Generating Community
Generating Community is ESTA’s award winning, intergenerational program conducted in partnership with community elders from senior centers and NORCs and youth from elementary schools, secondary schools, or community programs. In this program, elders and youth serve as a resource to one another by sharing their stories from life experience. Commonalities and differences are honored and explored through art making using theater arts, visual arts, video art, murals, quilt making, and written art. Culminating events are often in the form of a performance or exhibition. On May 14, 2009, ESTA held its 14th annual culminating performance at P.S. 24 in Flushing, Queens in partnership with Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal Senior Center. The performance entitled For the Times they are a Changing…explored the theme of navigating through life’s changes by drawing on the election of President Barack Obama. To view video coverage of the event, click here.
