AGE IN THE CITY:
Reimagining Our Relationship to Urban Land/Place for Healthy Aging and Intergenerational Connections
Saturday, June 15, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker and Moderator: Mistinguette Smith
Writer, Equity Consultant and Founder of the BlackLand Project
The 5th annual agein will be a daylong, creative community workshop that uses fun and playful exercises to imagine transformation of urban spaces into places that knit people together in relationships of ongoing care and intergenerational obligation to each other. Partnering with Bay Area community-based organizations, we’ll direct our efforts towards typically ‘underinvested’ urban areas who are rich in cultures that emphasize the importance of intergenerational community building.
If you are interested in becoming a community partner, contact Susanne Stadler, Executive Director.
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Event Info
Saturday, June 15, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Ruth’s Table, 3160 21st Street, San Francisco, on Lisjan Ohlone territory | Directions
This event is for urban dwellers of all ages:
- Elders with storytelling skills
- Visual and performing/cultural artists
- People who remember how their neighborhood was different 25 – 50 years ago
- Urban recreational land users (urban hikers, cyclists, etc.)
- Urban land stewards, planners and community organizers
- Advocates for disability access and inclusion
- Youth and young adult photographers
- Narrative change workers
By the end of the agein, each participant will leave with:
- Their own story about a place on land for which they have a relationship of responsibility and care
- A tangible art object that helps them to communicate their work or personal story to others
- An action plan for one achievable thing they can do in their neighborhood to support intergenerational connection
- The contact information for one new intergenerational personal/professional connection
- Contribution to a collaborative photo essay
More details coming soon!
About Mistinguette Smith
Mistinguette Smith’s passion is to write about race, land and kinship. She is the founder of the Black/Land Project, which identifies and amplifies the relationship between Black people, land, and place, the principle of M Smith Consulting that serves philanthropic and social sector groups to implement change, and on the faculty of UVM’s Master’s program in leadership for sustainability. Her essays, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in a wide array of publications. Her website has offerings of teaching tools and resources of the Black/Land Project for public use.
Listen to her At Home, On Air conversation with At Home With Growing Older from September 14, 2023 about‘Wildness’ in Healthy Aging: The significance of the relationship to land/place for healthy aging in the Black community. View details…
Our Community Partners
If you are interested in partnering with us for this creative exploration, please contact:
Susanne Stadler, Executive Director of At Home With Growing Older.
Bridge Builders
More information coming soon about this opportunity!
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If you won’t be able to attend this year’s agein, please consider supporting our programs:
History of agein
2023 | Creature Comforts: The Human-Animal Bond in Healthy Aging
Held on Saturday, June 17, 2023
About Our 4th Annual agein
The 4th annual agein in collaboration with Ruth’s Table explored different modes of animal-human relations and how our society, our homes and cities can support them. Although this event focused on canine companions, the lessons transfer to other domesticated animals and those in the wild.
In our complicated modern world, animals have always come to our rescue both emotionally and physically. This is especially true in older age when staying socially connected becomes challenging. The human-animal friendship has proven health benefits in older age, from staving off depression to supporting daily exercise to guiding us when our eyesight diminishes. Our support of aging animals has become part of our aging experiences. We thank everyone who helped us celebrate this mutually beneficial relationship.
This event took place at Ruth’s Table in San Francisco, California. Alice Wingwall provided the opening remarks (showcased in video above). Chris McCarthy was the panel moderator. Sherri Franklin, Annelie Nilson, Maddie Krasno, and Evan Johnson were the featured guest panelists. Muttville Senior Dog Rescue provided interactive time for participants with senior dogs. And teaching artist, Alexandra, facilitated an art project for participants, which tied together our relationship to animals with the night sky.
Listen to the Panel Discussion (Featured on the At Home, On Air podcast)
2022 | Elder Wisdom: An Overlooked Resource in Trying Times
Held on Saturday, June 4, 2022
About Our 3rd Annual agein
Our current human and environmental challenges are daunting. These issues are complex, hard to navigate, and can’t be ‘Googled’. But we can tap into a valuable resource: our past, our experience. The 2022 agein featured lifelong change-makers who paved their own paths where no roads existed. Thank you so much to these guest speakers for sharing their collective wisdom with our mighty, intergenerational community.
This event took place at Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, California. Sarah Crowell provided the opening remarks. Sasha Shen Johfre was the panel moderator. Amy Meyer, Sandy Mori and Jennie Chin Hansen were the featured guest panelists.
Watch the Panel Discussion (showcased above)
2021 | Create, Connect, Contribute – A Celebration and FUNdraiser
Held October 18-23, 2021
About Our 2nd Annual agein
In 2021, we reconnected for our 2nd annual agein – a week-long celebration and fundraiser. Together, we celebrated the joy of creating, connecting and contributing at four online Play Dates and then finally at an in-person event at the Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, California. From dancing, drawing and acting to enjoying good company and food … this event was all about celebrating joy!
Watch the event highlights (showcased above)
2019 | Celebrating 10 Years of Our Diverse Learning Community
Held on Saturday, June 1, 2019
About Our 1st Annual agein
In June of 2019, AHWGO piloted a day-long super forum, an ‘agein’ in the style of the 1960s teach-ins. We aimed to include people of varied ages and backgrounds, and explore how the later stages of life are seen, felt and understood.
Motivated by its success we will take this annual event to key locations in California in order to:
- Reach new audiences
- Incentivize other communities to form AHWGO creative learning communities
- Identify more opportunities for AHWGO to bring aging consideration to a greater range of organizations and corporations
Watch the event highlights (showcased above)
First agein, June 2019, Ed Roberts Campus Berkeley.
“….there were some amazing people and creative brains in the room and so much potential to activate whole communities and created system-wide change!”
agein participant