Creativity, Arts and Older People
A blog by David Slater
Late evening. We stand in the hotel foyer saying our goodbyes. Outside it has started to rain heavily. The air is full of 'saudade' that intermingling of sadness, joy and love that only the Brazilians have a word for. Earlier, when we were all sharing a meal together, one of the performers, Mituyo-san said… Continue reading Saudade
If a space ship came by from the friendly natives of the fourth planet of Altair, and the polite captain of the space ship said, ‘We have room for one passenger… so that we can converse at leisure… and learn from an exemplary person the nature of the race’… I would go down to… Continue reading BED
This morning a tantalising preview of a report on the role of the arts in supporting global health drops into my twitter feed; work that has been undertaken by Daisy Fancourt with the World Health Organisation European Region. It’s going to be published in November and covers findings from 3000 studies. The taster pages contain… Continue reading AGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: 21st Century Tea Dance: The Festival Edition
‘The future is a fiction’ says a voice on the radio as I drive away from the performance. ‘It’s an imaginary place and it’s wide open with possibility. And as we age the future becomes smaller and narrower…. the infinitely possible becomes probable’ Christopher Green’s ‘The Home’, opening Lewisham’s Age Against the Machine Festival of… Continue reading The Home
Creativity, Arts and Older People 