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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
The Ambient Jam Collective (AJC) are an ensemble of differently-abled artists who conjure multi-sensory improvisations in different places and spaces. However hard we prepare in advance for an Ambient Jam improvisation, the event always has a life of its own. To help guide us through an improvisation that might be full of surprises, we create […]
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by Guest Writer
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….
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by Zoe Gilmour, Remote Clusters Manager
Meet Me, a creative alternative to day-care, is a lifeline for isolated older people from our community, so we were determined to find a way to continue the important connections between people, and the creative flow, during this difficult time…
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by Guest Writer
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…
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Entelechy Arts associate David Slater reflects on the strength of the charity’s theatre productions, the Meet Me programme and the power of working in community when moving through times of grief and loss…
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by Christine Lee, General Manager
Two examples of how our weekly phone calls have created remarkable ways to build creativity into everyday lives – through music, dancing, cooking, storytelling and painting…
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by Guest Writer
There’s something about the ordinary and extraordinary. Micro and macro and everyday glamour…
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by Guest Writer
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…
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by Guest Writer
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…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
This film documents a series of live performances in November 2019 with Entelechy Arts’ Ambient Jam Collective which relocated to Goldsmiths CCA. Performers interacted with ‘loose parts’ and sculptural elements which were developed by Roland Carline, CCA artist in residence…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
Home brings past, future and everything together.
from Michael and Kathy
Residents at Tower Bridge care home describe how being part of a group cultivates a sense of home, which then creates the foundation from which to have new experiences.
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by David Slater, Artistic Director
The text popped onto my mobile screen. Jacqui, one of the founders of our beautiful Meet Me programme, had died of coronavirus early this morning, peacefully and not alone…
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by David Slater, Artistic Director
Nearing the end of week one of the Covid-19 lockdown and at Entelechy Arts it’s business as usual, albeit in new ways: everything different, everything the same…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
Home: the space in-between us all by Rebecca Swift
How co-creation and confluence create a sense of home through shared experience.
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
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…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
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…
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by Guest Writer
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)…
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by Christine Lee, General Manager
One of our biggest strengths is now a threat. We bring formerly isolated people into circulation and visibility in our city. Now, with the outbreak of coronavirus, we’re faced with the challenge of how to take reasonable steps to safeguard our members…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
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…
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by Guest Writer
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.
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
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…
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by Guest Writer
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…
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