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This website introduces the program Sage-ing With Creative Spirit. The program commences January 2010 at The Rotary Centre for the Arts in the Cultural District of Kelowna, British Columbia, heart of the Okanagan Valley. Throughout its history the beauty of this ancient corridor, and the struggles and achievements of valley inhabitants have inspired translation into various art forms. The Okanagan has a rich cultural heritage. Sage-ing With Creative Spirit will: build community awareness of ArtsCare and healthy aging through the arts recruit and stimulate ambassadors to spread awareness of the vital contributions of the arts to lifelong learning, creative expression, health and well-being provide free weekly classes led by community professional artists from a variety of expressions train confident arts ambassadors to move into the community to engage others in creative expression bring in guest lecturers from the health field who have established successful programs in other communities Visit: About to discover more about Sage-ing, Creative Aging and ArtsCare for improved health and wellbeing. Classes in Kelowna Get a full overview of the Sage-ing With Creative Expression sessions being held at the Rotary Centre for The Arts. Check the calendar of which free classes are currently being offered. Read about the facilitators. Contact to register for programs Interactive Blog to share your experiences of heeding the call to create and Sage-ing With Creative Spirit In his best selling 2003 book When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress Vancouver MD Gabor Maté advises: "There are two basic values that can assist us to heal and remain whole, if we honour them. The first value is our own creative self ... The gods, we are taught, created humankind in their own image. Everyone has the urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art or music, through the inventiveness of work or in any number of ways unique to all of us, whether it be cooking, gardening or the art of social discourse. The point is to honour the urge. To do so is healing for ourselves and for others; not to do so deadens our bodies and our spirits ... The great art is to express our vitality through the particular channels and at the particular speed Nature foresaw for us." The program is sponsored by The Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Programs. Home : About : Classes in Kelowna : Blog : Contact