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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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