Join us in a remembrance: dance, words, music, celebration!

As many of you know I lost my beloved Mary to Alzheimer’s in 2020, and through my grief these words took shape. As we come up on what would have been her 66th Birthday and soon the 3rd anniversary of her passing I wanted to create an event that not only honors her but allows grief to be a teacher. My father, Gerry Grubbs, has created a new book of poems treasuring Mary and their life together. Our friend, Pauletta Hansel, has written about her dementia journey with her mother, Larnie. Our words will be woven together with music and dance in my offering, A Night of Memory & Mystery!

The following folks are all artists who will be performing:

Katie Chal, Dance

Rachel DesRochers, Writer

Gerry Grubbs, Poet

Pauletta Hansel, Poet

Rob Keenan, Musician

Adam Peterson, Musician

Light bites & drinks following the performance.

Gerry’s Learning A New Way To Listen and Pauletta’s Palindrome will be available for purchase! Both books are from Dos Madres Press.

This event will also benefit Giving Voice Foundation.

More about them:

https://givingvoicefdn.org/
Giving Voice Foundation is a grassroots organization committed to providing local programming and support services for individuals living with a form of dementia and their caregivers. We live our mission of inspiring cross-generational conversation and connection to improve the health of older adults through advocacy, education, engagement, and story-telling.
Our Story: We began as an event in 2016, the first Mimosas for Memories, and grew year after year. When we added our second event, Cincy Brews for Brains in 2017, our yearly combined attendance grew to over 325. Reflecting on what inspired the creation of these events Dr. Gausvik says “even since my first job in assisted living at age 15, it has always been the stories of older adults that inspired me to go into medicine.” He continued, “the stealing of those stories and life experiences by Alzheimer’s is one of the greatest tragedies facing our society.” Giving Voice seeks to help give voice to tell these stolen stories through advocacy for improved care, education and storytelling efforts.
While amazing organizations are all working on this issue from different angles we believe that by building unique events in conjunction with advocacy and education efforts we can do something new. As a local grassroots organization, we believe inspiring cross-generational conversations can inspire solutions so we create these events to bring together people from around the city and from every age group. We also believe older adults need health and community advocates. Our founder Dr. Christian Gausvik believes physicians have a responsibility to use their voice to advocate for patients and help amplify the sometimes quiet voices of patients in today’s healthcare system. We believe education is how we fight problems. Above all we believe in telling the unique stories of older adults by amplifying their voices when those voices have been stolen by disease, poverty or isolation.