Home: the space in-between us all by Rebecca Swift

How co-creation and confluence create a sense of home through shared experience.

Imagination takes us home: Walking through Walls. In 2016 long term residencies in three HC-one care homes were made possible with funding via the charity Attend.  One of these care homes – Tower Bridge Care Home – continues to be the epicentre for our creative research, informed and forged by the long-term collaboration between artists, residents and staff…

A sense of home can be found in the memory of our younger self meeting our older self as if time hadn’t existed. Doris tells her story while painting at Meet Me at the Albany…

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)…

In 2010 Entelechy arts began their first programme of long-term collaborations in care homes with a four-year residency at Manly Court nursing home in New Cross Gate. Manly Court became the site of an exciting creative hub co-created by residents, staff, family, friends and artists…

I’m sitting in-between Ruby and Gloria – two residents in a local care home. We are taking part in a weekly creative session with residents and care staff, in a tiny communal room in a nursing home in New Cross Gate…

Notions of Home is a compilation of essays, poems and drawings by the Entelechy Arts community of creatives (professional artists, members and volunteers), who share in a culture which co-creates a sense of belonging wherever we are in the journey through life.

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.

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.