Collaborations
Waterspill Junction and Minority Memory Loss Project are collaborating to produce the play Skips in the Record in order to educate communities of color about Alzheimer's disease by bringing Awareness Through the Arts. Awareness Through the Arts is Phase I of the Minority Memory Loss Project for which the two organizations have joined and are seeking funding to produce the play in the community.
ABOUT WATERSPILL JUNCTION
Waterspill – where streams of creativity flow to a Junction – merging there for the purpose of researching, writing, staging, and producing artistic projects that use the arts to educate the community. Waterspill Junction was granted exempt status under section 501(c)(3)of the Internal Code in May of 1998 as a Nonprofit arts organization. It was started because founder Rose Weaver believes that, "The arts have a way of changing the distance people have to the issues they are dealing with…it can bring them closer in to see the details, or help them take a step back to see the whole picture.” (New York Expressive Arts Director, Denie Whalen, who uses the arts to facilitate self-discovery and healing.)
Vision: to give a voice to conditions that affect minorities, a voice that reaches them on a visceral level
Mission: To provide theatrical and interdisciplinary media performances and education drawn from ethnic American traditions and experiences: to bring awareness using theater, music, dance and writing; to highlight African American accomplishments and contributions to the arts.
Visit Waterspill Junction for more information.
ABOUT THE MINORITY MEMORY LOSS PROJECT
Vision: To end the silence about Alzheimer's and related dementias in urban communities.
Mission: To educate minorities and provide care and housing solutions to fight the silent epidemic of Alzheimer's and related dementias in urban communities.
Minority and economically disadvantaged seniors are at greater risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias due to environmental, lifestyle and behavioral factors. The Minority Memory Loss Project is a national initiative aimed to educate minorities, provide care and housing solutions to fight the epidemic of Alzheimer's and related dementias and to end the silence in urban communities. The Minority Memory Loss Project collaborates with organizations, residential home and care providers, churches and other memory 
loss advocates across our nation.
The goal of this project is to deliver culturally sensitive:
• Care and housing solutions
• Workshops
• Discussion groups
• Speakers
That will promote mindful memory health, cognitive vitality, improved quality of life, improved quality of care and treatment and a better understanding of memory loss among minorities, especially our endangered seniors and their caregivers.
Visit the Minority Memory Loss Project for more information.