NACF Announces: The Remember Project

The Remember Project

NACF has partnered with the St. Croix Valley Foundation, SCRMC, ADRC, Burnett Medical Center and some other great local groups
to bring The Remember Project to our area this Fall.

“Remember” is intended to stimulate a community conversation around Alzheimer’s disease. The idea stems from a book of three one-act plays titled The MemoryCare Plays (compiled and edited by Margaret A. Noel) and from the recognition that the arts are a powerful tool for inviting deep and meaningful conversation. The plays will be produced and performed by a small, traveling cast that will visit various venues in our area. The plays will be followed by a facilitated conversation about how our communities can become more dementia-friendly.

The performances (see posters below for more details) will be held in Grantsburg, Webster, Frederic, Balsam Lake and St. Croix Falls. Please forward this email to anyone on your contact list who would have interest in the project. We hope that you are able to join us for one or more of these free performances. Bring a friend along, too!

The MemoryCare Plays, edited by Margaret Noel, include three one act plays: “Steering into the Skid”, “In the Garden”, and “Riding the Waves”. One published testimonial reads: “These three plays catch the light and shadow that play across the lives of people with dementia, and of our own along with theirs...these plays get under our skin, when we might prefer the illusion of a cure that's right around the corner.

We “Steer into the Skid” with Tim and Amanda as the intimacy of everyday forgetfulness shades imperceptibly into early Alzheimer’s --- and suddenly their private world is on display, made public by the act of diagnosis. We too are confused as Arthur (“In the Garden”) comes untethered from the world of every day, but we ground ourselves again in his deep connection to those he loves if they can but join him in the beauty of the world he used to paint. And we ourselves enter into the watery ebb and flow of past and present that Isabel inhabits, so beautifully rendered in its unbounded time and its challenge to her children's own identity (“Riding the Waves”).

These plays can help to make our communities more “dementia friendly”, and they should be seen, or read at least, by everyone with a heart to make that happen.” Soo Borson, MD, Professor Emerita, University of Washington School of Medicine.

The Remember Project

NACF has partnered with the St. Croix Valley Foundation, SCRMC, ADRC, Burnett Medical Center and some other great local groups to bring The Remember Project to our area this Fall.

NACF has partnered with the St. Croix Valley Foundation, SCRMC, ADRC, Burnett Medical Center and some other great local groups
to bring The Remember Project to our area this Fall.