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November is National Family Caregiver Month: Who is caring for the caregiver?

11/17/2018

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Stories Love Music is! Our "Joy of Creative Engagement Program for Caregivers" provides relief for caregiver burnout, anxiety and depression, as well as supplying tools to apply to their care giving relationships. How can you get involved?
Make a donation to Stories Love Music on GIVING TUESDAY and here's how.

Go to https://www.shoregivesmore.org/storieslovemusic
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Stories Love Music receives Community Needs Grant Award from Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore.

9/21/2018

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Thanks for visiting our site and wanting to hear the latest. We are so excited to announce that STORIES LOVE MUSIC, a  (501 c3) non profit has just received a Community Needs Grant Award from The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore. Thank you so much for this grant award!
This grant will allow STORIES LOVE MUSIC to bring a series of the "Joy of Creative Engagement" workshops to many hardworking caregivers on the eastern shore of Maryland. These workshops serve the caregivers by attending to both their burnout and stress on the job as well providing them new tools to deepen the relationship with the senior citizen they care for.
Stay tuned to for more news on this!
Thanks for visiting us.
Ilyana Kadushin (Executive Director and Program Director).

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Stories Love Music milestone reached!

5/20/2018

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Welcome to the Stories Love Music blog where we share the progress of this now 501c3 and how it is evolving.
Update:
It was 2012 after Hurricane Sandy, when the seed was planted to find a way to bring music and story telling together in a magical way.
Stories Love Music hit a milestone this month!
On May 9th 2018, we presented and fully funded our first caregiver creative engagement workshop since becoming a non-profit 1 year ago! We held this special full day event at Worcester County Commission of Aging in Snow Hill, Maryland. It was a two part workshop that included creative engagement as both self care and tool applications for caregivers working with elders with dementia. The workshop was free for all the caregivers, they also received lunch and payment for attending. So grateful to all our supporters who helped us get here. Thank you so much and stay tuned for more program announcements.
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Stories Love Music Update!

2/20/2018

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Hello and Thanks for visiting our site!
It has been a while since our last blog update, as we have a very busy start to the new year.
As you may have heard, Stories Love Music recently became a 501c3 status and we already have such wonderful supporters and donors and we are so grateful!
Thanks to the donations and grants we have received, we will be able to bring the
"Joy of Creative Engagement" programs to more deserving groups of caregivers. 
We would specifically like to thank our supporters at Cobble Hill Foundation in New York and Community Foundation of Eastern Shore in Maryland. 
Please feel free to look around the rest of our site to: learn more about us, make a donation or contact us for more information.
Stay tuned!
Ilyana Kadushin (Executive Director)

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Stories Love Music Announcement!

6/5/2017

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Hello and Welcome back to our blog news page. We have a special announcement! As of May 2017, Stories Love Music is now incorporated as Stories Love Music Inc.*
It is has been determined to be Tax Exempt under 501 (c) (3) of Internal Revenue Code.
And as a result, any contributions to Stories Love Music Inc. will be tax deductible.
With contributions and grants, we can develop and expand this program; allowing us to share this program nationally.
We are looking forward to creating more opportunities to share this program with you!
Stay tuned for more,
Ilyana Kadushin

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Stories Love Music Update

4/26/2017

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Wonderful News!
Stories Love Music recently received another grant! This is a teaching artist grant for The Creative Aging programs at The Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Public Library is part of the Lifetime Arts Affiliate Network, made up of over 20 library systems across the United States that offer multi-session creative arts workshops for people 50 and over, which are taught by professional teaching artists.
This is a 9 week session that starts Wednesday MAY 17th and then every Wednesday at 1:30pm to 3pm. Our Stories Loves Music sessions will focus on Self-expression through the Art of Music and Story Telling and is for both the seniors and their care givers.

For more information about this Creative Aging Event, please call the Services for Older Adults Department at 718.236.1760. ext. 51141.
 
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Creation and Eternal Light. Special Event at Jewish Museum.

2/13/2017

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We had the pleasure of creating a custom Stories Love Music event for a Connect to Culture JM Journeys Event at The Jewish Museum in New York City.
JM Journeys are events when the museum is only open to elders with memory loss and their care givers.
We were asked to create this event based on two works of art in the museums permanent collection by Ibram Lassaw, called CREATION and ETERNAL LIGHT (featured in this photo above). We utilized sound design, voice narration of guided meditations, live music and interactive story telling about the art pieces.
The audience was guided to have an interactive experience with the art and the group's energy grew through each moment.
We as artists and coaches found this event very inspiring and look forward to the next one!
Thank you to the Jewish Museum for this opportunity.
~Ilyana


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Stories Love Music at Jewish Museum

1/9/2017

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Happy New Year!
We are delighted to announce that on February 1st 2017 Stories Love Music is collaborating on a Connect to Culture Program at The Jewish Museum as part of their JM Journeys program. JM Journeys is a program that is only for visitors with memory loss and their care partners. They are invited to explore Ibram Lassaw’s Synagogue Wall Sculpture Creation in the Jewish Museum collection through a special performance by Stories Love Music. We are thrilled to be a part of this special place and program; and we will be integrating sound design, voice narration and live music that is inspired by the beautiful works, Creation and Eternal Light by Ibram Lassaw.
We wish you a joyful new year and as always reach out to us if you have any questions.
~Ilyana


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Happy Holidays from SLM!

12/24/2016

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Happy Holidays from Stories Love Music! What a year it has been and we are committed to bringing more Stories Love Music to more people in 2017.
I would love to hear from you.
Have a peaceful and prosperous new year ahead.
Much love,
Ilyana


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Autumn Updates from the field

11/4/2016

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Hello and welcome back to the Stories Love Music blog.
Over the last few months we have led our program for big and small groups in memory assistance facilities and with individuals in their private residence here in the New York area. So many great moments happen in the group work. There is often a shift, when it goes from a group of struggling individuals, to a group of individuals that energetically and musically come together with a sense of calm and joy. From that place, ideas and stories have the space to pop up and be shared. When I go into all my sessions with an open mind and heart, I will often be pleasantly surprised what comes up!
For example,  I have another story from a private client session. As we sang a song in Hebrew together, as we often do, he stopped suddenly with something to ask me. 
I said "You have something to ask me." He said " I was wondering if it's been difficult for you in this life because you are a woman." I said "Well at times yes, but as I grew up, I became self possessed and did not let that hold me back or limit me. Does that make sense?" He says "Well I don't know, because I'm a man. I do know that it's good that you come here and tell us these things."
I say "Thank you for asking me that.".

His caregiver had a look of surprise on her face as well.
Take away: Let yourself be surprised by people, with the idea that you don't know everything they are thinking and feeling, as this does something to the energy around them.
Thanks for reading!
Ilyana



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    Ilyana Kadushin

    Executive Director of Stories Love Music, Singer, Story Teller, Coach and Activist.

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