Age Against The Machine Festival of Creative Ageing

Past project

Age Against the Machine is the London Borough of Lewisham’s Festival of Creative Ageing. This ground-breaking arts festival will explore the ways creativity can promote positive ageing, and make a fundamental impact on quality of life.

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Ambient Jam Sonic Letters

Past project

Since Lockdown we have been sending our Ambient Jam members digital and sonic letters. These letters are created in the form of short films using sound, music, movement of light, dance, clowning, spoken word and painting…

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Bed

Past project

Bed is a street theatre performance devised by Entelechy Arts and our Older Peoples Drama Group.

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BED in Japan

Past project

Artistic Director David Slater is in Japan working on a new BED piece with the Saitama Gold Theatre Company…

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Creativity at Home

Past project

During lockdown, we’ve been sending cards, creative packs, songs and friendly smiles to people’s doorsteps because we know that a friendly smile means the world. Here’s a snapshot of some of the deliveries we’ve made since March 2020…

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Falling & Flying

Past project

Falling & Flying is a long-term collaboration between Entelechy Arts and contemporary circus company Upswing.

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Gnomes at Home

Past project

In July and August 2020, the Entelechy Arts team with our friends from the Albany are distributing 250 gifts to isolated older people living across south east London…

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Greenvale Moon

Past project

Greenvale Moon is the new Entelechy Arts’ Ambient Jam programme for young people, currently being developed in collaboration with ​students from Greenvale School in Lewisham…

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Handle with Care

Past project

Artist Wei Yee Cheung created a beautiful art installation with fabrics and words from our members to celebrate the creativity of our communities during the pandemic…

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Home Sweet Home

Past project

Collaborating with Freedom Studios in Bradford and the Arc in Stockton on Tees, we co-produced Home Sweet Home. A play that told the stories of residents surviving life in a residential care home…

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Lewisham Thriving Communities

Past project

We worked with local cultural organisations, social prescribing and health teams to create and deliver a programme which through social prescribing enabled residents of Lewisham to participate in new creative activities part of Lewisham Borough of Culture…

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Little Boxes of Memories

Past project

Little Boxes of Memories uncovered and shared the remembered life and heritage experiences of socially isolated 80 to 100 year old Londoners…

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Meet Me at Lewisham Homes

Past project

Meet Me at Lewisham Homes was a 3-year project (2017 – 2020) led by the Albany and Entelechy Arts in partnership with Lewisham Homes…

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Meet Me Moving

Past project

In 2016 Entelechy Arts were on of 16 organisations funded by the GLA’s Get Moving initiative to support older people to become more active.

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Meet Me on the Radio

Past project

Started during the Covid-19 Lockdown, Meet Me on the Radio is a radio show featuring sonic journeys through Lewisham, news and sounds from the Albany garden, creative activities, provocations, and conversations with members and artists…

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Moving Day

Past project

A new promenade performance from Entelechy Arts’ theatre company Glorious Age for Lewisham Borough of Culture…

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Poetry by Postcard

Past project

In 2020, poets in Coventry and London had a series of exchanges with isolated older people by post and by phone. They talked about their recent and past experiences and their hopes forging two beautiful new poems…

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Prompt Cards

Past project

Artist Chloe Bradwell has created a pack of prompt cards for people living with dementia to encourage conversation and sharing…

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Red Car

Past project

A new artistic project conceived and led by Bobby Lau, a long-standing member of our Ambient Jam programme…

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Rhythms of the Day

Past project

Created with and for people who are living with complex disabilities, visual impairments and dementia, this sound-based experience is designed to amplify and shift our interactions with the everyday…

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Sister (film)

Past project

Can a past hurt inflicted between sister and brother ever be resolved? A lockdown film by Glorious Age…

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Sisters (radio play)

Past project

In their first radio play created remotely online, Glorious Age explore issues of family, care and relationships across generations…

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