Read Article
AUGUSTA The Maine Arts Commission is expanding its programming for older citizens thanks to an infusion of $60,000 to support Creative Aging initiatives throughout the state.
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, in collaboration with Aroha Philanthropies, announced its Leveraging State Investments in Creative Aging grant award to 36 state and jurisdictional arts agencies, including Maine, to facilitate programming for lifelong learning, social engagement and improved well-being for older adults through the arts.
“The Maine Arts Commission is pleased to receive grant support to promote Creative Aging initiatives in Maine,” said Kerstin Gilg, the agency’s director of Grants and Accessibility, according to a news release form the commission. “The funding will be used for instructor training, project support, and increasing the award amount in the existing Creative Aging grant.
Creative aging programs receive $60,000 from arts commission
centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Central Maine business briefs: Camden bank names new senior vice president
centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The year of living distantly
Maine weathered the pandemic better than most states, but it will leave a lasting impact on us.
Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
For weeks the threat had been approaching, a violent storm looming on the horizon, one that had led Chinese authorities to seal off a swath of their country and overwhelmed northern Italy’s hospitals and morgues and forced the army to deploy to process the dead. In Boston, store shelves were being picked clean of cleaning supplies, frozen foods, bottled water and even masks, despite public health experts advising – wrongly – that people who weren’t sick needn’t wear them.
The year of living distantly
sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.