A video on Youtube - Making Mandalas with the Elderly: the Ennis Court Project.
http://youtu.be/fimThEhaun0
We decided to take up Charles Gilchrist's challenge to "Go For It" and start weekly drawing sessions at the Penang Home for the Aged and Infirm on Green Lane. With the support of Matron Leow and her staff, we began the first of our Friday afternoon drawing sessions on 8 July 2011. We started with a simple objective - to see how the old folks would respond to the invitation to draw. The old folks came unwillingly in the beginning, protesting that they did not know how to draw or paint. We kept assuring them - you can do whatever you like, its just for fun, "play play", relax.... . Though they had never painted, we soon discovered that each one had their own ideas what to do with colours, paint and brush. Some began to enjoy themselves, coming each week with a plan of what they wanted to do that day. 10 sessions have gone by. 2 of the elderly who joined us have passed away...... But each week, one or two new recruits join in, sometimes out of curiousity, sometimes attracted by the colourful drawings we paste up each week on the wall for all to admire.
http://youtu.be/fimThEhaun0
We decided to take up Charles Gilchrist's challenge to "Go For It" and start weekly drawing sessions at the Penang Home for the Aged and Infirm on Green Lane. With the support of Matron Leow and her staff, we began the first of our Friday afternoon drawing sessions on 8 July 2011. We started with a simple objective - to see how the old folks would respond to the invitation to draw. The old folks came unwillingly in the beginning, protesting that they did not know how to draw or paint. We kept assuring them - you can do whatever you like, its just for fun, "play play", relax.... . Though they had never painted, we soon discovered that each one had their own ideas what to do with colours, paint and brush. Some began to enjoy themselves, coming each week with a plan of what they wanted to do that day. 10 sessions have gone by. 2 of the elderly who joined us have passed away...... But each week, one or two new recruits join in, sometimes out of curiousity, sometimes attracted by the colourful drawings we paste up each week on the wall for all to admire.
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