Chronology of Disability Arts 1977 - 2017 by Allan Sutherland Chronology of Disability Arts by Allan Sutherland 1977 - April 2017 An ongoing project

Sources: Allan Sutherland’s personal archives Disability Arts in London magazine (DAIL) Disability Arts magazine (DAM) Shape Arts Disability Arts Online

Commissioned by NDACA

Timeline cover design and text formating by Liam Hevey, NDACA Producer 1976 1984 • SHAPE founded. • Fair Play ‘campaign for disabled people in the arts’ founded. 1977 • Strathcona Theatre Company, ‘Now and Then’. • Basic Theatre Company founded by Ray Harrison • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Cocktail Cabaret’. Graham. Devised by the company. Directed by Caroline Noh. • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Practically Perfect’. 1980 Theatre in Education show. Written by Ashley Grey. • Graeae (Theatre group of Disabled People) Directed by Geoff Armstrong. founded by Nabil Shaban and Richard Tomlinson. • ‘Choices’. Central TV Programme about the First production: ‘Sideshow’, devised by Richard Theatre In Education work of Graeae Theatre Tomlinson and the company. Company. • British Council of Organisations of Disabled People founded. 1985 • GLC funds 7 month pioneer project for ‘No 1981 Kidding’, a ‘project using puppets to increase • International Year of Disabled People. awareness of disability in Junior Schools’. Company • ‘Carry On Cripple’ season of feature films about of four performers with and without disabilities. disability at National Film Theatre, programmed by • Ellen Wilkie, ‘Pithy Poems’ published. Allan Sutherland and Steve Dwoskin. • Strathcona Theatre Company, ‘Tonight at Eight’ • Artsline founded. 25th October • Path Productions founded, ‘then the only • Samena Rama speaks on Disability and company to integrate the able-bodied, physically Photography as part of Black Arts Forum weekend and mentally disabled performers’. (ICA). • Oily Cart founded, aiming to provide theatre for very young and young people with complex learning 1986 disabilities. • John McGrath appointed Development Oficer for • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘3D’. Devised by Arts Integration Merseyside, a SHAPE type service, Richard Tomlinson and the company. with funding from Merseyside Arts. Later job- • Directed by Nic Fine. sharing with a disabled woman, Mandy Colleran. • BBC2 ‘Arena’ documentary on the work of Graeae By 1987 the organisation will have two disabled Theatre Company. women workers and a Users Committee of 90% 1982 disabled people. It will later become North West Disability Arts Forum (NWDAF). • Strathcona Theatre first public performance. • Working Parts formed ‘with the aim of promoting • Graeae Theatre Company ‘M3 Junction 4’. Co- visual theatre, puppetry and music by and for directed by Richard Tomlinson and Nic Fine. disabled people through performance and/or • ‘People’s Minds’. Channel 4 documentary about workshops’. Funded Haringey Arts Council the making of Graeae’s ‘M3 Junction 4’. • Workshops at Mulberry Day Centre Deptford - 1983 the start of what will become Heart ‘n Soul - run by SHAPE and the Albany Empire, Deptford. Their • First Covent Garden Day of Disabled Artists. first show is ‘The Great Rock and Roll Dance’, (Organised by Geof Armstrong, then worker for in which they are joined by jazz group Jodelko. SHAPE). Subsequently, they get bookings from Covent • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘The Endless Variety Garden Disabled Artists Day, Lewisham People’s Show’. Written by Chris Speyer. Directed by Geoff Day, LDAF event at Watermans and a tour of Armstrong. SHAPE venues. • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Not Too Much to Ask. • Strathcona Theatre Company, ‘This Very Same Written by Patsy Rodenburg. Directed by Caroline Hall’. Noh. • Mockbeggar Theatre Company set up. • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Casting Out’. Written • Arts Integration Merseyside (later to become and directed by Nigel Jamieson. North West Disability Arts Forum) withdraws from the SHAPE Network at the Chorley Conference. • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Working Hearts’. and associates. Paper by Vic Finkelstein (LDAF, Written by Noel Grieg. Directed by Maggie Ford. BCODP and OU). One of themes was that ‘disabled 26th July people constitute an oppressed group in society’. • Disability Arts Forum Day ‘Disability - Our Arts, Resolution passed that a working party of disabled Our Culture’, (Albany Centre) people should draft a comprehensive SHAPE »» National Youth Theatre of the Deaf, ‘Cabaret’. network policy document about its future work with »» Discussion. disabled people and the arts. »» Graeae Theatre (Pictures show ‘Sideshow’ , 5th-8th December with Jag Plah, Maggie Woolley). • Shape workshop exhibition. ‘An exhibition of »» Adam Reynolds, sculpture. sculpture and photographs of activities and work »» Sets up London Disability Arts Forum done by Shape workshops for mentally handicapped Steering Group. Members: Michael Abelson, young people’ (Hammond Community Centre Geof Armstrong, Haim Attar, Rudi Breakwell- NW1) Bos, Linda Bunn, Lawrence Dawkins, Andrew 10th December Dick, Kathy Fenton, Vic Finkelstein, Clair • Gemini Arts presents ‘We must Go’ by Magic Graydon-James, Chris Harrison, Stephen Box Theatre Co (Special Education Centre, Lissom Herbert, Stella Hutton, Jan Jodelko, Clifford Grove). Kent, John Mason, Martin Norris, Jean Poitevin, Kate Portal, Geraldine Quinn, Anne Rae, Adam 1987 Reynolds, Dorothy Rolston, Angela Smith, • Heart ‘n Soul founded. Michael Turner, Sian Vasey, Anna Young. • Simon Brisenden, ‘Poems for Perfect People’ (Self » » Photos of the day by CLIC (Community Links published). in Camera). • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Equality Street’. Theatre » » Organised by representatives of SHAPE, In Education shows. Devised by Ashley Grey and Artsline, Graeae, Haringey Disability Geoff Armstrong. Association, Strathcona and Greenwich • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Private View’. By Tasha Association for Disabled People. Fairbanks. Directed by Anna Furse. Graeae’s first women’s project. National and international tour. November 1986 • First issue of Disability Arts in London (DAIL) January 1987 edited by Artsline. Sian Vasey, Michael Hempstead, • DAIL reports the cancellation of two planned Pat Place, Claire Wheeler, Rudi Breakwell-Bos. The conferences: magazine is co-owned by LDAF, Artsline and Arts »» ‘Artability’, organised by Carnegie Council to Media Group. follow up Attenborough report on the Arts and • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre set up. Disabled People (published 1986). Organised • ‘Origins of Room Temperature’ Exhibition with without consultation with disabled people. Adam Reynolds, Nicola Oxley and Nicolas de Protests at ‘its emphasis on art therapy and on Oliviera. (Adam Gallery, Walcot Square). administrators letting us into the arts world, • Rainmaker picture story theatre on tour. ‘Exists rather than on our own creativity’. Concern to bring enjoyment and appreciation of theatre at a about high ticket cost and access. high artistic and professional level to all children, »» ‘Why Not?’. Initiative of West Sussex especially the partially hearing’. Company includes Association for the Disabled and Arun district Tim Barlow ‘who has severe hearing loss himself’. council. Intended to be ‘a practical, hard- • Replacement funding for ‘No Kidding’ agreed with working conference which aims to tackle and ILEA. solve the problems preventing nearly 5,000,000 • Moving On ‘86 Festival of Arts by Disabled People. disabled people from enjoying the arts and Artists include Isobel Ward. Chat’s Palace, E9. entertainment’. Cancelled ‘because of low number of people wanting to attend’. December 1986 • Contrasts with success of day conference • Ellen Wilkie scripting new video with Double ‘Disability - Our Arts, Our Culture’, ‘conceived, Exposure. • LDAF Christmas party, Boundary Road December 86. Music from Jodelko. Poems by Ellie Wilkie. • Annual conference of SHAPE network workers planned and executed by disabled people’, which »» On the 28th Feb: Arts Day for Everyone. led directly to setting up of London Disability Arts Workshops in dance, drama and music for Forum (LDAF)’. people with and without disabilities. Day ends 6th - 17th January with ‘the Mulberry Crew from Lewisham, a • PATH Productions present ‘Godspell’ with Nabil group of disabled musicians, performing their Shaban, Jag Plah and Rashmi Kawa, Fio Dennison, own songs’. » Ellie Hames.(Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, WC1,). » Exhibition of art by disabled artists. 12th Jan - 4th February March 1987 • ‘We Are Human Too’ Photographs of children • DAIL gets its first full-time editor: Elspeth with disabilities and of disabled people in the Morrison. performing arts by Sam Tanner(Cockpit Gallery, • Opening of accessible darkroom at Camerawork WC1). Sam has also worked with Amici, Strathcona in Tower Hamlets by Ian Dury and The Frank and Double Exposure theatre companies taking Chickens. photos of them at work. • Theatre of Black Women present ‘The Cripple’ 14th January by Ruth Harris. Ruth Harris is a disabled person, • Discussion of representations of people with writes and directs this play ‘based on the true story disabilities, with Sam present to talk about his work. of Pauline Wiltshire, who was born in Jamaica and now lives in London’. February 1987 • Deaf artist Trevor Landell awarded place to study April 1987 for MA in print-making at Royal College of Arts. 25th April • Meeting of LDAF steering committee includes • ‘Disability - Our Arts, Our Culture, Live’ Launch ‘an enjoyable and interesting discussion on how of LDAF. (Watermans Centre, Brentford). we can deal with the problems of being involved in »» LDAF voted into being. First LDAF Executive the research for an artistic venture, such as a play, elected. and then having no control over the way disability »» ‘Goats’ Rehearsed reading by Graeae of script is portrayed in the final product. Could LDAF by Allan Sutherland. become a regulatory body, or is this verging on »» Kate Portal censorship?’ »» Ian Dury 23rd-28th February »» Peter Street • Arts Week for People with and without Disabilities »» Path Productions ‘Godspell’ (Hoxton Hall) »» Thomas Joseph »» On the 23rd Feb: ‘Challenging Images and »» Speech by Vic Finkelstein Labels or How to Speak for Yourself’. A session • Maggie Woolley, presenter of ‘See Hear’ is ‘exploring the situation of people with mental appointed Assistant Producer, ‘the first deaf person handicap/learning difficulty through video and ever to achieve this in National TV’. discussion’. Led by Rowena Field and Sue Pascall of the Huddleston Centre. May 1987 »» On the 24th Feb: Informal afternoon where 9th May people with disabilities will share skills with each • Haringey’s first Disability Arts Festival (Selby other. Short play by Stonebridge Training Centre Community Centre, Tottenham) Drama Group. • Half Moon Young People’s Theatre launch youth »» On the 25th Feb: ‘Out in the Big City’, a new theatre for young people with physical disabilities. play by Hoxton Hall Disabled Drama Group, Nic Fine and Hamish MacDonald co-ordinate the about a young girl who is rejected by her family programme. Both have worked with Graeae and when she becomes pregnant and turns to are members of Double Exposure, an integrated drifting in a big city. company. »» On the 27th Feb: Graeae Theatre Company 1st - 22nd May performs ‘A Comedy’ by Ron White (‘an • Disabled artist Alan Thornhill showing work at American playwright who is disabled’). Morley Gallery. 20th - 23rd May for Action in Favour of Disabled People’, an EEC • Heart ‘n Soul at Albany Empire. Founded 1986 as organisation. The disabled people present place two the Mulberry Crew, they have recently changed their motions before the conference, requesting that the name. conference ‘mandates all the Disabled participants, • ‘Pardon Mr Punch’ by Penny Casdagli. Unicorn with their advocates, when invited, to seek funds to summer tour. Aimed at 6-12 year olds for ensure that they can come together to: integrated audiences of deaf and hearing children. »» 1. Meet with the Bureau for Action in Favour of Disabled People to discuss the issues and June 1987 initiatives that have arisen during this conference • Graeae’s grant application to Arts Council is and to ensure that the recommendations of the refused. Its autumn tour ‘Face Value’, the first conference become practical action, and women’s show by Graeae, is faced with being »» 2. To find ways of involving other Disabled cancelled as a result. Will also mean cancellation people in directing the recommendations until of Graeae’s traineeship for a disabled director. the steering group becomes a democratically But other departments of the Arts Council have elected body.’ supported the project. The New Writing Committee »» Both motions and all recommendations are has given a grant to cover half the writer’s fee and accepted by the conference. the Training Department is due to fund half the 16th - 25th July trainee directorship. Talks are still going on... • Path Productions ‘The Beggars’ Opera’. (Jeanetta • Arts Integration weekend at the Albany Empire Cochrane Theatre, WC1). Issy Schlissleman as ‘to bring disabled and other people together’. MacHeath and Kate Portal as Polly Peachum. Organised by the British Theatre Association in Conjunction with Graeae Theatre Company, 22nd July Greenwich Young People’s Theatre, Link Up Theatre • Shape, Graeae and Lewisham Arts hold a ‘Seminar and Shape. Focusing on the Arts and Disabled People’ at the »» Voice/music session led by Janet Wyatt Albany Empire. »» Mime by Tim Barlow 22nd - 25th July »» Dance by Wolfgang Stange • Theatre and NBHS Training Course 1987 »» Visual/tactile art by Adam Reynolds and ‘Training for the Theatre’ (Albany Empire). Trevor Landell • Vision of the Inner Eye’ seminar and Tactile 27th July Exhibition at Oxford Polytechnic, including pottery • Royal Academy Day for Disabled People during by Mary Shaw. Summer Exhibition. 4th June August 1987 • One day seminar at IBA headquarters on • ‘Café of Dreams’ Double Exposure production. I8 ‘Images and Employment of Disabled People in person integrated cast, including Jackie Birtles and Television’, organised by Fair Play, the Campaign Dave Kent. for Equal Opportunities in the Arts for People with • Integrated puppetry weekend at the Puppet Disabilities. Centre. Participants include artist Nancy Willis. 22nd June - 3rd July 2nd August • Hidden Art (Morley Gallery) will include ‘various • Day for Artists with Disabilities, Covent Garden. disabled artists’. Artists include Isobel Ward Band, Heart ‘n Soul, Lee Baxter and Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre, July 1987 Graeae Amateur Group, Kate Portal. Poetry • Michael Turner completes placement for disabled readings by Simon Brisenden and Peter Street. administrator at Battersea Arts Centre. Reading of play by Roger Edwards. Music by Geoff • No Kidding advertises for Director, Administrator Chilkes and Claire Graydon-James. and Performers. »» ‘The Lizard’s Tongue’, performed by Carousel 9th - 12th July (‘initially very tedious and later plainly an • Talent ‘87 conference at Bulmershe Resource adaptation of a workshop’). Centre to discuss employment opportunities for »» ‘Happy-Go-Lucky Wheelchair Dancers disabled people in the arts, funded by the ‘Bureau (‘nothing more than musical physiotherapy’) »» Visual artists Gill Gerhardi, Samena Rana and • ‘Meniscus’. Exhibition of work by visually- Trevor Landell impaired artist Jennifer Maskell-Parker at the Dance 23rd August Attic, Putney. Taped commentary (but only 1 tape/ • Unicorn Theatre seminar on ‘Theatre Writing for Walkman). Integrated Audiences of Deaf and Hearing Children’. • ‘A Private View’, new Graeae touring show, starts Run by Penny Casdagli. Performance of ‘Pardon, at Watermans, Brentford Nov 3rd. All woman Mr Punch?’ by Penny Casdagli, d Sue Parrish with cast and production team. ‘An ironic comedy cast of deaf and hearing actors, including Ray that commences in an art class and ends in an art Harrison as Graham. robbery’. 28th November September 1987 • Disability Arts Day, Stoke on Trent. • CRAB (Community and Recreational Arts in »» Keynote speech: Sian Vasey Barnet) organise 10 week course for disabled »» Discussion groups led by Sian Vasey, Elspeth photographers. Designed ‘to enable participants to Morrison, Allan Sutherland and Dennis Killin pass on photographic skills effectively’. »» Geof Armstrong and Maggie Hampton lead • ‘The Arts and Disabled People’, seminar of 40 drama workshop people at the Albany Centre, Deptford, comes to »» Day chaired by Annie Whitehurst a stop when the 7 disabled people present, led by Anne Rae, Chair of LDAF, withdraw to consider December 1987 their position. • Elizabeth Hill, painter with MS, who lives and • CHANCES Open Day at Wigan Pier complex. works in St Andrews, exhibits at Sayat Nova Gallery, CHANCES is an Arts organisation based in the Archway. North of England which aims to bring together • Graeae, ‘A Private View’, touring until 30th Jan. disabled and able-bodied artists. • LDAF Christmas party at Swiss Cottage • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre. Current Community Centre (Dec 11). ‘A Private View’ and shows: ‘Light Cycle 5’ and ‘Home to Happyland’. party. • Margrethe de Neergard, recently appointed Arts • Puppetworks present the Sun and Moon Club, Council Disability Officer, dies. arts project for young people with severe learning difficulties. October 1987 • Victory over funding for Graeae after ‘an all-day 1988 meeting at which the re-application was considered’. • Oily Cart develop ‘Box of Socks’, their first • LDAF advertises for Development Worker. Geof performance specifically for children and young Armstrong is subsequently appointed. people with Severe Learning Disabilities. 10th October January 1988 • ‘Representing Disability’. Camerawork conference. • Heart ‘n Soul have been performing their second »» Chair Chris Davies. show, ‘The Longest’ and are now working on a new »» Speakers: Anita Munsell (Spastics Spociety), show with the provisional title, ‘Peace on Earth’. Philipa Potts (Open University), Ron • Nabil Shaban has been denied work on Granada’s Greenwood, speaker from INVALID, Mandy ‘Microman’ children’s TV series, because executive Colleran, CLIC, Chris Killick producers are worried that children would find him 25th October frightening. • Deaf Broadcasting Campaign lobby Television 15th - 23rd January Centre (and other TV studios across the country) • ‘Androcles and the Lion’ (Path Productions), to demand ‘a daily 30 minute national news Jeanetta Cochrance Theatre, WC1. programme on at least one television channel, using • The Arts Council and SHAPE (London) have Sign Language and subtitles as well as voice’. appointed Ad Lib research team to investigate work November 1987 on photography being done by and with disabled • Moving On ‘87. Festival of Arts by Disabled people. Project starts Jan ‘88, to be completed by People. Artists include Heart ‘n Soul, Jodelko, Ellie June, with database and accompanying report. Wilkie and Graeae TIE team. Mandy Colleran leads discussion on integration. (Chat’s Palace, E9) 22nd January »» Disability Arts - a segregated or • Whitechapel Art Gallery ‘set aside’ special day mainstream culture? of Fernand Leger exhibition for visually impaired »» Strong debate on issue of integration: visitors. 15 came. »» Is integration acceptable if it isn’t on 25th January disabled people’s terms? » • 60 people demonstrate outside Granada studios » Why do disabled people need a separate against dropping of Nabil Shaban from Microman. space to explore their identity and culture? » (Organised by Brian Lewis and Norman Colledge of » Cabaret and social event ‘featuring the Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People and Ian Disabled artists from around the region’. » Stanton of GMCDP.) » Conference planned by Manchester City Council Equal Opportunities Unit February 1988 (Disabled people’s section) in association • Graeae women’s company invited to tour Malaysia. with North West Arts. • Talent ‘87 conference produces an embryonic European Disability Arts Forum (EDAF). UK reps: April 1988 Geof Armstrong (LDAF), Sian Vasey (Artsline) and • Jag Plah wins City Limits/New Variety New Act of Rob Tiplady (Green Jam). the Year Award. • London Deaf Drama Group present ‘King James • Launch of cabaret club at the Diorama. (Later and his Beau’, Alex Crenwell. Uses BSL and SSE to become the Workhouse.) Allan Sutherland (Central Institute, Longford Street, NW1, 19th and compere. Isobel Ward, Keith Armstrong. 20th Feb) 9th - 10th April • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre at The Place • Experimental Workshop for Deaf People in Visual perform Light Cycle 5, which ‘uses the medium of Expression of Music (Unicorn Theatre, WC2). contemporary dance, fusing it with sign language, 16th April original music and theatre to create a new style of • LDAF first AGM (Diorama) dance theatre’. »» Clare James and Kenny Ellison 15th - 25th February »» Sian Vasey interviews Seona Reid and Anne • Graeae Theatre Skills Training Course 1988, with Rae sessions in mime, mask, movement, giant puppetry, »» Allan Sutherland MC voice and acting skills. »» Isobel Ward

March 1988 May 1988 • ‘Ringroad’, a play with music written especially for • US activist Judy Heumann speaks at County Hall. deaf and HOH children over 8. (Theatre Venture, 6th - 8th May touring North and East London.) • ‘Blood, Sweat and Fears’ by Marie Oshodi, d David 2nd March Salkin, abt Sickle Cell Anaemia (Battersea Arts • Exhibition of work by disabled people at Aylesbury Centre, then touring nationally) Day Centre SE17. Photography, performance, 14th May music, video and craft work. • ‘DisAbility in De Community’ A festival in aid of 16th - 19th March Sickle Cell Anaemia. (Chat’s Palace, E9). • Amici Dance Theatre Co in ‘Ruckbluck’. 28th May 26th - 27th March • Bucks Disability Arts Day (Limelight Theatre, • Disability Arts Conference, Manchester. Speakers Queens Park Centre). include: »» Workshops: Poetry, songwriting, drama, »» Ken Lumb (GMCDP) painting, mask-making »» Ann Rae (LDAF) »» Open spot: Allan Sutherland compere, Johnny »» Mandy Colleran (Arts Integration Merseyside) Crescendo, local performers »» Playwright Brian Hilton. »» Discussion: Gill Gerhardi and Geof »» Subjects explored include: Armstrong. ‘Issues which arose were the abuse »» Working definition of ‘culture’ of Disabled parking spaces by non-disabled users »» Short history of oppression of disabled in Bucks and the need for more arts activities in people the area for Disabled people.’ »» Samena Rana taking photos. 7th August • Disabled Artists’ Day (Covent Garden) June 1988 »» MC Ashley Grey • Premiere of ‘Peace on Earth’, new Heart ‘n Soul »» Allan Sutherland show (following success of ‘The Longest,’ ‘86 and »» Isobel Ward ‘Rock and Roll Dance’, ‘87). Devised by Heart »» Heart ‘n Soul ‘n Soul. Jazz by Jodelko. Special guest Timothy »» Jodelko Sagosz. Heart ‘n Soul are ‘fresh from TV appearance »» Charles Hampton on 1 in 4’, have a single recorded and due for release »» Jag Plah with tour. Currently negotiating tour of India. »» Artwork: Samena Rana, Trevor Landell, Gill Gerhardi July 1988 »» Connections Video • Auditions for new Neti-Neti show, ‘The Beggar »» CLIC in the Palace’, For deaf and HOH young people by »» Thomas Joseph Penny Casdagli and Caroline Griffin. Co-directed »» Simon Brisenden John Wilson, Deaf director of National Youth »» Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre Theatre of the Deaf. »» Strathcona 28th July »» Promoted by Alternative Arts and Artsline. • BCODP demonstration against Social Security Act 11th & 25th August (Kennington Park to Elephant and Castle). • Launch of LDAF’s ‘The Workhouse’ at the 1st July- 6th August Tabernacle Community Centre • ‘A Sense of Self’ ‘A variety of photographers, some »» On the 11th of August: Disabled, have been listening to how a selection »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) of disabled people want to be seen and them »» Clare Graydon-James (Music) translating it into picture form.’ Photographers »» Sian Vasey interviews Marie Oshodi, include David Hevey. Includes two workshops author of ‘Blood, Sweat and Fears’. Plus around disabilities and photography and four talks highlights of the show. by members of the steering committee and the »» Jodelko photographers. (Camerawork gallery, London.) »» On the 25th of August: »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) 5th - 23rd July »» Clare Graydon-James (Music) • ‘Peer Gynt’ (Path Productions, Jeanetta Cochrane »» Thomas Joseph (poet) Theatre, WC1). »» Heart ‘n Soul: Peace on Earth • Basement Youth Arts Festival, from 10 July at the »» Sian Vasey interviews some of the cast. Albany, Deptford. 11th July September 1988 • ‘Riversiders’. Comedy and Drama sketches devised • Deaf people and Artsline planning one day with Graeae TIE company. Riversiders are a drama workshop on interpreter provision for theatre and group of young disabled people. arts centre staff. 17th July 8th September • ‘What are they saying about us?’ ReVamp • Workhouse on the 8th of September Productions meeting for Disabled women to look »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) at how they are represented in mainstream film and »» Ellie Wilkie (Poet) T V. »» Sain Vasey interviews Ellie Wilkie »» Electro Jazz from Phil Ford with Blue Funk 31st July • Ellie Wilkie. Poems and singing at The Fallen 14th - 17th September Angel (an upstairs venue...). • National Youth Theatre of the Deaf present Sign production of Midsummer Night’s Dream, d John August 1988 Wilson (Union Chapel). • ‘Islanders’. New magazine for deafened young people. 16th - 23rd September 30th October • Bradford Festival includes ‘many events for • Milton Keynes Disability Arts and Sports Day disabled people organised by local organisation In- ‘Organised by disabled people for disabled people’. Valid?’ »» 22 Cabaret: Isobel Ward, Simon Brisenden, November 1988 Ellie Wilkie, Nabil Shaban (Compere). • Neti-Neti ‘The Beggar in the Palace’ by Penny 20th - 24th September Casdagli and Caroline Griffin. Brand new play written in BSL, English and Bengali. (Touring) • Moving On ‘88 (Chat’s Palace, E9). • ‘Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, but set in 1988, the 22nd September play looks at cracks in the rich and glittering world • Workhouse on the the 22nd of September of the hero, and tells not only of Odysseus, who »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) went to war, but of Penelope who stayed at home.’ »» Rikki Jodelko House music • Co-directed Penny Casdagli and John Wilson. »» Terry McGinty Folk • Maggie Woolley appointed first disabled Director »» Compagnie de l’Oiseau Mouche from of Shape. Roubaix, France • Royal Academy runs its first Workshop for »» Sian Vasey interviews l’Oiseau Mouche Visually Impaired People 25th September • Signed production of Pinocchio, at Unicorn • In Oldham. Day event organised by Oldham Theatre. w Dorothy Miles. Tony Newton, reviewing, Artability (‘a voluntary group of people with praises Jenny Hutchinson as Pinocchio: ‘the only disabilities who aim to promote the visual and member of the cast whose Sign Language was well performing arts through workshops and events’). articulated’. 5th November October 1988 • One day course on signed singing (organised 5th October by Music Advisory Service of Disabled Living • For a month. Exhibition of art and poetry at the Foundation). Poetry Society, SW5, by ‘Chances’, ‘a project which 28th November aims to bring together disabled and non Disabled • London’s first ‘fully accessible dark-room and artists. studio’ to be opened in Hendon - a project by CRAB 6th October and CLIC. • Workhouse on the 6th of October 3rd & 17th November »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) • Workhouse on the 3rd of November »» Rikki Jodelko (music) »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) »» Simon Brisenden (poetry) »» Ned Smith (Jodelko piano player) »» Sian Vasey interviews Simon Brisenden »» Liz Porter »» Isobel Ward (music) »» Kata Kolbert 20th October »» Sian Vasey interviews Kata Kolbert • Workhouse on the 20th of October • Workhouse on the 17th of November »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) »» Compere: Co-sign »» Rikki Jodelko (music) »» Music: Ned Smith »» Graeae latest kids’ show ‘Every Picture Tells a »» Johnny Crescendo (poetry and song) Story’ »» Doug Alker (‘magic and mayhem’) »» Sarah Scott and Dorothy Miles (signed song/ »» Johnny Crescendo talks about his poetry with poetry) Sian Vasey. 18th October December 1988 • Tower Hamlets Arts and Disability Group holding • Heart ‘n Soul single ‘Peace on Earth’ launched at a day of ‘exhibition, displays and demonstrations of House of Commons. creativity’ by and for people with disabilities. • North East Media Training Centre recruiting for 22nd October two year professional Film and Video Production • Haringey Connexions Disability Arts Festival. Course. Six places for profoundly Deaf people. Performers include poet Rosita Green. 1st December Outside’ for including disabled performers to attract • Workhouse on the 1st of December funding and as ‘their apology for not reaching the »» Compere: Co-Sign highest standards’. » » Ned Smith (piano) 5th January » » The Boys from Elivia (music) • Whitechapel Gallery holds touch workshop » » Sian Vasey interviews the Boys relating to Richard Deacon exhibition. »» Theatre from Acting Up 29th January 2nd - 3rd December • Ellen Wilkie: ‘Wilkie and the Tallboy’ poetry and • Presentation by and for Disabled Women Artists. songs (Teatro Technis, NW1) (Women’s Slide Library) »» Slide seminars by Mary Duffy, Elizabeth Hill February 1989 and Lucy Jones • Outrage among disabled people when they find » » Video about the work of Frida Kahlo and Tina that the Arts Council is applying for exemption Modotti from employment quota. » » Info pack and more information from Nancy • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre spring Willis show, ‘A Stranger Disintegrates’ 10th December »» Feb: Touring Southern Arts Region • Focus, Ealing Disabled people’s organisation, »» Mar 14th: 1st London Performance at The launches with Disability Cabaret. Line-up includes: Place »» Thomas Joseph 9th February » » Rosita Green • Workhouse on the 9th of February » » Rikki Jodelko »» Wanda Barbara (commere) » » Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre »» Ray Allan (resident musician) » » Kate Portal »» Liz Porter (songstress) » » Tim Sagosz »» Timothy Sagosz (guitar) » » Elspeth Morrison (compere) »» Sian Vasey interview 14th December - 4th January 21st February - 31st March • ‘The Owl and The Pussycat Went to See...’ (Path • Theatre Venture presents ‘The Adventures of Productions, Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, WC1). Curly’, new play for deaf children by Terry Ruane. 15th December (Touring) • ‘Christmas in the Workhouse’. 23rd February • Workhouse on the 23rd of February 1989 »» Wanda Barbara (commere) • ‘Shrinkin’ Man’ Ian Stanton cassette includes ‘Chip »» Kate Portal (folk music) On Yer Shoulder’, ‘S.O.S.’ and ‘Talking Disabled »» Rory Allam (resident musician) Anarchist’. »» Fish Out of Water (music) • ‘Freedom Liberty and Tinsel’ Aaron Williamson’s »» Sian Vasey interview first poetry collection. • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Why’ Theatre In March 1989 Education show. 2nd March January 1989 • From March 2. ‘Red is the Colour of the Night’, • Neti-Neti’s ‘The Beggar in the Palace’ criticised by a new play about fantasy and isolation by Peter Deaf for low standard of signing. Storfer. Double Exposure Theatre Company. • Mid-Jan to mid-Feb Exhibition of work by ‘Double Exposure is a professional company Asian batik artist Shaheeen Merali (Tom Allen integrating performers with and without disabilities ommunity Arts Centre, E15,. Shaheen runs a series in all its productions’. ‘Marte, an adolescent girl, of workshops for Black and Asian people with is diagnosed autistic and is institutionalised. This disabilities. is her story...’ Marte played by Caroline Parker. • Linda Moss, Arts Council Disability Officer, Presented by spoken text, sign language and music. criticises bad integrated companies in DAIL article (Touring, starting Towngate Theatre, Basildon.) ‘Towards a Disability Culture - A View from 2nd - 4th March April 1989 • ‘Nothing to Declare’. Strathcona new show. 21st April (Jackson’s Lane Community Centre, then touring • Caxton Hall cabaret throughout 1989.) »» Spring Chickens (non-disabled) 3rd - 4th March »» Kate Portal • Rainbow Drama Group, ‘Get Out of Bed’ - ‘an »» Ian Saville (non-disabled) evening of zappy sketches and songs - sad, sinister »» Johnny Crescendo and side-splitting - all around the theme of getting up’. (RDG are a theatre group of people with May 1989 learning difficulties based in Hoxton Hall.) • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre ‘Our Town’ 8th March ‘an exuberant adventure for children of 12 years and • ‘The International Women’s Day Show’ at Hackney under’ (Unicorn Theatre for Children, May 9-12). Empire includes Wanda Barbara, Ashley Grey/ • Open letter in DAIL to Luke Rittner, Secretary Elspeth Morrison(commeres), Kata Kolbert and General of the Arts Council, by Allan Sutherland, Kate Portal (music), Sarah Scott (signed song). takes issue with the ACGB’s application for exemption from the employment quota for disabled 9th March people. • Women-only event at Hounslow Voluntary • Simon Brisenden dies. Action Centre. Ellie Wilkie and the Tallboy, Wanda Barbara and Dorothy Miles. 19th - 20th May • Workhouse on the 9th of March • ‘Trapped in Llanwog Castle’ London Deaf Drama »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) Group. (Camden Institute Theatre, NW1). »» Rory Allam (Music) »» Manekin (Rock music) June 1989 »» Jodelko (Music, with new line-up) • Feminist Arts News latest issue ‘a diverse »» Sian Vasey interview collection of work by Disabled women’. 18 contributors, including Kata Kolbert, Sian Vasey, 18th March - 8th April Ann Rae and Gioya Steinke. • The East End Festival (TEEF) 1989 • Women’s Night at The Workhouse. • This year targeting elderly people, kids and people »» Kate Portal (songs) with disabilities. »» Ellie Wilkie (poetry) 1st - 31st March »» Wanda Barbara (comedy) • ‘Arts and Disability Project’ exhibition. ‘The first »» Kata Kolbert (music) major exhibition of art produced by people with »» Dorothy Miles (signed poetry) disabilities in Tower Hamlets’ (Dame Colet House, »» Sian Vasey interviews Ann Pointon E1) 14th - 16th June 20th - 25th March • ‘Broucek’ by Green Jam (Greenwich Young • ‘Red is the Colour of the Night’ (Half Moon People’s Theatre) Theatre, E1) July 1989 31st March • The casting of a non-disabled actor to play • ‘Arts and Disability Showcase’ Cabaret featuring Christie Brown in ‘My Left Foot’ is widely criticised Ellie Wilkie (Kingsley Hall, E3) by disabled people, including actor Nabil Shaban 23rd March writing in DAIL. • The Workhouse Deaf Cabaret on the 23rd of • ‘The Dungeon of Love’. Heart ‘n Soul new show March (Albany Empire, SE8.) »» Sarah Scott (signed song) • ‘The Cornflake Box’ by Elspeth Morrison. »» Colin Thomson (signed song) Graeae’s first community play. Directed by Brian »» Craig Flynn (Comedy) Thomas (Graeae Theatre Company. 6 spots in »» Paul Whittaker (Music) Movin’ On Festival and touring around London »» Maggie Woolley interviews one of performers until 31 Aug .) about their work. • New Breed Theatre Company founded. 23rd - 29th July »» Heart ‘n Soul • ‘Movin’ On’. A Festival of Arts by Disabled People. »» I Sign Theatre »» Activities include: »» Lawnmowers Theatre »» Two-day Disability Arts conference, »» Strathcona Theatre Company: ‘French theatre, dance, exhibitions, workshops led Connection’ by disabled artists, photography, children’s »» Theatre de Complicite events, signed song, creative photocopying, »» Steel ‘n Skin (Music) music, cabaret, fireworks. »» Stardust Steel Pans (Calypso) »» Workshops presented by: »» Taxi Pata Pata »» Shape London, Shape Hackney, Shape »» Amici (Dance) Isllington, Shape Hammersmith and »» David Hevey (Photography) Fulham, Shape Wandsowroth, Studio »» Julie Umerle (Paintings) 3, Creative Arts in Barnet, Connexions, »» CLIC Workshops and exhibitions for all Action Space Events and the Basement photographers Youth Project. »» Heart ‘n Soul »» Exhibitors include: »» Perpetual Beauty »» Disabled Artists from Hackney, David »» Liz Porter (Folk song) Hevey, Community Links in Camera »» Nancy Willis, Lucy Jones, Mary Duffy, (CLIC), Adam Reynolds, Julie Emerle. Liz Holland »» Event organised by the London »» Claire Graydon James Disability Arts Forum in conjunction with: »» Conference. Speakers: »» The Shape London network, Southwark »» Ann Rae on therapy in disability arts Disability Arts Forum, Southwark Arts »» Geof Armstrong on integration and Leisure Department, the Hackeny »» Ashley Grey on disabled women Disability Arts Steering Group, the Venues »» Trevor Landell on disabled people from and the London Boroughs Disability ethnic minorities and the arts Resource Team. »» Maggie Woolley (late replacement) on »» Artists and companies: deaf issues »» Wanda Barbara (Comedy) »» Allan Sutherland on ‘Disability arts, »» Simon Brisenden (Poetry) disability politics’ »» Johnny Crescendo (Blues) »» Venues: »» Fish Out of Water (music) »» Albany Empire, SE8 »» Phil Ford (music) »» Battersea Arts Centre, SW11 »» Ashley Grey »» Bishop’s Park, Fulham, W6 »» Isobel Ward (music) »» Burgess Park, SE5 »» Jodelko (jazz) »» London Bubble (Tent in Burgess Park) »» Thomas Joseph (poetry) »» Chat’s Palace, E9 »» Dot Miles (sign poetry) »» Jackson’s Lane Community Centre, N6 »» Kate Portal (songs and stories) »» Studio 3, Barking »» Sarah Scott and Ray Harrison Graham »» Plus Copyart and a wide variety of day (Signed song) centres. »» Timothy Sagosz (Jazz guitar) »» Nabil Shaban August 1989 »» Franz Shealy (Deaf clown) 20th August » » Allan Sutherland (comedy) • Milton Keynes Disability Arts and Sports Festival » » Ellie Wilkie (poet) (Woughton Centre, Milton Keynes) Wide range of » » Action Space (‘atmospheric fun for the workshops, plus: kids’) • Evening cabaret: Isobel Ward, Steve Clark, Ellie » » Albion Road Social Education Centre Wilkie and the Tall Boy, Kate Portal, Johnny » » Basic Theatre: ‘Gary’ Crescendo. »» Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre »» Graeae Theatre: ‘The Cornflake Box’ September 1989 »» Green Jam Theatre: ‘Mr Broucek’ • Ellen Wilkie (Ellie Wilkie) dies October 1989 17th November • ‘A Stranger Disintegrates’ Common Ground Sign • The Workhouse, Chat’s Palace, E9 Dance Theatre new production. (Oct 5 in Ealing as »» Allan Sutherland part of Disability Week, then touring nationally.) »» Kate Portal »» Rory Allum 6th October »» Johnnie Crescendo • Ealing Disabilities Cabaret Night »» Isobel Ward »» Johnny Crescendo »» James Conlan »» Allan Sutherland »» Timothy Sagosz 15th November »» Kate Portal • The Workhouse, Montague Hall, Hounslow »» Rosita Green »» Allan Sutherland »» Sian Vasey »» Kate Portal »» Wanda Barbara »» Ian Stanton »» Heart ‘n Soul »» Claire James »» Isobel Ward 14th October »» Mike Higgins • Connexions Haringey 3rd Disability Arts Festival (Chestnuts community Centre, N15) 15th - 26th November • ‘Gary’ by Ray Winston, (Basic Theatre Co) . 27th October Play about hearing-impaired boy growing up in a • The Workhouse (Chat’s Palace E9) hearing world. By Deaf writer, performed with Sign »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) Language. (Croydon Warehouse) »» Rory Allum (Music in the bar) »» Liz Porter (music) December 1989 »» Graeae Theatre Company in ‘Why?’ by Geoff Armstrong and Yvonne Lynch. Directed by 1st December Ewan Marshall. (1st public performance of TIE • The Workhouse, Chat’s Palace, E9 company’s new show.) »» Allan Sutherland (Compere) »» Rory Allum (Bar music) November 1989 »» Maudi and Harry (Piano and spoons) • Strathcona Theatre Company present ‘Nothing to »» Heart ‘n Soul in ‘The Dungeon of Love’ Declare’ (their 7th major production) at the Cockpit, (Theatre) NW8. »» Rupa Sarkar (Poet) • Simon Brisenden’s ‘Body Shopping’ is now 8th December available. • The Workhouse Jackson’s Lane, N6 10th November »» Elspeth Morrison (Commere) • The Workhouse Jackson’s Lane, N6 »» Claire Graydon James (Bar music) »» Claire James »» Sarah Scott (Signed song) »» Kate Portal »» Isobel Ward (Music) »» Wanda Barbara »» Graeae Theatre Company in ‘Why?’ »» Heart ‘n Soul in ‘The Dungeon of Love’ 14th December 24th November • The Workhouse Christmas Party; The Tabernacle, • The Workhouse W11 »» Allan Sutherland »» Ashley Grey (Commere) »» Johnnie Crescendo »» Allan Sutherland (Comedy) »» Liz Porter »» Johnny Crescendo (Music) »» Ian Stanton »» Kate Portal (Music) »» Claire James »» Mike Higgins (Music) »» James Conlan »» Heart ‘n Soul in ‘The Dungeon of Love’ (Theatre) 9th - 25th November • ‘From the Alchemist’s Library’ Sculptures by Adam Reynolds (Adam Gallery, Walcot Square). 16th December • Graeae Writers’ Project starting, with funds • The Workhouse, Mandela Bar, Ealing College from British Gas - an attempt to create accessible »» Hosted by Ealing Focus provision for disabled people to learn to write »» Elspeth Morrison (Commere) drama. »» Johnny Crescendo (Music) • Isle of Wight Deaf Projects present ‘Sing with Your »» Kate Portal (Music) Hands’, an introduction to signed song, movement »» Isobel Ward (Music) and poetry by ‘popular American sign song artist’ »» Mike Higgins (Music) Charles Hampton. On offer to schools, clubs, »» Sarah Scott (Signed song) theatres etc. »» Sian Vasey interviews Samena Rana • Thomas Joseph dies. » » (NB It is not clear whether this event took 1st - 2nd February place on this date - see Jan 21 1990.) • ‘Frankenstein’ by H.M.Milner. Co-sign Theatre 1990 (integrated deaf and hearing company). (Cockpit Theatre, NW8). • Wigan Disability Arts Forum formed 3rd February - 3rd March January 1990 • ‘More Than Meets the Eye’, Havant Arts Centre. • New Breed: ‘The Birds’. d Gabriel Gawin and ‘An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Amanda Redvers-Higgins. With Paul Mittler, visually impaired artists from the south’. Artists: Jeanette Bergin, Amanda Redvers-Higgins, Glynn Ivan Baron, Keith May, Carolyn James, Andrew Owen. Kalazides, John Michael O’Hara 21st January 5th February • The Workhouse, Mandela Bar, Ealing College. • ‘Cap in Hand?’. Day conference on the portrayal Hosted by Ealing Focus of disabled people in charity advertising as »» Elspeth Morrison (Commere) Camerawork Gallery. The conference “will explore »» Johnny Crescendo (Music) ways in which these images are constructed and »» Kate Portal (Music) look at the effects of this consistently negative »» Isobel Ward (Music) portrayal. The conference will also address »» Mike Higgins (Music) the notion of positive imagery and discuss the »» Sarah Scott (Signed song) implications around disabled people’s involvement »» Sian Vasey interviews Samena Rana with the charities.” »» (NB This is exactly the same line-up etc 6th - 28th February previously announced for Dec 16. DAIL gives • ‘Out of Ourselves’ (LDAF visual arts exhibition, no explanation.) Diorama Gallery) 31st January »» Tony Heaton • The Workhouse, Chat’s Palace, E9 »» Trevor Landell »» David Hevey (Compere) »» Arlington Advocacy Group »» Ian Stanton (Poetry and music) »» Nancy Willis »» Wanda Barbara (Comedy) »» Elizabeth Hill »» The Lawnmowers in ’Mates’ (Theatre) »» Gill Gerhardi »» Adam Reynolds February 1990 »» Simon Smith • Common Ground Dance Theatre touring Feb, »» Andrew Lisicki March, April with ‘A Stranger Disintegrates’(‘an »» Lucy Jones episodical journey looking at people’s ability 17th February and inability to communicate’), ‘Partraps’ • The Workhouse, South Ruislip Community (‘which examines emotional minefields within Centre, relationships’) and ‘Our Town (‘a children’s show »» Elspeth Morrison (Commere) based on poems from the ‘About Time’ Junior Dance »» Rosita Green (Poet) Theatre’). »» David Mills (Singer) »» Wanda Barbara (Comedy) »» Mike O’Hara (Blues) »» Johnny Crescendo (Music) Mar 1990 hours of the best of the Disability Arts Movement, • ‘Beyond the Barriers’ (Camerawork Exhibition): including: Johnny Crescendo, Wanda Barbara, Mary Duffy, David Hevey, Johnnie and Maggie Allan Sutherland, Ian Stanton. ‘The show that brings Gathercole. Disability Arts and Disability Culture to your venue’. • Amici 10th anniversary double bill. (Riverside 12th March - 14th April Studios, W6) • ‘First Exposure’. Touring exhibition of • New Breed recruiting members for ‘Birds II’ photographs by disabled users of Community and • ‘La Soupe’. ‘ 75 minute dance opera created by Recreational Arts in Barnet (CRAB)’s wheelchair Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie in collaboration with accessible darkroom and studio. Starting Hendon Carousel, a performance group of people with Library, NW4. and without learning difficulties, and Divas, an 28th March internationally recognised experimental dance • Campaign for Accessible Transport benefit (Red theatre company.’ Rose Club, N4): • Fish Out of Water debut album ‘Red Sunset’. »» Wanda Barbara (Released May 1990). »» Mike Higgins • May ‘90 EUCREA conference, Denmark. UK »» Allan Sutherland represented by Heart ‘n Soul. »» Johnny Crescendo • Taffy Thomas gets Britain’s first Storytelling 29th March Residency in North Pennines. • ‘Disability Arts Show’ cabaret presented by 16th May Alternative Arts and Artsline at North Westminster • LDAF AGM (Warwick Row Day Centre, SW1. Community School, W2: Kate Portal, Strathcona Three discussion areas: Dance Company (sic), Jag Plah and Isobel Ward. »» The Workhouse »» Members Newsletter - what should it contain, April 1990 and how should it work? • Random Pact with SHAPE (London) and Oval »» How can LDAF best work with young people? House present the Lambeth Multi-media Project for 27th May People with learning difficulties. • Campaign to Stop Patronage. 200 disabled people 27th - 28th April & 1th - 5th May demonstrate against ITV Telethon. • Path Productions ‘Getting There’ with Katie Kingshill. (Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, WC1). June 1990 • North West Disability Arts Forum (NWDAF) May 1990 launched (formerly Arts Integration Merseyside, • The Workhouse (Diorama, May 8) briefly known as Merseyside Disability Arts Forum) »» Pink Fingers (Signed song) ‘with a dazzling week of events to include theatre »» Gypsy’s Kiss (Jazz) writing and performances, a video project and »» Fish Out of Water (Blues) mime, music and creative writing events, leading to »» Liam O’Carroll (Singer/songwriter) a one-day conference in Liverpool’. Forthcoming »» Geoffrey Goodall (Compere) events include ‘a radio play with disabled girls’ and a • Unicorn Theatre’s work for the Deaf. Visitors residential theatre skills course in conjunction with season includes: Mockbeggar Theatre Company. Natalie Markham »» 27th May: Gallaudet College (USA) Dance and Di Christian employed short term ‘to establish Company firm foundations’. »» 7th-10th June: Co-sign presents ‘Fearless • 1 year Theatre Training Scheme aimed at disabled Knights people (Jackson’s Lane). • Free Festival ‘The Achievements of Women with • Disability Arts in Bromley. ‘Arts workshop 1990 Disabilities’, with Isobel Ward, Wanda Barbara, for people with disabilities.’ Including meeting to and a selection from LDAF’S ‘Out of Ourselves’ adopt constitution and elect Committee for D.A.B. exhibition planned for 19 May, Ealing Town Hall, • Greenwich Young People’s Theatre Green Jam cancelled, as Race Unit and Women’s Unit have been Project setting up new touring company of people closed down. with and without disabilities. • The ‘Tragic But Brave Roadshow’ set up. ‘A travelling Disability Arts cabaret. Two-three • Graeae Theatre-In-Education Company: ‘Why?’ »» ‘CLIC First Exposure’ Some of the work that by Geof Armstrong and Yvonne Lynch. (Currently has recently been touring as part of the ‘First on national tour.) Exposure exhibition. • ‘Freedom for Everybody’ Week long arts festival »» Selection of work by users of Huntingdon Rd, at Oval House ‘gave fifty people with learning Moorlyn and Yearsley Bridge Day Centres in disabilities and eight creative artists the opportunity York. to share skills and experience. »» Work by Leeds photographer Lisa Williams 4th - 9th June 28th June • ‘Art to Touch’ (Henley College). Artists: Sue • Half day practical photographic workshop on Benenson, Carol Farrow, Ruth Forbes, Martin Disability, Representation and Self-Image. Tutor: Jennings, Christine Southwell. Practical workshops Ruth Collett. for visually disabled people ‘led by artists either 26th - 30th June themselves visually impaired or experienced in this • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘The Art of Framing’. a r e a’. Devised by the company, d. Janet Bliss and Joan 9th June Greening. • ‘Sign Interpreted Performances. Meeting 29th June for Interpreters and Singing actors on Theatre • The Workhouse with London Lesbian Strength Interpreting - Particularly for Children’. With advice and Gay Pride 9, New River Sports Centre, N22 from experts including: (‘For all disabled lesbians and gays, friends and » » Peter Llewellyn-Jones allies’). »» Dorothy Miles »» Byron Campbell July 1990 • The Workhouse. ‘Lavender Ripples. Women’s • ‘Us and Them Art’. Sheffield event ‘run by Workhouse Cabaret with The Tokens, Little Millie, disabled people and involving disabled artists Kris Black (MC), signed song. Swiss Cottage and performers, the event will offer the chance to Community Centre. ‘For lesbians and all are explore Disability culture’. Events include welcome’. »» To 15th July ‘Beyond Alchemy’. Adam 13th - 15th June Reynolds exhibition at Mappin Art Gallery. • No Excuses Theatre Cabaret. ‘An exciting new »» To 7 July ‘Beyond the Barriers - Disability and Liverpool-based company of disabled actors making Sexuality’. Photographic work by David Hevey, their London debut.’ June 13,14,15 at Red Rose, Mary Duffy and Johnny and Maggie Gathercole. Diorama and Chat’s Palace. 14 June Première hosted »» 14 July Disability Arts Cabaret with Johnny by LDAF Crescendo, Allan Sutherland, Wanda Barbara, 23rd June Kate Portal. • ‘Easy Money’. New tape of songs by Johnny • ‘Disabled People Celebrate’ Arts Festival (Ocean Crescendo. Village, Southampton) • National Disability Arts Forum launched at 20th June ‘Disability Arts UK-OK’ conference at Beaumont • ‘Liberty, Equality, Disability’. One Day Workshop College. and Exhibition about Photography, Representation 5th July and Disability, York Arts Centre. With David • The Workhouse’ Chat’s Palace Hevey, Ruth Collett from Bradford’s In-Valid?, ‘poet, »» ‘The Tragic Twins’ (Johnny Crescendo and singer, performer’ Sue Napolitano. Followed (12-23 Mike Higgins) June) by work by disabled photographers, including: »» Rupa Sarkar commeres »» ‘Striking Poses’ by David Hevey (black and white and colour exhibition of photos of children 14th July from segregated schools in London - Graeae • ‘Missing Persons/Damaged Lives’ exhibition at Theatre Company touring exhibition.) City Art Gallery, Leeds, includes Jo Spence’s work. »» ‘Sense of Self’, the result of a workshop held at 17th July Bradford Community Arts for disabled people to • The Workhouse, Red Rose Club explore images of themselves • Heart ‘n Soul ‘Dungeon of Love’ »» ‘Access’ Photos used to campaign for better access to public buildings 26th July »» Clown: Franz Shealey • ‘Disability Arts UK - OK’. Conference at »» Art: Gioya Steinke, Tony Heaton, Hackney Beaumont College, Lancashire, to set up National SHAPE Disability Arts Forum. »» Commere: Elspeth Morrison, with Kris Black and Geof Goodall August 1990 9th September • Strathcona ‘The Art of Framing’ (TriangleTheatre, • Milton Keynes Disability Arts and Sports Festival then touring Lancaster, Liverpool, Bristol. »» Wild Theatre Co 3rd August »» Michele Mimms • The Workhouse, Willesden Green Library »» Spinning Wheels »» Johnnie Crescendo »» Kate Portal »» Ian Stanton »» Raaw Meet »» Dot Miles (signed poetry) »» Leslie the Juggler » » Wanda Barbara (MC) 13th - 14th September 23rd August • New Breed perform ‘Birds III’ at Green Room, • The Workhouse, Chat’s Palace Manchester. » » Allan Sutherland (Resident comedian) 15th September »» Chris Harrison (Songs and comedy) • ‘First Chance - The- Way forward?’ Conference at »» Josephine Wilson (Musician and poet) Riverside Studios, London, to discuss opportunities September 1990 for training and access to the media for disabled people. • Launch of Independent Theatre Council booklet : • Focus: A one-day conference about access to ‘Policy into Practice: Disability’. training in Film and Video for disabled people’. • ‘The Creatures that Time Forgot: Photography and Opening speaker Maggie Woolley for SHAPE. the Construction of Disability Imagery’. Disabilities Organised by ICAN First Chance Project and photography project by David Hevey. Publication Riverside Studios in consultation with disabled by Routledge, Chapman and Hall; poster campaign people working in the media. of 5 full colour A2 posters exploring issues of access, self-worth, housing, employment and disability Oct 1990 culture; touring photographic exhibition by • Launch of ADAPT fund to help make arts Camerawork Gallery; series of Disability Imagery buildings accessible. Awareness Training Days; talks and conferences. • ‘You don’t Have to Smile’ Theatre/Photography • ‘Eliminating Shadows: a manual on photography workshop for disabled people, run by disabled and disability’ by Ray Cooper. Pub. London Print people. Leaders include David Hevey, Ailsa Fairley, Workshop. Elspeth Morrison. • Kirin Saeed becomes Arts Management trainee • 1st meeting of steering group for Eastern Region with Northern Shape. Disability Arts Forum. • ‘Chances Are’, Graeae Theatre in Education Company’s new touring project. w Jo Verrant d 6th October Annie Smoll • LDAF Performers’ meeting ‘ to discuss what • 16 protestors arrested on Oxford Street in performers would like from LDAF’. Campaign for Accessible Transport demonstration. 20th October All charges subsequently dropped. • ‘Time for Change’ Disability Benefits consortium 8th September rally in London (Trafalgar Square), Manchester and • Disabled Artists’ Day, Hackney Downs (Driven Glasgow . from Covent Garden Piazza, did not take place in • The Workhouse Swiss Cottage Community 1989) Centre, NW3 »» Music: Heart ‘n Soul, Tragic Twins, Kate »» The Tragic Twins Portal, Fish out of Water, Fantasium, Pink »» The Lawnmowers Fingers, Maudie and Harry »» Allan Sutherland »» Comedy: Wanda Barbara, Ian Stanton, Allan »» Kate Portal Sutherland »» Elspeth Morrison (host) 22nd October January 1991 • The Workhouse Disability Resource Centre, • Apples and Snakes have funding from Greater Walthamstow, E17. The Lawnmowers plus special London Arts to carry out research on disabled guest writers and performers. • The Workhouse Ealing College of HE Students’ • Shape London festival ‘Louder than Words’ to be Union, W5. The Lawnmowers and Kate Portal held in Hounslow, Spring 1991 at Orangerie gallery 23rd October in Gunnersbury Park. • The Workhouse London Lighthouse, W1 • Jackson’s Lane Community Centre looking • The Lawnmowers and Kate Portal for work experience placements for people with disabilities from their Theatre Training Scheme. November 1990 Placements May/June 1991, to last 6-8 weeks, 1 day • (No edition of DAIL, presumably because of a week. restructuring and demise of Arts Media Group.) 5th January • The Workhouse, Red Rose. ‘Up and coming talent’ • Outcast Theatre Company running winter (not named). workshops, including: ‘A song signing workshop for • GLAD AGM decides to work to becoming an all lesbian and gay people by the Pink Fingers’. organisation controlled by disabled people. 28th January December 1990 • Outcast Theatre Company running winter • Disabled artist Nancy Willis becomes first artist- workshops, including: The Workhouse, Oval House, in-residence at Hammersmith Hospital. She will SE11 » be working for a year making work for permanent » Natalie Markham (commere) » display as part of the Hospital’s art collection. » Charles Hampton (Sign song) » • Heart ‘n Soul release ‘The Heart ‘n Soul Anthem’, » Rupa Sarkar (Poet) » accompanied by pop promo. » Astrid Menenzes (Singer) » • Arts Council launches 2nd edition of ‘Arts and » Colin Thompson (Signed song) Disability Directory’. February 1991 17th December • EUCREA funding given to: • The Workhouse, Red Rose, N4. Christmas Party »» 2 European editions of DAIL Night ‘with a sixties theme’ »» ‘Le Workhouse’ (26 May, Willesden Green »» Johnnie Crescendo Library) »» Isobel Ward »» ‘The Dodgy Jammers’ (Wales), an integrated »» Allan Sutherland band involving musicians with learning »» Kate Portal disabilities. »» The Pink Fingers • London Bubble project ‘Signals’ ‘to introduce »» Phil Troll hearing actors to BSL and to offer actors, both hearing and deaf, the opportunity to explore ways 1991 of working together towards discovering a theatrical • Taking Liberties set up by disabled people to ‘fight language accessible to all’. Project led by John for the rights of disabled people to gain greater Wilson. access to art activities in and around the Wigan area’. • Christmas cards for Nottingham Coalition of • Yorkshire Disability Arts Forum set up. Disabled People drawn by Maggie Guillon (non- • ‘Looking Back’, an anthology of writing from the disabled full time carer) from ideas by ‘Trudy’ Pastures Hospital, South Derbyshire, and ‘Looking (disabled person). Forward’, an anthology of writing from after the • SHAPE London seeking Deaf artist for 6 month Pastures. Both published by East Midlands Shape. residency at St Luke’s Woodside Hospital, ‘a • David Sowerby ‘Red Hat and No Drawers’ residential mental health unit in Finchley’. Aim of (National Poetry Foundation). project is to produce finished work to be installed in • CandoCo founded by Celeste Dandeker and Adam the hospital. Benjamin. • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Chances Are’. Written by Jo Verrant. Directed by Annie Smol. Theatre In Education national tour. March 1991 »» 8th March: Strathcona Theatre Company in • ‘The Politics of Disablement’, (Mike Oliver). ‘The Art of Framing’ • ‘Access to Image Exhibition’ Photographs by David »» 9th March: Cabaret. Rupa Sarka, Charles Hevey. (National Museum of Photography, Film Hampton, High Spirits and Heart ‘n Soul and Television, Bradford). »» 6th-9th March: Visual and tactile art • Theatre Centre 6th annual Festival includes: workshops led by Julie Umerle »» 26th March: ‘Brave Faces’ ‘Integrated signed 7th March - 13th April performance’. Including two deaf performers: • ‘Louder Than Words’ Disability Arts Festival in Mark Staines and Caroline Parker. Hounslow, including: »» 27th March: Wild Child »» 7th March: Wild Child »» Other performances sign language »» 23rd March: Heart ‘n Soul interpreted. »» Baluji Shrivastar (Workshops of music and • ‘A Slice of City Life’ Photography Exhibition dance) by users of Community Focus, a fully accessible »» Graeae Theatre Company ‘Chances Are’ wheelchair photography centre in Hendon (a (shows and workshops at various community Community and Recreational Arts in Barnet schools) project). Includes pictures by Seyed Alamalhodaei, »» 27th March - 12th April: Exhibition of work John Mason and Sally O’Shea. by professional disabled artists (Orangerie, • ‘A Real View’ Festival of Disability Arts in borough Gunnersbury Park), including Nancy Willis’s of Hammersmith and Fulham, prod. SHAPE, with sculpture ‘Taking Leave’. Leisure and Recreation Dept, ‘a celebration of the »» Workhouse cabarets (Feltham Assembly Halls) culture, artistic achievement and involvement of »» 5th April: For older audience local disabled people’. »» 13th April: ‘Entertainment and discussion • Exhibition of visual arts by Julie Umerle and round the role of art in disability’ Trevor Landell • ‘Beyond the Barriers’. Work by three disabled 8th March photographers: Mary Duffy, David Hevey and • Aylesbury Disability Arts ‘91 (presented by Johnny Gathercole. (Bradford Community Arts Aylesbury Disability Arts Forum) Centre.) Organised by In-Valid? »» Kate Portal • Graeae Theatre Company and Greenwich Young »» Jigsaw Theatre Company People’s Theatre present ‘Revenge’ by the Riversiders »» Nice ’n Easy (group of 25 young disabled people, founded 1988 »» McIntyre Drama Group ‘to offer access to the arts for young disabled people »» Lesley the Juggler in Greenwich’). • The Workhouse, Oval House, SE11 • Leeds University hold Disability Awareness Week. »» Natalie Markham (Commere) Performers include: the Big Bad Blues/Tragic But »» Apocalypse (Music) Brave Show, Fish Out of Water, No Excuses, Co- »» Sharon Knight (Comedy) Sign. »» Fish out of Water (Music) »» Ian Stanton (Music) 1st March • From Mar 1 Theatre Venture to tour ‘Wild Child’, 9th - 27th March ‘an innovative music theatre show for deaf and • ‘Insights’, exhibition of painting by partially hearing audiences’ d John Wilson of National Youth sighted artists and other artworks made to be Theatre of the Deaf. Claims to be ‘accessible to touched. (Arundel Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex. those who can hear but not sign, can sign but not Organised by The Arts Connection, Portsmouth.) hear and those who cannot hear or sign but rely on 10th March lipreading and what they see’. • Disabled lesbians cabaret (Camden Lesbian 6th March - 13th April Centre, NW1) • Movin’ On ‘91 (SHAPE Hackney with Chat’s »» The Tokens (Lesbian accapella) Palace), including: »» Iona Fletcher (from Pink Fingers signed song »» 6th March: ‘Music extravaganza’ with Colin group) Thompson »» Janice Pink (poet) »» 7th March: Karaoke night »» Special guests 14th March »» Johnny Crescendo • Entertainment event for people with HIV, St Paul’s »» Mike Higgins Church, Hammersmith »» Wanda Barbara » 15th March » Ian Stanton • Baluji Shrivastav (sitar) St Paul’s Church, 15th May Hammersmith • The Workhouse (Old Town Hall, Newham) » 16th March » Wanda Barbara (Comedy) » • The Workhouse, Emerald Centre, Hammersmith: » Mike Higgins and Johnny Crescendo (music) » »» Pink Fingers (Signed song) » Ray Graham and Sarah Scott (Sign Song) » »» Rupa Sarka (Poet) » Martin Davies (poems) » »» Isobel Ward (Music) » Jag Plah (Comedy) » »» Terri Carol (paper tearing) » Heart ‘n Soul »» Caroline Parker (Commere) 12th May »» Proposal to create local disability arts forum. • Co-Sign ‘Fearless Knights’ (Unicorn Theatre). 16th March - 8th June 16th - 18th May • ‘Wordshape’. Creative writing course for young • ‘Smokescreen’ New devised play by Carousel (Oval disabled people. House, SE11). 28th May - 1st June April 1991 • ‘Les Pierres’ ‘Real sign poetry, synchronised by • First edition of Disability Arts Magazine, funded native-born signers’ (ICA). for a 12-month trial period by the four northern Regional Arts Associations in England and the Arts June 1991 and Disability budget of the Arts Council of Great • Northern Shape changes its name to Equal Arts Britain. ‘to reflect more accurately its new policy influencing • Graeae Writers’ Project runs series of workshops role: to encourage equal opportunities in the for disabled writers at Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend. professional arts for and by disabled people and 3rd - 13th April under-represented groups’. • Path Productions ‘Yellow’. Children’s show. • Stream Records new mail order scheme, ‘a range of musical disability culture’ : Fish Out of Water, May 1991 Frankie Armstrong, Isobel Ward, Tragic Mike, Ian • GYPT (Greenwich Young People’s Theatre) ‘Past Stanton, Clocks and Clouds, Sounds Music, Heart ‘n Caring’. Three disabled actors playing parts not Soul. labelled disabled. • Joe Bidder ‘Matter of Life and Death’ (Pub Zzero). • ‘Hanging Up in Hounslow’ (Exhibition of • Booster Cushion Theatre, ‘Never Judge a Book by professional artists at ‘Louder than Words’ festival): its Cover’. »» Nancy Willis • Isle of Wight Deaf Projects ‘Through the Waves’. »» Sally Booth • Unicorn Theatre: Workshops for deaf playwrights. » » Carolyn James 15th June »» Adam Raynolds • Lavender Ripples 2 for disabled lesbians and their »» Steve Cribb friends: »» Trevor Landell »» The Tokens (lesbian a capella singing group) »» Steven Millwood »» Carol Uszkurat singer/songwriter) »» Margaret Aplin »» Maria Jastrzeba (poet) • ‘The Bombing Fields’. Colchester community play by disabled writer Kaite O’Reilly, and featuring a 22nd - 23rd June number of local disabled people. • ‘Stand by Your Bed’ A play by Camden People • Cleveland Disability Arts Forum launched. First (Jackson’s Lane Community Centre). 4th May 26th June • Phalanx (Herts Coalition of Disabled People) • The Workhouse, 48 Boundary Road, NW8 present The Tragic But Brave Roadshow (Poplars »» Johnny Crescendo Community Centre, Stevenage) »» Ian Stanton »» Sue Napolitano »» Sharon Knight »» Isobel Ward »» On the Beat Off the Beat »» No Excuses »» Natalie Markham (Commere) »» Russian Theatre of the Deaf » 28th - 29th June » ‘Le Workhouse cabaret’ (using above artists) • Strathcona Theatre Company. Final Shows of ‘The hosted by Elspeth Morrison » Art of Framing’ (Tricycle Theatre, NW6). » ‘Shaken but Not Stirred’, sculpture and performance commissioned from Tony Heaton July 1991 by LDAF • First Block Telethon demonstration led by the ‘Campaign Against Patronage’ a mixture of disabled October 1991 political activists and disability artists. • Artshare Avon produce Adlib News. • Graeae Theatre Company appoints its first • ‘An Echo of Reflections’ by Keith Ratcliffe disabled artistic director, Ewan Marshall. (National Poetry Foundation). • First Disability Arts Day for people in • Francis Halloran ‘Hydra’s Circus’ (Artshare South Humberside: seminars plus Tragic But Brave West). Roadshow. • ‘Challenging Stereotypes’ Walsall Museum and • ‘Launderette of Desire’, record by Bradford duo Art Gallery seeking exhibitors for late 1992, touring Clocks and Clouds. 1993. • ‘Valid’ Quarterly magazine from In-Valid?, 6th July Bradford’s disability arts group. • LDAF meeting of disabled visual artists. 6th October 15th - 27th July • Milton Keynes Disability Arts and Sports Festival. • Exhibition of paintings by Michael Solomons. 29th October (Willyoutts Centre, Potters Bar.) • ‘Tragic But Brave Roadshow’, Stratford Civic Hall, 24th July Birmingham • The Workhouse, Waltham Forest Theatre, E17 »» Wanda Barbara »» Allan Sutherland »» ‘Tragic’ Mike Higgins »» Isobel Ward »» Ian Stanton »» Martin Davies »» Johnny Crescendo »» Dorothy Miles »» Sarah Scott and Ray Harrison Graham »» The Tokens »» Presented by Saltway Disability Resource Centre. August 1991 11th - 26th October Sept 1991 • Leeds International Film Festival, including • ‘All In Your Head’. Video about epilepsy by Jo ‘Images of Disability’ Pearson. »» Chris Davies (Chair) • ‘My Army’ One man show by deaf actor Tim »» Ann Pointon Barlow. (Finishes tour Sept/Oct.) »» Steve Dwoskin »» Allan Sutherland 13th September »» James Whale • Mustn’t Grumble presents the ‘Unlucky for Some’ »» ‘Barriers to Access’ cabaret. (Bradford Community Arts Centre, BD1). »» Raina Haig, Assistant Producer of ‘One In (Part of Bradford Festival 1991. ) Four’ 21st September »» Bernard Quinn, British Deaf Association • LDAF Euroday, Tottenham Green Centre. »» Andrew Walker, BFI Disability committee »» Quasali (Percussion band from Netherlands) »» Alan Thornton, Cinema Exhibitors’ »» Joachim Pereira Eires (Visual artist) Association »» Dr Peter Radtke (actor and leading figure in German disability movement) November 1991 »» Juho Saarinen (Finnish professional deaf • Survivors Poetry founded ‘to foster and promote dancer) poetry workshops and performances for and by »» Johnny Crescendo survivors of the mental health system’. • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre ‘An Angel musicians, poets, dancers and cabaret artists or The Old Dreams of Flying’ and ‘Since Then’. from the Disability Arts scene.’ (Started a few (Touring). months earlier.) • 8 disabled people arrested outside TV studios in Leeds, demonstrating about ‘Children in Need’. 1992 16th November • Humberside Disability Arts Forum formed. • DASh (Disability Arts Shropshire) formed as part • Survivors’ Poetry of Shropshire Disability Consortium (SDC). »» Ferenc Aszmann (MC Poet) » » Paulette Ng (Poet) January 1992 »» Raz and Sam (Music/poetry duo) »» Peter Campbell (Poet) 27th January »» Pauline Brady (Singer) • Kwabena Gyedu, Ghanaian disability artist, gives a slide presentation of his paintings at the Arts 20th November Council. • Disability Arts and Culture Seminar held by Shape London in liaison with the Open University February 1992 and Disability Arts in London magazine. Keynote • Disaret Club (Chat’s Palace): The Tokens speeches subsequently published as ‘Disability • ITV ‘Link’ programme on the play ‘Hound’ Arts and Culture Papers’ (ed Sarah Lees, Shape • Evelyn Street SE8 photomural, by Katherine Publications 1992). Araniello, Veronica Pakenham, Kate Brown and December 1991 Sue Elsegood, with non-disabled colleagues. (Image prepared in collaboration with Art of Change.) • ‘The Power of Life’. New Heart ‘n Soul show. • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre ‘Lunera’. • BCODP publish ‘Disabled People in Britain: A (Premiere 21 Feb, then touring nationally.) Case for Anti-Discrimination Legislation’. • Arts Special Info (Strathclyde). A directory of 17th February - 14th March information for the use of artists and special needs • Mockbeggar Theatre Co presents ‘In Through the groups to set up their own arts projects. Out Door’ (Touring) • A group of disabled artists, writers, representatives 12th February - 13th June from arts organisations and statutory bodies in the • Graeae Theatre Company: ‘Hound’ by Maria Noth-East meet and decide to launch a Disability Oshodi. d. Ewan Marshall (Touring, 31 venues Arts Forum in the area: NorDAF. nationally) • ‘Revealed’ by Johnny Crescendo. ‘A book of poems, song lyrics and pictures of the author as a 25th February child’. (Self-published.) • Workhouse Poetry Cabaret Night (Oval House) (Launching series of New Writing Workshops being 16th December held in conjunction with Apples and Snakes). • Christmas Workhouse »» Allan Sutherland »» Mandy Colleran (Commere) »» Rupa Sarka »» Tim Sagosz (Blues guitar) »» Martin Davies »» John Wilson and Paula Garfield (Signing act) »» Rosita Green »» Martin Davies (Poetry) »» Jo Wilson »» Carol Uszukurat (Singer/songwriter) »» Johnny Crescendo »» The Tragic But Brave Troupe: Ian Stanton, »» And reading of works of Simon Brisenden Johnny Crescendo, Wanda Barbara and Mike Higgins 24th February - 28th March • Drawings by Gioya Steinke and paintings by 19th December Carolyn James, ‘two local artists with a visual • Disaret Club at Chat’s Palace, ‘Disaret December’. disability’. (Old Town Hall, Richmond) »» Ian Stanton »» Wanda Barbara March 1992 »» Johnny Crescendo • ‘Louder Than Words’ ’92 (Festival of Disability »» Kate Brown (Hostess and compere) Arts in Hounslow, Richmond and Ealing) »» ‘Every month the Disaret Club at Chat’s • ‘Three into Two Goes’ (Touring exhibitions of Palace hosts and promotes the best performers, pictures and 3d from day centres and community organisations in the three boroughs) 22nd - 29th March • Exhibition of Art by European Disabled Artists • Channel Four Disability Week. (Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery). 29th March 14th March • Carl Campbell Dance Co 7. (Commonwealth • ‘Disabled Women Celebrate’ with workshops, Institute) ‘an exciting and electrifying displays and ‘No Excuses’ cabaret. (Southville Contemporary Afro-Caribbean Dance Theatre, Centre, Bristol) with a particular commitment to educational 16th - 21st March development within the community, for Deaf and • ‘Go, Go, Go ’92’ (Movin’ On Festival ‘92). partially hearing children and adults’. Including Graeae Theatre Company ‘Hound’, Heart 26th March ‘n Soul ‘The Power of Life’, and Grand Finale with • ‘The Creatures Time Forgot: Photography, and Johnny Crescendo, Timothy Sagosz, Rupa Sarka Disability Imagery’ (book) by David Hevey, pub (MC). Routledge. Part of a wider project, which includes 5th March the book, an exhibition at Camerawork, a series of • Women’s Workhouse for International Women’s posters, a training pack and a keynote conference. Day (Oval House, SE11) Apr 1992 »» The Tokens (lesbian a capella and sign song) • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre leading »» Fish Out of Water (Jazz band) Easter Week Project with young people at Slough »» Ruth Harris (Poet) Deaf Club. Finished piece to be seen on 16 Apr. »» Caroline Parker (sign song) • Artsline announce publication of ‘Play, Arts »» Carol Uzukurat (singer/guitarist) and Leisure Activities or Disabled children, Their »» Ruth Hill (Commere) Parents and Carers’. 14th March • Disability Arts Magazine becomes the first arts • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) organisation run, staffed and controlled entirely by »» Performance Bill disabled people to obtain revenue funding from the »» Patience Agbabi (MC and Poet) Arts Council of Great Britain. During this year the »» Razz (Performance poet) magazine changes its name to ‘DAM’. »» Mimi Khalvati (Poet) 2nd April »» Davy Graham (Singer and musician) • Green Candle Dance Co ‘The Road Home’ (Priory 25th March Centre, Acton) • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Hound’ • Steve Cribb presents: ‘Wilder than Lourdes: • 3 LDAF Workhouse cabarets for older people in The Alternative Cabaret Party’ (Montague Hall, the borough: Star and Garter Home (No details Hounslow). Includes music from Gipsy’s Kiss. given), Chiswick Town Hall(Apr 14), the Old Fire Elspeth Morrison (Commere). Station (Mar 27): 7th April »» Tragic Mike • Touring exhibition of David Hevey’s work, to link »» Isobel Ward with publication of his new book, ‘The Creatures »» Maudie and Harry That Time Forgot’ opens at Camerawork Gallery. »» Rosita Green Apr 21st Hevey in conversation with Eamonn »» Maudie (MC) McCabe. 25th March - 5th April 11th April • ‘Way Out West’ Professional Artists Exhibition • Grandchildren of Albion and Survivors’ Poetry (the Small Mansion Arts Centre, Gunnerbury Park) (Hampden Community Centre) 24th March »» Elaine Randell • Heart ‘n Soul ‘The Power of Life’ (Avenue Centre, »» Peter Campbell (MC) Teddington) »» Michael Horovitz 28th March »» Razz • ‘Deaf Way Cabaret’. Clive Mason (Host), Charles »» Marta Soukias Hampton (Sign song) Sarah Scott (Sign song) ‘and »» Paulette Ng much more’. »» Adam Horovitz »» Frank Bangay »» The Northern Writers Workshop »» Neil Sparkes and Ramona Metcalfe (Jazz and »» No Excuses poetry) »» Tom Shakespeare 15th April 26th - 29th May • Disaret Club, Chat’s Palace • Graeae Theatre Company launch Graeae Youth »» Katherine Araniello (her life in slides) Theatre. »» Slide show tribute to Alfredo Dias »» ‘Images of a Festival’ (David Hevey’s photos of June 1992 Movin’ on ‘89) 6th June • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) May 1992 »» P.J.Fahy (MC Poet and Musician) • ‘Rainbows in the Ice’ poetry collection by 17 »» Ifigenija Zagorinik (Poet) disabled writers (Crocus Books) »» Dave Russel (Musician and poet) • Show of Hands Theatre touring ‘Wilde Tales’ to 30 »» Billy Childish (Poet) May. (3 Deaf, 3 hearing actors.) • Charles Hampton ‘Thriller’, ‘a signed musical of 17th June mystery, song and dance’. • The Workhouse, Kingstonian Football Club, Kingston-Upon Thames 7th May- 12th July »» Isobel Ward (Music) • Neti-Neti present ‘Shabbash’ by Penny Casdagli »» Diane Miller (Comedy) and Mina Mokid (In English, sign language and »» The Survivors - Peter Campbell, Razz and Sam Bengali). (Touring.) (Performance poetry) 9th May »» Johnny Crescendo (Singer) • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Elspeth Morrison (MC) » » Anna Neeter (MC and poet) 26th - 28th June » » Joseph Houghey (Singer and musician) • Conference on Theatre and Disability, held at » » Leah Thorn (Performer) Owens Park in Manchester. »» John Rety (Anarchic poet) 14th May July 1992 • ‘Powerhouse’, a women only Workhouse, benefit • Survivors’ Poetry: ‘From Dark to Light’ (Ed. for ‘Powerhouse women’s group in Newham trying Bangay, Bidder and Porter) (Survivors Press). to raise funds to set up a safe house for women • ‘Freewheelin’, new tape by Ian Stanton (Stream with learning difficulties who are being harassed, Records). Includes ‘A Bloody Funny Way’, ‘The threatened and attacked by men’. (West Ham Town Glee Club’, ‘Tragic But Brave’ and ‘A Message from Hall) Telethon’ »» The Tokens 18th July » » Claire Graydon James • Second ‘Block Telethon’ demonstration. Tony » » Dot Miles Heaton’s ‘Shaken not Stirred’ (commissioned for » » Sarah Scott LDAF Euroday) repeated as part of press launch. »» Ruth Harris »» The Powerhouse Steel Band 20th July • ‘Inmates’ by Allan Sutherland and Stuart Morris. 14th - 15th May BBC Pilot for situation comedy set in a long-stay • Launch of Northern Disability Arts Forum at institution for disabled people. Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend, including Graeae Theatre Company with ‘Hound’. David Burdis and August 1992 Geof Armstrong chair, Johnny Crescendo is guest • Demonstration against faith healer Morris Cerullo. speaker. A group of disabled people sign an open letter to 16th May Cerullo challenging him to cure any of them. Their • National Disability Arts Forum AGM, plus cabaret criticisms gain widespread press coverage. with: • John Wilson appointed SHAPE London Deaf Arts »» The Jarrow Elvis Roadshow Development Officer »» Tragic But Brave • Basic Theatre Co present ‘Gary’ at Edinburgh. (Touring 1993) 8th August by Colin Hambrook (The Real Art Company, 330 • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) Portobello Road, W10.). Ended in November. » » Neil Sparkes (MC and poet) 7th October - 5th December » » Elaine Randell (Poet) • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘A Kind of Immigrant’ » » Peter Street (Poet) by Firdaus Kanga d Ewan Marshall (Touring » » Jana Heller (Singer/musician) 23 venues nationally) Cast: Mark Beer, Rashid September 1992 Karapiet, Jeremey Killick, Shan Stevens. ‘An honest, sensual and often amusing account of a young • ‘Splash Productions present Disability Arts man’s sexual awakening, chronicling his journey Cabaret. Fish Out of Water (Music), Isobel Ward which reveals a whole new world of which he had (Music), Charles Hampton(Signed song).’ (Available previously only dreamed.’ for booking.) • Graeae Theatre Company launches new theatre 3rd October workshop for young people. • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • Launch of Graeae Youth Theatre Initiative, »» Razz (MC and poet) following appointment of Caroline Lucas as Training »» Mother Courage (Music duo) Development Co-ordinator as a response to the lack »» Melanie Thompson (Poet) of training opportunities for disabled actors. »» Joe Bidder (Poet) • Claire Collison’s photgraphic pieces on show at 4th October Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, as part of • ‘Celebrate’ LDAF Workhouse Cabaret as part of Autumn Photography Season. Waltham Forest Disability Celebration Festival • Samena Rana dies. »» Maggie Woolley (Compere) 12th September »» Rupa Sarka (poet) • ‘Jazz and Blues Workhouse Special’ »» Claire Graydon James (Vocalist) with Francis »» Tim Sagosz (Jazz and blues guitar) Rwama (Jazz pianist) »» Powerhouse Women’s Group (‘Stirring »» Tokens (Lesbian a capella) poetry’) »» Dot Miles (Signed poetry) »» Mandy Colleran (Commere) »» Heart ‘n Soul Experience »» Mandy Colleran interviews Powerhouse about 31st October their attempt to set up a safe house for women • Milton Keynes Disability Arts Festival with learning difficulties »» Val Stein (Blues with ‘Jewish feel’) November 1992 »» Francis Rwama (Pianist) • Stream Records presents ‘a new and exciting »» Zeedy Thompson (Black poet) disability arts cabaret’ »» Mandy Colleran interviews visual artist Gioya »» Isobel Ward Steinke »» Fish Out of Water 28th September - 3rd October »» Charles Hampton • Deafest : 92. ‘A look at the achievements of deaf »» Mik Scarlet (Compere) education and at the work and success of local deaf »» Available for bookings. ‘Other artists available people’. (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield). Includes ‘Deaf on request’. Music, led by Paul Whitaker, Red Ladder Theatre, • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre 5th Token Gestures and Sonic Boom, the Crucible’s own Anniversary Tour, ‘Waiting’ (premiered Oct), a piece Deaf Youth Theatre’. for 2 dancers (deaf and hearing) and a musician. • ‘A combination of Sign-dance-theatre, Symbolism October 199 and expressionistic dance.’ • BCODP report ‘Disabling Imagery and the 20th November Media - An Exploration of the principles for Media • ‘Level Access Cabaret with Johnny Crescendo Representation of Disabled People. and the Entertrainers. (Dog and Fox, Wimbledon. • Shape London ‘Art as Object’. Paintings by Meena Organised by Merton PHAB Club.) Jafarey, Terry Miles, E.Lynn Beel, Mosgan Safa. With ‘Art as Activity’, display of artwork by local disabled 27th November people. (Turtle Key Arts Centre.) • Talk by Scottish disabled artist Brian Jenkins about • ‘Dreams of the Absurd’ an exhibition of paintings his issue-based photographic work and his current project at Hereward College on Disability and Self- February 1993 Representation. (Ikon Gallery Birmingham) • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre spring From 29th November tour ‘Lunera’ ‘ a fast-moving piece of sign dance • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘Still Crazy After theatre inspired by traditional Cuban folk songs’ and All These Years’ (Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn) ‘An ‘Waiting’ ‘with a collaboratively written script in BSL exciting and memorable compilation of four of and English’ which will tickle an audience red!’ your favourite extracts from previous shows which • Derbyshire Disability Arts Forum founded. chart the company’s ten year history, plus the world »» Cabaret at launch event ‘A Bit of a Do Two’ premiere of our latest sure fire hit ‘Bully for You’.’ (Wilmorton College): Ian Stanton, Johnny Crescendo, Mike Higgins, Sue Napolitano, Ken December 1992 Davis, Wanda Barbara. Compere Mike Bramley. • LDAF Christmas Celebration (Workhouse?) • Dorothy Miles dies. »» Mandy Colleran 9th February »» Francis Rwama • ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ (New Breed Theatre »» Marvel Opara Company first national tour starts.) »» Raina Haig »» Franz Shealey March 1993 »» Colin Thompson • ‘Different Views’ Exhibition of photographic work • Vauxhall Centre Media Group, Norwich, setting by disabled people, coming from Access to Image up ‘Positive Images’ project. ‘When completed in project. May 1993 will be a photographic, art and literature »» Includes work by Lydia Popowich from resource created and run by disabled people...The Newcastle, Wei Kan Cheung. Stan Brown, display will be mounted on portable display boards Richard Woodward, George Wilmott, Andrea which can then be hired out for use in schools, at Lamb, Ken Rowley and by Click, disabled conferences or any other venue which wishes to women’s photography group from Leeds. Also promote positive images of disabled people.’ ‘Fragments of Self’ by Samena Rana. (Touring • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) nationally.) »» Bushy Kelly (MC poet) »» Also 37 page Photo Work Book, including »» Aaron Williamson (performer, presenting articles by Mary Duffy, Sue Napolitano, and Liz work from his book ‘Cathedral Lung’ Crow. »» Danielle Hope (poet) • Joanne Pearson’s ‘All In Your Head’, film about her »» The Wise Wound (music) experience of epilepsy, to be shown at ICA as part of 9th December BT New Contemporaries exhibition. • ‘The Invisible Cabaret Show’, first chance to see • ‘Black Hats and Twisted Bodies’. BFI essay on ‘Invisible Cabaret, a new performance group of disability in mainstream cinema by Allan Sutherland disabled women present an evening of drama, (DAM magazine). poetry, song and comedy inspired by their lives’. • ‘Cathedral Lung’ Aaron Williamson poetry (The Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne). collection. »» ‘Aaron Williamson’ audio cassette. (Both pub 1993 Creation Press. Furhter publication ‘Holythroat • High Spin Dance Company formed. Symposium’ due later in the year.) • Deaf Arts UK founded by SHAPE London • ‘In Through the Front Door: Disabled people and the Visual Arts: Examples of Good Practice.’ (Arts January 1993 Council of Great Britain) • Workhouse benefit for Black Disabled People’s 13th March Group • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Francis Rwama »» Anna Neeter (MC. Poet and Musician) »» Ruth Harris »» Paul Matthew (Up and coming Survivor Poet) »» Debbie Williams »» Ann Ziety (Performance poet) »» Devon Marston »» Davy Graham (Singer/musician) »» Ebony Steel Band »» Fatima Shobakin (from Carl Campbell Dance Co.) April 1993 »» Jazz ‘n Poetry (see above) • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘Still Crazy after All »» High Spirits, Freak Uk, Mik Scarlet These Years’ (Still touring until May.) »» Lilian Baylis Over Sixties Performance Group • ‘Defiance: Art confronting Disability’ (City »» New Breed Theatre Company ‘The Man who Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent): Eddy Loved Islands’ Hardy, Michelle Leon, Paul Gosling, Adam »» CandoCo Reynolds, Joaquim Pereira Eires, Steve Cribb, David »» Deaf Cabaret: Clive Mason (Compere), Hevey, Mark Williamson, Nancy Willis, Denise Gunter Puttrich-Reignard, Paul Scott, Shainal Richardson, Stephen Shaw, Paul van Copenolle, Jo Vasant Pearson, Richard Wallis. »» Making space (Group of adults with • ‘Images of a Festival’, LDAF travelling exhibition. disabilities who have designed poster) Laminated A2 prints of photos commissioned from 5th May David Hevey of 1989 London-wide Movin’ On • The Workhouse (Kingstonian Football Club) Festival. »» The Wise Wound (Music) • First National Deaf Theatre Weekend (Derby »» Joe Bidder (Poet) School for the Deaf) »» Val Stein (Blues) • ‘From Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to Pre- »» Johnny Crescendo and the P.O.P.Squad Menstrual Sisterhood’. Billboard in Birmingham »» Mandy Colleran (Compere) by Claire Collison, parodying Ford Madox Brown’s ‘Pretty Baa Lambs’ in City Museum and Art Gallery. 8th May (Part of Billboard Project set up by University of • Launch of West Midlands Disability Arts Forum. Central England.) Including performance from Johnny Crescendo and • Basic Theatre ‘Signs of the Times’, touring from the P.O.P. Squad, stars and rising stars of Disability April 30th. Arts circuit and performance by Basic Theatre. 13th April - 15th May 12th May • Carolyn James and Gioya Steinke exhibit at Old • Jazz and Poetry for Islington Disability Arts Town Hall, Richmond Festival (Red Rose) ‘Fish out of Water’, featuring Genie Cosmas, plus Survivors’ Poetry: Leah Thorn 17th April (MC and performer), Bill Lewis (author of ‘Age • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) without Anger’), Zeedy Thompson (Lyrical poet), »» Speech Painters (Mcs) Ian Jentle (Poet) »» Maria Torres (Spanish dancer and poet) »» Manhar (Poet and singer/songwriter) 13th May »» Joyoti Grech (Black/Asian woman poet) • Johnny Crescendo launching new album ‘Pride’ »» Aniruddha Das (Percussionist/sound with his new band the P.O.P. Squad, plus Clare magician) Mooney, Ian Stanton and Wanda Barbara (Chat’s Palace) 18th April • Benefit gig by Disabled artists for Chat’s Palace, 14th-15th May including: Survivors Poetry, James Conlan, Rupa • Deaf Focus at the Unicorn (National Deaf Sarka, Geof Chilkes, Diane Miller. Children’s Society Festival of Performing Arts.) Including: May 1993 »» ‘Two Worlds’ with Amon and Jill Danti (deaf/ • ‘A Personal Bill of Rights’ Photo exhibition by hearing company from Israel) students on photography course at Exeter’s disabled »» Basic Theatre: ‘Signs of the Times’ Young Adults Centre, responding to Spastics 16th May Society’s ‘My Rights Campaign’. (Touring schools • Islington Deaf Cabaret and colleges in the region.) »» Clive Mason 4th-16th May »» Sarah and Paul Scott • Burning Daylight, Islington’s 1st Disability Arts »» Ray Harrison Graham Festival • Deaf Way Cabaret (University of North London): »» Righting the Picture: Exhibition of Clive Mason, Sarah Scott and Paul Scott, Ray Photographs by ParentAbility Harrison Graham »» Retrospective of the work of Samena Rana June 1993 July 1993 • Tyneside Cinema, in association with NORDAF, 1st-31st July present season exploring the representations of • ‘Shape Up and Go!’ (Hackney Movin’ On Festival disability in film and television. ‘93) Including: • Launch of Avon’s new Disability Arts Agency with »» July 1 Launch by Maggie Woolley the ‘Disability Arts Café’. David Hevey’s ‘Images of a »» July 9 Survivors’ Poetry with Razz and Mr Festival’, plus performances from Ian Stanton, Green Social Control Fuse, Georgina Edema, Francis Rwama. »» July 20 Heart ‘n Soul Experience • Strathcona Theatre Company: ‘Still Crazy After All »» July 24 Cabaret with Diane Pungartnik, These Years’ Retrospective of last 10 years Francis Rwama, Fatima Shobain from the » » From ‘Now and Then (1984) Carl Campbell Dance co 7, Survivors Poetry » » Audition Scene (including psychedelic rock band The Wise » » Farewell Duet Wound, Scottish singer and musician Iain » » From Tonight at Eight (1985) Mathieson, visual poet Colin Hambrook and » » Protest Dance Isha, MC, performance poet and artist). » » African Sequence »» ‘The Diverse Ability Exhibition’. Including » » From This Very Same Hall (1986) Colin Hambrook and Isha. (Hackney Museum.) » » Scout Pack Game Show • West Midlands Disability Arts Forum. Programme » » The Art of Framing (1990) of events for 1993 includes: » » New Piece ‘Bully for You’ »» ‘Size is No Problem’ Drawing workshop with • Jackson’s Lane Theatre Training Scheme. 15 Eddy Hardy students have received Records of achievement »» ‘More Power to Your Elbow’ Writing towards City and Guilds qualification. workshop with Kaite O’Reilly • ‘Pride’ Johnny Crescendo and the P.O.P. Squad. »» 5-9 Oct Graeae Theatre Company ‘Soft Includes ‘Scars’ (adaptation of Simon Brisenden’s Vengeance of A Freedom Fighter’ (later called poem), ‘I don’t wanna be a wanna be’, ‘The Ballad of ‘Soft Vengeance’) Josie Evans’. »» 24-30 Oct Pride and Prejudice, 7 day • Arts Council publish Theatre and Disability Disability Arts Festival at the Manor House, Conference Report by Elspeth Morrison, giving Leamington results of June 1992 conference. • Out2Play ‘The Breathing Space’ 4th July • Keith Ashton ‘Fair Moving’. (Pub Littlewood Arc.) • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre new production: ‘El Pilon’. (Touring) 17th June • Lavender Ripples women only workhouse cabaret 6th July including The Tokens and Rowdy Proud Roadshow • The Workhouse cabaret as part of Merton Arts Festival 12th June »» Mike ‘Tragic But Brave’ Higgins • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Fish Out of Water »» Diane Pungartnik (MC/Comic) »» Ricardo Corvalan (Chilean Performance poet) 10th July »» Jaki Windmill (Singer and Musician) • Horniman Museum Disability Arts Day. Johnny »» Mike Lawson (Poet/Performer) Crescendo, Fish Out of Water, Kate Portal, Tragic Mike, Aaron Williamson, Survivors Poetry, Libra 14th June - 4th July Theatre Company. • Julius Gottlieb Gallery, Oxford, in association with Shape London. Exhibition of work by deaf artists: 17th July »» Rachel Caws (Ceramic Sculpture) • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» June Hypolite (Paintings) »» Terry Cordrez (MC/Poet) »» Fiona Davis (Photography) »» Jade (Survivor poet from New Zealand) »» Niall McCormack (Painting and sculpture) »» Jenni Meredith (Poet from Isle of Wight) »» Rubbena Aurangzab (Mixed media) »» John Arthur (Singer and musician) 20th June - 17th July • Sally Booth paintings at Horsham Arts Centre. August 1993 Breed perform at accessible venues and facilitate • David Hevey’s ‘Liberty, Equality, Disability’ images workshops at adult training centres. (origInally part of ‘The Creatures that Time Forgot’) 18th September published by Leeds postcards. • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • Launch of Shropshire Disability Arts Initiative. »» P.J.Fahy (MC, ‘Ructious’ musician, Poet) Funding scheme for disabled people with arts »» Dinah Livingstone (Poet, reading from projects. ‘Successful applicants will take part in a collection ‘Second Sight’) Day of Disability Arts in March 1994’. »» Paulette Ng (‘Expressionist’ poet) • ‘Deaf World’. New show featuring the Deaf »» Sister Wicca (Acoustic Music Duo) Comedians and Colin Thomson. • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Soft Vengeance’ by 17th-20th September Albie Sachs, adapted for stage by April de Angelis. • National Deaf Theatre Weekend, Part 2 (Warwick d Ewan Marshall. Cast includes Sarah Scott, Ray University) Harrison-Graham, Deborah Williams and Ewan Marshall. (Touring nationally and internationally) October 1993 • Upstage Cabarave. Event for Deaf and disabled 14th August young people 15-25. (Shape London at Turtle Key • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) Arts). »» Patience Agbabi (MC Nigerian-British • Tanya Raabe MA exhibition at Holden Gallery, performance poet) Manchester Metropolitan University. »» Billy Childish (‘Hangman’ poet reading from »» Artshare Gloucestershire present disability art his book ‘Poems of Laughter and Violence’) seminar at conference ‘Standing Up for the Arts’ »» Dave Russell (singer, musician and poet) in Torquay. • ‘A Question of Vision’ (Laing Art Gallery, September 1993 Newcastle-on-Tyne) Exhibition of ‘work by • FictIon and poetry DAIL. visually impaired artists exploring new ways of • New Voices Poetry group. Meeting at LDAF. experienceing art’. • Creative writing workshop for disabled people • Manchester becomes 1994 UK City of Drama, (Aston University as part of Birmingham Readers having included in its bid plans for a permanent and Writers Festival). Led by Kaite O’Reilly. Disabled People’s Arts and Cultural Centre. • ‘Write to Belong’ National project for writers with • ‘Entitled’ (CD) Simon Smith and the Useless disabilities (A Snowball Arts project, co-ordinated Eaters. by Jenni Meredith). • ‘On The Map’ Ann Whitehurst commissioned to • ‘Deaf People in the War.’ Major new project work on a project ‘focusing on issues around the starting in Sept with National Maritime Museum, Disability experience’ to culminate in an installation City Lit And Shape London (Deaf Arts). and interactive workshop at Bluecoat Gallery in • The Workhouse April 1994. »» Johnny Crescendo »» Val Stein 16th October »» Martin Davies • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» ‘The Unknown’ »» Razz (MC Poet) »» Diane Pungartnik (Commere) »» Quibilah Montsho (Political black lesbian poet »» Francis Rwama and performer) »» 23 Sept. Guardian Centre for the Blind. SW19 »» Wayne Tenyne (Poet, singer and sculptor) »» 14 Oct Catholic Church Hall, Addiscombe »» Maroushka Monro (Sensitive poet and writer) »» 27 Oct, Compass Theatre, Ickenham »» Razz and Sam (Guitar and Violin duo) 2nd-3rd September November 1993 • NDAF presents ‘The Ghetto’, International • The Shape of Disability Arts Wandsworth ‘93 Disability Arts Cabaret at the Edinburgh Festival. (Shape London festival) 15th September - 1st October »» 2 Nov Launch • Disability Theatre Festival on Merseyside: Graeae »» 2 Nov Survivors’ Poetry and Open Poetry Theatre Company, Strathcona Theatre Company, Conventicle, a joint event. the Lawnmowers, Mock Beggar, Masque, New »» 3 Nov Halfleft Alright Puppet Theatre Company ‘Snow White and the Seven Council »» Bushy Kelly (MC Poet) Workers’ and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ »» Peter Street (Poet) »» 4 Nov Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre »» Linsay McRae (Poet) »» 7 Nov Heart ‘n Soul Experience »» John Gash (Music and song) » » 26 Nov Deaf World with the Deaf Comedians 25th November - 16th December and Colin Thomson. • ‘How We Like It’ LDAF exhibition of work by » » (All at Battersea Arts Centre) disabled visual artists. (Diorama Arts Centre) » » Shape Project exhibition (Visual art works »» Sally Booth from Shape workshops in Wandsworth) »» Steve Cribb (Arndale Shopping Centre 13-30 Nov) »» Val Stein » » ‘Soci-at-Ease’ by Simon Smith (Cassette/CD) »» Gioya Steinke • ‘Liz Crow, ‘Disability Arts, The Business’ (NDAF »» Nancy Willis publication). »» Patricia Rock 2nd November »» Colin Hambrook • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Elizabeth Anne Maxwell Hill »» Peter Campbell (MC and Poet) »» Matthew Durran »» Patience Agbabi (Nigerian performance poet) »» Mario Petrucci (‘Bi-cultural spiral-bound December 1993 poet’) • ‘From Dark to Light’, first Survivors’ Poetry »» Rosemary Norman (Gently subversive poet) anthology. »» Aaron Williamson (Deaf writer and performer • ‘Deaf Humour Video’ (‘The first ever video on deaf using voice, body, percussion) culture humour!’) »» The Wise Wound (Music and vocals) »» Maureen Reed » 6th November » Jerry Hanifin »» Bobby Benson • LDAF Conference and AGM ‘Everything you »» Harold Draper wanted to Know about Disability Arts but Were »» (Deaf Owl Productions) Afraid to Ask’ (Battersea Arts Centre ) »» Sian Vasey ‘What’s All the Fuss About’ 2th-4th December »» David Hevey ‘Does Disability Art compromise • Graeae Theatre Company presents the Borderline standards? Project ‘The Jungle’ by Fiona Branson from the »» Elspeth Morrison: ‘Why can’t a Disability Arts novel by Upton Sinclair. (Oval House) Forum be run by non-disabled people?’ 3rd December » » Allan Sutherland: ‘Who should lead Disability • GAD celebrate European Day of disabled people Arts? Artists or organisations?’ including: » » Maria Oshodi ‘Is Disability Arts limiting, »» Glynis Dawes (Commere) intimidating?’ »» Tape/slide presentations • The Workhouse, Battersea Arts Centre: »» Katherine Araniello ‘Take a Walk on the Wild » » Mandy Colleran (MC) Side’ » » Allan Nedd (Music) »» Sue Elsegood ‘Disability Art and Politics’ » » Russ Palmer (Pianist) »» Kelly Butler (‘Raspberry Rapper) » » Julie McNamara (Music) »» Steve Knight (Keyboards) » » Ian Stanton (Music) »» The Tokens (Lesbian a capella) 9th November 10th December • Survivors’ Poetry at Islington Arts Festival • Survivors’ Poetry (Ann Taylor Centre, E8) » » Jade (MC and poet) »» Joe Bidder (MC and poet) » » Bill Lewis »» John Arthur (Singer Musician) » » Pitika Ntuli (Azanian poet) »» Julie McNamara (Comedy and songs) » » Ifigenija Zagorinik (Slovenian survivor poet) »» David Kessel (poet) » » Frank Bangay (Poet) »» Maroushka Monro (‘Sensitive poet and » » Tain Matheson (Music) writer’) 13th November • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) 11th December February 1994 • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • ‘Arts and Disability - Examples of Best Practice »» Wanda Barbara (MC Comediennce) and innovation in galleries - Artability II’ 2nd Oriel »» Frank Bangay (Performance poet) Mostyn conference on Arts and Disability. Speakers »» Johnny Crescendo (Poet and musician) include Jayne Earnscliffe (author, ‘Through The »» Jana Heller (Singer and musician) Front Door’), and painter Carolyn James. 11th December • ‘Waterworks’ exhibition of 12 copper sculptures by • LDAF Christmas party and Workhouse cabaret, Adam Reynolds. (Yorkshire Sculpture Park.) Chat’s Palace. • Steve Cribb dies. »» Elspeth Morrison 10th February »» Rona Topaz • Survivors’ Poetry UK tour: J. Owen Williams, »» Martin Davis Ifigenija Zagorinik, Paulette Ng, Ference Aszmann »» Caroline Parker plus Liverpool Survivor Poets (The Flying Picket, »» Diane Pungartnik Liverpool). »» Francis Rwama 14th-19th February 3rd December 1993 - March 1994 • LDAF Euroweek • Survivors’ Poetry UK tour: Manchester, Leeds, »» Dr Peter Radtke runs drama workshops, Liverpool, Bristol, Wolverhampton. With Isha, culminating in showcase at Willesden Green Peter Street, Joe Bidder, Quibilah Montsho, Claire Library Centre Mooney and Emma Jarman. (Green Room, »» Mary Duffy exhibition, performance of Manchester, then touring.) ‘Stories on a Body’ and day workshop on words, images and performance art. (Diorama Arts 1994 Centre) • North West Shape relaunching as Full Circle Arts. »» Windforce from Rock en Roelstols • ‘Changes’ (National Deaf Forum Theatre project) (Netherlands). 20 performances nationally (20 performances »» Oiseau Mouche (Theatre company from nationally during 1994. Over a thousand Deaf France which employs people with learning people attended). Cast included: Paula Garfield, difficulties) ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (Jackson’s Lane, Shainal Vasant, Heidi Marks, Ilan Dwek, Natalie Harrow Arts Centre and workshop at Diorama Koening. d John Wilson. Arts Centre) • The Art House, Halifax, formed by Patricia 26th February Sutcliffe in response to the marginalisation of • Survivors’ Poetry UK tour: Peter Campbell, disabled artists, as ‘an inclusive organisation that Ahmed Sheikh, James Turner, Jane Heller plus seeks to address the issues faced by disabled people Bristol Survivor Poets. (Inkworks Project, Bristol) in the visual arts’. • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Playback’. Forum March 1994 Theatre In Education programme. • Neti-Neti ‘Shabbash’. (Touring St Albans, Barnet, January 1994 Islington.) • I.O.U.Theatre’ ‘Boundary’, with Nabil Shaban, Jag • Simon Smith and the Useless Eaters. Debut album Plah and others. (Touring) ‘Entitled’. • Aylesbury Disability Arts Forum and Limelight • ‘Spiritual Dance’ 10-track cassette by County Theatre present ‘The Spotlight Cabaret’ Durham band Sleeping Chiefs. (Proceeds to »» Jigsaw Theatre Company performing ‘A Haswell and District MENCAP.) Russian Tale’ • ‘Unbound’. Poetry anthology by housebound »» Allan Sutherland writers living in Blyth Valley, Northumberland. »» Claire Graydon James 21st January • New Breed Theatre: ‘Grimm’. (30-31st March, • Survivors’ Poetry UK tour: Char March (MC), Green Room Manchester, then touring until June.) Frank Bangay, Wayne Tenyue, Patience Agbabi, • ‘City Life - Viewing it Our Way!’ Artlink project Wise wound plus Leeds survivor poets Terry creating art work in two weeks of workshops led by Simpson, Angel Hart, Tom Halloran, John Tilley, Brian Jenkins, leading to exhibition at Leeds City Steve Bindman and ‘Ging’. (Studio Theatre, Art Gallery. Metropolitan University, Leeds). 9th-12th March 29th May • Heart ‘n Soul present premiere of ‘Hearts on Fire’. • Disability Focus, Bedford (Albany Empire) »» Positive Image Puppets( from Nottingham) » 14th-19th March » New Era Minstrels » • Hackney Movin’ On festival ‘94. » Ping the Clown »» Islands (performance/exhibition by local 16th March disabled people) • Disabled Dykes Cabaret Night (London Women’s »» ‘Liberty, Equality, Disability’ (David Hevey’s Centre) posters) »» The Tokens roadshow »» Johnny Crescendo »» Georgina Edema (poetry) »» Tremor June 1994 »» Iona Fletcher (Sign song) • ‘Re-write: An anthology of new writing’, produced »» Kris Black (Commere) by SHAPE London. »» (Benefit for GLAD’s Disabled Lesbian • ‘Mustn’t Grumble: An Anthology of Writing by Conference) Disabled Women’, ed Lois Keith. (The Women’s 23rd March Press.) • ‘Tragic But Brave Show’ perform in Hull. • Bradford Festival includes ‘The Big Sex Show’ by the Lawnmowers. 24th-26th March • ‘Boundary’. I.O.U. Theatre production with Nabil 9th-30th June Shaban, Jag Plah. (Capitol Theatre, Manchester) • LDAF presents ‘Out to Lunch’, exhibition of photography by Mandy Holland. (Diorama 26th March Gallery.) • Survivors’ Poetry UK tour: Anna Neeter, Razz, Pauline Bradley, Bill Lewis, Alan Daffern plus 18th June Wolverhampron Survivor Poets. Yinka Shonibare • Survivors’ Poetry One off evening at the Diorama exhibition ‘Double Dutch’. (Centre 181 Gallery, to combine with exhibition of Mandy Holland’s Hammersmith) photography: »» Mr Social Control (MC/ranter) April 1994 »» Brother Niyi (Rap-dub poet) • ‘On the Map: Placing Disability’. Exhibition by »» Eamer O’Kefe (Poet) Ann Whitehurst (Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool). »» Kath Tait (Songs) Showing with David Hevey’s ‘The Creatures that 25th June Time Forgot’. (Collaboration with NWDAF) • Festival of Deaf History, Buxton Pavilion Gardens. 16th April 25th-26th June • Benefit performance to mark 3rd anniversary of • Graeae Youth Theatre, ‘Historical Briefs’. Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre). 29th June »» Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze »» Storme Webber • ‘Invisible Cabaret’ (group of disabled women from »» Nick Constance the North East). Kingston Association of Disabled »» Peter Campbell People. 25th April July 1994 • Stephen Payton, Bradford disability artist, dies. • LDAF publishes: 28th April »» Directory of Disabled Performers • Strathcona Theatre Company present ‘Pain »» Directory of Disabled Visual and Tactile Without, Power Within: Faith Healing’ (devised Artists performance piece looking at disability and • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) religion). (Tom Allen Arts Centre, E15.) »» Julie McNamara (Comedy and singing) »» George Tahta (Poet) May 1994 »» David Kessel (Singer) »» Jaki Windmill (Singer/songwriter) 14th May • Mike Bramley (Chair, Derbyshire Disability Arts Forum) dies. • ‘Flights from the Sink’ (Collective Gallery 13th August Edinburgh). ‘A year long project by local women • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) with disabilities and experience of mental health »» Mike Lawson (MC) problems to collaborate with artists Lucy Brown and »» Paulette Ng (Performance poet) Rachel Mimiec to look at and creatively respond to »» Bill Lewis (Poet and storyteller) the issues which affect their lives.’ »» Wise Wound (Music) • ‘Hear No Evil’ Exhibition of work by established deaf artists to tour the North West of England. September 1994 Looking for entries. (Full Circle Arts). 1st-30th September • Margaret Mitchell photo series ‘Epilepsy: • ‘Five of a Kind’ Exhibition by artists with Secondary Stigmas’ and ‘The Media Epileptic’ disabilities (Flapjacks Café, NW5): Darren Harper, (originally ‘Epilepsy: the “True” Disabled’) John Kanerick, Kate Powell, Timothy D. Reedy, 6th July Brian Vickers. • Demonstration, in form of a mock funeral, by 10th-11th September Disability Arts Consortium to protest against Arts • Deaf Fiesta (Arts Workshops at Highbury Fields, Council’s decision to close its Disability Unit. organised by SHAPE Islington and Islington 9th July Council). • ‘Face to Face’. ‘A group of disabled people from 10th Sept - 6th November around Norwich have contributed to a 30 minute • Mandy Holland’s work included in exhibition ‘Her video letter to Fiji exploring a variety of issues from Camera has Wings’. (Nottingham Castle Museum civil rights to access, the arts and relationships.’ and Art Gallery.) 22nd-24th July 17th September • National Conference/Festival of Theatre and • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) Learning Disability. The Lawnmowers, Other »» Jade (MC, Poet) Voices, Strathcona, Acting Up, mind the ...gap, In »» Nile (Poet) the Boat, the Ark, Heart ‘n Soul and others (Open »» Bushy Kelly (Artist, writer and performer) Theatre, Worcester) »» Peter Cadle (singer/songwriter) 31st July 21st September • LDAF Open Air Disability Cabaret Extravaganza. • The Workhouse (Old Bull, Barnet) Deborah Williams and Elspeth Morrison (MCs). »» Allan Sutherland Compere and poet) Music from: »» Francis Rwama and Martin Davis (Music) » » Sital Singh Sitara »» Karen Shook (‘The Wheelchair from Hell’) » » Val Stein »» ‘Sick Cow’ Katherine Araniello » » Francis Rwama & Martin Davis »» Caroline Parker (signed song) »» Katherine Araniello (‘Sick Cow’) »» The Tokens October 1994 »» Poetry from: • DAIL feature on Disability Theatre reports on: »» Georgina Edema Strathcona Theatre Company; Heart ‘n Soul; Graeae »» Allan Sutherland Youth Theatre; TX True Expression; Graeae Theatre »» Comedy: Company; Julie Fernandez; Mockbeggar Theatre »» Barbara Lisicki company; New Breed Theatre; Invisible Cabaret. »» Paula Garfield »» Charlotte Moulton-Thomas 15th October »» Bob Findlay • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Plus: »» Emily Kennedy (MC) »» No Excuses »» Razz (Poet) »» Patience Agbabi (Nigerian British August 1994 performance poet) • Steve Cribb retrospective (Waterman’s, until 11 »» Johnny Crescendo (Poet and musician) Aug). • ‘Dance Lines II Heroes and Heroines’ Summer school for people with learning difficulties. Dance City, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 26th October - 28th November »» Francis Bangay with the Tiny Teds • A: ‘Identity, Stigma...Disability?’ Exhibition of 3rd December Photographic works by Bushy Kelly and Margaret • DAN/GAD cabaret/benefit (Christchurch Forum Mitchell (Diorama Gallery), comprising 3/12/94): » » Margaret Mitchell ‘Epilepsy: Secondary »» Rikki Jodelko, Stigmas’ »» Katherine Araniello/Sue Elsegood/Veronika » » Bushy Kelly ‘From Dark to Light or a Case of Pakenham slide/tape shows Mistaken Identity’ »» Chris Killick videos about DAN » » Show of Hands (Deaf/hearing theatre group) »» Mat Fraser ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. »» Sick Cow » » (Battersea Arts Centre, and touring country »» Allan Sutherland through November). »» Suzanne Bull November 1994 4th December • ‘Hear No Evil’ (deaf arts project supported by • The Workhouse (Waylands Day Centre, Croydon) North West Disability Arts Forum) looking for »» Allan Sutherland Compere and poet) submissions. »» Francis Rwama and Martin Davis (Music) • ‘Out to Lunch’, exhibition of photography by »» Karen Shook (‘The Wheelchair from Hell’) Mandy Holland. (Castle Museum, Nottingham). »» ‘Sick Cow’ Katherine Araniello »» Caroline Parker (signed song) 12th November • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) 8th-18th December »» Dave Skull (MC) • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Ubu’: Jamie Beddard, »» Daniell Hope (Poet) Mandy Colleran, Simon Startin, Vicky Gee Dare, »» Yvonne Poulson (‘Wordsinger’) Sara Beer, Caroline Parker. Adapted Trevor Lloyd. »» Dave Russell (Experimental poet and d Ewan Marshall. (Oval House, then touring songwriter) nationally). 22nd-27th November 14th December • Disability Theatre Festival (Battersea Arts Centre) • The Workhouse ‘I’m Dreaming of a Crip »» New Breed ‘Grimm’ Christmas’ (Red Rose Club) »» The Lawnmowers ‘The Big Sex Show’ »» Rupa Sarka (MC) »» Solo Plus Theatre Company ‘Mud and Stars: »» Sue Vass The Hospice Experience’ »» Diane Pungartnik »» Graeae Youth Theatre ‘Historical Briefs’ »» Charlotte Moulton-Thomas »» Deaf Forum Theatre ‘Changes’ »» Francis Rwama »» David Bower and Common Ground ‘Act »» Julie McNamara without Words’ »» Allan Sutherland 26th November 17th December • LDAF AGM Discussion ‘Dennis Potter: Disabled • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) Artist?’ with Allan Sutherland and Sian Vasey. »» Anna Neeter (MC, poet, songwriter, humourist) introduces 3 poets from Leeds December 1994 Survivors Poetry: • Corali Dance Company ‘All Wrapped up About it’. »» Char March (lesbian performance poet) • The Tokens: ‘And the Music Is Too Loud’ ‘A »» Angel Hart (Poet) unique collection of original songs celebrating the »» Terry Simpson (Poet and songwriter) lives, struggles and bow tie collections of disabled lesbians’. 