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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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…
Read moreby 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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There’s something about the ordinary and extraordinary. Micro and macro and everyday glamour…
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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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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…
Read moreby 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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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.
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreNearing 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…
Read moreby 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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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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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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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)…
Read moreby 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…
Read moreby 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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