Lauren’s Volunteering Story
by Guest Writer
In this blog, Lauren an artist and volunteer, talks about how your own life experience and interests can give you the skills to be a good volunteer…
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by Guest Writer
In this blog, Lauren an artist and volunteer, talks about how your own life experience and interests can give you the skills to be a good volunteer…
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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!
Read moreby Sarah Jarman, Volunteer Coordinator
Danny Ruta has been holding film discussions at the University once a month with film club members, volunteers and Goldsmiths students. The group compliments the monthly Meet Me at the Movies screenings taking place at the Albany, creating a space for people to explore the films in more depth through lively discussions.
Read moreby Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
Looking back at Entelechy’s history becomes a fascinating process of uncovering forgotten data. Recovering this ‘old’ information, which lives below the surface of our memories, brings into view previously out-of-sight and out-of-mind potential.
Read moreby Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
BRIDGE is about reaching out, across age and difference, about balance and construction, and how circus can be reinterpreted whatever age we are, even in a care home.
Read moreAs I laid in bed with a pulled muscle, kicking myself because I should have known better, I felt propelled to write down my thoughts about a subject I have been on my soapbox about for over a decade: Recognising in myself that even knowing all this stuff around self-care, I choose at times to press the override button and ignore my very own advice!
Read more“There is a question we are entitled to ask in front of any aesthetic production: Does this work permit me to enter dialogue? Could I exist, and how, in the space it defines?”
Read moreDuring my 17 years of working in Ambient Jam, I have grown, often imperceptibly, in lots of important life principles. In my current role as lead artist for the Friday Ambient Jam 1 improvisation events, I oversee the health and safety and practical hosting of each session, as well being part of an improvisation team of dancers and musicians…
Read moreI’m a musician, artist and contributor to the Ambient Jam team. For the last few years, I’ve been working in a care home in Ladywell, south-east London. Simon and Doreen who work at the care home write poetry and shake maracas with us on a regular basis. Other members of staff, family and friends haphazardly join us to dance, share stories and sing with the residents…
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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…
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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…
Read moreby Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
A few weeks ago I popped into an Ambient Jam session to re-immerse myself into its sensory, non-verbal landscape. Caught up with a pile of admin work, I hadn’t been for a while. My head was full of items I needed to complete and my energy distracted and primed in a speediness that answering countless emails does to our physiologies…
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Whilst in the office piecing together Entelechy Arts’ archive, with photos going into carefully labelled boxes, I am reminded of the work we used to do and the people who informed the ideas we actualise today…
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