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Ice Cream Socials -- Readings, with music, to launch our Stories From The Heart books

Video from one of our live shows featuring a few stories by the one and only Kay Roberts.

Take your tale to the stage! We love to read our writing to an audience. You'll find videos featuring Ina and Footprints Club authors from around the globe reading excerpts from their writing. Everything from Andre van Zijl's tale that begins, "Africa grips me by the throat," to a delightful story about cookies, by Kaye Roberts, and another by David Brook, writing about life in Poland as the Holocaust began to creep closer and closer. These were recorded at a Spoken Word with Music book launch party for Stories From The Heart, vol. 2, an Amazon.com best seller.

Watch segments of the shows here. You'll see funny, poignant and thought-provoking tales from a range of continents, and a range of times.
"Stories From The Heart Live Onstage"
You can read a story about our work here reported in "Not Born Yesterday."

The Living History Project at UCLA

An intergenerational program designed to help break down barriers between "young whippersnappers" and "old fuddy duddies," this program succeeded beyond expectations in fostering mutual understanding, and demolishing those worn stereotypes. Program was  by Ina Hillebrandt and Adena Schutzman, creator. The participants were members of Hillebrandt's Footprints Writing Club and students at UCLA.

Sharing life stories across generations in show on last day of series

Participant Evaluations of the Living History Project at UCLA

Asked to share what they felt after meeting each week during the program, younger folks found the "old people" were not falling apart and doddering, and benefited from having the seniors become mentors. The seniors in turn felt listened to and appreciated, a thing they had come not to expect from young people. This was very rewarding for them as well.
PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to have us work with you to help improve communications among different generations in your community, please contact Ina!
We would love to help you design our program to fit your members. It's a totally rewarding 5 week program, with opportunities to expand into an ongoing community-building series.

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Our Newest: From Senior Moments Productions
Stories 'n Schtick -- coming to you live, and in development for TV!

Our concept grew from humorous yet poignant glimpses into early days in the lives of our writers. These tales are poignant, outrageous and warm. Now we've got an ongoing story for a TV series brewing as weird things happen to our fearless writers.

Featured performers in live shows we have performed. From left: Frank Boyd, Ina Hillebrandt, Laurel Shapiro, Christine Jordan, Moty Zahavi, Nicole Gratson (you can also see Nikki perched on the piano at the top of this page, going over notes from Ina during rehearsal for a taping.

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