Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Explores the Poetics of Light

A special session of the nationally renowned Alzheimer’s Poetry Project comes to the New Mexico History Museum and its newest exhibit, Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, from 10:30 to 11:30 am on Wednesday, June 25. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended. To make reservations or for more information, please contact Gary Glazner at gary@alzpoetry.com or go to www.alzpoetry.com.

People living with dementia, their family members and the general public are invited to attend this FREE event. Participants will perform and create poetry inspired by the Poetics of Light exhibit. Gary Glazner, founder and executive director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, will lead the session. Glazner recently worked with the Museum of Modern Art in New York on their “Meet Me at MoMA,” dementia program.

The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project performs and creates poetry with people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Its goal is to facilitate the creativity of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. The program received the 2013 Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award and the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement. The National Endowment for the Arts listed it as a “best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. In 2010, the U.S. Embassy in Berlin funded a pilot project for the program in Germany. This has led the U.S. Embassy In Warsaw to fund a pilot project in Poland in 2012.

To date the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project has held events in 20 states and served over 15,000 people living with dementia. The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project is funded in part by the Santa Fe Arts Commission and the McCune Foundation.