition of choros, this workshop follows a creative process that begins with a simple warm up followed by hand percussion and interdependence polyrhythms and includes an original performance. The aim is to bring happiness, creativity and promote socialization.
Body percussion and mindfulness exercises are used as tool for communication and personal expression. Diving deepr into creativity, cooperation and community, the second step in this workshop is to listen some traditional Brazilian songs and create an accompaniment with body percussion. To conclude the activity we create a original song and body percussion.

Video:

Materials:

Yoga mattress

Listed with:

ArtistsInspire

Available for:

In-person workshops, On-line workshops

Language(s) of facilitation:

English, Portugese

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