“Dementia Arts on Capitol Hill” highlights best arts practices in serving people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia in an exhibit to be held in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building. Dates TBA. The exhibit will showcase displays of original artwork created by people living with dementia and photographs, video and audio documenting people living with dementia participating in the dynamic creation of dance, music, poetry, and storytelling.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Ocean Poem



The poem "Ocean," was inspired by Tristin Lowe's artwork Mocha Dick, which appears courtesy of the artist in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop, The West Collection, and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, PA. We started the session by performing: "Catch a Little Rhyme," by Eve Merriam; "Whopper!" by Jack Prelutsky and sections of "The World below the Brine," by Walt Whitman; "The Whale," by Hilaire Belloc; and "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville. To create the poem we asked open ended questions around what the ocean would smell, taste, look, sound, and feel like. We imagined encounters with whales and improvised during the poem.
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