While I applaud any initiative to promote access to the arts for all, I'm ambivalent about the "Celebrating Age" festival in July.
As someone well above the defining age of 50, I find it hard to believe the programme is aimed at people like me, or maybe it's really for the over-70s?
I'm afraid I'm not really interested in tea dances and bingo, even if treated ironically, and find the "Street Elders" workshops a teeny bit condescending.
I have no nostalgia for ballroom dancing and black-and-white films in fleapits because, in my youth, I was at psychedelic all-nighters, taking part in Arts Lab happenings and generally having a good time - it was the Sixties, after all.
My suggestion is get one of our well-equipped nightclubs to open its doors for one night only a little earlier than usual and have the usually-ageist bouncers welcoming the over-50s for a session of loud bass-throbbing light-flashing dance music (and I don't mean Victor Sylvester), with maybe a hands-on workshop on the art of DJing before.
And don't forget a secure parking area for our zimmer frames.
-The oldest swinger in town, probably, Alan (Fred) Pipes Gerard Street, Brighton
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