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Title The Penelope project : an arts-based odyssey to change elder care / edited by Anne Basting, Maureen Towey, and Ellie Rose
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Humanities and public life
Humanities and public life
Contents Series Editors' Foreword; Foreword, by Elinor Fuchs; Introduction: This Book, This Story; Who Was Penelope? You Ask; Excerpt from Finding Penelope, Scene 1, by Anne Basting; Part One: The Landscape; The Current Landscape of Activities/Programming in Long-Term Care, by Kirsten M. Jacobs; Social/Civic Practice in Theatre, by Michael Rohd; Penelope Goes to College ... but Does She Get Accepted into the Theatre Department?, by Jan Cohen-Cruz; Part Two: Building Partnerships and Charting a Path; What Is Luther Manor?, by Anne Basting
Evolution of an Idea: In Dialogue, by Anne Basting and Beth Meyer-ArnoldEvolution of an Idea: In Dialogue, by Anne Basting and Michael Rohd; Shaping the Project Structure from a Care Perspective: In Dialogue, by Anne Basting and Beth Meyer-Arnold; Shaping the Project Structure from an Arts Perspective: In Dialogue, by Anne Basting and Michael Rohd; Shaping the Project Structure from a Teaching/Learning Perspective, by Robin Mello and Anne Basting; The Structure and Evolution of Funding for Penelope, by Anne Basting; The Structure and Evolution of Evaluation of Penelope, by Anne Basting
The Mythic Lens of Penelope, by Robin Mello and Anne BastingPart Three: Resistance, Realizations, and Adjustments; Excerpt from Finding Penelope, Scene 1, by Anne Basting; On Fear and Trepidation, by Anne Basting; Staff Resistances, Reactions, and Interactions, by Ellie Rose; Challenges for Students, by Robin Mello; Students' Eye View of Penelope, by Fly Steffens and Angela Fingard; On the Comfort of Entertainment, by Anne Basting; The First Rehearsal, by Maureen Towey; The Demands of a Painter, or Who Is an Artist?, by Ellie Rose; Open and Roving Rehearsals, by Michael Rohd and Maureen Towey
Part Four: RewardsThe Arts of Penelope: Art-Making and Making Artifacts, by Ellie Rose and Shannon Scrofano; Who Is a Hero in Your Own Life?, by Jolene Hansen; Mamie's Story, by Beth Meyer-Arnold; On Playing the Suitors: In Dialogue, by Daniel Cohen and Rusty Tym; On Playing Penelope: In Dialogue, by Joyce Heinrich and Nikki Zaleski; Five Seconds after the Audience Left, by Anne Basting; The Magic of the Movement, by Anne Basting and Leonard Cruz; Finding an Ending, by Maureen Towey; Excerpt from Finding Penelope, Scene 5, by Anne Basting; Part Five: Evaluation and Evolution
Beyond Penelope at Luther Manor, by Ellie RoseOn the Challenges of Continuity in Civic Arts Projects: In Dialogue, by Michael Rohd and Anne Basting; Making Structural Changes in the Curriculum through Penelope, by Robin Mello and Anne Basting; What Did the Research Tell Us?, by Robin Mello and Julie Voigts; The Essential Elements of Penelope, by Robin Mello and Julie Voigts; The Landscape beyond Penelope, by Anne Basting, Ellie Rose, and Maureen Towey; Appendices; Appendix 1. Penelope Project Timeline; Appendix 2. Penelope Project Team; Appendix 3. Partnership Agreement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Amateur theater -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Theater and older people -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Older people -- Recreation -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Long-term care facilities -- Recreational activities -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Amateur theater
Long-term care facilities -- Recreational activities
Older people -- Recreation
Theater and older people
Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Form Electronic book
Author Basting, Anne Davis, 1965- editor
Towey, Maureen, editor
Rose, Ellie, editor
ISBN 9781609384142
1609384148