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The Way We Worked Memoir Writing Recognition Ceremony BRASS and Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury have teamed to create “The Way We Worked: S t o r i e s f r o m G r e a t e r Waterbury.” This collection of stories is based on work experiences and memories from bus drivers to factory workers and bookkeepers to shop owners. Our “authors” come from our local community, including participants from each Senior Center in Waterbury. This lends itself with perfect timing with the Smithsonian’s The Way We Worked exhibit tours stopping at the Mattatuck Museum. 10:00am—12:00 pm Wednesday July 30 Mattatuck Museum

Newsletter BRASS Lead

Program Agency New Opportunities, Inc. 232 North Elm Street

Waterbury, CT 06702 203.575.4219

[email protected]

BRASS Program Site Locations

Hispanic Coalition

135 East Liberty Street 203-754-6172

Waterbury Senior Center 1985 East Main St, Blg 2

203-574-6746

Silas Bronson Library 267 Grand Street

203-574-8221

Mt Olive 82-100 Pearl Street

203-528-4817

Greater Waterbury YMCA 136 West Main Street

203-754-9622

Mattatuck Museum 144 West Main Street

203-753-0381

BRASS Associate Site

Willow Plaza 60 Elmwood Ave

203-575-1545

Forever Young 785 Highland Avenue

203-756-8981

We are on the Web!!

www.newoppinc.org &

www.waterburyct.org

ElderServicesCT

November-December 2017

Waterbury BRASS is a collaboration of

The City of Waterbury, Connecticut Community

Foundation, New Opportunities, Inc. &

WCAAA.

Sign up for programs with the BRASS Office or directly at Program Sites!!!

BRASS Holiday Party

Join us as we celebrate the magic of the Holiday

Season with festive food and live entertainment by Connecticut

Yuletide Carolers . RSVP is a must to receive a ticket. Please contact

Paola at 203-575-4219 to reserve your spot. The deadline to make res-

ervation is December 8th 2017.

Thursday December 14, 2016

11am—1pm

Mattatuck Museum

Tellabration! Is an international celebration of storytelling. The Con-

necticut storytelling center supplies a storyteller. The story teller, Mar-

tha Bishop will tell a short story based on Connecticut history .

Tuesday November 21st 2017

Starting 1:00pm

Waterbury Senior Center

Weather Related Delays and Cancellation Policy:

As the winter months are upon us, BRASS would like

to ensure the safety of our members and instructors.

If Waterbury Public Schools are closed then the

BRASS programs are cancelled at all BRASS locations. If Waterbury schools

have a 90 minute delay, please contact Brass sites for information about

opening and programs.

Note that although programs and classes may be cancelled , the Waterbury

Senior Center will be available as a warming center for those who would

need it.

Meet The Brass Team!

Paola Vargas- BRASS Program Coordinator

Call :(203) 575-4219.

Danessa Marshall- Waterbury Municipal Agent for the

Elderly

and Waterbury Senior Center Director.

Call : (203) 574-6746.

Francesca Robles- BRASS Information and Benefits

Specialist.

Call : (203) 757-5449.

` BRASS Programs

WELLNESS AND FITNESS

Chair Exercise 11:00m - Mondays Hispanic Coalition 1:15 pm– Tuesdays Forever Young 11:15 am– Wednesdays Mount Olive 10:00 am– Fridays Waterbury Senior Center

Tai Chi 10:00 am - Mondays Waterbury Senior Center 10:50 am—-11:45 am Thursdays at the YMCA

Zumba Gold A fusion of Latin music & dance themes. The routines are simple and feature interval training with a combo of slow and fast rhythms. Come join us in this "feel-happy" workout! No experi-ence necessary. 11:00 am - Tuesdays Hispanic Coalition

Warm Water Pool Exercise 11 am—-11:45 am Tuesdays and Fridays YMCA Sponsored by WCAAA $2 suggested donation

Lite Aerobics

Tuesdays and Fridays

YMCA

10:10 am—10:55 am

Sponsored by WCAAA

$2 suggested donation

Chair Yoga

Come join our gentle, chair-based yoga classes. Each

week, we will practice yoga techniques that have been

proven to increase balance, strength, flexibility & focus.

