Punchdrunk's Immersive Dementia Theatre in collab w/t Beatie Wolfe
Beatie Wolfe brings her dementia projects learnings and music to Greenhive Green
Beatie Wolfe brings her dementia projects learnings and music to Greenhive Green
Beatie Wolfe brings music to GHG
Beatie Wolfe and the Punchdrunk team
Welcome to Greenhive Green
The village of Greenhive Green are forming a committee. Each week they’ll gather in the village square, drink tea and take part in activities. All is quiet in Greenhive Green, until an unexpected discovery and a boarded-up flower shop cause a bit of a stir...
Punchdrunk Enrichment transformed a room in the care home into a beautiful village green, complete with a florist’s shop, phone box, foliage and the smell of fresh cut grass. Residents gathered weekly in the fictional world for committee meetings that were part-soap opera, part-game and part-workshop.
Thanks to singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe for performing to the committee and helping them choose their village anthem.
Learn more about Beatie Wolfe's Power of Music and Dementia project HERE
The Stage on Punchdrunk's 'Greenhive Green' and its Wolfe
Beatie Wolfe brings music to Punchdrunk's immersive theatre in the carhome
Supporting Punchdrunk's immersive theatre to care homes.
Immersive theatre company Punchdrunk is launching a pioneering project that sees it take its work into care homes.
In collaboration with intergenerational arts company Magic Me, Punchdrunk will deliver an immersive experience in Greenhive care home in Peckham, which will create a lifelike village green in the south London care home.
Greenhive Green marks the first project in the Artists Residencies in Care Homes programme, which is delivered by Magic Me. Greenhive Green is described as “part-soap opera, part-game and part-workshop”, and brings residents together to form a fictional village committee through which they participate in multi-sensory activities alongside artists and care home staff.
Peter Higgin, enrichment director at Punchdrunk, said: “We are constantly looking to deliver high-impact work which both challenges our practice and challenges notions about what is possible within participatory settings. Our ambition for the project has been to give the residents, including those living with dementia, an empowering and magical experience.”
Other projects, which will be led by Magic Me, will take place in Surrey Quays, Westminster and Bethnal Green, and confirmed artists taking part include circus company Upswing, cabaret group Duckie, performance artist Lois Weaver and singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe, who performs as part of Greenhive Green.
Magic Me director Susan Langford said the programme had been borne out of a “desire to challenge the ageist notion that older people might not enjoy or be able to participate in cutting-edge work”.
Research from the programme and its impact will be published in June 2016 and February 2017.
Punchdrunk Collaboration, London, UK - Art Development + Performance
Beatie Wolfe was approached by the team to join as music advisor for this multi-week immersive installation in the wing of a London dementia care home.
2016 MAR: Punchdrunk Collaboration, London, UK
Art Development + Performance / Power of Music and Dementia
Beatie Wolfe was approached by the team to join as music advisor for this multi-week immersive installation in the wing of a London dementia care home.
