To mark Age Without Limits Day, CADA’s RUPT Associates – Maya Chowdhry, Amanda Holiday, and Sama Hunt (three underrepresented, underserved artists) – are proud to launch a bold new poem that reimagines what it means to grow older.
It opens simply: “The advent of ageing begins…with a question.” What follows is a cascade of reflections that move from the visceral to the visionary – “a late life bloom, an evening sunrise that’s right on time.” This poem resists the tired narrative of decline, instead painting ageing as a time of transformation, protest, and deep creativity.
It is both tender and defiant: “This is ageing, before you a fossil that has eons of beauty / in a spiral of wisdom radiating outwards…” The poem reminds us that ageing is not an end, but “a continuum of crescendos, rests and refrains.”
It invites us to reckon, to laugh, to question and above all, to see older age not as retreat, but as a place of emergence.
Creative Ageing: Development & Agency 