A blog by David Slater
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
Almost on a regular basis on Tuesdays, for Meet Me at the Albany, the piano in the café gets wheeled out into the centre of the room and the music begins. It’s an old, slightly out of tune instrument, perhaps one of the survivors of the1960’s piano smashing competitions. The older Bermondsey women that I… Continue reading Pioneers
Guest bloggers Rosie Wheatland, Rona Lewis, Nelly Andoh, Gwen Sewell, Thelma Hunte, Madeleine Keckwick, Sybil Reid, Shelia Powell and Lillian Bartholomew write about their experiences of working together in Entelechy Arts elders company. We speak about the past and the present. Both. We are old but not cold. We’ve all had experiences that have taught… Continue reading Laughter and silences
Guest blogger Lillian Bartholomew is a member of Entelechy’s Elders Company. In addition to working with the company devising and performing theatre, she volunteers her time as a peer mentor working alongside Entelechy Artists in a local care home in Deptford. Here she describes how listening and sharing stories can support and invigorate people moving… Continue reading Mick and Molly
It’s only week four and it feels like it has been going on forever; this gentle hum of strangers turning into acquaintances; civic space being re-colonised by its oldest citizens. A café in a local arts venue with a piano dragged out into the centre of the room. There are people straining to read the… Continue reading Meet Me at the Albany
In the former mill owner’s house, now home to the Ukrainian Centre in Bradford the Ukrainian women, in their beautifully embroidered blouses, are singing the once prohibited songs of their childhood. They are all clutching song sheets but they don’t need them, the words seep from their souls. They sing of love and loss. They… Continue reading Bradford (part 2)
I’m having supper with the eleven members of Entelechy’s elders company in the elegant surroundings of the restaurant in the Midland Hotel in Bradford, Yorkshire. We have all travelled north to participate in the next stages of the ‘Home Sweet Home’ project with Freedom Studios. It's a two year theatrical exploration into the art of… Continue reading Bradford
Creativity, Arts and Older People 