Cai Tomos – A film for the residents of Tower Bridge Care Home
by Guest Writer
There’s something about the ordinary and extraordinary. Micro and macro and everyday glamour…
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Sing, Sing, Sing, the Meet Me Choir Story
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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Keeping the Meet Me Choir going
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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Roland Carline with Ambient Jam at Goldsmiths
by Guest Writer
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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Notions of Home – Part 12
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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‘What will survive of us is love’
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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The Store Cupboard
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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Notions of Home – Part 11
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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Notions of Home – Part 10
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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Notions of Home – Part 9
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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Notions of Home – Part 8
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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The show must go on…
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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Notions of Home – Part 7
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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Notions of Home – Part 6
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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Notions of Home – Part 5
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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Notions of Home – Part 3
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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Notions of Home – Part 2
by Guest Writer
Basically, we’re all trying to get home, by Kirstie Richardson. Recently I started work in a care home which specialises in people living with dementia alongside residential assisted living and a nursing wing for end of life and more complex conditions…
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Notions of Home – Introduction part 1
by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
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.
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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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Tower Bridge Care Home hosts a 21st Century Tea Dance!
by Guest Writer
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!
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Meet Me At The Movies, at Goldsmiths University
by 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.
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Archive blog: Communication in a Nutshell
by 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.
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