John C. Hart Library Receives Grant for New Creative Writing Program

From the : The library has accepted the Creative Aging Grant to fund an exciting new program, The Family of Women: A Creative Writing Adventure into the Journey of Women’s Lives this fall. 

This program is supported by the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation through a grant to the Westchester Library System in partnership with Lifetime Arts, Inc.

The emerging field of “creative aging” focuses on the positive and powerful role of the arts in enhancing the quality of life for older Americans. Instead of viewing aging as a period of decline, proponents of creative aging recognize growing older as a time of life with abundant but untapped potential for personal growth and enhanced well-being. Building on this information, the Westchester Library System and Lifetime Arts, Inc. have designed this grant program to promote creative aging projects in New York State’s libraries.

Funding was determined by an expert panel which included representatives from the arts, aging and library fields. The panel was impressed by the intensity and thoroughness of the proposal from the Hart Library for a remarkable creative writing program, The Family of Women: A Creative Writing Adventure into the Journey of Women’s Lives.

The program will run Fridays, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 7 through Nov. 9 with a culminating public reading of select works on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 2 p.m., which is open to the public. 

The creative writing program is free and open to the public, age 55 and older, but registration is required, at the Reference Desk or call 914-245-5262, x-227. For more information on the program email MOBrien@wlsmail.org.

The library is located at 1130 Main St. in Shrub Oak. For more information on any Hart Library programs, please call the library at (914) 245-5262 x 227. 2304 info@lifetimearts.org.

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