meet me at the albany
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Breakout session given by Entelechy Arts & the Albany was part of the Cultural Commissioning National Seminar in London on the 6th June 2014. Find out more about Cultural Commissioning Programme. http://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/public-services/cultural-commissioning-programmeTRANSCRIPT
A weekly arts programme responsive to beneficiary needs through the processes of co-design and co-production
Meet Me at the Albany
Visibility & Mainstream Engagement
Agency & Voice
Promoting independence & wellbeing
Embedded and sustained practice:“Staying connected with an arts space in your community ”
Older participants, volunteers and artists sharing power to plan and deliver work together
Ingredients
The artist embedded within a civic space that is safe and open and owned by the community
A broad range of referral routes-
self-
referral, adult social care referral, family referral, GP referral
Consistent team of ‘holding’
artists
A dynamic volunteer programme
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The three weeks I wasn’t at Meet Me over Christmas were the longest weeks of my life’