April 14, 2016, Thursday - LeagueAires Annual Symposium at MacPhail

Time:  7:00pm

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South

LeagueAires Annual Symposium featuring keynote speaker, Anne Basting (Ph.D.) “Building Community through Creative Engagement — Radical Thoughts from the Frontlines of Aging”

The LeagueAires Annual Symposium, sponsored by the Suzanne Holmes Hodder Legacy Fund, was established in 2012 to offer public educational events on the joy and healing power of music. Anne Basting (Ph.D.) is an educator, scholar, and artist whose work focuses on the potential for the arts and humanities to improve our quality of life as communities and individuals. Basting holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, and a Masters in Theatre from the University of Wisconsin. As Director of the UWM Center on Age & Community (aging.uwm. edu), Basting fosters partnerships between scholars, students, and service providers, and translates applied research into innovative educational tools including manuals, films, and social media. She continues to direct the awardwinning TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project, which she founded in 1998, and which features a new ( free!) interactive website (timeslips.org), with a prompt library of over 100 images and questions. For over 15 years, Basting has developed and researched methods for embedding the arts into long term care, with a particular focus on people with cognitive disabilities like dementia.

No tickets required. Free and open to the public.