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 […]

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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 […]

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 […]

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Walking Through Walls

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

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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.

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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…

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Bed

Past project

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

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BED in Japan

Past project

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

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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…

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Falling & Flying

Past project

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Little Boxes of Memories

Past project

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

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…

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Meet Me… Moving

Past project

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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Meet Me… on the Radio

Past project

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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Moving Day

Past project

A new promenade performance from Entelechy Arts’ theatre company Glorious Age for Lewisham Borough of Culture…

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Poetry by Postcard

Past project

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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Prompt Cards

Past project

Artist Chloe Bradwell has created a pack of prompt cards for people living with dementia to encourage conversation and sharing…

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Red Car

Past project

A new artistic project conceived and led by Bobby Lau, a long-standing member of our Ambient Jam programme…

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Rhythms of the Day

Past project

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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Sister (film)

Past project

Can a past hurt inflicted between sister and brother ever be resolved? A lockdown film by Glorious Age…

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Sisters (radio play)

Past project

In their first radio play created remotely online, Glorious Age explore issues of family, care and relationships across generations…

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Theatre of Wandering

Past project

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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The Home

Past project

‘The Home’ is our research and development programme of an ambitious experiential theatre project.

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Trocadero Tales

Past project

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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Wilderness Tales

Past project

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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You Should Go To Everywhere

Past project

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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