Memory Cafés are welcoming, stigma-free monthly gatherings where individuals living with dementia and their care partners can relax, connect, and enjoy time together in a supportive environment. RSVP requested but not required. Free!
The Meaningful Connections Memory Café is a welcoming and supportive environment for individuals living with memory loss and their care partners. Each month we will offer entertainment or an activity and a light lunch. Please join us.
Tune in for a virtual conversation between Lakshmi Sirois and Donna Newman-Bluestein about play and authenticity.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
Memory Cafés provide support and socializing for adults living with dementia or Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. These are welcoming, stigma-free, monthly social gatherings where individuals living with dementia and their care partners can relax, connect, and enjoy time together in a supportive environment. Free!
A welcoming place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Enjoy coffee, refreshments, creative arts, and conversation with new friends of all ages.
Octaband® creator will be in the house at NewCAJE17 at Regis College in Weston, MA.
Join us for refreshments, music, and movements as we launch a new series for people experiencing memory changes and their family members or caregivers.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
The Memory Café at Needham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
We are exhibiting Octabands at the Dance for World Community festival on June 7. Catch a performance by The Back Pocket Dancers at 1:35 p.m.!
For individuals living with memory loss and their care partners. Join the Norfolk Council on Aging and Norfolk Public Library for this fun, interactive moving to music with Donna Newman-Bluestein. Lunch will be served.
Memory Cafés provide support and socializing for adults living with dementia or Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
A Memory Café is for those living with memory loss, along with their loved ones & care partners. Connect with community, participate in meaningful and joyful programming, and enjoy free refreshments from Homestead Bakery & Café!
Through experiential methods and discussions, learn the skills to engage, inspire and uplift older adults and people with dementia through dance and expressive movement.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
Dance for Connection will be exhibiting Octabands at the Expose Dementia Conference 2026 outside Baltimore, MD, featuring workshops by art, music, and dance therapists, keynote speakers, art exhibits, a comedy show, a film festival, and more.
The Memory Café is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
Board-certified dance/movement therapist Donna Newman-Bluestein, MEd, BC-DMT, CMA, LMHC will share how she transforms the culture of care through dance and embodied caregiving and why dance is so valuable for people with dementia and their care partners.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
A Memory Café is for those living with memory loss, along with their loved ones and care partners. Connect with community, participate in meaningful and joyful programming, & enjoy free refreshments from Homestead Bakery & Café!
Explore practical strategies and science-backed tips to keep your brain healthy and resilient in 2026 and beyond.
Join us for refreshments, music, and movements as we launch a new series for people experiencing memory changes and their family members or caregivers.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
The Meaningful Connections Memory Café is a welcoming and supportive environment for individuals living with memory loss and their care partners. Join us each month for entertainment or an activity and a light lunch.
A 3-hour workshop on embodied connection in dementia care at the 60th Annual American Dance Therapy Association Conference co-led by Dr. Cecilia Fontanesi and Donna Newman-Bluestein.
The Memory Café at Dedham Public Library is a welcoming, interactive place for individuals and families living with memory changes. Come enjoy a light lunch, make new friends and participate in a fun, failure-free activity.
Visit Dance for Connection and Octaband’s booth at Dedham Square Circle’s Annual Health & Wellness Fair
Memory Cafés provide support and socializing for adults living with dementia or Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Join us at Needham Public Library.
