Hello!

I am a programmer at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. I have a special interest in the use of museum theatre and have been experimenting with it at Glenbow for the past three years. Through the past year, I have come to focus on seniors as a visitor group to Glenbow and have been programming for them.

Now, I am looking at ways to bring the medium of museum theatre together with an audience category of senior visitors. I am interested to know if anyone else on the list has experience with this combination of factors:

Is anyone using Reminiscence Therapy in museum programming? This is an active and developing field in the United Kingdom from what I understand.

Has anyone developed Reminiscence Kits or boxes for seniors particularly as an outreach program to continuing care facilities?

Is anyone offering museum theatre programs based upon reminiscences of older adults? Age Exchange Theatre Trust Ltd. in London does this very thing. I recently heard about the Trust through an interactive theatre workshop with Lisa Doolittle who is at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta.

I would really like to get a sense of what is happening "out there" and would like to hear from anyone who has any connection to the above. Please email me directly at:

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If anyone is interested in the responses, please let me know.

Thanks!

Sherry Anne Chapman
Live Interpreter
Glenbow
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http://www.glenbow.org
130 - 9th Avenue S.E.
Calgary, Alberta
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