Kim Kilpatrick has always been steeped in the arts. Always a story teller, always wanting to work with people. Kim is proud to be a totally blind artist. As an artist with a disability she will help us to shape the program with accessibility in mind and connect with people in care with similar experiences.
I am very excited about this programming - I have always enjoyed interactions with the senior members of our communities. I think it's of the utmost importance to be engaged with them, enjoying their company and valuing them as much as possible in their later years.
Music, poetry and stories lift us out of the daily concerns we have and take us to unexplored territories. They can comfort us, lift us, awaken our curiosity and enliven our relationship to the world and to each other. It is exciting to imagine what may happen when an artist meets a new audience member one on one to see how the music or the word might unfold this time, and to witness together a little new world come to life.
People have been telling stories for a very long time. Stories take us on journeys, they comfort us, encourage us, make us laugh, invite us to reflect, give us insight. There are so many ways to hear and see stories today — but person to person lets us connect with one another as nothing else does!