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Autumn Project: Bringing the Inside Out | COVID Care Home Project. We got the funding!
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve received funding from Arts Council England, Kent Community Foundation, Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, Coronavirus Community Support Fund and The National Lottery for our nationwide Autumn Project! This is an incredibly challenging time for those living in, working in, and visiting care homes. We will be working…
Read MoreLiving Words is in The Elder Magazine
The Elder Magazine published an interview with our founder, Susanna Howard this week.
Read MoreLOOK UP song released!
Our song, ‘Look Up’ launched today, featuring the words of people who took part in our #LivingWarriors project in #Folkestone. Song image is by project participant Ethan Sheppard. Check out the full version of this wonderful, upbeat song with music and vocals by Anil Sebastian , produced by Ingmar Kamalagharan & Anil, and mastered by Cherif Hashizume. Download it from iTunes here WATCH…
Read MoreCarers
I look forward to every day I spend in Westmead with C. and J., and I’m beyond exhausted every time I leave. By the time I get home I usually need an hour to not talk, not think, not do anything. The focus and patience invested suck out most of my energy. I visit C.…
Read MoreYou see?
It’s when he shows me the photographs that it hits me. D has been playing the mandolin for me – he plays for everyone, some love it, some bark back, D meets any reaction with a smile or a laugh. He is, I think, Chinese, and he used to play and sing in Singapore, in…
Read MoreThere is a whole deep world of being
I have been journalling in my head all week. I notice that I didn’t leave G behind after my visit last week. Because of his awareness of the process, his interest in the job I’m doing. Because he asked ‘when will you visit again?’, wanted to know when I would leave for good, and said…
Read MoreI Drink Coffee. I Don't Like Tea. I am Dutch.
‘I drink coffee. I don’t like tea. I am Dutch. We don’t drink tea. We drink coffee’. I am sitting with A, taking down her words, as we enjoy our coffee and biscuits. I feel a great affinity for A’s position. I also come from a nation of coffee drinkers, and like her, I don’t…
Read MoreFuck off
“Fuck off” she says, “fuck off with your words”. As she says it the shock of it flashes a smile across my face, I’m thrown. She means it. I would like to fuck off. I’ve walked up to her all open faced, arms spread in offering. Why is that? To build a path to trust.…
Read MoreLife Lessons
I notice that I have been thinking a lot about ageing: How will I age? And the people I love? I notice this is confronting, uncomfortable, but I value it, as one of the lessons of this work. I worry about being more settled after my second visit to the care home. If I am…
Read MoreQuick, quick, quick, quick, quick
Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. I am sitting in the corridor of the care home, after talking to D, who has been telling me about sitting with the coffin of his mother in Guyana when he was fourteen, to make sure that no-one stole it. You are a man now, his father told him. You…
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