December 2017
Music for Thought in Kensington & Chelsea ended this month with its very own concert in the beautiful Leighton House. The Memory Cafes on December 6th and 20th will see making Christmas decorations and food. alongside general merriment - see the list for more details. The Singing for Friends choir celebrates the end of term with a mini concert for friends and family on the Wigmore Hall stage on December 12th - get in touch if you would like an invitation. A new poetry project is being planned at Forrester Court with Living Words.
We wish you all the very best for the festive season and look forward to seeing you for more gorgeous concerts and adventurous arts activity in 2018!
November 2017
November will see our fourth arts session in partnership with Carers Network on Thursday 16th 1.45-3.45pm. Following on from our Remembering Together project, people with a dementia and their family carers come along to share in art activities. During the session the carers leave for separate support time: October’s session had input from an Admiral Nurse. You do not have to have taken part in Remembering Together to attend, but please book with Carers Network on [email protected]
We will be speaking about the partnership at the European Reminiscence Network conference and celebration of 20 years of Remembering Yesterday Caring today projects in Greenwich, where we also be offering a practical workshop on what to expect from a typical Remembering Together project: to book email [email protected]
We are also speaking about the Singing with Friends choir at the RSPH conference later in the month.
October 2017
October has been a busy month – we had not one but five Big Draw events in four venues: a special ‘Spinning Plates’ workshop with artist Caroline Dorset at Ark day centre in Westminster, Nubian Life in Hammersmith & Fulham and Quest in Kensington & Chelsea that beautifully illustrated the 2017 theme of Living Lines. We also partnered in a two week collaboration with the Wallace Collection and Rambert dance where participants took to the floor of the Wallace Great Gallery to dance in response to one of the pictures, Poussin's Dance to the Music of Time, hanging on the wall, continued the following week in Rambert’s gorgeous dance studios on the South Bank. The Academy and Wigmore got together again at the Wallace Collection for Silver Sunday – and this time the participants got to interpret the paintings in music!
Singing with Friends, our weekly choir in partnership with Wigmore Hall, became Radio 3 stars in a special weekend extravaganza on Music and Memory which was beamed out from the Wellcome Collection in Euston. Very excitingly, the choir is up for an award in the new Dementia and the Arts category at the Journal of Dementia Care Awards in November.
The weekend was great fun with lots of opportunities to be a studio audience, including for a concert of premieres by four very talented BBC Proms Young Composers, sung by the National Youth Choir Fellowship Octet under the baton of Esther Jones. The pieces were based on poems from Susanna Howard’s Living Words anthology The Things Between Us, which brings together poetry garnered from several residencies in care homes including with Resonate Arts. The programmes will be available for 30 days from 14th October but you can listen here.
The weekend also highlighted podcasts from a range of people living with memory issues including two Resonate participants – you can listen to them here. Extracts were played throughout the night in a special ‘slow radio’ programme.
September 2017
Our former treasurer Bhev Chandrasena is running the Brussels Half Marathon in memory of Malini, his mother with all money raised going to Resonate Arts. What a beautiful act of remembrance and we wish you all the very best on Sunday 1st October! Please help spread the word.
Current volunteering opportunity - deadline 26th October
Resonate Arts is looking for: volunteer artists of any discipline (visual art, music, drama, creative writing etc) who wish to explore their art with people living with dementia:
• in one-to-one creative sessions in people’s own homes
• accompanying people to arts events
• supporting people within Resonate Arts projects
• accompanying people to visit galleries, concerts, shows etc
For more information on the project and how to apply
August 2017
We kicked off our Picturing Palaces project with three artist led tours around Kensington Palace. Each session will be led by Lucy exploring the history of the palace as well as our personal stories around parties. We explored the interesting art of fanology and went on to paint our own fans. In the final week we are working in collaboration with poet Di Sherlock to respond to the building through creative writing.
