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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…
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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…
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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…
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The magical, funny, profound, and healing Ambient Jam Collective arrive at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), with artist Roland Carline…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Entelechy Arts’ theatre company, a collective of people aged 65+ who create artistic projects and performances which are courageous, beautiful, joyful and risk-taking…
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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…
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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…
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Meet Me at the Albany is a special place we have created for older people to make friends, learn new crafts and feel great…
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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…
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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…
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Started during the Covid-19 Lockdown, Meet Me on the Radio is a radio show featuring sonic journeys through Lewisham, news and sounds from the Albany garden, creative activities, provocations, and conversations with members and artists…
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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…
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A new promenade performance from Entelechy Arts’ theatre company Glorious Age for Lewisham Borough of Culture…
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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…
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Artist Chloe Bradwell has created a pack of prompt cards for people living with dementia to encourage conversation and sharing…
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Ambient Jam artists Lee Phillips and Hannah James are sharing ideas about a new creative project exploring access to, and engagement with nature…
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Walking through Walls is Entelechy Arts’ programme of long-term collaborations with nursing homes for residents, family, volunteers and staff…
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A hopeful project designed to engage people in curating their own creative history – currently in the research and development phase…
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A poetry-inspired project in collaboration with residents of Manley Court nursing home which will be part of Deptford Literature Festival 2022…
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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.
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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…
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Artistic Director David Slater is in Japan working on a new BED piece with the Saitama Gold Theatre Company…
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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.
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Falling & Flying is a long-term collaboration between Entelechy Arts and contemporary circus company Upswing.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Little Boxes of Memories uncovered and shared the remembered life and heritage experiences of socially isolated 80 to 100 year old Londoners…
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Meet Me at Lewisham Homes was a 3-year project (2017 – 2020) led by the Albany and Entelechy Arts in partnership with Lewisham Homes…
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In 2016 Entelechy Arts were on of 16 organisations funded by the GLA’s Get Moving initiative to support older people to become more active.
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In 2020, poets in Coventry and London had a series of exchanges with isolated older people by post and by phone. They talked about their recent and past experiences and their hopes forging two beautiful new poems…
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Created with and for people who are living with complex disabilities, visual impairments and dementia, this sound-based experience is designed to amplify and shift our interactions with the everyday…
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Part of Coventry City of Culture and in collaboration with Japanese theatre company OiBokkeShi, Theatre of Wandering is a performance that draws upon a community’s experiences and reflections about what it is to live with dementia…
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Trocadero Tales brings the past alive in the present through music, memories and archive of the famous Elephant and Castle Trocadero cinema, dance and concert hall…
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The aim of this company-wide collaboration is to bring nature into the theatre and uncover in ourselves in nature, the wild, the elemental, and the sensory…
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