Celebrate Age @ Age Awareness Week!

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9 September 2009 - 12:22pm
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The Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) has launched the Age Awareness Week 2009 event guide and website. The week will take place from Monday 28 September to Saturday 3 October and will celebrate the diversity of older people's lives, highlight the positive contribution older people make to our society and challenge negative attitudes to ageing. This year's theme of Representation will challenge attitudes and practices of how older people are portrayed and represented in society.

The event guide and website (www.ageawarenessweek.com) details a week packed full of events including art exhibitions, films, discussions and conferences across Belfast; poetry and storytelling in Portadown; an intergenerational event in Strabane; information events in Ballymoney, Newry and Limavady; and dance and drama in Lisburn, Derry, Omagh, Armagh and Coleraine and much more.

Anne O'Reilly, CAP Spokesperson said:

'We all hope to grow older in a society where our opinion counts and our needs and concerns are taken into consideration when important decisions about things like health, transport, care and education are made. It is in society's interest that everybody stands together to fight for the rights of older people to ensure a more equal, informed and richer society now and in the future. Age Awareness Week is the perfect opportunity for everybody in our society to get involved and become aware of age issues.'

This year the Changing Ageing Partnership has joined forces with Jameson Belfast Film Festival to organise a Drive in Movie at the Kings Hall Complex in Belfast which will launch Age Awareness Week. Just jump into your car, turn up the radio, sit back and enjoy the ultimate movie experience with the screening of 'Harold and Maude'. This movie challenges the stereotypical ways in which older people are portrayed in cinema and defies everything you've ever seen or heard about screen lovers! Book tickets by following this link https://kiosk.iristickets.co.uk/k?belfastfilm&haroldandmaude

There is something for everyone so visit www.ageawarenessweek.com to download the programme now and start planning your Age Awareness Week!