San Francisco Cares:

Inclusivity and Accessibility

in Senior Arts Programming

Tue. May 23, 12-2p (Free and open to the public)

SFAC Main Gallery

401 Van Ness Ave. Ste. 125

(War Memorial Veterans Building)

SF, CA 94102

Please join us for this special event!

Arts programming provides participants with a forum for expressing themselves while cultivating a sense of identity and belonging. Our vision is a society in which every older adult engages in the creative arts as part of their healthy and vibrant longevity.

A panel of San Francisco senior service providers and participants will discuss how creative programming impact the lives of older adults and adults with disabilities, including strategies to foster inclusive, accessible environments.

Panelists:

Mark Campbell – Executive Director Art With Elders
Katie Wade – Senior Director of Creative Engagement, Front Porch Community Services
Jessica McCracken – Director of Creative Spark, Front Porch Community Services
Cindy Kauffman – Deputy Director of Community Services, Department of Disability and Aging Services
Liv Schaffer – Intergenerational Programs Director, EngAGE; Director, Dance Generators; Professor, USF
Lizette Suarez – Director of Well Connected Español
Virginia Jourdan – AWE Artist Instructor
Kim Ringle – AWE Artist Participant – Openhouse

Cover art: “Solitary Confinement” by Kim Ringle – Openhouse

Registration is now open for the California Senior Legislature’s FREE 2023 Virtual Senior Rally Day on Tuesday, May 2nd, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Join CSL virtually from the comfort of your home or office as we meet with Legislators and CA Department on Aging for an update on the status of the Master Plan for Aging and the State Budget. Additionally, we will have a panel focused on the Equity Initiative.  

The afternoon advocacy session will provide an opportunity to meet with Legislators and staff on important aging bills and budget requests.

All attendees must be registered in advance to participate. To register, click the link below:

https://4csl.org/senior-rally-day/registration/

I am writing to ask for your help in cosponsoring H.R. 82 (Graves-LA and Spanberger-VA) since you were one of the cosponsors of this bill in the 117^th Congress. This bipartisan bill will repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), penalties that financially harm millions of retirees across our nation.
 
The WEP and GPO cut or eliminate Social Security benefits that retirees have paid for. The WEP cuts the earned benefits of public service workers that they paid for during their time working in the private sector. The GPO eliminates the Social Security survivor benefit, even for those with a modest pension. Retired educators can be forced into poverty when their spouse dies, even though their survivor benefit had been paid for by their spouse.
 
Now is the time to take action to repeal these two unjust penalties. The nation has been seeing an exodus of teachers who are either leaving the profession or retiring earlier than planned. The repeal of these two offsets is an important step to help to turn the tide in favor of teachers remaining in the classroom.
 
Please cosponsor the bipartisan bill H.R. 82 (Graves – LA and Spanberger – VA) and move this issue to the forefront.

We are excited to share that registration for senior classes offered by San Francisco Recreation and Parks will now open with priority registration ahead of general registration dates. No more having to compete with adult, youth and tot registrations!

For the spring season, senior class registration will begin on Wednesday, March 1, at 10 a.m. In addition to online registration at sfrecpark.org/register , walk-in registration is available for senior classes at the Golden Gate Park Senior Center (6101 Fulton Street) beginning at 10 a.m. on March 1.

Senior classes are for ages 55 and over. To see the spring senior class offerings, click the link below.

SENIOR PROGRAMMING

In order to plan ahead for 2023, OWLSF polled our Members. 

Click the link below to view the results of the OWLSF January 2023 Member Survey.

What Do OWLs Want

Sheila Malkind, the Founder & Director, as well as her Board of Directors and reviewers, selected 40 long and short films, almost entirely documentaries–some whimsical, others serious—covering diverse themes on Friendship, Vitality, Later Life, Love, Creativity, Caregiving, and, inevitably, Death—and more.

Also included in the upcoming festival, are recorded interviews with several of the filmmakers–their chosen subjects, their challenges, and the messages their films impart. Director Norman Jewison explains his film adaptation of Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen, while Director Barbara Schock talks about her 2000 Academy Award as Director for Best Short Film (Live Action), My Mother Dreams The Satan’s Disciples in New York.

CLICK HERE FOR TIME AND PRICE DETAILS

The Legacy Film Festival on Aging celebrates the aging process as profound and meaningful, often challenging, and always courageous. Malkind: “Our films portray some of the many facets of this unique, ever-changing experience, honestly and artfully, and always with compassion and love for the subjects.”

Sheila Malkind, MA, MPH,

LEGACY FILM FESTIVAL ON AGING

(415) 515-2708

info@legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org

legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org

The Board of OWLSF is delighted to share
this inspiring project.
We invite and encourage you to
partake of this virtual tour, 
an exhibit at the Houghton Library
for Rare Books at Harvard

CLICK HERE TO VIEW 500 YEARS OF WOMEN AUTHORS

Join OWL-SF for our

2022 Planning Meeting

The Future of OWL-SF

Saturday, January 22^nd

11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Call (415) 712-1695 or email info@owlsf.org for Zoom info

We need people to step up and help lead us into the future,
to keep our mission relevant,
and continue to make our organization one that uniquely serves
midlife and older women.

*Join us to plan for 2022 and beyond
*Share your thinking and commitment to our work
for midlife and older women

February 5th ・ February 19th ・ March 5th

CARA is planning a series of FORUMS on Fridays, beginning on Feb. 5th at NOON PST to engage our members and friends on the key issues we will be working on over the next year. Some of these FORUMS will be policy focused, some more performance oriented, and some skills-building. All of these forums will be held at NOON PST and will be held via ZOOM and Teleconference. All events will have an organizing focus and share opportunities to TAKE ACTION. And each one will have some element of fun and surprise.

You must register in advance for these events. You can register for one, two, or all of them. You will be sent a link for the Forum upon registration. We are proud to announce the first 3 Fabulous Forums. Register here https://californiaalliance.org/3473-2/

OWL SF can join Evolve on August 20th at 5 pm to phone bank for Prop.15 – Schools and Communities First.
The phone bank on August 20th is going to be from 5:00 – 7:30 pm. We will send out the Zoom link that day so be ready to click that link at 5 pm. Volunteers will first be trained and then they will start calling voters in the Bay Area.

You will need your phone, computer, and access to a Chrome browser for this phonebank. Along with that, you can quickly share your story about why you support Prop. 15 using this link https://www.evolve-ca.org/share-your-story.

Effective July13, 2020 Francisco Covid-19 rules and guidance for businesses was revised and released to allow customers to bring reusable bags back into stores, provided customers follow specified measures to bag their own items and ensure reusable bags do not touch employees or check-out conveyors.