A drumming class at Heritage Park apartments in Anaheim. I join as the session is in full swing. Five women and a man sitting in a circle crashing out rhythm with Robin their teacher. The beat speeds to a crescendo and the group pause. "I feel alive", exclaims the woman sitting next to me. "I'm… Continue reading “I feel alive!”
Author: David Slater
“But Mum you could be!”
Los Angeles. This crazy sprawl of a city where the art of mindfulness is totally essential for negotiating the freeways. I'm visiting the Burbank Seniors Colony. It's an apartment rental as they say here where the possibility of making art is built into the fabric of the building. There are living spaces and creating spaces:… Continue reading “But Mum you could be!”
Rain
Flying at thirty-six thousand feet over the snow fields of Manitoba Jo Shapcott's words trickle off the page, a fragment from 'Somewhat Unravelled' a poem about her auntie. 'Then she says don't you ever want to go to market and get lost … Continue reading Rain
Starlings
Last week we invited many of the artists who work with the company to the Southbank Centre to have one of those 'clearing in the forest moments' taking a pause to retake our barings. How would you describe the company? Maybe like this. Entelechy is now over 400 people coming together in different groups… Continue reading Starlings
Recent Entelechy work
“Now the Day is Over”
American Travelling Companions
It's a dream team. People who I've met,who've lodged themselves in my head and never leave. My party of virtual 'journey across America' travelling companions: Aggie, George, Harold, Joy, Nell, Sylvia, Clara, Ted . They all have names from another era. They might have been contemporaries, children of the 1900s, people who lived through periods… Continue reading American Travelling Companions
Frolic and Caper
Southbank Centre July 2010
19th December 1975
The storm will soon we over. We have anchored in the harbour. We are sailing on the ocean to a port beyond the sea”. He just sat and repeated these lines over and over. It used to be the workhouse. The Ford Workhouse and for many people living in the neighbourhood it still carried that… Continue reading 19th December 1975
Creativity, Arts and Older People 