Today we are taking 1940s sweets into our reminiscence workshop as we researched and found food can be a successful at triggering memories from times when certain foods were tasted.
Take a look at the sweets we have!
Monthly Archives: April 2013
We are Beyond Memory!
Hello everyone,
We are Beyond Memory Theatre Company. We are a reminiscence theatre company that works with elderly women with dementia to create work around their memories.
We are currently working with women at Hartrigg Oaks nursing home, looking at their memories surrounding the wartime effort and significant women within their lives.
All our work and preparation will be documented on this blog, feel free to read and ENJOY!! 🙂
Reminiscene Party Plan!
During a recent workshop we gave our participants paper and pens, and asked them to freely write down or draw favourite items, landscapes or people that span from a memory. Once talking about them we realised a lot of the items centred on food. As food is associated as being a social stimulus, we decided that during film week we would also bring a selection of the food they had mentioned to help them reminisce. Such as dandelion and burdock, pork pies, branston pickle and banoffee pie were just some of the things we took! This all went down a treat!
What We Are Getting Up Too :)
We are currently producing material for our performance in May.
Through workshops at Hartrigg Oaks we have gained ideas in topics such as marriage, fashion, men and travelling.
Our workshops are including film, music and craft work. One of our recent workshops included watching clips of films from the 1940s and 1950s. This stimulated alot of conversation with the women around how they felt films and media had changed through the decades; how intimacy is shown more today and how fashion has allowed more flesh to be shown.
Beyond Memory TC 