On Saturday, March 18, from 10am to 3pm, we’ll be at the Grow Spring EXPO! in Topsfield Center. We’ll have a table at either the Emerson Center or the Gould Barn. When we know more, I’ll make an update here. Here’s what to expect from us at the EXPO:
We plan to have an educational & interactive 8-foot table exhibit. We will invite guests to learn about & experience the therapeutic activities we offer at our Seasonal (April – October) Memory Café & Sunday Strolls programs, for people with disabilities and care-partners, specializing in Alzheimer’s/dementia-care. Our “Dementia-Care Musical Theatre” integrates horticultural, art, music, dance, drama, and play therapies.
1. Table-top Sensory Garden (See, Hear, Smell, Touch, Taste) –– With table-side interpretation & facilitation.
2. Take-home Flower Fun (while supplies last) –– A demonstration/DIY horticultural-art-therapy craft project.
3. Bird & Fish Tales –– Interactive play, with puppets, throughout the day (based on “Bird Tales: A Program for Engaging People with Dementia though the Natural World of Birds,” by Randy Griffin, R.N., M.S. HNC, with Audubon Society).
4. Drums & Dancing –– Participate in a 5-minute music, movement, drama and play session (offered each hour, on the half-hour).
5. Memory Café Education –– Lecture and Q+A: What is a Memory Café?
5-minute lecture offered each hour, on the hour; Reading from the 2016 book in which we are featured: “The Alzheimer’s and Memory Café: How to Start and Succeed with Your Own Café,” by Jytte Fogh Lokvig, Ph.D.; Q+A offered throughout the event.
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary