Dr. Bill Thomas’ Age of Disruption Tour Presents
Disrupt Dementia and Aging: Life’s Most Dangerous Game
Charlotte, N.C. - Dr. Bill Thomas, MD and Harvard trained geriatrician, is one of the most innovative and creative
thinkers working in medicine today. He brings a radical new approach to growth and aging through his modern day
American Chautauqua movement - the Age of Disruption Tour. Barnstorming the country in a rock n’ roll tour bus, Dr.
Bill Thomas is engaging with communities that are passionate about building new and vastly more rewarding visions of
aging.
The 2016 tour features Disrupt Dementia, a community-based workshop, as well as Dr. Thomas’ signature “non-fiction
theater” performance, Life’s Most Dangerous Game, featuring the unconventional pairing of a physician (Dr. Thomas)
and a musician, Nate Silas Richardson.
Disrupt Dementia premiers an exclusive documentary by the director of Alive Inside, followed by an interactive music
performance and community engagement workshop designed for people living with dementia and caregivers (both
professional and non-professional). CEUs are available for this workshop.
Life’s Most Dangerous Game features original music, storytelling, poetry and groundbreaking insights on aging and care.
The mixed-media performance begins with a light-hearted look at just how “crazy” our culture’s perspective on normal
human aging can be and then asks: “What if?” What if we all lived in a world that saw aging not as a process of decline
but rather as the entree to life’s most dangerous game?
“Aging can be reimagined as a vivid and enlivening process that presents us with extraordinary risks, and rewards,” Dr.
Thomas says. “So, how are we supposed to play this most dangerous of all games? What do winning and losing look
like?”
The Age of Disruption Tour takes audiences on an incredible journey into a new and highly disruptive understanding of
age and aging that has the power to inspire positive change for members of the audience and the communities in which
they live.
WHAT: Age of Disruption Tour
WHEN: Wednesday, April 20; Disrupt Dementia 2:30-4:30pm; Life’s Most Dangerous Game 7-8:30pm
WHERE: Blumenthal Performing Arts - Booth Playhouse, 130 N Tryon St., Charlotte, NC
TICKETS: Tickets available online via Carolina Tix (http://carolinatix.org/events/detail/age-of-disruption-tour-disruptdementia-and-aging-lifes-most-dangerous-game). Short URL: http://tiny.cc/96p88x
LOCAL SPONSORS: Dr. Thomas’ Charlotte stop is locally sponsored by generous contributions from the Foundation
for the Carolinas, Southminster, and Aldersgate.
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