Projects

Meet Me on the Phone Poetry Collective

‘Meet Me… on the phone’ is a programme of group phone calls led by artist facilitators in which a collective of over 65s in Lewisham explore poetry and storytelling. Listen below to a selection of poems written and performed by members of the group. Selected poems read by Rosaline and Sharon. Sound design by Antosh […]

Ambient Jam Wales

Ambient Jam Wales is held at Galeri Caernarfon in North Wales and is run in partnership with Antur Waunfawr, a leading social enterprise that provides work and training for individuals with learning disabilities in their community. This Welsh arm of our pioneering and celebrated Ambient Jam programme is led by artist Cai Tomos, who worked […]

A person in a white T-shirt sits on a large piece of paper with a woman in a wheelchair. They draw together

Two people in white T-shirts sitting on a large piece of paper that is covered in grey scribbles.

STIMMING EXCHANGE x Ambient Jam

STIMMING EXCHANGE is an improvisational performance devised by artists Xan Dye and Gerald Curtis. It celebrates sensory communication and stimming, or repetitive movements, through dance, mark making, music and live drawing. The process of developing STIMMING EXCHANGE has been enriched by different communities of artists and young people, including: A residency over 3 weeks at Greenvale […]

The Home Roadshow

The Home Roadshow is a hopeful, interactive performance for residents, their families, and staff — and it’s touring into Care Homes this Autumn! It takes a light-hearted look at the Care Home, celebrating what it is to live and work in a care setting. It’s music, dance and comedy… a little bit of seriousness with […]

Meet Me… at The Albany

Meet Me at the Albany is a special place we have created for older people to make friends, learn new crafts and feel great…

What Will Survive of Us

Kit Green’s What Will Survive Of Us…. Produced by Entelechy Arts and supported by National Heritage Lottery Fund Human beings have always wanted to be remembered after death. The ancients were total bosses at it. The Victorians spent a lot of time and money making it happen. It’s become regarded as a bit big-headed in […]

21st Century Tea Dances

Entelechy Arts takes the conventional form of the tea dance and brings it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Events mix live music with video, theatre, dance performance, story-telling, dancing and singing all served up with tea and cake…

Ambient Jam

Ambient Jam is Entelechy Arts unique programme of work with adults and young people who have profound and multiple disabilities. In these sessions, members and artists develop together ways of communication and creative expression that are predominantly non-verbal, sensory, mindful and spontaneous…

Ambient Jam Collective

The Ambient Jam Collective brings together artists and dancers who are sensory skilled through training with people who have complex and profound disabilities who are sensory skilled through necessity…

Artist Support and Development

We regularly support the development of artistic talent by providing opportunities, training and support for independent artists working with us, as well as artists working regionally and nationally…

Meet Me… on the Phone

Meet Me… on the Phone is a programme of group phone calls for our participants to stay connected during the pandemic. Each group has a different creative focus including Choir, Poetry, Movies or Craft…

a fish made of wood and painted in bright colours

Discoveries in Distanced Arts

Academic research, led by Queen Mary University of London and Entelechy Arts and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation…

Glorious Age

Entelechy Arts’ theatre company, a collective of people aged 65+ who create artistic projects and performances which are courageous, beautiful, joyful and risk-taking…

Meet Me… at the Movies

Meet Me at the Movies is a film club for isolated older people to meet up together and share their love of film with people of all ages from their community…

Meet Me… on the Move

Explore London with Entelechy Arts! Meet Me on the Move creates opportunities for isolated older people to explore and enjoy London’s rich and diverse cultural offer…

Meet Me Zine text in a blue cloud shape with a purple fish

Meet Me… Zines

Creativity continues to flow in Meet Me, even when we’ve not been able to meet together in person. We’ve been working with Meet Me members to gather and share some of these creations, poems, recipes and more through a new Meet Me Zine…

Posters for 21st Century Tea Dance

The need to create posters for the Tea Dances has evolved into a creative project to challenge perceptions of what it means to grow older…

Right to Roam – a beginning

Ambient Jam artists Lee Phillips and Hannah James are sharing ideas about a new creative project exploring access to, and engagement with nature…

Meet Me… at Lewisham Homes

Past project

Meet Me… at Lewisham Homes was a 3-year project (2017 – 2020) led by the Albany and Entelechy Arts in partnership with Lewisham Homes, supported by the Baring Foundation and Arts Council England’s National Celebrating Age programme. Meet Me at Lewisham Homes is one of a suite of projects in the Meet Me… programme, working […]

The Digital Home

Explore what care homes in the UK and Japan are like… or are they?

Walking Through Walls

Walking through Walls is Entelechy Arts’ programme of long-term collaborations with nursing homes for residents, family, volunteers and staff…

What Will Survive of Us (R&D phase)

Past project

A hopeful project designed to engage people in curating their own creative history – currently in the research and development phase…

Age Against The Machine Festival of Creative Ageing

Past project

Age Against the Machine is the London Borough of Lewisham’s Festival of Creative Ageing. This ground-breaking arts festival will explore the ways creativity can promote positive ageing, and make a fundamental impact on quality of life.

Ambient Jam Collective in residency at Goldsmiths CCA

Past project

The magical, funny, profound, and healing Ambient Jam Collective arrive at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), with artist Roland Carline…

a womens eyes with face covered by gold cloth

Ambient Jam Sonic Letters

Past project

Since Lockdown we have been sending our Ambient Jam members digital and sonic letters. These letters are created in the form of short films using sound, music, movement of light, dance, clowning, spoken word and painting…

Bed

Past project

Bed is a street theatre performance devised by Entelechy Arts and our Older Peoples Drama Group.

BED in Japan

Past project

Artistic Director David Slater is in Japan working on a new BED piece with the Saitama Gold Theatre Company…

(B)OLD Festival at the Southbank Centre

Past project

We were thrilled to be part of (B)old Festival over two days this summer. (B)old was a new festival profiling artists aged 65 years and over at London’s Southbank Centre.

Creativity at Home

Past project

During lockdown, we’ve been sending cards, creative packs, songs and friendly smiles to people’s doorsteps because we know that a friendly smile means the world. Here’s a snapshot of some of the deliveries we’ve made since March 2020…

Falling & Flying

Past project

Falling & Flying is a long-term collaboration between Entelechy Arts and contemporary circus company Upswing.

coloured bricks with text saying Handle with Care

Gnomes at Home

Past project

In July and August 2020, the Entelechy Arts team with our friends from the Albany are distributing 250 gifts to isolated older people living across south east London…

Greenvale Moon

Past project

Greenvale Moon is the new Entelechy Arts’ Ambient Jam programme for young people, currently being developed in collaboration with students from Greenvale School in Lewisham…

Handle with Care

Past project

Artist Wei Yee Cheung created a beautiful art installation with fabrics and words from our members to celebrate the creativity of our communities during the pandemic…

Home Sweet Home

Past project

Collaborating with Freedom Studios in Bradford and the Arc in Stockton on Tees, we co-produced Home Sweet Home. A play that told the stories of residents surviving life in a residential care home…

Lewisham Thriving Communities

Past project

We worked with local cultural organisations, social prescribing and health teams to create and deliver a programme which through social prescribing enabled residents of Lewisham to participate in new creative activities part of Lewisham Borough of Culture…