Creative AI — Seniors Program at RRCRC
3 min readJul 28, 2023
- ** UPDATE ** (January 2025 — in progress) New project with RRCRC Seniors. Illustrated storybook on universal themes that unite community.
- (February — April 2025) 7-week program featuring intergenerational engagement with local youth and seniors co-creating AI images for colouring activities. In partnership with 140 Den Haag. Supported by the Ontario Seniors Community Grants Program.
- (November 2024) The 2025 AI Art Calendar project is completed. The new calendar features a “light” version and what we termed a “dark” version! Our seniors decided that a “dark” version was a fun way to generate AI images that depict scenes that one would not think seniors would come up with.
- (Sept 2024) — FAB Fest Exhibit of RRCRC Seniors AI Art Collective
- (May 2024) — Seniors AI Art Exhibition at RRCRC Annual General Meeting
- (February 2024) New Project: “Elder Fairy Tales” — Reimagining classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes with AI image generation and AI-assisted storytelling
- (December 2023) CBC News Ottawa Video Interview on RRCRC Seniors AI Art Program (archived link)
- (November 3 2023) RRCRC Seniors AI Art Collective -Children’s Coloring Book Project
- (October 2023) Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan — “Never too old to learn about AI — Social group leads to laughter and learning while creating calendar and colouring book.” (archived link)
- (September 2023) We are thrilled to announce that our project has been awarded a microgrant from the Awesome Ottawa Foundation!
All AI art images produced and displayed below are the outcomes of the Seniors AI Art pilot project at the Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre (RRCRC). The program was designed to create a fun and playful group activity to stimulate imagination and creativity while addressing social isolation experienced by many seniors in our community.
