upcoming Workshop info:

• Wednesday, February 19 in the Lewiston Library Community Room, (305 S 8th St, Lewiston, NY 14092). You Are My Sunshine! Enjoy music, movement, conversation and community as we create a sense of coziness together on this winter's day. Bring an item from home that helps you feel happy, cozy and loved in Winter. Is it fuzzy, yummy or sparkly? Is it a favorite pair of mittens, a packet of hot chocolate or a gift you love? We’ll show & tell, and then combine our items in a temporary communal still-life. Enjoy Artpark’s Sensing Here & Now program, engaging with expressive arts and each other, to encourage self-care and a sense of wellbeing. RSVP here.
• Upcoming event dates: 3/19, 4/16, 5/21, 6/18, 7/16, 8/20, 9/10*, 10/15, 11/19, & 12/17

About the program:

Sensing Here & Now at Artpark specifically celebrates you, our guests, by sharing Artpark’s mission of “a transformative world of engagement”. You’ll experience relaxed, interactive, sensory-rich activities accessible for all and restorative for care partners. 

Each gathering is centered in music, accessible art-making and fun movement games to awaken sensory enjoyment through our five senses. 

All attendees can choose to participate or simply observe. It is a valid choice to soak up the energy of the music and other people without actually “doing”. Any place in the spectrum of observing-participating is embraced and respected.

Don’t be surprised if we dub our program UNmemory Café because being able to remember is NOT required! This is a “no answers are wrong” program. All interactive input is valued and respected. Some of our activities may spark a memory or felt emotions. Other activities intentionally release memory-based restrictions to embrace our Artpark Cafe motto “There is only now”, so famously said by dance innovator George Balanchine.

ARTPARK’s SENSING HERE & NOW brings you evidence-based strategies that offer pleasurable non-clinical interventions designed to enhance quality of life for carepartners & people living with neurological changes in memory & thinking. Led by Cynthia Pegado, a Certified Dementia Volunteer (CDV), National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners (NCCDP), and Artpark Bridges' Director. 

Artpark's Memory Cafe is made possible by Exhale and its funders: Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation and Health Foundation for Western and Central New York. Additional support provided by Ingram Micro. 

Artpark is a proud member of Dementia Friendly America's Memory Café Alliance.