Love Grows

Event Details

Love Grows saw Moving Memory working with four primary school / care setting pairs across Kent.

  • 24/08/2019 - 25/08/2019
6 women dressed as orange flower pots with flowers on their heads pose for a photo. They hold spades and one sits in a wheelbarrow next to a watering can.
  • A group of older people stand with their hands in the air. Facing them and with their backs to us are a group of school children, also with their arms in the air.
  • A woman dressed in green dungarees looks and two school children compassionately. They are sitting down with their backs to us.
  • A school child talks to old people in an old people's home.
  • School children dance in a classroom with arms outstretched.
  • A lady in green dungarees sits in front of children wearing bumble bee antennae.
  • women in green dungarees and some dressed as flowerpots stand outside as confetti falls around them.
  • a group of women dressed in green dungarees raise their arms in surprise. A child with a red bobble hat stands next to them and does the same.
  • Dancers in green costumes in a shopping centre
  • Dancers in green under confetti
  • Young dancers in green and older in orange costume in shopping centre
  • 6 women dressed as orange flower pots with flowers on their heads pose for a photo. They hold spades and one sits in a wheelbarrow next to a watering can.

Event Info

In the Love Grows Garden, the generations are nurturing, cherishing and helping each other to grow — so in our very special ‘potting shed’ you will find stories of love and tenderness from young and old. 

Audiences could:

  • Pop in at any time and tell us about their stories of love 
  • Watch the film and see what young and old really have in common 
  • Join a workshop and learn the dance 
  • Enjoy the performances with Moving Memory and Intergen31.

Love Grows is the result of a six-month project during which children from four primary schools across Kent were supported to talk to older people in their local area about the stories, music, dances and pictures that represent ‘love’ to them. They brought their favourite bits together to make a dance which they performed together — and to which Moving Memory and Intergen31 have added their own magic. 

Huge thanks to:
• Canterbury Academy Primary and the Red House Care Home
• Cliftonville Primary School and Age UK Thanet
• Littlebourne Primary School and the Littlebourne community group
• Woodlands Primary School and Age UK Medway 

We are extremely grateful to the The Baring Foundation and Arts Council England’s Celebrating Age fund, Kent County Council and the Whitehead Monckton Charitable Foundation for their support in making this project possible. 

Performed at: 

  • b0ing! Festival at Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury 

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