Thursdays

10:30am

Willow Plaza

Coming soon to Mount Olive and Hispanic

Coalition.

If you’re aged 65 or older, the

Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC) recom-

mend getting at least 150

minutes of moderate-intensity

aerobic activity per week —

or 75 minutes of vigorous-

intensity aerobic activity

http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/older_adults/index.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/older_adults/index.htm

Thursday Friday

2. 9:30 Painting -$2 (WSC) 10:00 Bingo (HC) 10:00 Computer Skills (MO) 10:30 Yoga 4 Change (WP) 10:50 Tai Chi (YMCA) 12:30 Tech Help (WSC)

3. 10:00 Bingo (HC) 10:00 Chair Exercise (WSC) 10:10 Aerobics (YMCA) 11:00 Pool Exercise (YMCA) 11:15 Ukulele ( WSC)


10. All Sites are closed in observance of

VETERANS DAY

16 9:30 Painting -$2 (WSC) 10:00 Bingo (HC) 10:00 Computer Skills (MO) 10:30 Yoga 4 Change (WP) 10:50 Tai Chi (YMCA) 12:30 Tech Help (WSC)

17. 10:00 Bingo (HC) 10:00 Chair Exercise (WSC) 10:10 Aerobics (YMCA) 11:00 Pool Exercise (YMCA) 11:15 Ukulele ( WSC)

23. All Sites are closed in observance of Thanksgiving

24. No BRASS programming is scheduled.


What is a turkey’s favorite type of pie ? Peach Gobbler

Calendar

December BRASS Calendar Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Waterbury Senior Center= WSC Hispanic Coalition= HC Willow Plaza= WP Mount Olive= MO

Forever Young= FY Mattatuck Museum= MM Waterbury YMCA= YMCA Silas Bronson Library= SBL

What does the Turkey eat at Christmas? – Nothing because he’s stuffed!

What do you get if you cross an apple with a Christmas Tree? A pineapple!

1. CHRISTMAS BAZAR 10:30 am to 1:00pm Waterbury Senior Center

4. 10:00 Tai Chi (WSC)

11:00 Chair Exercise

11:00 Guitar ( HC)

11:15 Nutrition (FY)

5 10:00 Quilting (WSC)

11:00 Bennet Family Concert ( WP)

11:00 Cancercare: Breast Examination ( MO)

11:00 Zumba (HC)

11:00 Guitar (HC)

1:15 Chair Exercise (FY)

6. 10:00 Tai Chi $3 (MM) 10:00 Painting (MO) 10:00 CancerCare : Breast Examination (HC) 10:00 Arts and Craft with Lindsey (WSC) 11:00 Nutrition (WSC) 11:00 Crocheting with Lindsey ( WSC) 11:15 Chair Exercise (MO)


8. 10:00 Bingo (HC) 10:00 Chair Exercise (WSC) 10:10 Aerobics (YMCA) 11:00 Pool Exercise (YMCA) 11:15 Chorus ( WSC)

11. 10:00 Tai Chi (WSC)


11:00 Guitar ( HC()

12. 10:00 Quilting (WSC)

10:00 Arts & Craft (MO)

10:30 Nutrition (WP)

11:00 Zumba (HC) 11:00 Guitar (HC) 1:15 Chair Exercise (FY)

13.10:00 Tai Chi $3 (MM) 10:00 Painting (MO) 11:00 Nutrition (WSC) 11:15 Chair Exercise (MO)

14

BRASS Holiday Party Mattatuck Museum

11:00 am—1:00pm

Reserve your space


18. 10:00 Tai Chi (WSC)


11:00 Guitar ( HC()


10:00 Nutrition ( MO)

10:30 Xmas Party (WP)

11:00 Zumba (HC)

11:00 Guitar (HC) 1:15 Chair Exercise (FY)

20. 10:00 Tai Chi $3 (MM) 10:00 Painting (MO) 11:00 Nutrition (HC) 11:00 Crocheting with Lindsey ( WSC) 11:15 Chair Exercise (MO)

