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Back in August, our Meet Me members visited the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill. Along with staff and volunteers, they checked out the exhibitions and the aquarium. Artist Asha Wilson has captured the highlights of the day in a fantastic zine, which you can see below. Meet Me on the Move August 2024 Zine
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On Monday afternoons, our members meet over the phone for poetry and storytelling sessions facilitated by poets. In July, poet, drummer and multi-disciplinary artist Antosh Wojcik led five sessions with our members Philip, Stella, Pauline, Jeanie, Janet, and Elizabeth. He sent poems to our members before each session, and you can hear their responses below. […]
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by Cai Tomos, an Ambient Jam artist
Dancing and moving together allows us to feel each other in a way that language and words cannot. The participants who come to the Ambient Jam are adults who live in a languaged world. So the Ambient Jam is a place where we prioritise another kind of language… Delighting in each other is care made […]
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The below was taken from a recent creative planning meeting with residents of Tower Bridge Care Home. Rose: “I was a dancer, we weren’t professional, just loved dancing. Waltz, Tango, not the jive so much.” Francis: “Oh the jive, that takes me back. We were always up the Lyceum. This fella used to take […]
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by an Entelechy Arts artist, Office Manager
Yun Cheng is a dancer and choreographer working on our Ambient Jam programme. She is a PhD student at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, researching how the Feldenkrais Method influences choreographic practices. This is my first term working with Entelechy Arts. My Feldenkrais teacher [lead Ambient Jam and Walking Through Walls artist] Rainer […]
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by Paul Cann
A woman sways gently in her wheelchair to soft music played nearby. She likes the rustling touch of soft cloth on her face. She doesn’t use conventional language, but her face says ‘serene’. This is Entelechy Arts’ ‘Ambient Jam’, a weekly oasis for adults in Lewisham with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The smartly dressed […]
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by Mike Brooks
Question: Tell us why you want the job? Answer: I want to help in the fight against fascism and I want some of your negative capability. Last month I was made permanent Director of Entelechy Arts, having worked as an interim throughout 2023. Prior to the interview for the role, there were two things that […]
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Earlier this month Rebecca was joined in conversation by Ambient Jam artist Xan Dye about their research project STIMMING. In September 2023, Xan shared their practice through creating STIMMING -a collective encounter…
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This autumn, the Meet Me programme, in partnership with the Albany, celebrated 10 years of weekly creative activities with elders from our local Lewisham community. The members wanted to…
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Ahead of our winter Tea Dance, we thought we would have a lookback at some wonderful photos from our summer Tea dance, taken by Roswitha Chesher. Hosted by Kit Green, Carnival…
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In April Meet Me on the Move visited Museum of London, Docklands. We were lucky enough to have a wonderful tour of selected parts of the museum, including Warehouse 1 …
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In March members visited Dulwich Picture Gallery, learned about their names’ meaning and about artist M.K. Ciurlionis’ work and life. Find out more in this artist report by Charlene Low…
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The Ambient Jam Collective produced an immersive improvisations for Deptford Literature Festival 2023, commissioned by Spread the Word to celebrate sensory literacy to the festival…
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In February Glorious Age went on a trip to the National Theatre to learn about what gets a show on stage. Find out what they discovered in this artist report by Gaia Bini…
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In January members rolled up their sleeves and took part in a bread and soup cooking class at Made in Hackney. Check the recipes they cooked in this artist report by Miriam Mold…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
A group of people travel back and forwards in time, mixing history and the future, searching for a missing bit of history in an era of computers where data has been lost…
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The Meet Me Choir performed with children from Deptford’s St Joseph’s Primary School in the foyer of the Old Vic Theatre for the 12 Choirs of Christmas event…
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After a trip to watch High Society, artist Lauren Julia Miller’s report celebrates Meet Me members like true movie stars in a series of colourful portraits…
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We had another wonderful Tea Dance in the Albany theatre with communities across all of our programmes, and some special guests…
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by Guest Writer
A guest blog about the Ambient Jam Collective’s commission for the Tavistock Institute’s Deepening Creative Practice…
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Artist Fran Riley put together a lovely zine that captures what was shared during a Meet Me on the Move trip to Chelsea Physic Garden…
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In September, we spent a day with our staff team and representatives from our programme members, associate artists and trustees to paint, laugh and move together…
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Artist Christine Bone joined Meet Me members on their Meet Me on the Move trip to attend a performance of Sun & Sea at the Albany…
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There’s a certain irony about trying to write a blog describing an Ambient Jam Collective event… but Maddy gave it a go! The Collective had a wonderful time creating a public event for Liberty Festival, part of We Are Lewisham…
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