A guest blog about the Ambient Jam Collective’s commission for the Tavistock Institute’s Deepening Creative Practice…

Margaret is a resident of Tower Bridge Care Home, who has been an Entelechy Arts member in our care home Walking through Walls programme for over five years…

Sarah* was first introduced to Entelechy Arts’ Ambient Jam programme via the Mulberry Centre. Sarah has high support needs, and her sister and carer Sasha has really seen the benefits of Sarah coming along…

We spoke with friends and artistic collaborators Hannah and Lee about their experience working with Entelechy Arts as they have been some of our longest standing collaborators and leaders…

We met Julia when she was recommended to join our Gnomes at Home project during the pandemic in 2020. This was an opportunity for people who had been isolated by COVID to re-connect with one another…

Lots of rich conversation, cooking sounds and delicious sounding dishes from around the globe with music, memories and stories of ingredients flowed out from Resonance FM on Tuesday 8 December 2020….

Hannah James wrote this poem about her experience of Ambient Jam. The poem is performed by Lee Phillips which he recorded on Zoom with Hannah…

There’s something about the ordinary and extraordinary. Micro and macro and everyday glamour…

My name is Rachel Bennett and this is my fifth year working as choir leader with the Meet Me Choir for Entelechy Arts. This is a story of how the Meet Me Choir began and the singing experiences we have had and how we are still singing during lockdown…

How would they keep going in the time of Covid-19? How could choir members keep connected and creatively flourishing? Entelechy Arts intern and volunteer lead Caitlin Smith gives us a glimpse of the story…

In the following email-letter, artist and musician ESKA, an Albany associate and MMA artist at the time, describes her first impressions of a care home (having never visited one before)…

Peggy was a much-loved resident at Tower Bridge care home and an experienced artist throughout her life. With her permission, her piece was shared at the performance of ‘Memory and Place’ in Elephant and Castle shopping mall, in 2016.

I’m still here
I’m still me
But trapped inside this shell…

A poem by Pauline Payne.

Touching home. My Husband was very cuddly, a poem by Rosie Wheatland

He used to put his arms round me or touch my neck, just in passing…

Basically, we’re all trying to get home, by Kirstie Richardson. Recently I started work in a care home which specialises in people living with dementia alongside residential assisted living and a nursing wing for end of life and more complex conditions…

Tower Bridge Care Home hosted one of our famous 21st Century Tea Dances on the 2nd of July.  Residents and their friends and family took part in an afternoon of creativity and joy, not to mention some tea and a slice of cake!

I think our quest at Entelechy Arts is to help people find that something for which they want to get out of bed in the morning.  The friends, the singing, the Tea Dance, the crafting, the movement and touch, whatever makes life worth living and keeping hope alive…

I found about Entelechy Arts through my MA course at Goldsmiths, it was on a list of ‘arts-focused’ organisations to look for placement opportunities. Volunteering with Entelechy Arts is a part of my course, so I am getting credit for it but volunteering at Entelechy Arts is a lot more than that for me, too…