{"id":15080,"date":"2014-01-31T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/en\/?p=15080"},"modified":"2014-01-31T07:37:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T11:37:58","slug":"call-for-info-seniors-arts-initiatives-in-canada-henpower-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/call-for-info-seniors-arts-initiatives-in-canada-henpower-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Info: Seniors Arts Initiatives in Canada (HenPower, UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalarts.org.uk\/pages\/henpower.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15105\" alt=\"photo courtesy of HenPower Project\" src=\"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/henpower-11.jpg\" rel=\"PrettyPhoto[15080]\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15093\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HenPower-Flyer-for-Email.jpg\" rel=\"PrettyPhoto[15080]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15093\" class=\" wp-image-15093     \" title=\"HenPower\" alt=\"HenPower Flyer\" src=\"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HenPower-Flyer-for-Email.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to read flyer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We received an interesting request from an artist in the UK, Jos Forester-Melville, who works on the\u00a0<strong><a title=\"HenPower Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.equalarts.org.uk\/pages\/henpower.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HenPower Project<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at<strong> <a title=\"Equal Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.equalarts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Equal Arts<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>. <strong>HenPower<\/strong> encourages \u00ab\u00a0older people to care for chickens. They then facilitate arts sessions using the chickens as a stimulus eg, art, film making, movement, photography etc.\u00a0\u00bb <strong>HenPower<\/strong> is\u00a0a project of <a title=\"Equal Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.equalarts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Equal Arts<\/strong><\/a> which aims to \u00ab\u00a0improve older people\u2019s access to the arts.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>She is interested in learning about Seniors Arts initiatives in Canada and learning\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0how care staff can be supported to engage in the delivery of arts-based activities, developing practical approaches to encourage the improvement of health and well-being for older people.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>If you are aware of any arts\u00a0organizations\/arts and health initiatives\/artists working with seniors or if you know of care farms within Canada, please send us an email at <a title=\"ArtBridges Email\" href=\"mailto:info@artbridges.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">info@artbridges.ca<\/a>\u00a0or email Jos at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jos@henpower.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jos@henpower.org<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <strong>HenPower&rsquo;s<\/strong>\u00a0Facebook page\u00a0<a title=\"Facebook | HenPower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/josthehenologist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>josthehenologist<\/a>\u00a0to follow their progress. Watch this short <a title=\"HenPower Vimeo\" href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/t8uls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film<\/a> about <strong>HenPower&rsquo;s<\/strong> work: \u00a0http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68116493<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s take this opportunity to highlight some amazing community-engaged arts initiatives in Canada that work with seniors!:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"ArtBridges | Arts Health Network Canada profile\" href=\"http:\/\/artbridges.ca\/community\/profile\/260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Health Network Canada<\/a><\/strong> (National, based in Vancouver).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ArtBridges | Arts + Seniors Health Project profile\" href=\"http:\/\/artbridges.ca\/community\/profile\/38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Arts + Seniors Health Project<\/strong><\/a> in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ArtBridges | BluePrintForLife profile\" href=\"http:\/\/artbridges.ca\/community\/profile\/60 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Blue Print for Life<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0based in Ottawa, working in Northern Qu\u00e9bec, across the Territories, and many other regions.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ArtBridges | Eglinton Hill Centre (St. Clair West Service for Seniors) profile\" href=\"http:\/\/artbridges.ca\/community\/profile\/261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eglinton Hill Centre\/St. Clair West Services for Seniors<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in Toronto, Ontario.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ArtBridges | Learning Elders Arts Program profile\" href=\"http:\/\/artbridges.ca\/community\/profile\/145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learning Elders Arts Program<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scarborough Arts&rsquo; \u00ab\u00a0<a title=\"Scarborough Arts | Seniors Write Program\" href=\"http:\/\/scarborougharts.com\/scarborough-seniors-write-term-two-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seniors Write Program<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0in Toronto, Ontario.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><small><em>-Lisa, ArtBridges<br \/>\nphotos and video posted with permission from Jos, HenPower<br \/>\n<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received an interesting request from an artist in the UK, Jos Forester-Melville, who works on the\u00a0HenPower Project\u00a0at Equal Arts. HenPower encourages \u00ab\u00a0older people to care for chickens. They then facilitate arts sessions using the chickens as a stimulus eg, art, film making, movement, photography etc.\u00a0\u00bb HenPower is\u00a0a project of<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-more sd-all-trans\" href=\"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/call-for-info-seniors-arts-initiatives-in-canada-henpower-uk\/#more-15080\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[636,406,108,769,425,129,99],"class_list":["post-15080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-arts-and-health","tag-call-for-submissions","tag-community-engaged-arts","tag-henpower","tag-international","tag-seniors","tag-video"],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_last":["1"],"_wpml_media_featured":["1"],"_wpml_media_duplicate":["0"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}