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CITY HALL EVENT Age Exchange is delighted to have been given the oppurtunity to showcase its work and plans for the future in this wonderful venue.
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PARTNERSHIP WITH ROYAL HOLLOWAY Age Exchange is delighted to be working with students from Royal Holloway, University of London, currently studying for a BA Drama module in "Performance of Memory". The course convenor and tutor is Dr Helen Nicholson, who specialises in applied theatre www.rhul.ac.uk/drama
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LONDON & QUADRANT Age Exchange has recently started a new partnership project with London & Quadrant Housing Trust in Waltham Forest. The area around the Beaumont Estate has in the past suffered from acute deprivation but is now undergoing important new regeneration and housing development. Age Exchange project workers are working with elders from Albany and Suffolk Courts to explore their memories of the local area over 50 years, as well as to encourage them to reflect on their hopes for the future of the locality and its people. Parallel sessions with young people from the Beaumont Estate will encourage participants to engage with the wider community and share memories and cultural stories as part of the overall project. The objective is to encourage young and old to feel valued and integral to the future of the estate and community, to encourage social interaction and raise levels of self-esteem and confidence. Reminiscence of personal and cultural experience will be recorded and explored creatively through film, and exhibition, to celebrate diversity and change.
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UNTOLD STORIES Age Exchange has supported Untold Stories - the first major project to celebrate the impact of diverse communities on the culture of Cambridgeshire.
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CREATIVE AGEING IN LONDON Funding from the City Bridge Trust for reminiscence projects with older people in residential care. Creative Ageing is a one-year integrated programme of reminiscence activities, involving five reminiscence arts projects, a Creative Arts Residency leading to a community theatre production, cultural events at the Reminiscence Centre and an end-of-year seminar for practitioners and managers of services. We successfully piloted this project model for the Department of Health in Somerset, West Yorkshire and Norfolk, and now with the support of the City Bridge Trust, we are able to deliver it in London.
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REMEMBERING YOUR EAST END Exhibition extended until 31st March 2008
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INTEGRATING GENERATIONS In April 2007, Age Exchange was invited by The Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland to give a presentation on intergenerational practice and projects at the 'Integrating Generations' conference in Warsaw, Poland.
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MEMORY MAKERS Older People’s Theatre Every Wednesday The Memory Makers meet at Age Exchange to rehearse. The group is currently working with David Savill and Malcolm Jones to create a new reminiscence theatre production. ‘Starting Over’ is based on the group’s memories of rebuilding their lives in London after the Second World War. The play is set between 1945 and the opening of the Festival of Britain in 1951. The play will tour care settings, small scale theatres and also play at the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall. Should you wish to book the production please contact Suzanne Lockett or Malcolm Jones at Age Exchange.
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Archive news Age Exchange has now completed the final element of its national project on the wartime Merchant Navy, 'Cruel Sea'. Archives containing 50 filmed interviews with veterans on DVD, as well as transcribed interviews and exhibition text, have been presnted to: The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum - Bristol The 'Cruel Sea' archive stands as an important resource. It will be made accessable in each venue to the general public. |
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