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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A day out in with the Ambient Jam Collective on Zoom
Associate Artist Weiyee Cheung shares her spontaneous thoughts via email, about her experience of taking part for the first time, in our most recent Ambient Jam Collective improvisation on Zoom…
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Still together
We look forward to the day we can all meet again – that first cup of tea together is going to be a wonderful moment! In the meantime, our creative programmes are continuing to bring connection, creativity and joy to our communities…
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Cultivating the unexpected: Creating a working score for improvisation with the Ambient Jam Collective
by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
Working scores can be used in improvisation as a loose or tight structure to help shape content, experiment with ideas, and mediate how a piece might unfold…
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Meet Me on the Radio Cooking show
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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Singing ourselves out of loneliness
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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I Love Ambient Jam
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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Finding your way back out
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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Creativity calls – Meet Me at Downham
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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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 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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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’
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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