Also this month, our first monthly workshop in partnership with Carers Network took place at the Beethoven Centre. These multi-arts sessions follow on from our Remembering Together project but are open to all carers of people living with dementia along with the person they care for, and will incorporate a separate time for the carers. NB carers may also attend without the person they care for. Sessions will be on the third Thursday of the month and if you wish to attend you need to book in advance: call 020 8960 3033 or email [email protected]
We are offering a mini Music for The Moment concert at Handel House 2.30 on 21st August with baroque recorder Kristina Greally: book with Kathryn on 020 7312 2702 or by email if you want to go as SPACES ARE LIMITED!!
The next concert at St Marylebone’s Church is on September 29th at 2.30pm
Welcome to our new website as we start using the name Resonate Arts. Many people know us already as Resonate and now we are working across the three boroughs we thought it was better all round if we stopped using Westminster Arts so as not to confuse people!
July 2017
What a sunny start to the month! After coming to the end of three projects in June we are catching our breath back! We have lots of new referrals to match up to our Creative Befriending and Community Arts Programme. We're always looking for more volunteer artists- to find out more click here.
June 2017
Resonate Arts are currently recruiting for our exciting Creative Befrienders programme, deadline Thursday 8th June for training day Saturday 10th June 2017. Find out more about Resonate's Creative Befriending Opportunity!
Remembering Together 2017, Opera for Thought and St Vincents care home project all finish this month and Singing with Friends takes a break for the summer after an inspiring and hugely successful term.
May 2017
After a fantastic first year collaborating with Opera Holland Park, Opera for Thought is back this May! This is a unique opportunity to explore the opera Don Giovanni with Opera Holland Park. Each week singers and musicians from the company will join the group to perform for us, discuss the opera, and of course have plenty of tea and cake together. The project culminates mid-June with a lunch party at Opera Holland Park and attending the matinee performance of Don Giovanni! This year's places are already full but contact Lucy if projects like this would be of interest to you. [email protected]
Don't forget that Dementia Awareness Week is this month between 14th- 20th May 2017, check out events close to you and how to get involved.
As well as our monthly lists of things to do across the Tri-borough included in our calendar at the top of the page, this month you'll find extra events we are hosting as part of DAW. Here are the lists for Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham.
April 2017
Westminster Arts are thrilled to be working in collaboration with artist Zoe Gilmour, residents and staff at St Vincent's Care Home in Hammersmith and Fulham and the V&A Museum. This four week project will involve a series of multi-disciplinary creative activities and interventions inspired by the V&A's Gilbert Collection, making and creating in group settings and working one-to-one at bedsides. Have a look at Lucy's recent blog on the V & A website which gives much more information about the project and the intriguing Gilbert Collection.
March 2017
Remembering Together has begun with a lovely group of participants from across Westminster all bringing their incredible life stories and experiences to our weekly Monday afternoon workshops. These sessions are ran by Kathryn and Caroline with support from the European Reminiscence Network in collaboration with this year's apprentices.
In other news, we are delighted to welcome our new part time Project Assistant and Administrator Emma to the team. Emma is a Creative Practitioner that works predominately making participatory performance and is really excited to join our small but mighty team! You'll no doubt meet her across the projects at some point.
Febuary 2017
We are recruiting for apprentices for the next Remembering Together project. Dates of project session are Mondays 3.30-5.15pm March 20th to June 19th (your commitment would be 2.30-6.30pm) Training dates 9.30am-5pm Wed 8th and Thursday 9th March with Pam Schweitzer, Director European Reminiscence Network.
Training details available here: 2017- RYCT Training NB - Can be undertaken without going on to complete the apprenticeship.
We are also recruiting for participants for Remembering Together, a 12 week project on Mondays 3.30-5.15pm for people living with a dementia and their family carer together, starting in March. We use a range of arts activities to explore shared memories and stories. Contact Kathryn on 0207312 2702 or [email protected] for more information or to make a referral.
January 2017
We are holding our next Creative Befrienders training day on Saturday February 18th, 10am - 5pm at the ICA. If you are interested in working with someone living with dementia in their own home, please see application details here - Creative Befrienders 2017 advert please send your CV and cover letter to Lucy at [email protected] by 5pm February 16th.
