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thanks thanks thanks I love to see you I

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love to see you I enjoy your company

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very nice people very nice people

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thank you for bringing this artwork to

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us we are really having fun and

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remembering our old Childhood Days

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the reality that we’re faced with is

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that seniors of all backgrounds face

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isolation and loneliness which leads to

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mental and physical health degradation

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and for seniors from different cultural

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backgrounds like India and Pakistani Sri

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Lankan these seniors are added

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especially high risk because they need

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art and programs and language services

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that are relevant to them which is why

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we do the program in so many different

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languages and why we teach so many

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different art forms because people want

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to relate to the music and dance and

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artwork that they grew up with

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I’m quite delighted to make this idea

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this is good for the mental disease

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dementia like Memories laws yeah if you

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can keep yourself busy in like this such

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activities it is

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you know the power of a workshop like

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this is we’re using so many elements

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we’re using the physical movement we’re

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using the auditory so we’re listening to

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the music and then we’re using all the

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coordination between the music and our

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bodies which is so powerful and it’s so

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so important to get everybody up on

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their feet and exercising and what

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better way to do that than through dance

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close your eyes

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most of the places which I have done

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these programs or I do these programs

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they have instantaneous

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relief and their faces look different

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afterwards even today after this session

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you

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and that is my reward that’s my prize

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seniors have spent the whole life

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you know doing stuff for the children

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for the society and all that and we owe

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it to them we owe this to them

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it was very nice we had a kind of a

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meditation type thing various ways of

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keeping at peace to ourselves because

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senior people are having some trouble

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sometimes you know sleeping or having

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peace because of the they’re maybe alone

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or lonely sometimes for this kind of you

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know it’s like an extension of trying to

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do some job of relaxing and all that

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Michelle

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I felt very relaxed very different

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and I felt that

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is

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I was just feeling so relaxed but I feel

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good

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thank you

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just want to say congratulations to my

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strategy for developing such an amazing

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program for the community and for

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keeping it going for so many years and

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not only that for making it better every

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single year they are so wonderful at

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taking in feedback listening and then

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making it better every year so I can’t

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wait to see where this program goes and

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where it takes me and all the

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participants who are part of this

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program

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