Rosetta Life

Exploring New Ways to Encourage Person Centred and Compassionate Practice

jennifer — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:18:03 +0000

We invite you to join us as we launch our innovative new education and training modules offering creative and practical ways to enhance and improve End of Life Care. The day will provide a creative and open space for health and social care staff to step outside their normal every day practice and experience a different way of understanding the people they care for.

Join us on the 24th April from 9am – 2pm. To book a place please email jennifer.sweeney@rosettalife.org

Responding to the need for education and training in end of life care

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:23:07 +0000

Helen Corner joined Rosetta Life in October 2011 as Education Development Manager to develop and promote training modules for health care professionals. The modules explore compassion, survivorship and moving beyond seeing the individual as a patient. With the intention of leaving behind a legacy within health and social care organisations this new and developing strand of our work will develop existing resources into accessible and relevant training materials. To find out more about what we can provide, please contact Jennie

jennifer.sweeney@rosettalife.org

Event: LET THE WIND CARRY ME HOME

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:45:06 +0000

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. The result is a dramatic exploration of adventures of emigration, loss of culture and community, deaths they’ve experienced, the support they offer each other in order to survive.

See this unique drama with music, dance and storytelling performed by members of these Elderly Asian Groups together with a professional cast of actors, dancers and musicians. Written and produced by Lucinda Jarrett (Rosetta Life).

Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th April 2011 at 7.00pm
SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
Shipwright Yard
(near London Bridge Station), London SE1 2TF
To book contact (contact details)
or phone Southwark Playhouse on 020 7407 0234

Funded by Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity: www.gsttcharity.org.uk/projects/eolc.html
Arts charity Rosetta Life devises performances to challenge the taboos surrounding death and dying.

Photographs of the show in rehearsal: Photography by Richard Bailey Photogrpahy

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Event: Funeral Jam

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:09:02 +0000

30th March, 2011.
Black Elderly Group Peckham (BEGS), Rosetta Life and members of BEGS.

Tracks for Life

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:50:32 +0000

This album is the result of three years’ work that began in a small studio in Waterloo under inauspicious circumstances on the day after the London bombings of 7/7. Roots Manuva brought three musicians together to help a young teenager record a track that offered hope to all sick children spending time in hospital. The process convinced us that children living through extraordinary experiences could be supported to make extraordinary tracks, and, with the right support of professional musicians could lead the performance of those tracks by themselves. We are grateful to that teenager, Geospin Kiakia and to Roots Manuva for offering the inspiration for the project, The Song Rooms.

Night and Day

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:22:19 +0000

Night and Day followed six families facing the end of their lives. The first screening took place at Electric Cinema, Birmingham and then toured the hospices and community venues throughout Birmingham and the West Midlands. Screening party at The Radisson Birmingham secured wide and high profile press coverage that included radio (Heart FM), television (BBC West Midlands Today) and wide local press.

Watch Night and Day on YouTube.

Interior Lives

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:21:35 +0000

Leading British photographer TOM HUNTER worked 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. Five digital films that were animated from a series of five portraits were screened as a series of special education event at the Geffrye Museum to make a significant contribution to the debate about how people are living with terminal illness in the 21st century. The films were accompanied by the five portraits that were exhibited at the museum.

A Practical Imagination

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:20:22 +0000

Rosetta Life won a tender from Walsall NHS to run a participatory arts project at Little Bloxwich Day Hospice and with bereaved carers through Walsall NHS Bereavement Services. This successful bid led to a range of participant-led photographic and poetry workshops reaching over 22 people at the Hospice. The success of the poetry workshops led to the publication of a book of poems written by service users entitled A Practical Imagination.

Jump into Action

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:50:35 +0000

Jump Into Action is a pioneering movement project, using contact improvisation techniques to enable young carers and young bereaved children and young people to develop the physical and emotional confidence to develop performances where they take centre stage. Last Summer, we devised a short improvised performance that was showcased at The Courtyard Theatre Hereford and are now working towards a series of improvised performances that will take place throughout the villages and market towns of Herefordshire in 2012.

Art of touch

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:46:21 +0000

The Art of Touch is a new education programme proposed by Rosetta Life in collaboration with the Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, London. Supported by Guys and St Thomas Charitable Foundation, The Art of Touch will train postgraduate dancers and place them in residence in hospices and nursing homes across South London. We aim to develop a new specialism within the dementia and End Of Life Care workforce, facilitating partnerships between movement artists, residents and patients as well as developing the skills of current health care staff.

This work takes the learning and its inspiration from the Moving into Being program we have been delivering across West Midlands since 2009. Rosetta Life aims to roll out this model of working nationally from 2012.

For education and training enquiries please contact: Lucinda.Jarrett@rosettalife.org