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Events that require registration to attend

21 Jan

Virtual Art Talks with Art Gallery Ontario (AGO) – (ONLINE)

2024-07-15T21:17:24-04:00

Tuesday, January 21st from 1:30 – 3:00 P.M.

Join us for an engaging virtual art talk and more in-depth experience of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). The AGO Art Educator will help participants explore their collection through conversation, exchanging ideas and observations about the selected artworks. 

This program is designed for people living with dementia and their caregivers. The virtual art talk is facilitated by an experienced AGO Art Educator.

Registration is required to receive the Zoom link to participate.

Virtual Art Talks with Art Gallery Ontario (AGO) – (ONLINE)2024-07-15T21:17:24-04:00
15 Jan

The Power of Music with Steve – Virtual Music Program

2024-07-15T21:17:23-04:00
 
The Power of Music with Steve – Virtual Music Program (5-Week Series)
Weekly on Wednesdays from January 15 – February 12th from 2:00 P.M – 3:00 P.M

January 15th, 22nd, 29th, February 5th, & 12th 2025
Join The Power of Music with Steve – our Weekly Virtual Music Program! This program explores different musical genres though live musical performances, and engaging conversations such as music on Broadway, music and meditation, great composers, jazz, musical improvisation, and music and memories! It is an hour of pure joy and fun!
Steve Koven is a composer, performer, producer, educator, and film maker. His band the Steve Koven Trio has toured the world for more then two decades, and they have been coined the ‘Canadian Cultural Ambassadors’. As an educator, Steve has been teaching in the Faculty of Music at Toronto’s York University, teaching Contemporary Improvisation and Jazz Piano Studies. As well he teaches in the Music Department at Centennial College.
This series is appropriate for learners at all levels and provides opportunities for each participant to engage at their own pace and in their own style.
For more information about this program, please contact Kristin Bartlett at kbartlett@alz.to or by phone at 416-389-6099
The Power of Music with Steve – Virtual Music Program2024-07-15T21:17:23-04:00
13 Jan

The Royal Conservatory – Rebanks Fellows Concert (273 Bloor Street W)

2024-07-15T21:17:22-04:00

Monday, January 13th from 3:00 P.M – 4:00 P.M at The Royal Conservatory of Music located at 273 Bloor St W.

The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School is the only one of its kind in Canada, offering a rich curriculum for career development. Alumni of the program grace the world’s great stages, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Koerner Hall, and perform with major orchestras in Canada and abroad.

Enjoy a 45-minute chamber music recital by one of the 2023-24 Rebanks Fellows, followed by a short Q&A session led by Program Manager Jessica Wright.
For more information about this program please contact Kristin Bartlett at kbartlett@alz.to
The Royal Conservatory – Rebanks Fellows Concert (273 Bloor Street W)2024-07-15T21:17:22-04:00
8 Jan

Mid-Town Social (IN-PERSON)

2024-07-15T21:17:20-04:00
Wednesday, January 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.
Mid-Town Social (IN-PERSON)2024-07-15T21:17:20-04:00
11 Dec

Mid-Town Social (IN-PERSON)

2024-07-15T21:17:16-04:00
Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 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.
Mid-Town Social (IN-PERSON)2024-07-15T21:17:16-04:00
10 Dec

Explore Art with Jano (ONLINE)

2024-07-15T21:17:15-04:00
 
Irene Rice Pereira, Landscape of the Absolute (1955); oil and enamel on canvas
Explore Art with Jano
Tuesday – December 10th from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM on Zoom

Join us with your curiosity and come ready to share thoughts and ideas. Our final session in the series about female artists and abstraction will present the work of Irene Rice Pereira, whose crowded and often industrial looking compositions defied expectations about what female painters should depict during the first half of the XX century.
An acute observer and learner who channeled the most avant garde movements of her time Pereira experimented with form and medium to create striking and intricate artworks.

Jano Cortijo is a gay, immigrant, bilingual arts educator whose work finds him engaging audiences of various ages, abilities, and backgrounds in museums, classrooms, community centers, or computer screens. Jano encourages critical discussion while connecting the participants’ individual histories and stories with the art and art makers.

This program is appropriate for people living with mild to moderate dementia and their carepartners. A Zoom link will be provided to you in an email once you have registered for this program.

For more information contact our Active Living Program Coordinator Kristin Bartlett at kbartlett@alz.to or 416-389-6099 

Explore Art with Jano (ONLINE)2024-07-15T21:17:15-04:00
19 Nov

AGO Art Talk Museum Tour (IN-PERSON)

2024-07-15T21:17:11-04:00
 

Tuesday, November 19th from 1:30 P.M – 3:00 P.M

This is a one-hour guided tour of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) with a hands on art making program for people living with dementia and their caregivers. The tour and art program is facilitated by an experienced AGO Docent and is assisted by Alzheimer Society of Toronto Staff and Volunteers.

