The Arts and Older Adults

B.A. Markus

Literary

For the past ten years I’ve been a teacher in adult education with the English Montreal School Boar (EMSB). As a life-long learner myself, I admire, appreciate, and encourage adults in their middle age and beyond to acquire skills, explore new interests, and/or pursue existing passions. It takes commitment and energy to learn new things and it’s always exciting to teach content but working with adults also allows us to identify and apply the many transferable competencies and strategies adult learners bring with them from their previous lives.

Working with adults 55+ requires a sensibility for participants physical comfort and I like to include a short body break during the workshop, some gentle stretches, and breathing exercises according to the capacities of the group. Of course, as a teacher of storytelling, working with humans 55+ is an incredible gift. I look forward to hearing the stories your community choses to share.

Sample workshop:

The content of the workshop will contain some or all of the following depending on the duration of the workshop:
Breathing and Stretching
Vocal Exercises
Group Story Telling
The Parts of a Story
Create your own story
Tell your own story

Materials:

None

Available for:

In-person workshops

Language(s) of facilitation:

English

Contact:

hokeypokeypro@gmail.com

Montreal

Land Acknowledgement

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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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