Music for Thought in Kensington & Chelsea ended this month with its very own concert in the beautiful Leighton House. The Memory Cafes on December 6th and 20th will see making Christmas decorations and food. alongside general merriment - see the list for more details. The Singing for Friends choir celebrates the end of term with a mini concert for friends and family on the Wigmore Hall stage on December 12th - get in touch if you would like an invitation. A new poetry project is being planned at Forrester Court with Living Words.
We wish you all the very best for the festive season and look forward to seeing you for more gorgeous concerts and adventurous arts activity in 2018!
November 2017
November will see our fourth arts session in partnership with Carers Network on Thursday 16th 1.45-3.45pm. Following on from our Remembering Together project, people with a dementia and their family carers come along to share in art activities. During the session the carers leave for separate support time: October’s session had input from an Admiral Nurse. You do not have to have taken part in Remembering Together to attend, but please book with Carers Network on [email protected]
We will be speaking about the partnership at the European Reminiscence Network conference and celebration of 20 years of Remembering Yesterday Caring today projects in Greenwich, where we also be offering a practical workshop on what to expect from a typical Remembering Together project: to book email [email protected]
We are also speaking about the Singing with Friends choir at the RSPH conference later in the month.
October 2017
October has been a busy month – we had not one but five Big Draw events in four venues: a special ‘Spinning Plates’ workshop with artist Caroline Dorset at Ark day centre in Westminster, Nubian Life in Hammersmith & Fulham and Quest in Kensington & Chelsea that beautifully illustrated the 2017 theme of Living Lines. We also partnered in a two week collaboration with the Wallace Collection and Rambert dance where participants took to the floor of the Wallace Great Gallery to dance in response to one of the pictures, Poussin's Dance to the Music of Time, hanging on the wall, continued the following week in Rambert’s gorgeous dance studios on the South Bank. The Academy and Wigmore got together again at the Wallace Collection for Silver Sunday – and this time the participants got to interpret the paintings in music!
Singing with Friends, our weekly choir in partnership with Wigmore Hall, became Radio 3 stars in a special weekend extravaganza on Music and Memory which was beamed out from the Wellcome Collection in Euston. Very excitingly, the choir is up for an award in the new Dementia and the Arts category at the Journal of Dementia Care Awards in November.
The weekend was great fun with lots of opportunities to be a studio audience, including for a concert of premieres by four very talented BBC Proms Young Composers, sung by the National Youth Choir Fellowship Octet under the baton of Esther Jones. The pieces were based on poems from Susanna Howard’s Living Words anthology The Things Between Us, which brings together poetry garnered from several residencies in care homes including with Resonate Arts. The programmes will be available for 30 days from 14th October but you can listen here.
The weekend also highlighted podcasts from a range of people living with memory issues including two Resonate participants – you can listen to them here. Extracts were played throughout the night in a special ‘slow radio’ programme.
September 2017
Our former treasurer Bhev Chandrasena is running the Brussels Half Marathon in memory of Malini, his mother with all money raised going to Resonate Arts. What a beautiful act of remembrance and we wish you all the very best on Sunday 1st October! Please help spread the word.
Current volunteering opportunity - deadline 26th October
Resonate Arts is looking for: volunteer artists of any discipline (visual art, music, drama, creative writing etc) who wish to explore their art with people living with dementia:
• in one-to-one creative sessions in people’s own homes
• accompanying people to arts events
• supporting people within Resonate Arts projects
• accompanying people to visit galleries, concerts, shows etc
For more information on the project and how to apply
August 2017
We kicked off our Picturing Palaces project with three artist led tours around Kensington Palace. Each session will be led by Lucy exploring the history of the palace as well as our personal stories around parties. We explored the interesting art of fanology and went on to paint our own fans. In the final week we are working in collaboration with poet Di Sherlock to respond to the building through creative writing.
Also this month, our first monthly workshop in partnership with Carers Network took place at the Beethoven Centre. These multi-arts sessions follow on from our Remembering Together project but are open to all carers of people living with dementia along with the person they care for, and will incorporate a separate time for the carers. NB carers may also attend without the person they care for. Sessions will be on the third Thursday of the month and if you wish to attend you need to book in advance: call 020 8960 3033 or email [email protected]
We are offering a mini Music for The Moment concert at Handel House 2.30 on 21st August with baroque recorder Kristina Greally: book with Kathryn on 020 7312 2702 or by email if you want to go as SPACES ARE LIMITED!!
The next concert at St Marylebone’s Church is on September 29th at 2.30pm
Welcome to our new website as we start using the name Resonate Arts. Many people know us already as Resonate and now we are working across the three boroughs we thought it was better all round if we stopped using Westminster Arts so as not to confuse people!
July 2017
What a sunny start to the month! After coming to the end of three projects in June we are catching our breath back! We have lots of new referrals to match up to our Creative Befriending and Community Arts Programme. We're always looking for more volunteer artists- to find out more click here.
June 2017
Resonate Arts are currently recruiting for our exciting Creative Befrienders programme, deadline Thursday 8th June for training day Saturday 10th June 2017. Find out more about Resonate's Creative Befriending Opportunity!
Remembering Together 2017, Opera for Thought and St Vincents care home project all finish this month and Singing with Friends takes a break for the summer after an inspiring and hugely successful term.
May 2017
After a fantastic first year collaborating with Opera Holland Park, Opera for Thought is back this May! This is a unique opportunity to explore the opera Don Giovanni with Opera Holland Park. Each week singers and musicians from the company will join the group to perform for us, discuss the opera, and of course have plenty of tea and cake together. The project culminates mid-June with a lunch party at Opera Holland Park and attending the matinee performance of Don Giovanni! This year's places are already full but contact Lucy if projects like this would be of interest to you. [email protected]
Don't forget that Dementia Awareness Week is this month between 14th- 20th May 2017, check out events close to you and how to get involved.
As well as our monthly lists of things to do across the Tri-borough included in our calendar at the top of the page, this month you'll find extra events we are hosting as part of DAW. Here are the lists for Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham.
April 2017
Westminster Arts are thrilled to be working in collaboration with artist Zoe Gilmour, residents and staff at St Vincent's Care Home in Hammersmith and Fulham and the V&A Museum. This four week project will involve a series of multi-disciplinary creative activities and interventions inspired by the V&A's Gilbert Collection, making and creating in group settings and working one-to-one at bedsides. Have a look at Lucy's recent blog on the V & A website which gives much more information about the project and the intriguing Gilbert Collection.
March 2017
Remembering Together has begun with a lovely group of participants from across Westminster all bringing their incredible life stories and experiences to our weekly Monday afternoon workshops. These sessions are ran by Kathryn and Caroline with support from the European Reminiscence Network in collaboration with this year's apprentices.
In other news, we are delighted to welcome our new part time Project Assistant and Administrator Emma to the team. Emma is a Creative Practitioner that works predominately making participatory performance and is really excited to join our small but mighty team! You'll no doubt meet her across the projects at some point.
Febuary 2017
We are recruiting for apprentices for the next Remembering Together project. Dates of project session are Mondays 3.30-5.15pm March 20th to June 19th (your commitment would be 2.30-6.30pm) Training dates 9.30am-5pm Wed 8th and Thursday 9th March with Pam Schweitzer, Director European Reminiscence Network.
Training details available here: 2017- RYCT Training NB - Can be undertaken without going on to complete the apprenticeship.
We are also recruiting for participants for Remembering Together, a 12 week project on Mondays 3.30-5.15pm for people living with a dementia and their family carer together, starting in March. We use a range of arts activities to explore shared memories and stories. Contact Kathryn on 0207312 2702 or [email protected] for more information or to make a referral.
January 2017
We are holding our next Creative Befrienders training day on Saturday February 18th, 10am - 5pm at the ICA. If you are interested in working with someone living with dementia in their own home, please see application details here - Creative Befrienders 2017 advert please send your CV and cover letter to Lucy at [email protected] by 5pm February 16th.
