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Monday afternoon at the flicks

More and more projects and arts venues are engaging older people in cinema, whether dementia-friendly screenings or participatory art workshops drawing on the love of film that many of us have. David Cutler reviews some recent projects.

Arts and culture are vital threads in the fabric of living

Sir Nick Serota

In Dementia Awareness Week, Nick Serota says we must make sure that these threads are sustained through later life.

‘We want to be remembered’

François Matarasso

‘Bed’, devised and performed by Entelechy Arts Elders’ Company, went on tour to Southbank Centre's (B)old festival last week. Baring Foundation trustee, François Matarasso, writes about the piece.

Be More Us – and artfully!

David Cutler welcomes the new Be More Us campaign to encourage the small moments of human connection which can make a big difference all of us, and which the arts are particularly good at facilitating.

Setting up community artists studios in care settings for older people

Esther Collins, Cubitt Artists

Since 2014 Cubitt Artists have worked in partnership with Notting Hill Genesis to support artists in studio spaces in a care setting in Islington...

Getting creative with dementia

Arts for people living with dementia are blooming. David Cutler reviews some notable projects and programmes from dance to singing to theatre.

23 February 2018

Postcard from Taiwan: dreams never age!

An exchange with Taiwan on the theme of creative ageing reveals some inspiring projects from one of the world's fastest ageing societies.

Arts for older people in Hull’s City of Culture year

Lucy Lyon (Hull 2017: UK City of Culture) looks back at a year of activities and events for older people in the city in 2017

Postcard from Korea: creative approaches to providing arts for a rapidly ageing society

David Cutler reports from a British Council conference and exchange trip to see how the Koreans are approaching delivering high-quality arts to their older population.

14 December 2017

Reflecting on the Elixir Festival – celebrating lifelong creativity at Sadler’s Wells

Alistair Spalding, Sadler's Wells

Alistair Spalding CBE, Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Sadler’s Wells, on what Sadler's Wells offers to the over-60s, including the Elixir Festival supported by the Baring Foundation.