Through abstract painting, I am celebrating and transforming life’s experience through all of its brilliant colors and unique moments. Therefore, I am creating and empowering an abundant life, by making connections and embracing the essence of “my truths”. – Hattye E. Brown
This work was created by Hattye E. Brown in ESTA Legacy Works 2008.
“Response to ESTA”
ESTA was very important to me because I learned that elders have more information about the past that we do. The elders survived through lots of tough time such as the World Wars and the Great Depression. So, I learned that I should have respect for elders because they have many survival skills and lived through more events than we will ever face.
Sincerely
Catherine Wu
“ESTA and The City”
Never underestimate the power of blind faith. Everything that exists imagined itself into existence
My Brooklyn and the world have vastly changed since I was your age. By the time you read this, there will be some strange and funny things that won’t be familiar to you. I hope that as you grow older and wonder about your own past, you will appreciate these stories.-Nancy Eder Visit WORDSWORTH Blog for more personal stories:
“ESTA Teaching Artists “- Kaneza Schaal
Kaneza Schaal also works as a teaching artist for Elevator Repair Service and performs with ERS in The Sound and The Fury, and most recently she facilitated NYTW’s Mind The Gap intergenerational playwriting workshop at Bronx Presbyterian Senior Services.
“ESTA and The City”
Doing something you’ve never done is called growth; doing something you didn’t want to is called change; doing something you dared not to is called breakthrough.
I am a long way in time from my first home, and even a long way from Chelsea as it was originally to me, yet I can still see traces of my origins in the skyline around me and feel that I am still at home in the city of my birth.- by Anna H. Walter
This work was created by Anna H. Walterl in ESTA Legacy Works 2007.
“ESTA and The City”
Faith is like the wind and the Sun; although can’t be touched, you’ll need them to sail on the Grand Line.
ESTA’s Legacy Arts: Digital Storytelling program in partnership with SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders).
This 24 session program led by ESTA teaching artists, Robert Herman and Jennifer Houseal, is where elders can tell the stories of their lives and their communities using digital photography.
