Handle with Care
Artist Wei Yee Cheung is creating a beautiful art installation for Deptford X Community Art Trail to celebrate the creativity of our members during the pandemic…
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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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Creativity at Home
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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Rhythms of the Day
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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Theatre of Wandering
A performance with theatre company OiBokkeShi that draws upon a community’s experiences and reflections about what it is to live with dementia…
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Meet Me on the Radio
Started during the Covid-19 Lockdown, Meet Me on the Radio is a weekly 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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Ambient Jam Sonic Letters
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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Ambient Jam
Ambient Jam is Entelechy Arts unique programme of work with adults and young people who have profound and multiple disabilities…
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The 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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Entelechy Arts Elders Theatre Company
Who are Entelechy Arts elder’s theatre company and what do they get up to?
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Poetry by Postcard
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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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…
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Meet Me at Lewisham Homes
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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Gnomes at Home
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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Trocadero Tales
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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Ted and Rosaline’s Films for the Charity Film Awards
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Age Against The Machine Festival of Creative Ageing
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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(B)OLD Festival at the Southbank Centre
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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BED in Japan
Artistic Director David Slater is in Japan working on a new BED piece with the Saitama Gold Theatre Company…
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Wilderness Tales
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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Walking Through Walls
Walking through Walls is the first of Entelechy Arts’ new programme of long term collaborations with nursing homes for residents, family, volunteers and staff…
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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…
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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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21st Century Tea Dances
Entelechy Arts takes the conventional form of the tea dance and brings it kicking and screaming into the 21st century…
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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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Artist Support and Development
We 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 Moving
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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Home Sweet Home
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
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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Falling & Flying
Falling & Flying is a long-term collaboration between Entelechy Arts and contemporary circus company Upswing.
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