The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of the first Creativity and Aging in America grants. Fourteen projects were funded out of 55 applicants, for a total of $330,000. The program supports projects that involve older Americans as creators through literature and music, and that promote lifelong learning in the arts. Funded projects include Gemini Series' intergenerational life-writing program in San Antonio, Tex.; the Elder Play Project at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn.; Settlement Music School of Philadelphia's Program for Seniors in Pa.; the Stagebridge Playwriting Project in Oakland, Calif.; , an older-writers-in-residence project at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, Wisc.; the Big Band Youth Outreach Project by the Cleveland TOPS Swingband in Westlake, Ohio; and the Songwriting Works competition by Arts Northwest on the Olympic Peninsula. (Thanks, National Center for Creative Aging.) [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham