The club is an opportunity young people to meet with up with friends and a team of Entelechy artists working together on music, dance and video projects. The work has been developed in collaboration with Lewisham Libraries Service and Greenvale School. Entelechy has recruited teaching assistants from the school to support people’s individual support needs. We provide a door to door transport support to help families access the programme. The work is supported by Lewisham’s ‘Aiming High for Disabled Children’ programme. The club is linked to Entelechy’s Family programme creating opportunities for families to take part in arts activities in venues across south London including Southbank Centre and Siobhan Davies Studios

”In the Entelechy sessions she’s being listened to. She feels able to contribute. She feels so included”

Entelechy has established a weekly programme of dance, music and story-telling events with older, old people living in the Deptford and New Cross neighbourhoods of south east London, in close collaboration with a number of local groups including the Age Well Fun Club, Manley Court Residential Home, Deptford Methodist Mission and The Albany Centre.

The programme works with the generation now in their late 80s and 90s who have often been given additional years by medical science. For many this extra time is lived in loneliness and isolation. Space is created for Entelechy Artists to take time to listen to people’s individual needs, supporting people to nurture their talents and interests.

“I’m so proud of myself. I’ve never done anything like this before”

Events have been developed in collaboration with Lewisham Homebound Library Service to support isolated older people to become involved in arts activities happening in their communities.

“It was wicked. I really, really loved it”

“A wonderful and unique contribution to the life of our school. It was brilliant. It was fantastic.”

If you are unable to use words how can you communicate your experiences to others? How can you have a fuller impact on decisions and choices that effect your life? Young people with physical/learning disabilities and or a sensory impairment rarely have choice and control about their day to day lives and long term life choices.

Night Flights is a stream of short term projects. Work has included making exhibitions and installations in galleries and arts centres. Video’s have been projected in cafes, in galleries, onto street hoardings and in people’s front rooms.

Many company members who have complex disabilities may not be able to see, read or hear for or by themselves. Physical disabilities combined with learning disabilities prevent them from expressing in words their experiences, interests and needs. Movement , the body and its senses provide the ways and means for expression and communication.

Within the regular movement and multi-sensory workshops and the short term projects that arise from them, a creative dialogue takes place between dancers, musicians and movers with and without disabilities.

“She likes soft cakes not biscuits, rice on hands, African spices, the sound of water pouring…”