Here are some movies of the many songs Rosetta Life has made through collaborations between people living with life-threatening illness and wide range of musicians and songwriters. Includes Billy Bragg, Roots Manuva, Michael Nyman, Sandi Thom, Jason Donovan, Orlando Gough, Harvey Brough
Performing Ourselves has become the principle motif running through Rosetta Life's creative initiatives in the health arena. Performance enables the frail and the vulnerable to speak for themselves and to represent themselves directly. In this people can change perception and challenge stigma.
It entails offering those living with serious illness, their carers, and the bereaved, the creative means to explore and express significant feelings and ideas, and convey them to the audience of their choice. This audience may be a single loved one, the hospice community, a theatre audience, or the wider public through the internet. The means may be theatre, dance or song. Or it may be the spoken word, film, or photography. Working with Rosetta Life artists, participants find voice, recover self-esteem and re-discover balance in lives knocked sideways by illness.
Six short films from the hinterlands of memory. John, 91, reaches back into his past. How memories crystallise round the embedded grit of salient events. How life can be affirmed even as memory itself is slipping.
Finding your voice - through poetry, movement or music - can transform the way you feel. And convey things that deeply matter to others. People living with life-threatening illness pluck up the courage to 'perform themselves'.
Rosetta Life is a group of film makers, dancers, writers and musicians who initiate creative partnerships with people living with life-threatening illness, families, carers and friends, to address what most matters and share it with a wider audience.