21. 9:30 Painting -$2 (WSC) 10:00 Bingo (HC) 10:00 Computer Skills (MO) 10:50 Tai Chi (YMCA) 12:30 Tech Help (WSC)


25. We are closed in observance of CHRISTMAS DAY

26. NO PROGRAMMING 27. NO PROGRAMMING

28. NO PROGRAMMING 29. NO PROGRAMMING

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

1. 10:00 Tai Chi $3 (MM) 10:00 Painting (MO) 10: 00 Arts & Craft w Lindsey (WSC) 11:00 Nutrition (WSC) 11:00 Crocheting w Lindsey (WSC) 11:30 Dementia Friends Info (WSC 11:15 Chair Exercise (MO)

6.10:00 Tai Chi (WSC)


11:00 Guitar ( HC()

11:15 Nutrition (FY)


10:30 Jeopardy

11:00 Zumba (HC)

11:00 Guitar (HC) 1:15 Chair Exercise (FY)

8. 10:00 Tai Chi $3 (MM) 10:00 Painting (MO) 11:00 Nutrition (WSC) 11:15 Chair Exercise (MO)

Senior Health Fair Waterbury Senior center

10:00 am to 12:00pm

13.10:00 Tai Chi (WSC)


11:00 Guitar ( HC()


10:00 Arts & Craft (MO)

11:30 Veteran Program (WP) 11:00 Zumba (HC) 11:00 Guitar (HC) 1:15 Chair Exercise (FY)

15. 10:00 Tai Chi $3 (MM) 10:00 Painting (MO) 10:00 Nutrition (HC) 11:00 Cooking w Courtney (WSC) 11:00 Crocheting w Lindsey (WSC) 11:15 Chair Exercise (MO)

20. 10:00 Tai Chi (WSC)


11:00 Guitar ( HC()


11:00 Zumba (HC)

11:00 Guitar (HC)

1:00 Tellabration! (WSC)

1:15 Chair Exercise (FY)


27. 10:00 Tai Chi (WSC)


11:00 Guitar ( HC()


10:00 Arts & Craft (MO) 11:00 Zumba (HC) 11:00 Guitar (HC) 1:15 Chair Exercise (FY)


November BRASS

November-December 2017

ARTS & CRAFTS

BRASS Quilters

Please join the “BRASS Quilters” for quilt-

ing lessons. If you already know how,

that’s great – Come down & join the group.

This is a great way to have some fun,

learn a new skill and make some new

friends.

Tuesdays, see calendar for schedule

10 am—11:30 am

Crocheting Circle

Please join us for lessons on how to crochet. If you already know how, that’s great– come down and join

the group. This is a great way to have some fun, learn a new skill and make some new friends.

Wednesdays, see calendar for details


10:00 am –11:00 am

Painting Class

Participants will be provided with an enriching& rewarding

experience in art. The class will focus on a number of im-

portant acrylic and watercolor painting lessons. Including col-

or mixing, landscapes, florals, still life, and brush techniques.

Thursdays Wednesdays

9:30 am—11:00 am 10:00 am-12:00pm

Waterbury Senior Center Mount Olive

$2 supply charge per class

Get Creative Craft Group

This activity is open to everyone who loves to be creative. A new craft project done on one Wednesday

of every month. Supplies are provided and no experience necessary.

Hispanic Coalition on selected Wednesdays at 10:00 am ( Check Calendar)

Mount Olive on selected Tuesdays at 10:00am (check calen-

dar)

Hands-On Drumming with Craig Norton at the Mattatuck Friday, Nov 3 , Friday 1 – 2:30 p.m. BRASS Members: $3 Wide smiles ignite when you beat a drum. Sound Healing begins. Join Craig Norton for a few hours of participatory mu-sical merriment in one of the galleries @ The Matt. Everyone gets to play a drum or two, dance, laugh and learn while play-ing rhythms from around the world. Drumming is fun for eve-ryone. Bring your own drums or play one of ours.

Education

BRASS CITY HARVEST’s Nutrition Seminars

Please join us at one of our nutritional seminars

lead by nutritionist Nichole Theriault. Classes in-

clude meal planning, grocery shopping, nutrition

for chronic diseases, food journaling and cooking a

meal together in a hands on approach.

