Using the Power of Arts and Culture to Support Older Adults
Oberlin Center for the Arts and StoryLens Pictures are proud to join together to offer interACTS, a program to virtually deliver arts and culture to older adults, those most vulnerable and underserved in our community. interACTS will include performances and educational programs from the arts and culture community delivered into care facilities, medical institutions, and individual households throughout Lorain County.
As this work evolves, Oberlin Center for the Arts will be working to collect personal reflections and information that will be the basis of creative responses and long-term interactions between artists and older adults in our region. Ultimately, Oberlin Center for the Arts envisions interACTS to provide engagement and enrichment to older adults who face long-term isolation and subsequent health effects, while directing much-needed assistance to artists and organizations who seek creative ways to support the community.
All interACTS works will appear on our Videos page.
Send a Postcard
Oberlin Center for the Arts is collecting digital works from a community of artists and delivering them, virtually, to older adults throughout our community. Create an artistic message to share today.
Join Our Artist Roster
Oberlin Center for the Arts will be accepting a limited number of applications for performing artists interested in being part of our Performing Artist in Residence roster.
Support interACTS
We need your support! Please consider any of the following ways of supporting this work.
- Make a cash donation at the link below
- Donate an unused iPad or personal tablet device
- Volunteer to support interACTS
- Share content your organization might have
- Learn how to offer interACTS at your facility
Please contact us with these or other means of support for the older adults we serve through interACTS.
StoryLens Pictures
StoryLens Pictures produces short independent documentary films about pressing social issues in order to promote education, encourage public dialogue, and facilitate change. Learn more about their work, including viewing their documentary films.