A broad-ranging artistic programme which combats loneliness through imaginative,
beautiful and courageous projects, created in collaboration with people over 65 years old.
This includes Walking Through Walls, our work in care homes, and our theatre company Glorious Age.
		
			
			
			
								
								
										
					
					
						
													
								
														 
						 						
								
						
							
								
									
															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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															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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															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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															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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															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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															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 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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															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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															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 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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															Explore what care homes in the UK and Japan are like… or are they?
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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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																		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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																		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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																		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 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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