The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 104 East 126th Street
For all Jazz Musicians 62 and older, please join your fellow musicians in New York City to learn about and discuss a new project by the Research Center for Arts and Culture:
Learn about how you can participate in the first study of its kind to investigate how performing artists age 62 and up are supported and integrated within their communities, and how that changes over time. The Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University Teachers College will conduct a study that documents the artist’s life situation in New York City and LA over time in terms of health and life insurance, retirement plans, income and more. This discussion at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem is organized especially for jazz musicians through collaborations with Jazz Foundation of America, International Women in Jazz, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
The purpose of this year-long study is to understand how performers—who often reach artistic maturity and artistic satisfaction as they age—are supported and integrated within their communities, and how their network structures change over time. By studying and documenting the situation and circumstances of aging performers, we can provide choices for a generation now dealing with challenges artists have faced and surmounted: from health care and retirement plans to their creative goals and legacy planning. Aging artists are models for society. All actors, dancers, choreographers, musicians and singers age 62 and up are encouraged to attend.
In 2003, we conducted a study that analyzes the worklife of jazz musicians in New York, Detroit, San Francisco, and New Orleans - which can be found here: http://arts.tc.columbia.edu/rcac/jazz
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