Creativity, Arts and Older People
A blog by David Slater
Entelechy Elders company member Sybil Reid reflects on some of the reactions on the street to their latest performance event ‘Bed” performed on the streets of southeast London in September 2014 A lot of people didn’t want to look. They didn’t want to see it because that could be them in a few years from… Continue reading Invisible in plain view
Half past ten at night. We’re on the corner of Douglas Way and Watson Street, Deptford, southeast London, waiting for a cab. It’s becoming a familiar pattern. The cab firm has gone digital and their drivers have been asked to subcontract part of their thought processes to a new company GPS system. Only problem is… Continue reading Ripple Effect
‘Sometimes you’ve got to take risks for the unknown. You don’t know what you are going into but you’ve got to take that risk.’ - Gwen Sewell, Entelechy Elders Company It’s lunchtime on Wednesday afternoon. A teenager stands in the foyer of the theatre with her two friends. They are in school uniform. Collectively they… Continue reading BED
The Office for National Statistics recently reported that many British inner cities are becoming ‘no-go’ zones for older people. Dr. Kishore Budha from Leeds University has talked of a “structural shutout” in cities that just don’t cater for the needs of older people. Today in the our office, Entelechy participant and trustee, Kurban Haji, was… Continue reading The Art of Circulation
It wasn’t until after the invitation to speak at a symposium of open spaces and well-being, curated by the Garden Museum that I realised how much of our work at Entelechy has been in and around green spaces either working in hidden gardens or within the incursions of wilderness in the city. Roger Deakin reflected… Continue reading In the garden
We’re sitting in the late afternoon sun propping up the stone wall of the nineteenth century mill owner’s house that is now home to the Ukrainian Community Centre in Bradford. It’s a break between a final snatched movement rehearsal and lights up for the opening night of the Freedom Studios, Entelechy Arts co-production of Home… Continue reading Full Circle
Guest Blogger Vicki Amedume, Artistic Director of contemporary circus company Upswing writes about some exploratory work that she has been commissioned by Entelechy to develop in collaboration with Freedom Studios and the Albany. The work formed part of the research and development process for the Freedom Studios and Entelechy Arts co-production Home Sweet Home. It… Continue reading Flying and Falling
Guest blogger Rebecca Swift is Creative Director of` Entelechy Arts. Here she writes of Between Worlds. This is an on-going enquiry into how elements of Ambient Jam - an Entelechy curated space which brings together artists who are sensory skilled through their own practise and people with profound disabilities who are often sensory skilled through… Continue reading Between Worlds
The academic request for information about ‘arts interventions for people with dementia’ pings into my inbox; a report on my desk celebrates the role of the ‘arts in care settings.’ The mantra ‘evidence, evidence, evidence’ rings like tinnitus my ear. If you pause and listen quietly you can almost hear the silos being built. The… Continue reading A (way) with words
Guest Blogger Christopher Green writes of his recent collaboration with Entelechy's Elders Company for their latest 21st Century Tea Dance I love the difference between expectation and the reality. I think I’ve got a pretty good imagination but when things turn out well they always vastly surpass what I was expecting. So, if you’d asked… Continue reading Wrestling
Creativity, Arts and Older People 