AGELESS ART –“Creative Expression is a Basic Human Right”

This just came in on my radar this morning and I decided to stop the presses. A pause worth taking AGELESS ART has the potential to deliver on so many fronts. As an individual who has been touched by this heartbreaking syndrome via friends and family I had to call this project out as “PERSONAL.” I’ve just become an official backer. I’d like to think that maybe it’s time to “put your money where your mind is!” ~Gia

Local Hollywood, CA resident and filmmaker Noah Applebaum has an amazing story to tell starting with his own grandfather, Harold Applebaum who lived with dementia. And so he is making a film about creative arts programs for people with dementia which then transforms their art pieces into cinema. Part doc, part movie.

Creative expression programs should not be just a way to occupy someone’s time in a care facility; rather they should be a necessity, a basic human right, a tool to unlock our loved ones through the arts.

AGELESS ART is a community film; For our mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles, brothers, sisters, friends and spouses.

Check out the trailer and get more information about the kickstarter by clicking the image above. Even one dollar helps this project get closer to helping all of us unlock our imaginations of what is really possible!

Funding ends: Jan 13, 2013

Pledge rewards are provided by Opening Minds through Art (OMA), a Scripps intergenerational art program for people with dementia (www.scrippsoma.org)

P.S. Why Noah Applebaum Rocks!

Within minutes of emailing Noah about his project I got this letter back. It was so awesome I decided to publish it. ~Gia

Tracey,

Thanks so much for your interest in Ageless Art. I’m so proud of this project, and I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from friends, family and complete strangers. We’re in the very beginning stages of our Kickstarter, so any social media pub is truly appreciated! Our website is AgelessArtMovie.com which currently redirects to the Kickstarter page. Today I am NoahOnTheGo, so I only had a brief second to check out your blog. Looks rad! If you need some additional info/materials besides what you find in the video, feel free to hit me up with any Qs.

Updates will begin next week, and all of the footage I have so far I shot last month in the greater Cincinnati area with the generous support of Scripps Gerontology Center of Miami University, OH. They’re currently at the forefront of creative expression research as it relates to seniors with dementia/Alzheimer’s, and just being there first hand you can feel how truly special these creative arts programs are. This is the future; next level of elderly care: encouraging autonomy of the human being that is still there and giving value to their many gifts they still have left to give.

Thanks again for the support! Look forward to your post.

Best,

Noah
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actor – writer – director – producer – editor – musician

NoahApplebaum.com