In observance of the holiday, the Brookline Senior Center will be closed Friday July 4th. There will be no transportation or food services on that day.
A very large THANK YOU to all those that donated, volunteered, worked, planned or shopped at yesterday’s yard sale. We raised $1600+. All proceeds will benefit the Brookline Senior Center
Join us on Tuesday, July 8, at 1:00 pm for “Why We Dance” and a talk to follow. This experiential documentary was built around an online Zumba Gold dance sponsored by the Newton Senior Center since the beginning of the Pandemic by an extraordinarily charismatic and compassionate teacher. The teacher, Ketty Rosenfeld, immigrated to the US from Indonesia. Many of the dancers are also immigrants. As friends invited friends, a virtual community of women from all over the country formed around this teacher. This is a micro-budget project, experiential and non-didactic, filmed by the dancers themselves. The film explores how and why older women dance, and what they gain from doing so, including confronting body image, seeking renewed community and relevance, and developing resilience. To date, Why We Dance has been screened at the West Newton Cinema, two film festivals, and the North Hill residential community, with additional local screenings scheduled for July and the fall. In all cases, the audience is totally “with” the film and receives it with joy, as it conveys resilience in dark times. A conversation will follow with the filmmaker and a few of the dancers.