GOOD DEEDS: SAGES Plays with a Purpose 2025 Updates w/Linda Goldman & Christine Hamacher
Season 2, Episode 449, Feb 18, 06:34 PM
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In 2024, SAGES Plays with a Purpose was feature on Kelly Clarkson and performed to for venue-filled crowds around Tampa Bay. GOOD DEEDS host Nanette Wiser caught up with Christine Hamacher and founder/playwright Linda Goldman about what's in store for 2025. Their mission: Engaging, Educating and Empowering Older Adults through Community Theater with plays such as Denying Gravity (educating and preventing falls), Phoney Baloney (seniors and scam prevention) and more. New for SAGES in 2025 is a DIY Denying Gravity Play Kit so assisted living and senior centers (such as Lake Seminole Square) can do their own production this year! https://sagestheater.org/
***EVENTS https://sagestheater.org/events
***SAGES Theater Inc. is a locally based, 501(c)(3) not for profit organization that presents "Plays with Purpose" highlighting a positive image of aging and featuring senior actors in meaningful leading roles. Their goal of inter-generational collaboration on key topics for older adults stimulates discussion and enhances access to community theater for all ages. HISTORY SAGES (Senior Actors Guild & Education Services) began in 2014 with a play written to address the complex lives of seniors that were not being reflected on the community theater stage. The success of that first play led to the development of 4 more original one-act plays, each tackling different life-changing topics. These real-life experiences of older adults onstage were welcomed with open arms. In late 2017, our SAGES playwright paired up with a strong senior advocate on the topic of fall prevention and Denying Gravity was born. From its first performance at the Pinellas Park Performing Arts Center in February 2018, with an audience of close to 500, it has served as a unique outreach to seniors to raise awareness on fall prevention, the leading cause of injuries and death for older Americans. The impact has been undeniable and led to the formation of SAGES Theater Inc. as a non profit in early 2019.
#sages #playswithapurpose #gooddeeds #nanettewiser #christinehamacher #denyinggravity #phoneybaloney #seniors #preventingfalls #preventingscams
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***EVENTS https://sagestheater.org/events
***SAGES Theater Inc. is a locally based, 501(c)(3) not for profit organization that presents "Plays with Purpose" highlighting a positive image of aging and featuring senior actors in meaningful leading roles. Their goal of inter-generational collaboration on key topics for older adults stimulates discussion and enhances access to community theater for all ages. HISTORY SAGES (Senior Actors Guild & Education Services) began in 2014 with a play written to address the complex lives of seniors that were not being reflected on the community theater stage. The success of that first play led to the development of 4 more original one-act plays, each tackling different life-changing topics. These real-life experiences of older adults onstage were welcomed with open arms. In late 2017, our SAGES playwright paired up with a strong senior advocate on the topic of fall prevention and Denying Gravity was born. From its first performance at the Pinellas Park Performing Arts Center in February 2018, with an audience of close to 500, it has served as a unique outreach to seniors to raise awareness on fall prevention, the leading cause of injuries and death for older Americans. The impact has been undeniable and led to the formation of SAGES Theater Inc. as a non profit in early 2019.
#sages #playswithapurpose #gooddeeds #nanettewiser #christinehamacher #denyinggravity #phoneybaloney #seniors #preventingfalls #preventingscams
#stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete