Week of Events
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 10 am on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
Comic Book and Graphic Novel Incubator for Adults
Comic Book and Graphic Novel Incubator for Adults
Graphic Novels and Comic Books combine visual art with writing and literary devices (plot, point of view, character, flashbacks). In this class, you will learn how to read and discuss them critically, how to talk about how they get made, and how to make one with help from cartoonist Miles Cook. Participants will read, discuss,…
Rhode Island Virtual Memory Café (pre-register)
Rhode Island Virtual Memory Café (pre-register)
RI Memory Cafes is a service organization supporting people living with dementia. They are devoted to ensuring all Rhode Islanders have access to spaces that provide respite from the impact of cognitive impairment. They offer a consistent source of support aimed at cultivating social interaction, creating uplifting moments, and educating our greater community. Due to…
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 2 pm on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
Community Mindfulness Sessions (pre-register)
Community Mindfulness Sessions (pre-register)
Free and open to the public, these weekly drop-in sessions are intended to support anyone interested in developing and sustaining a regular mindfulness meditation practice. This opportunity is for anyone including the curious, former students, and seasoned practitioners. Inspired by the essential principles of MBSR (Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction), each session includes guided mindfulness meditation practice…
Aphasia Social Group
Cyber-Seniors Social – Drama club
Cyber-Seniors Social – Drama club
Register Here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sf-mhqz8sHNCZeKeNw7LIbvy1XLPrsKT3
Crochet, Knit & Needlework Club: “The Chronicles of Yarnia”!
Rhody Radio
Rhody Radio
New episodes published every Tuesday at 9:00 AM Hear voices from around the state on Rhody Radio: Rhode Island Library Radio Online. Enjoy lectures, stories, and conversations with local experts, artists, performers, and scholars brought to you by Rhode Island libraries. Subscribe on your podcast player and listen to a new show every week, or check…
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 10 am on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
Down Time with Cranston Public Library
Down Time with Cranston Public Library
New episodes published every Tuesday at 12:00 PM Join host Tayla Cardillo, Branch Librarian at the Oak Lawn Branch Library, as she chats with staff from the Cranston Public Library and beyond about what they've been reading, what they've been watching, and what they've been loving. Down Time is available everywhere you find your podcasts or at https://anchor.fm/down-time-cpl.…
PPL Brown Bag Book Club
PPL Brown Bag Book Club
PPL's Brown Bag Book Club meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 12 - 1 pm, via Zoom until further notice. The member-chosen titles include classic and contemporary fiction, and nonfiction. Copies of each month's selection will be made available for check-out by club members in PPL's Lobby before the meeting. For more information, please…
Cyber-Seniors Community Chat
Cyber-Seniors Community Chat
Register Here https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpIscuirqjoq1t6MjpBxLjO-HhwokwSWvA
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 2 pm on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
Virtual Cooking Club
Virtual Cooking Club
Do you love to cook and share culinary experiences? Looking for a way to talk technique, swap recipes and discuss ingredients? If so, Fuller is planning a virtual cook-at-home club for you! Participants will join our Zoom meeting and prepare their own individual recipes based on a theme while connecting with other home cooks. The theme…
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 10 am on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
Dance for All People with Rachel Balaban (Live)
Dance for All People with Rachel Balaban (Live)
Class open to all ages and abilities and designed for people with movement challenges. Instruction by Rachel Balaban, Regional Coordinator for Dance for PD. No experience required. Caregivers welcome. If interested in joining please email kpenrod@agefriendlyri.org so we know where to send the Zoom meeting invite. Benefits of this dance class include: Increase…
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 2 pm on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
AFRI Radio Hour (Live)
AFRI Radio Hour (Live)
Listen weekly on AM 790, Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:00pm. New guests join our host, Catherine Taylor, each week. Want to tune in online? You can access the live airing here: https://www.790business.com/age-friendly-ri/# Just click on the "listen live" button at the top and you should be in business! Soon after each segment airs it will…
One Day University Lecture Series, Presented by AARP – Four Paintings Every Art Lover Should See
One Day University Lecture Series, Presented by AARP – Four Paintings Every Art Lover Should See
Assistant Curator Tina Rivers Ryan of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery discusses four (4) paintings that played an important role in Western culture. While these paintings might not be the most influential or most important paintings In Western culture, they helped us understand the different ways this medium can be used as a meaningful form of…
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 10 am on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
SAGE RI Zoom Cafe (pre-register)
SAGE RI Zoom Cafe (pre-register)
Each week SAGE-RI holds a zoom meeting for socialization and community purposes. Each meeting we touch base with each of our participants and host a speaker whom gives an update on their organization. Speakers have presented from YPI, RI Pride, Sojourner House and Pretty Little Virtual Show. The event will be using the platform Zoom…
Tools for Managing Your Health and Well-being
Tools for Healthy Living – A Virtual Series
Tools for Healthy Living – A Virtual Series
January is a time when many of us look to reset, to review lifestyles and mindsets, check our diets and generally find ways to improve our wellbeing. Tools for Healthy Living (or Tools for Managing Your Health and Wellbeing) will help you do just that. This 12-week workshop series focuses on improving the overall health of…
Rhode Island Virtual Memory Café (pre-register)
Rhode Island Virtual Memory Café (pre-register)
RI Memory Cafes is a service organization supporting people living with dementia. They are devoted to ensuring all Rhode Islanders have access to spaces that provide respite from the impact of cognitive impairment. They offer a consistent source of support aimed at cultivating social interaction, creating uplifting moments, and educating our greater community. Due to…
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 2 pm on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
Friday Friends
SEG Virtual Aging & Longevity Networking Breakfast – January 2021 Edition
SEG Virtual Aging & Longevity Networking Breakfast – January 2021 Edition
SEG's monthly virtual Aging/Longevity Networking Breakfast is back! Their guest for January is Ted Fischer, co-founder and CEO of Joy for All (now Ageless Innovation) and a passionate believer in play as a basic human need. Joy for All provides the joy and playful companionship of pet ownership with their line of interactive Joy for…
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 10 am on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
BCBSRI Virtual Fitness Class
Tune in live every day at 2 pm on the BCBSRI Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/BCBSRI
Aging Strong – Seated Lower Body
Aging Strong – Seated Lower Body
20 minute video with focused breath, stretching and strengthening exercises for lower body. You can access all of Ship Shape RI's Aging Strong exercise videos anytime on their website https://www.shipshaperi.com/videos
Virtual Tour of The RI Statehouse
Virtual ZOOmobile
Aging Strong – Strengthened Core for Posture
Aging Strong – Strengthened Core for Posture
20 minute video to build core strength and posture alignment. You can access all of Ship Shape RI's Aging Strong exercise videos anytime on their website https://www.shipshaperi.com/videos
Laughter Yoga w/ Larry O’Brien (Live)
Laughter Yoga w/ Larry O’Brien (Live)
Yoga doesn’t have to be so serious. Lighten up and have fun with Larry O'Brien from the Providence Laughter Club in this a one-hour session of laughter yoga. If interested in joining please email kpenrod@agefriendlyri.org so we know where to send the Zoom meeting invite. Most benefits of Laughter Yoga can be explained under…