Willow Plaza 12/12 at 10:30 am

Forever Young 11/06 &12/04 at 11:00 am

Waterbury Senior Center 11/1, 11/8, 11/22,

11/29, 12/06, & 12/13, at 11:00 am

Hispanic Coalition 11/15 & 12/20 at 10:00 am

Mount Olive 12/19 at 10:00 am

Dementia Friends Information Session:

This free, interactive, one-hour Dementia Friends session helps you learn about demen-tia and the small ways you can help people who are living with it in our community! Please join Debby and Jessica from WCAAA in this new campaign to tackle the stigma and lack of un-derstanding around dementia. All participants will receive a Dementia Friends certificate. Please call 203-574-6746 to register.

Wednesday, Nov. 1 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm


Guitar Lessons

Play the guitar by learning

the cords and reading sheet

music. No experience need-

ed.

Mondays and Tuesdays

11:00 am

Hispanic Coalition

Ukulele Lessons

If you have never taken music lessons be-

fore or learned to play a musical instru-

ment, and would like to start now, a good

choice would be the ukulele. It is a humble

little instrument that is simple to learn.

Class limit 9.

11:15 am-12:15pm

Fridays


CancerCare®

Presents Breast Health Education Workshop CancerCare

® is the leading national organization dedicated

to providing free, professional support services including counseling, support groups, educational workshops, publi-cations and financial assistance to anyone affected by can-cer Come learn on spotting the signs of breast cancer and how to administer self breast examination. Wed Dec 6th at the Hispanic Coalition 10:00 am Thurs Dec 7th at Mount Olive 11:00 am

TECH HELP BY APPOINTMENT DO YOU NEED HELP USING YOUR TABLET, SMARTPHONE, OR LAPTOP? THEN COME TO THE TECH LAP FOR ONE-ON-ONE HELP. YOU WILL BE ASSISTED IN USING THE INTERNET, HARD-

WARE PROBLEMS, AND MORE. TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT PLEASE SEE A STAFF MEMBER AT THE WATERBURY SENIOR CENTER OR CALL 203-574-6746. 12:30 PM TO 2 PM THURSDAYS WATERBURY SENIOR CENTER

Education & Technology Classes

Intro to Internet

*Pre-requisite: Students should have basic computer skills.*

Learn how to navigate the internet to read the news, shop

online & do general research. Learn the basics of using a

browser to navigate various websites with an understand-

ing of Internet security. Learning how to use email and

Skype.

10:00 am—11:00 am

Tuesdays at the Waterbury Senior Center

Basic Computer Skills

A relaxed pace class where you will be introduced to a

computer.

10:00am– 11:00am

Thursdays

Mt. Olive

The Magic of Microsoft

Microsoft Office is an essential collection of desktop

applications that includes Word for documents, Excel

for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for presentations, Access

for databases, and much more. Join us to learn all that

Microsoft Office has to offer!

11:30am-12:30pm Tuesdays, Waterbury Senior Center

BRASS MERCHANT DISCOUNT LIST As a Brass member you get this special perk that saves you a pretty penny. Here are just a few.

Remember to check out the complete discount list at your BRASS site.

Shakesperience Productions—10% off of tickets (203) 754-2531

Reliable Dental Care– 10% off all services (203)-757-2279

Dippy’s Ice Cream—10% off any purchase except Wednesday. Wednesday’s Bogo sale (203)-574-1809

John Bale Book Cafe—10% off any purchase (203)-757-2279

And Now Hearing –Free hearing test & consultation (203)-754-2200

Sal’s Fire Truck Pizza - 10% off of an meal (203) 591-1923

BRASS BOOK CLUB @ THE BRANCH

Fourth Thursday of the month, 11:30 a.m.

Bunker Hill Branch, 192 Bunker Hill Avenue

Seniors 60+ are invited to join us for a monthly book

discussion. Please call us at 203-574-8225 to R.S.V.P. by

Tuesday before we meet. These books will be available

in the library.

November 30th—Radium Girls by Kate Moore

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