70 UP

We believe in the extraordinary potential of older adults to create, connect, and command the stage.

Our 70+ programme provides stimulating environment that transforms day centres into creative hubs, reducing social isolation while fostering a new sense of community identity and self-worth.

The programme combine dance, theatre, music, storytelling, and reminiscence to tackle the key challenges of aging, offering a holistic approach to wellbeing:

• Physical Health (Mobility & Muscle): Gentle, creative movement techniques designed to improve dexterity, balance, and physical confidence, aiming to reduce risks of falls and joint stiffness.
• Mental Vitality (Memory & Focus): Interactive performance techniques, biographical script-making and improvisation that challenge memory, verbal articulation, and mental focus.
• Spiritual & Emotional Wellbeing: A joyful space for singing, laughing, and reminiscing, transforming personal memories into creative art. This boosts mood, reduces depression, and combats loneliness.
• Connection & Community: Strengthening peer-to-peer relationships and connecting participants with their wider community through public sharing and performances.

Through connecting with local festivals and with our younger participants projects, the 70+ programme fuels our intergenerational aims to enable older and younger residents to get to know each other through participatory arts projects.

This Odd Eyes Theatre programme is led by Letizia Mele, a specialist in creative movement and performance with over 15 years of experience working with elderly participants, care homes, and people with learning disabilities.

Letizia specialises in movement and drama using biography as a way to help participants connecting with their experience in a positive way (Odd Eyes Theatre mission), using story-telling and objects to help participants express their inner worlds. Her practice is deeply person-cantered, ensuring every participant, regardless of physical or cognitive ability, feels safe, valued, and empowered.

• Direct Impact: The work aligns with NHS and Age UK goals for active aging and mental health.
• High Engagement: By partnering directly with local day centres, we remove access barriers, bringing the project directly to vulnerable or socially isolated older adults.
• Tangible Outcomes: The project culminates in a public sharing of work, celebrating participants’ skills and providing a tangible, high-quality output.
• Expertly Led: Led by an expert facilitator with over a decade of specialized experience in care settings.