Editor: Michael Vincenty, NJIT Student

Funded by a Newark Arts Start grant, artists take elders and youth "Back 2 the Future", in a virtual intergenerational art program. Newark students at Roberto Clemente Elementary School and Elliott Street Elementary School will meet virtually with adult seniors living with first and mid stages of Alzheimer's and dementia. Students and adult seniors will explore theatre, art, poetry and music together. A culmination session invites participants, students, school administration and participating artists to celebrate works created during program.  

"Back 2 the Future", a virtual intergenerational arts program on ZOOM. Students from Elliott Street Elementary School meet with senior adults living with Alzheimer's and Dementia in NJ nursing homes . The goal of this program is to bring two different groups of people together, youth and seniors, during times of COVID to interact with each other and learn about each other's lives through arts-based programming. Our mission is to provide multi-disciplinary arts mentorship, accessibility to all, create bridges to new experiences and networking opportunities for our Newark residents, through the specific focus of using visual arts, theatre, poetry, and music.