Please note: Your ticket will be valid for the rest of the day so please feel free to explore the museum after the guided tour.

For parking and directions, please refer to this link: https://ago.ca/visit

Contact Kristin Bartlett at 647-327-6542 or by email at Kbartlett@alz.to if you have any trouble signing up for this program.

 

AGO Art Talk Museum Tour (IN-PERSON)2024-07-15T21:17:11-04:00
18 Nov

U-First!® for Care Partners – Zoom

2024-07-15T21:17:11-04:00

What is U-First!®  for Care Partners?

U-First!® for Care Partners is a new education program for family and friends who are providing direct support to someone experiencing behaviour changes as a result of dementia or other cognitive impairment.

This 6 hour education program will help you to:

  • Enhance well-being of care partners and of the person they are supporting who is experiencing behaviour changes
  • Reduce responsive behaviours by using the U-First!® framework
  • Improve collaboration among all team members through a common knowledge, language and approach to care. 
Mandatory Session Dates:
Monday, November 18th from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Monday, November 25th from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Monday, December 2nd from 5:00pm-7:00pm

Optional Session Date:
Monday, December 9th from 5:00pm-7:00pm

Who should attend?

U-First!® for Care Partners is for family and friends of people experiencing behaviour changes as a result of dementia or other cognitive impairment who provide direct support for that person in an unpaid role. 

What’s involved in the program?

  • Interactive learning approach that has participants reflect on their experiences, engage with new content, practice using a variety of methods including case studies and plan for how they will implement what they have learned.
  • Learners receive a Participant Workbook and a U-First!® Wheel to use during the program and keep as useful resources for applying their learning.
  • Learners will also be invited to take part in an evaluation to better understand the effectiveness and outcomes of the program.  In addition, a sample of participants will be invited to take part in an interview with the Evaluator. All learners will be invited to participate in evaluation activities but will not be excluded from the program if they choose not to participate in the evaluation.

What’s the cost for the program?

There is no cost for participants of U-First!® for Care Partners. 

Please note that there will be additional screening of all interested participants to ensure there is a fit between the program and participant.

Registration closes October 20th, 2024.

 

U-First!® for Care Partners – Zoom2024-07-15T21:17:11-04:00
18 Nov

The Royal Conservatory – Rebanks Fellows Concert (273 Bloor Street W)

2024-07-15T21:17:11-04:00

Monday, November 18th from 3:00 P.M – 4:00 P.M at The Royal Conservatory of Music located at 273 Bloor St W.

The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School is the only one of its kind in Canada, offering a rich curriculum for career development. Alumni of the program grace the world’s great stages, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Koerner Hall, and perform with major orchestras in Canada and abroad.

Enjoy a 45-minute chamber music recital by one of the 2023-24 Rebanks Fellows, followed by a short Q&A session led by Program Manager Jessica Wright.
For more information about this program please contact Kristin Bartlett at kbartlett@alz.to
The Royal Conservatory – Rebanks Fellows Concert (273 Bloor Street W)2024-07-15T21:17:11-04:00
13 Nov

Mid-Town Social (IN-PERSON)

2024-07-15T21:17:09-04:00
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (BMC, 57, Curved Lines) c. 1946-49, Ink on paper.

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 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. This month we will collaborate with Jano Cortijo, an established arts educator. We will enjoy a meditative drawing and collaging program together inspired by the work of Ruth Asawa, a prolific artist who made drawing a regular ritual often depicting her personal, immediate surroundings. Using line, shape and colour in ingenious and unexpected ways, Asawa crafted an extensive body of work that comfortably and masterfully exists between abstraction and figuration.
We will look at and discuss some of her drawings and mixed media pieces and then create our own compositions.
Jano Cortijo is a gay, immigrant, bilingual arts educator whose work finds him engaging audiences of various ages, abilities, and backgrounds in museums, classrooms, community centers, or computer screens. Jano encourages critical discussion while connecting the participants’ individual histories and stories with the art and art makers.

This program is appropriate for people living with mild to moderate dementia and their carepartners.

For more information contact our Active Living Program Coordinator Tracey Adams Thibaudeau at Tadams-Thibaudeau@alz.to or 647-456-6168

Mid-Town Social (IN-PERSON)2024-07-15T21:17:09-04:00
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20 Eglinton Ave West, Toronto, ON M4R 1K8 (16th floor)

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