JUBILEE SENIORS TELL ALL Set for 6/23

Stories Of New York - Seniors presents Jubilee Seniors Tell All - Final Show at Catholic Charities St. Charles Jubilee Senior Center, 55 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on Thursday June 23rd - 2pm. Free to the public, no reservation needed.

Stories Of New York - Seniors is sponsored, in part, by The SU-CASA Program and the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

One again, the seniors of the Catholic Charities St. Charles Jubilee Senior Center have stories to tell! This is a diverse group of Brooklynites who will present you with real life stories on subjects ranging from true love, to travel, family and life in Brooklyn and beyond. This is our final show, a celebration and the culmination of work, honing experiences from real life into polished gems.

STORIES OF NEW YORK - SENIORS - This event is produced and hosted by co-facilitators Cyndi Freeman, Dawn J. Fraser and Meliora Dockery. SU- CASA Artists in Residence & recipients of a Brooklyn Arts Fund grant, they have been working with the seniors of Catholic Charities St. Charles Jubilee Senior Center, instructing them in the art of storytelling since February of 2016.

Stories of New York - Seniors, is an arts organization dedicated to encouraging connection, agency and community bonding within the senior community, through the medium of storytelling.

SU-CASA is a collaboration among the New York City Council, the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the Department for the Aging (DFTA) and the City's five local arts councils - Bronx Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Queens Council on the Arts and Staten Island Arts. The program began as SPARC (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide) in 2012 and was developed as part of Age-Friendly NYC, a citywide effort to make the City more livable for seniors. The program is funded in FY16 by New York City Council. Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) is proud to be part of this program on behalf of the borough of Brooklyn.

ABOUT BAC'S COMMUNITY ARTS GRANTS - BAC Community Arts Grants help fund project-based work by individual artists and nonprofit organizations in all artistic disciplines, and support capacity building for Brooklyn-based non-profit organizations. Grants are made possible through the generous support of the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) in partnership with the New York City Council, and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.

BAC is the borough's leading nonprofit organization supporting artists and cultural groups in all disciplines. BAC reaches hundreds of thousands of artists and audience members each year through music, dance, film and visual arts programs, web-based directories and communities, arts education, urban folk arts initiatives, grants, training programs and artists services.