NEWS

Moving Memory’s 2025 Wrapped

Welcome to Moving Memory wrapped! 2025 has been a landmark year for Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company, with a new tour, a packed calendar of workshops and meaningful collaborations. This has brought our important work with older people to new audiences across Kent and beyond. Key moments of 2025 February: First workshops of the year […]

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4 women dressed in white, push a brass 4 poster bed while a woman lies in the bed fast asleep under white sheets.

New show – Golden Slumbers

We’re thrilled to have been awarded Arts Council England project funding to develop our new show Golden Slumbers for touring in 2025. Building on the Welsh concept of Cwtch –...
A group of people dressed in colour clothing dance in a hall with arms outstretched.

Groovin Well feedback report

This Autumn, we asked Canterbury u3a (University of the 3rd Age) to interview participants of our Groovin Well groups in Dover, Canterbury, Lordswood and Margate in order to gather feedback...
7 women dressed in Christmas pyjamas have a pillow fight

Annual Report & Accounts 2023-24

A huge thank you to everyone who came along to our AGM at the University of Kent on Thursday 5 December. We were delighted to see so many friends and...

Shostakovich 8

On 6 October 2024, Sacconi String Quartet came together with Moving Memory’s Dover Groovin Well and Intergen groups to explore what happens when Movers meet Musicians and Shostakovich’s String Quartet...
A group of people dance in coloured clothes.

The Devil’s Doorbell Curtain-raiser

This Autumn, our Groovin Well group at The Beaney, Canterbury will be Taking our Spirits to the Sky by working towards a curtain-raiser for The Devil’s Doorbell at Gulbenkian Arts Centre...
Two women with their backs to us, wearing Grooving Well T-shirts dance with a group of people in coloured clothing.

Dover Groovin Well

Funded by Dover Town Council and Social Enterprise Kent, Moving Memory’s Dover Groovin Well group has been moving and making together for the last 6 months at Biggin Hall thanks...
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Postcode Community Trust & People’s Postcode Lottery

We’re thrilled to have been awarded funding by the Postcode Community Trust, raised by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery. Our work shows that getting older can be life-enhancing and...
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UKSPF Pride in Place Grant

We’re delighted to have been awarded a UKSPF Pride in Place grant for Moving Well activity in Canterbury over the next 10 months. We’ll be setting up a new Groovin...

Philip & Connie Phillips Foundation

We’re thrilled to have received funding from the Philip & Connie Phillips Foundation towards our core running costs. Funding for core costs helps us to continue to provide free and...