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Responding to the need for education and training in end of life care
December 20th, 2011
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Event: LET THE WIND CARRY ME HOME
Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th April 2011 at 7.00pm
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How do elderly Asian men and women feel about growing older in a land so far from where they were born? Basaira Elderly Centre Streatham and Peckham Elderly Asian Group have worked with Rosetta Life in a programme funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity. -
Event: Funeral Jam
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Black Elderly Group Peckham (BEGS), Rosetta Life and members of BEGS. -
Rosetta Life Newsletter
February 10th, 2011
As you will see in this newsletter, Rosetta Life initiatives often involve unique partnerships with museums and galleries as well as traditional performing arts venues – maximising access for the frail and vulnerable to our cultural heritage and widening the audiences for our performances.
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Collette Waller: Without MS, there wouldn’t be all these poems: Featured on Guardian Online
February 9th, 2011
Collette Waller’s powerful poetry was recently featured on the Gaurdian website.
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The Mind of an Engineer
January 21st, 2011
In the desolate heartlands of Britain’s once proud engineering industry, many of those who manned the machine tools, designed turbines, paint-sprayed cars are now attending West Midlands hospices.
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Museum brings care for the dying to life
November 29th, 2010
Patients and carers appeared with professional actors and musicians at the British Museum on Saturday (November 27), inspired by new exhibition Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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Talking about dying – can we afford not to?
November 19th, 2010
What is the role of the creative arts in end of life care and do the benefits of creative performance with patients and carers outweigh the costs?
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Powerful Film – Night and Day – Highlights Highs and Lows of Birmingham Patients Approaching End of Life
June 29th, 2009
Today (29th June) Birmingham’s Electric Cinema plays host to the first screening in Britain of a ground-breaking film about the lives of a group of people contending with a terminal illness.
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LICHFIELD HOSPICE PATIENTS TELL THEIR STORIES IN GROUND-BREAKING FILM ABOUT LIFE IN ITS FINAL WEEKS AND MONTHS
June 8th, 2009
Five terminally ill patients who use services provided by St Giles Hospice near Lichfield made history on Friday evening (5th June) when a film in which they starred was premiered at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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BIRMINGHAM BECOMES FIRST CITY IN BRITAIN TO HOST THEATRICAL DRAMA IN WHICH HOSPICE PATIENTS BECOME ‘ACTORS FOR A NIGHT’
June 5th, 2009
History was made at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Friday evening (5th June) when several terminally ill patients from St Mary’s Hospice in Selly Oak performed alongside professional actors in a play designed to highlight the challenges faced by people towards the end of life.
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The Art of Life: Charity Raises the Curtain to Artistic Performance to Celebrate Work with Local Hospices
May 27th, 2009
Rosetta Life, a charity dedicated to working with people who have life-threatening illnesses, has been working with a number of hospitals and hospices in the West Midlands to encourage them to tell their stories and experiences through the arts. A range of innovative projects have been taking place across the region and the campaign called ‘Let’s Talk About Living’ will mark the success of this work starting with a series of events taking place in Birmingham during June.
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INTERIOR LIVES
June 1st, 2008
Leading British photographer TOM HUNTER has been working in partnership with Lucinda Jarrett, artistic director Rosetta Life, and St Joseph’s Hospice service users to explore how the most frail and vulnerable members of our community are living at home at the end of their lives.
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