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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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by an Entelechy Arts volunteer
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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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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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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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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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
BRIDGE is about reaching out, across age and difference, about balance and construction, and how circus can be reinterpreted whatever age we are, even in a care home.
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As I laid in bed with a pulled muscle, kicking myself because I should have known better, I felt propelled to write down my thoughts about a subject I have been on my soapbox about for over a decade: Recognising in myself that even knowing all this stuff around self-care, I choose at times to press the override button and ignore my very own advice!
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“There is a question we are entitled to ask in front of any aesthetic production: Does this work permit me to enter dialogue? Could I exist, and how, in the space it defines?”
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During my 17 years of working in Ambient Jam, I have grown, often imperceptibly, in lots of important life principles. In my current role as lead artist for the Friday Ambient Jam 1 improvisation events, I oversee the health and safety and practical hosting of each session, as well being part of an improvisation team of dancers and musicians…
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I’m a musician, artist and contributor to the Ambient Jam team. For the last few years, I’ve been working in a care home in Ladywell, south-east London. Simon and Doreen who work at the care home write poetry and shake maracas with us on a regular basis. Other members of staff, family and friends haphazardly join us to dance, share stories and sing with the residents…
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by Guest Writer
I think our quest at Entelechy Arts is to help people find that something for which they want to get out of bed in the morning. The friends, the singing, the Tea Dance, the crafting, the movement and touch, whatever makes life worth living and keeping hope alive…
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by Guest Writer
I found about Entelechy Arts through my MA course at Goldsmiths, it was on a list of ‘arts-focused’ organisations to look for placement opportunities. Volunteering with Entelechy Arts is a part of my course, so I am getting credit for it but volunteering at Entelechy Arts is a lot more than that for me, too…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
A few weeks ago I popped into an Ambient Jam session to re-immerse myself into its sensory, non-verbal landscape. Caught up with a pile of admin work, I hadn’t been for a while. My head was full of items I needed to complete and my energy distracted and primed in a speediness that answering countless emails does to our physiologies…
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by Rebecca Swift, Creative Director
Whilst in the office piecing together Entelechy Arts’ archive, with photos going into carefully labelled boxes, I am reminded of the work we used to do and the people who informed the ideas we actualise today…
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