Reminiscence Theatre Project
Community | posted December 1, 2011
The Reminiscence Theatre Project, a partnership between ABET’s Saturday-morning Drama Dreamers workshop and a group from the Bennie Furlong Senior Centre in Jax Beach, was a huge success!
The project began with seniors taking part in a twelve week program at the center to celebrate their lives and memories in a group. As part of that process they were visited by the Drama Dreamers and shared stories with them about their unique childhood memories. Then for the next ten weeks the children worked on dramatizing some of those stories as told to them during their visit.
November 19th and 20th the seniors who took part, along with their families and friends, attended performances of their stories as our honored guests.
Both parts of project were run by Aine Healy-Richardson who is passionate about story-telling in all generations and is currently running the Children’s Creative Drama Program at ABET.
READ MORE about this event in a terrific article on Jacksonville.com.
This project was made possible by a Blue Cross and Blue Shield Arts and Cultural Education Grant through the Jacksonville Cultural Council, to whom we are very grateful.
