Category: News
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Rochester’s Dementia Memory Cafe
As you know, we’re greatly involved with both the Kent and Medway Dementia Action Alliances, which has informed our Memory Box project in adapting to different groups of people telling us their stories. Dementia Memory Cafes are a growing resource across the country for people living with dementia and their…
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The Turtle Moves (Again)
Following a successful event last year, we’re celebrating Sir Terry Pratchett and Discworld’s Glorious Revolution with The Turtle Moves (Again) on Saturday, May 20. Make a mini golem or troll, decorate your own Maskerade Mask or Quantum Weather Butterfly or choose a variety of egg related treasure to create a…
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What is Creative Care?
The wonderful Christina takes a closer look at the reasons why the Cultural Arm of the Kent DAA created and delivered the Creative Care Expo. Creative Care and Dementia The Cultural Arm of the Kent Dementia Action Alliance hosted a very successful Creative Care Expo in Maidstone in early February,…
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Proving what we all knew at the Creative Care Expo
We’re fresh from our first activity of the year, the successful Creative Care Expo in Maidstone, where practical experience confirmed once again that arts and culture play a significant part in wellbeing.
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On Art (and why we need it)
Christina takes a close look at the Adam Curtis film Hypernormalisation, and his assertion that the art world may be partly responsible for Brexit and Trump. One of the positive things that came out of Brexit and Trump’s victory is that people are now more interested in politics. Everyone is…
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Use it or lose it: Support your local library
Our lovely new volunteer, Christina Lee, makes the case for one of our most important public services. On Monday, The Guardian published an article on the imminent closure of 340 public libraries in the next five years if funding cuts are implemented.
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Creative Care Expo
Along with many other arts, culture and community organisations, we’re delighted to be taking part in the Kent Dementia Action Alliance’s Creative Care Expo in January.
Rochester Literature Festival 