elders

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Elders in wheelchairs sit in the sun beside decommissioned shopping malls, whose main purpose seems to be to hold adult daycare centers for senior citizens.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

To understand the intertwined histories of people and plants, Armstrong often works for and with Indigenous Elders and knowledge-holders.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2024

In addition to wrapping up his two new albums, “Brass Conspiracy” by Conspiracy Brass and “Spirit Stronger Than Blood” by the Elders, he delivered a Klezmer Brass Allstars album, “Chronika,” last December.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

Sadler’s Wells Company of Elders teams with the ground-breaking storytellers of ZooNation Youth Company in a production called The Exchange.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024

There were only a dangerous forest and a single road and a thin grip on a life that the Elders had enjoyed for generations.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill