Keep Moving - 6 - 26 October

Keep Moving 6 - 26 OCTOBER 2014

Celebrating creative activity for older adults across Dundee.

Leisure & Culture Dundee is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. SC042421

Taking place across Dundee this October, Keep Moving is a festival which celebrates creative activity in older adults.

OTAGO Exercise Class Otago is an exercise programme designed to prevent falls in older adults. It is ran over a 12 week period with a focus on balance and strength exercises and is tailored to each individual. The Otago programme was first developed in New Zealand and has been shown to reduce falls by 35% among high risk individuals.

Numbers are limited, so please call 01382 436984 to book your space now.

Date

Time

Venue

Booking/Cost

6/10/2014

11am - 12pm

Douglas Sports Centre

Free (Booking Req)

Boccia/Curling Boccia is sport very similar to bowls with the main objective of getting a ball closer to the jack than your opposition. Games can be played individually, pairs or teams of three. In 1984 it became a Paralympic Sports.

Indoor curling is very similar to the actual sport however the stones are on wheels and the target area is closer to participants. Both sports allow for upper body joints and muscles to be used more often. Adaptations can be made to both so both sports are available to all.

Numbers are limited, so please call 01382 436984 to book your space now.

Date

Time

Venue

Booking/Cost

10/10/2014

2pm - 3pm

Douglas Sports Centre

Free (Booking Req)

Aqua Aerobics/Fit Both classes are water based that use various exercises to improve the physical condition of its participants. Due to these classes being based in the water it is accessible for most individuals including those suffering with arthritis or joint pain. Water aerobics can lead to a reduction in blood pressure and resting heart rate as well as an increased improvement of aerobic capacity and muscular endurance.

Event

Time

17/10/2014

2.30pm 3pm

24/10/2014

8.15pm 9pm

20/10/2014

8.15pm 9pm

St Paul’s

Free Event

23/10/2014

8.15pm 9pm

Grove

Free Event

27/10/2014

8.15pm 9pm

St Paul’s

Free Event

30/10/2014

8.15pm 9pm

Grove

Free Event

Aqua Fit

Aqua Aerobics

Venue

Booking/ Cost

Date

Lochee Leisure Centre

Free Event

Free Event

Silver Singers: Harmony Workshop Free up your vocal chords and take your singing out of the shower and into a singing workshop at the Marryat Hall. Open to everyone regardless of singing experience and confidence. You will be singing with folk from two of Dundee’s community choirs who with tutor Sarah Harrop will help you find your way into simple harmony versions of songs from across the world (and Dundee)and some classic hits of the last century.

Sarah Harrop has run community choirs in Dundee for a decade and aims to make her workshops fun, inclusive and sociable... Come and join us!

Date

Time

Venue

Booking/Cost

9/10/2014

1pm - 3pm

Marryat Hall

Free Event

Remember When?

Let ‘Remember When?’ take you on a relaxed and informal journey down memory lane, back to your schooldays.

Enjoy a gentle ‘memory jogger’ tour around The Making of Modern Dundee Gallery, followed by a chance to chat and share your memories with others. Listen to a selection of Dundee reminiscences in audio clips from The McManus Oral History Archive.

Date

Time

Venue

Booking/Cost

14/10/2014

2pm - 3pm

McManus

Free Event

21/10/2014

2pm - 3pm

Central Library

Free Event

Scottish Ballet’s Workshop Silver Swan Drop-In classes are for those aged 50 years plus who love to dance and learn. The workshop will start with a warm up and then you’ll learn a section of the Up Close programme’s Elite Syncopations.

Please contact angela.doran@leisureandculturedundee.com to book your space.

Date

Time

Venue

Booking/Cost

30/10/2014

4pm - 6pm

DISC

Free Event (Booking Req)

Eileen Ramsay Scottish author Eileen Ramsay has written 18 novels as well as serials and short stories. Come and have a coffee with Eileen as she talks about her writing, her novels and how she became Ruby Jackson, author of the World War 2 series Churchill’s Angels.

Date

Time

Venue

Booking/Cost

31/10/2014

11am

Kirkton Library

Free Event (Booking Req)

21/10/2014

2.30pm

Coldside Library

Free Event (Booking Req)