Elder’s Acting Workshops

Reactivation of Memory through Art workshops were made to Acacia Network Senior Centers and it’s available to other senior centers. These experiences offer to seniors several health and social benefits. As a result of the brain-stimulating activities inherent in the “acting games” in which the seniors participated, they are able to achieve and maintain better memory and cognitive-health. Also, and very importantly, they improved and elevated their personal sense of self-esteem.

Also, the seniors’ capacity to feel free during the improvisations exercises to manifest their feelings and their dreams, were released – disinhibiting their ability to overcoming their psychological obstructions and their freedom to dream and have fun.

Reactivation of Memory through Art consists in two different concepts:

– Elder’s Acting Workshop (EAW): An artistic-scientific concept of with the final goal is to develop a short film with the seniors as protagonists. Through the creative activities used in the EAW, self-knowledge improves, fears and shames disappear, as well as to help express emotions and release anxiety.

– The Shining Stars in the Golden Age Talent Show: An artistic-scientific concept of with the final goal is to develop a Show Case in front of the audience. This concept adds the element of being in front of the live audience without the possibility of stopping the artistic number due to some forgetfulness as in the EAW that they can repeat the scenes.