A trip to… Tower Bridge!
by Roxanna Kennedy, Programme Coordinator
In October, Meet Me on the Move members left Deptford to visit an iconic London site to experience something new and exciting…
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A video from Ambient Jam in Antur Waunfawr (Wales)
Ambient Jam on the road… goes to Wales! Watch a little snippet of the sessions happening in Antur Waunfawr this autumn…
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The artist experience: an audio blog by Cai Tomos
by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director, an Entelechy Arts artist
Unintentional blogs are great – capturing something someone said on the staircase after a meeting, or a quick video taken on your mobile phone when you weren’t thinking…
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Homecoming: highlights from our recent Tea Dance event
In October we had our first 21st Century Tea Dance since 2019, and we called it Homecoming to celebrate leaving our individual homes and finding community together, safely in the Albany theatre after Covid has kept us apart for many months…
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The rain is falling, the needles are clicking, I peel an orange.
by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
Care is the fabric of our work, and so it was a delight to be invited to celebrate poetry and artwork by our communities for the Festival of Radical Care…
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Greenvale Moon: an audio and visual blog
Students from Greenvale School in Lewisham and Entelechy Arts artists are using movement, sound, puppetry and other non-verbal sensory techniques to bring to life the poem Meet Me and the Moon Tonight…
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Prompt Cards project with Tower Bridge Care Home
Artist Chloe Bradwell has created a pack of prompt cards for people living with dementia to encourage conversation and sharing…
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Poems from the Poetry & Storytelling Cluster: Meet Me and the Moon Tonight
Our blog series continues with another poem compiled by artist Annie Hayter, inspired by notes and conversations from our Poetry & Storytelling Cluster…
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The Elders’ Garden of Verse
Read artist Annie Hayter’s poems inspired by conversations between members, staff and volunteers during our Meet Me on the Move session with Chelsea Physic Garden…
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Theatre of Wandering: rehearsal and devising notes [Part 1]
Entelechy Arts associate David Slater gives a glimpse of the ongoing devising and process behind Theatre of Wandering…
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Ambient Jam: moving into view and back together
by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director, an Entelechy Arts artist
Ambient Jam artists Gill Moore and Rainer Knupp chat to Rebecca Swift about the transition into returning to in-person work and what this evoked…
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Poems from the Poetry & Storytelling Cluster: The Music of Our Conversation
Enjoy another beautiful poem by Annie Hayter inspired by notes and conversations from the Poetry & Storytelling Cluster…
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Our Away Day: planning as a community
We finally had our first in person Away Day since 2019, in the beautiful setting of the Horniman Museum, with our Board, staff team and representatives from our communities, artists and volunteers to talk about the future of Entelechy Arts…
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Archive Blog: Rediscovering our Histories programme (1996)
by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director, an Entelechy Arts artist
Rediscovering our Histories was a development programme funded by the Department of Health, coordinated and developed by Entelechy Arts artist Mara de Wit. In this piece she emphasises the importance of sensory and non-verbal creative communication…
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Poems from the Poetry & Storytelling Cluster: Morning
In this blog series we will share the lovely poems compiled by Annie Hayter, inspired by notes and conversations from the Poetry & Storytelling Cluster…
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Meet Me on the Move has returned!
by Roxanna Kennedy, Programme Coordinator
In July we had our first, slightly different, trip after the start of the pandemic to learn more about the Horniman Museum collections…
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Archive blog: Pam Martin and the 21st Century Tea Dances
Entelechy Arts’ 21st Century Tea Dance originated in 1998 with a group of elders based at Time and Talents Community centre called The Twilight Strollers. Facilitated by theatre artist Pam Martin, they developed a weekly session…
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Our first Meet Me at the Albany in over a year
by Jasmine Sparrow, Relationship & Access Coordinator
On a sunny Tuesday in June, in line with government COVID restrictions, we were able to host the first scaled-back in-person Meet Me at the Albany since March last year, and it couldn’t have come sooner…
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Archive blog: Artist Weiyee Cheung
In March this year, Entelechy Arts held a series of artist network meetings, which brought together associate artists across all programmes. Afterwards, artist Weiyee Chung wrote this stream of consciousness blog remembering 20 years with Entelechy Arts as an artist…
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Dementia Poem by Lilian Bartholomew
by Roxanna Kennedy, Programme Coordinator
Roxanna Kennedy, our Administrator, recently opened some poetic post from one of our members. This Dementia Awareness Week, she phoned the poet, Lilian Bartholomew, to find out more about what had inspired her to write…
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Stories from our members – Margaret & Paulette, Walking Through Walls
by Guest Writer
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…
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Stories from our members – Sarah and Sasha, Ambient Jam
by Guest Writer
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…
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Stories from our members – Hannah and Lee, Artists & Collaborators
by Guest Writer
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…
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Stories from our members – Julia, Meet Me Cluster Member
by Guest Writer
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…
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