Mid-Town Social – Explore Art with Jano
November 12^th from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at AST located at 20 Eglinton Ave West, 16^th floor.

 Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities. This session Jano Cortijo, an art educator will focus on Nature, specifically on art that features fruits. The habitual protagonists of still lifes, fruits have been the subject of many artworks because they carry a wide array of symbolism and significance.

Join us with your curiosity and come ready to share thoughts and ideas. We invite you to observe and discuss how the two-dimensional interpretation of a fruit transcends their quotidian nature.

Jano Cortijo is an arts educator whose work finds him engaging audiences of various ages, abilities, and backgrounds in museums, classrooms, community centres, and online. Straying far from the canon to elevate artists and works that have been excluded or erased from mainstream conversations, Cortijo encourages critical discussion while connecting the participants’ individual histories and stories with the art and art makers.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities including art making, games, creative movement, cooking, meaningful conversations and more. The program is flexible and will be catered to the interests and needs of the group participants. Let’s come together, break bread, have a laugh and be creative together.

September 10th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities including art making, games, creative movement, cooking, meaningful conversations and more. The program is flexible and will be catered to the interests and needs of the group participants. Let’s come together, break bread, have a laugh and be creative together.

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities including art making, games, creative movement, cooking, meaningful conversations and more. The program is flexible and will be catered to the interests and needs of the group participants. Let’s come together, break bread, have a laugh and be creative together.

Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities including art making, games, creative movement, cooking, meaningful conversations and more. The program is flexible and will be catered to the interests and needs of the group participants. Let’s come together, break bread, have a laugh and be creative together.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities.

This month, Jano Cortijo will facilitate a art appreciate program with a focus on Nature. We will marvel at the wonder of forms and colors found in nature. We will engage in slow and careful observation of various works in different techniques to appreciate and discuss how artists have captured flowers, trees, fruits and gardens throughout time.

Jano Cortijo is an arts educator whose work finds him engaging audiences of various ages, abilities, and backgrounds in museums, classrooms, community centers, and online. Straying far from the canon to elevate artists and works that have been excluded or erased from mainstream conversations, Cortijo encourages critical discussion while connecting the participants’ individual histories and stories with the art and art makers.

Join us with your curiosity and come ready to share thoughts and ideas.

Photo Credit: Alfred Henry Maurer, Flowers, 1912 Oil on paper, 21 x 18 inches

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

This Peer Support Group is currently full. We will change status when a spot becomes available.

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please follow the link to complete the form: Interest Form
(Completion of this interest form does not guarantee a spot in this group. Please check your junk/spam email box if you do not receive a confirmation email.)

 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS/PARTNERS/FAMILY/FRIENDS.
If you are a formal Healthcare Provider, please see program offerings: https://alz.to/courses-learning-programs/

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets every other Tuesday from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

This Peer Support Group is currently full. We will change status when a spot becomes available.

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets on the 2nd Friday of every month from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

This Peer Support Group is currently full. We will change status when a spot becomes available.