THE real Art of Living is “The art gallery” at Evergreen

-Devi Nangrani-
Evergreen Senior Center in Woodbridge, opens the gates with welcoming arms of joy, pleasure, cheerfulness and Solace, and the sunshine of glittering smiles fills the hearts with life. It is really a place of Liveliness, where everyone is smiling, exchanging greetings of ‘Good Morning’, as one crosses the office at the entrance where Cynthia, the gentle lady greets everyone with personal touch by calling the names with a smile and is ever ready to answer all the unanswered questions of the visitors old and new.
The center has a wonderful transportation Center, which renders services to seniors, paying personal attention to see to their comfort when picked from their homes and then back. The drivers are trained to give warm welcome to all, interacting with them in loving and caring attitude.
The inside of the center has many activities being performed on daily basis from 8:30 to 4:30 p.m. that include music, art yoga of different variation and intensity, Zumba fit, card games, chair yoga, Ballroom dance, , the line dance and Bingo, puzzles, table tennis, scrabble and a sewing class for stitching and knitting. There is a computer room with a printer facility

Thursday, is the one day that has art class in the mini Hall as you enter and it displays the colorful walls with the work of artists, young and old, old and new. Talking to some of the artists and volunteers as Lucy, Andy, Jimmy, Wong the artist and Mary Lou I had the feeling that nothing is impossible under the sky to learn many things in all dimesnions. Age is no bar.
Talking to Eva Hoefele a very dedicated artist, as seen in the picture is giving finishing touches to her colorful drawing spread wide in front of her. Answering all my questions, and giving me information of activities she says-’ You can do pencil color, water color, charcoal, acrylic colors you could access. People enjoy doing the artwork from the sample given to us to reproduce replica as seen in the picture that Eva has done.
Individuals have choices and liberty to do sketches of animals, flowers, people or nature from the collection of pictures that are stored in the boxes to be used for this art class along with some materials like papers, colored pencils and crayons. This is the stepping stone for the beginners and at the next step the learner brings his own material of his choice to do what he or she wants to reproduce.
A person of any age in a right atmosphere, at right time, when exposed to the art develops the talent of expression and begins to express his unpredictable and predictable feelings and emotions by shades of colors that are at times louder than silence. The unspoken language of different shapes and different colors, merge with the background color of the paper which at times speak volume.
The senior gentleman Wong is here with his art of gallery of paintings done in years of persistence to access the heights of all the rainbow colors to expose and express his thoughts, feelings, and emotions that occupy the corners of his heart.
It is a proven fact that there is life as long as art is living in the hearts of humans to live life as years go by and by teaching an artist to LIVE LIFE and brighten the surrounding with amazing rays of joy.
AMIN

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