1995 • Lois Thomas dies. January 1995 1st December • Shape Deaf Arts organising exhibition for Deaf • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) artists at St John’s College, Cambridge 1995. »» The Baffled Angels »» Diane Pungartnik »» Sam and Mano 14th January »» Keith Armstrong Photography • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Jan Marshall Paintings and »» Diane Pungartnik (Comedienne/MC) Installations »» O.B.W.G. (Nyamil and Kwame sharing black »» Sophie Outram Video verses) »» Anna Sullivan Paintings »» Ilfigenija Zagorinik (Writer) »» Gabrielle Wheeler Drawings »» Pauline Bradley and Mina Sassoon (Folk »» The exhibition also features work by disabled musicians) artists working within three organisations: » 20th January » Borehamwood Multi-purpose Day • Premiere of ‘Night Stalkers’ by Deaf filmmaker Centre » Wayne Hargood. » The Jigsaw Centre (Essex Autistic Society) 27th January - 2nd April »» Turner Village Reminiscence/ • ‘Unleashed: Images and Experience of Disability’ Photography project ‘What It’s Like to be (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle). Artists exhibiting: Me’ Keith Ashton, Vanessa Cecil, Steve Cribb, Matthew »» (Diorama Gallery, then touring the Durran, Gil Gerhardi, Eddy Hardy, Tony Heaton, country during 1995 and 1996. Part of Jenny Polak, Tanya Raabe, Simon Smith, Val ‘Fair’s Fair’, the 1995 Disability Arts Festival Stein, David Swift, Ann Whitehurst, Nancy Willis. organised by Essex County Council.) (Researched and curated from open submission by 19th February Katherine Walsh.) Includes first public showing of Tony Heaton’s ‘Great Britain from a Wheelchair’. • Survivors’ Poetry, Torriano Meeting House »» Joe Bidder February 1995 »» Hilary Porter » • Allan Sutherland has booking cancelled by » Frank Bangay » Birmingham City Council, after sending a copy of » Peter Campbell his poems for use by the sign language interpreter, which was then used to censor his performance. March 1995 The Council subsequently agree to pay the fee in 14th-31st March full. (The incident subsequently forms the basis of • ‘Taboo’. Exhibition of paintings by Meena Jafarey, Sutherland’s ‘A Nice Poem’.) Richie Riley, Colin Hambrook, Millee Hill, Terry 9th February Miles and Iain Stronach. (Shape London event at • Rights Now Day of Action to support second Central Space Gallery, W14.) reading of Harry Barnes’s Disabled Persons (Civil 18th March Rights) Bill. • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) » 11th February » Debbie McNamara (Poet) » • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) » Frank Bangay (Poet) » »» Isha (MC, performance poet) » Liam Johnson (Poet) » »» Wayne Tenne (Poet and singer) » John Arthur (Singer/songwriter) »» Demela (Poet) April 1995 »» Saving Graces (Music) • ‘Under The Asylum Tree’ (Survivors’ Poetry 17th February - 31st March anthology). Includes: • ‘Art Through the Front Door’: »» Georg MacDonald (Introduction) »» Marcus Billen Photography »» Billy Childish »» Ernest Bow Photography »» Michael Horovitz (Parody of ‘On Westminster »» David Braunsberg Textiles Bridge’) »» Robert Bunting Sculpture »» Isha ‘When’ »» John Calloway Paintings »» Jade Reidy »» Vanessa Cecil Paintings »» Martin Henderson ‘The Sanctuary in North »» James Craw Paintings London »» Eddy Hardy Paintings »» Patrick McManus ‘Great Day for my Suicide’ »» Elizabeth Maxwell Hill Paintings »» Ian Jentle ‘But I don’t want a Dog’ »» Val Stein ‘After all, they are size six and a half’ 13th May »» Kim Christopher ‘Sink City’ • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Illustrations by Paulette Ng, Alex Horswood »» Paulette Ng (MC and performance poet) and others. (Pub Survivors’ Press.) »» Ray Wilmott » 15th April » Hilary Porter (Poet) » • Survivors Poetry 150 Ossulston Street, Special » Dave Harley (Singer and musician) Anthology Launch 26th May »» Diane Pungartnik (MC) • The Workhouse (Parkshot Centre Richmond) »» Mimi Khalvati »» Clive Cherrington of New Expression »» Justin Quali (Compere) »» Brian Docherty »» Sick Cow, Katherine Araniello (Singer) »» Dave Russell »» Chantell Nassari and Debbie Cordner (Dance) »» Jenaette Ju-Pierre »» Caroline Parker (sign song) »» Ray Wilmott »» Colin Hambrook (Poetry) »» Fatma Durmush »» (Presented by London Disability Arts Forum 26th-30th April and West London Disability Arts Group) • Shape Hackney Presents Movin’ On ‘95 June 1995 »» Launch with Nabil Shaban • Graeae working on ‘Flesh Fly’ and ‘Playback 2 U’, »» Open Exhibition Woodcraft art and furniture to be bookable in autumn, through into spring 1996. by Sylvanus Onipede (Sutton House) ‘Flesh Fly’ is Trevor Lloyd adaptation of ‘Volpone’. »» 28 Double Bill at Chat’s Palace »» Heart ‘n Soul ‘Unplugged’ 1st June »» Strathcona Theatre Company ‘Still Crazy after • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘Pain without, all these years’ Power Within’. (Cochrane Theatre,W1.) »» Paul Darke leads seminar on ‘How Disability 6th-30th June is Portrayed in British cinema since 1970’. • ‘Samena Rana’. Posthumous (1955-1992) solo » » Cabaret Finale at Circus Space show of eight large prints. (Diorama Gallery) »» Roma Topaz »» True Expressions 9th June »» Isha • (Diorama Gallery) ‘The Face of Our Fear.’ »» Tyron Woolfe Screening of Stephen Dwoskin’s 1991 documentary, »» Liz Porter and co in which Samena Rana played a role, and talk with »» Bobbi Style and his Luv Junkie the Director. Previously unshown footage showing her accompanied the pictures on show in the gallery. May 1995 14th June • Allan Sutherland proposes idea for a London • Launch party for Stream Records new releases: Disability Arts Forum postcards project (later to be »» Fish Out of Water ‘Lucky Scars’ partly realised as ‘Postal Strike’). »» Ian Stanton ‘Rollin’ Thunder’ • ‘Fight for Rights’, award-winning photomural by »» Claire Graydon-James ‘Nice Work’ Nancy Willis and Jenny Polack. Manchester Road, 17th June Isle of Dogs, E14 ‘for up to one year’. • ‘Swing into Summer’. West London Disability Arts • New Breed Theatre Company: ‘Tryst’. Four plays Group present a Disability Arts cabaret: by solo performers: »» Pete Campbell (Poetry) »» Mike Parker ‘Stalking Histories’ »» Claire Graydon-James (song) »» Margaret Shaw ‘Still Waters Deep’ »» Chantell Massari and Debbie Cordner »» Mike Nolan ‘St Valentine’s Eve’ (Dance) »» Jag Plah ‘Stick Around’ »» Jo Nicolls (Sign song) 10th May »» The Avenue Band • Heart ‘n Soul launch Beautiful Octopus club, 17th June ‘the first cabaret club to open in London to give • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) expression to the culture of learning disabled »» Mike Lawson (MC) people’. (The Albany, Deptford, SE8.) »» Cheryl Moscowitz (Poet) »» Paul Matthews (Poet) »» Corali Dance Co »» Jana Heller (Singer/songwriter) »» Diane Pungartnik » 28th June - 2nd August » Francis Rwama » • ‘Screening Lies. Portrayals and Betrayals: » MCs Caroline Parker and Sara Beer Disability in Cinema’ (Watershed Media Centre, August 1995 Bristol). • Graeae seminar at Royal National Theatre to July 1995 discuss access to theatre for disabled performers. • Allan Sutherland, ‘Poems and Prose’. (Self- Speakers included: » published) » Genista Mackintosh (NT Executive) » • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) » Ewan Marshall (Artistic Director, Graeae »» MC Razz Theatre Company) » »» Jade (poet) » Nabil Shaban » »» Peter Campbell (poet) » Freddie Pyne (Equity Disabled Performers »» Jaki da Costa (songs and poems) Committee) • ‘Patronizingly Challenged Beware’. Anthology of • 2nd Milton Keynes Disability Arts Festival » stories and poems by members of Commonword » Julie McNamara » Disabled Writers Workshop. » The Lawnmowers » • West London Disability Arts Cabaret » Heart ‘n Soul »» Smile Like Fools (non-disabled) 8th-9th July • Launch of NDAF’s European Disability Arts • Islington’s First Disability Music Festival (Union Directory. Chapel, N5) • Disabled film-maker Chris Ledger awarded £2,000 »» Super Disken by Arts Council of England’s Disability Arts Panel, »» Grateful Dub to research and develop ‘Making a Choice’, ‘a short, »» Johnny Crescendo personal video in celebration of disability arts »» Reg Webb and aimed at a disabled audience’. (This becomes »» Djs Lara and Bruno ‘Moving from Within’.) »» Discussion on attitudes in the music press 12th August presented by Suzanne Bull and journalist Carl Loben • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) » »» David Liddle » P.J.Fahy (MC, acoustic musician) » »» Fish Out of Water » Richard McKane » »» Ian Stanton » Patience Agbabi (poet) » »» Wise Wound » Jaki Windmill (singer/songwriter) »» The Iain Matheson Band September 1995 »» Rona Topaz • Meena Jafarey exhibition at the Commercial »» The Useless Eaters Gallery, Spitalfields. 15th-16th July • Lucille Lusk dies. • Milton Keynes Disability Arts Festival: Johnny • Tony Newton (of Pink Fingers) dies. Crescendo, Colin Thompson, Julie McNamara, The 12th September - 7th October Lawnmowers, Francis Rwama, Ian Stanton, Heart ‘n • ‘Over Hear’ (‘a new play about love and hearing Soul, Kekande, Smile Like Fools. with leading deaf actress Caroline Parker’) w 30th July Neil Biswas. (Touring Bristol, Hounslow, Barnet, • LDAF and Alternative Arts present ‘Open Brixton) Air Disability Cabaret Extravaganza’ (Victoria 16th September Embankment Gardens, WC2) • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» The Lawnmowers ‘Big Sex Show’ »» Dave Pelling (MC) »» Chantelle Nassari »» Pascal Petit (poet) »» Katherine Araniello, the ‘Sick Cow’ »» John Rety »» Julie MacNamara »» The Wise Wound (Music) »» The Tokens »» Wise Wound October 1995 with learning difficulties. Work based around • ‘A Dangerous Woman’. Poems by Sue Napolitano, themes of Landscapes, Portraits, Masks and Echoes with drawings by Val Stein. (Pub. GMCDP and Ecologies) (Oval House Café Oct 10-29) Publications.) • CandoCo Autumn Tour 1995, ‘Anatomy of Love’. • Corali Theatre Company ‘We Are Not So 11th-22nd October Ordinary’ • ‘Deaf Expressions’. Exhibition of Deaf Art at two • ‘Upstage ‘95. Young Disabled People’s Performing venues in Cambridge, organised by Shape London. Arts Festival’ (Shape London event at Turtle Key Fifteen deaf artists, including John Gregory Arts Centre, SW6). Includes ‘Cabarave’: Thomas, Deepa Agarwal, Rubbena Aurangzeb, Niall »» MC Delboy McCormack »» Lana Ross »» Pupils of Woodfield School (Geeta Sager, 14th October Alison Sager and Melissa Murray) • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Anapurna Mishra (Song and Dance) »» Val Stein (MC, singer) »» Tom Tomalin (‘Techno arm chanting’) »» Inter Ference (Poetry) »» Macbeth (Band) »» Vanessa Richards (Poet, singer) »» DJ Bruno »» Jon Fitzgerald (Poet and folksinger) »» Mat Fraser (rap) »» Howard White (as Max Miller) October-November 1995 and »» Rupa Sarka (Comedy) March-May 1996 »» The Avenue Band • Graeae Theatre Company touring nationwide with »» Music Showcase from Shape’s Up Stage ‘Play Back 2U’, ‘an interactive theatre performance, ‘95 Young People’s Festival: aimed at young people (16-29 years) and touring to »» One Style M.D.V. venues where they meet’. »» Emma Beaumont »» Andre Dwinnel November 1995 »» Shirley Ogiste • Show of Hands ‘Don Quixote de La Mancha’. »» Film showcase: Three deaf actors (Frank Essery, Neil Fox and »» Rupa Sarka ‘Why Civil Liberties?’ Paula Garfield) But DAIL’s reviewer claims that two »» Heart ‘n Soul ‘The Mark’ (Prod Tracy non-deaf actors make the play ‘inaccessible to deaf Crossley) p e o p l e’. »» Matthew Snell ‘T.V.Y.P.’ 9th-11th November »» ‘People Make Changes’ (animated film • ‘White Socks, Love, Sex and Community by young deaf film-makers, led by animator Transport’. Debut production of Taking Liberties Tim Webb) Theatre Company, ‘the theatrical arm of the Wigan »» ‘Water can Damage Your Health’ (From Disability Arts Forum’. drawings by young deaf adults) 11th November »» ‘Channel Five’ (w.,d., acted by pupils • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) form a local school) »» Dave Skull (MC) »» ‘Rockingham House’ (Comedy about »» Bushy Kelly (Slide poetry performance, ‘Bright yong people living in a hostel, w Maria Light’) Oshodi) »» Arne Ziety (performance poet) »» Tracy Crossley ‘Watchasayin’ »» Diego Brown and The Good Fairy (Songs) (Documentary about rap and hip-hop). »» Jo Pearson ‘Freak Fucking Basics’ (Film 14th November - 1st December about Mat Fraser) • ‘Tony Heaton Exposed - A Retrospective’ »» ‘Disability is..’ Greater Manchester (Diorama) Coalition of Disabled People 15th November » » Dance showcase: • Heart ‘n Soul launch their CD ‘Greatest Hits - » » Jane E. Hall Volume 1’ (Albany Theatre, SE8. »» School pupils »» Caroline Parker (Signed song) • The Stamping Spiders Exhibition. (Group of artists December 1995 »» The Deaf Comedians • Basic Theatre Company new show ‘Spirit of a »» ‘Theatre Company: ‘Flesh Fly’ Clown’ ‘for deaf and hearing impaired children, for »» 12 Sign interpreted performances children who sign and children who don’t’. »» Comic cabaret with Ian Stanton, Julie • Lawnmowers video of ‘The Big Sex Show’. McNamara and Simon Smith and the Useless • ‘The Thoughts of Chairman Crippen’ ‘an irreverent Eaters. look at disability’, self- published by cartoonist • ‘The End of the Pier Show’ by Andrew Waterman. Crippen. (Carcanet Press.) • Blind poet Michelle Taylor judged Best 16th December Performing Poet of 1995 at the Farrago Press Zoo • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) Awards Ceremony, Chat’s Palace, with her poem »» Sam and Mano ‘Smiles’. »» Eamau (Performance artist) • Mathew Fraser, ‘Ungrateful’. A tape of rap, reggae »» John Anstiss (Gay poet) and poetry. »» Kath Tait (Songs) • Strathcona Theatre Company new production • LDAF present The Workhouse Xmas Cabaret ‘Breaking the Mould’ (Touring outside London, then »» Emily Kennedy opening at Young Vic studio Apr 22). »» Caroline Parker • Graeae Theatre Company touring ‘Flesh Fly’ »» Karen Shook through Colchester, Cambridge, Bristol, Liverpool, »» Tony Gerrard Lancaster and in Hampshire and Somerset. »» George Enzama • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre new work: »» Jan Jodelko ‘Answer me with Silence’ »» Diane Pungartnik (MC) • Exhibition ‘In Alliance’ (Nancy Willis, Annie 1996 Johns, Caroline Coode, Jenny Polak, Liz Ellis, Kinsi Abdulleh) (Café Gallery, E2 until Feb 22) • Brendan Wilson ‘The Whirlwind Continues’ (Ethnic Communities Oral History Project) Photos 17th February of people in St Anne’s psychiatric hospital. • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • ‘Tickled Pink’, Oily Cart’s first production for »» Danielle Hope (MC poet) children with Profound and Multiple Learning »» Ian Jentle (Poet) Disabilities. »» Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze (Poet) »» Ivor Game (Musician) January 1996 • ‘Buried Over Ground’. Sculpture created by users March 1996 of Armley Resource Centre, Leeds. Co-ordinated by • ‘Triple Focus’ (West London Disability Arts Pauline Ellis. Group assisted by Tony Heaton. Group) Three exhibitions, each displaying an 13th January established Disability artist and work by community disability groups. • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» ‘Back to Back’ Gioya Steinke and guests. »» Joe Bidder (MC Poet) »» ‘Side by Side’ Matthew Durran and guests »» Julie McNamara (Poetry and song) »» ‘Face to Face’ Meena Jafarey and guests »» Sean Gilligan (Poet) • Jimmy Craw wins Individual Artist’s prize at »» Diane Pungartnik (singer/comedienne) Sussex Open, with ‘Within These Walls’. 13th-14th January 5th March • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Flesh Fly’ Previews • Seminar on Disability Arts organised by Prism (Oval House. Then on tour nationally Jan - March.) Arts, addressed by Geof Armstrong of NDAF. 17th January (Tukkie House Museum, Carlisle) • Beautiful Octopus club (The Albany) 5th-20th March »» Two short videos by Tracy Crossley • Survivors’ Poetry: ‘Two Cities Tour’. March 5 »» Heart ‘n Soul Croydon Oxford. March 20 Cambridge. »» Music by Heart ‘n Soul 16th March February 1996 • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • Leicester Comedy Festival to include: »» Debbie McNamara (MC) »» Billy Childish (Poet) »» Pascal Petit »» Jay Ramsay »» Ellie Zulu »» Gypsy (Music) June 1996 April 1996 • CandoCo Dance Company • NDAF billboard campaign, with image drawn by »» ‘Trades and Trusts’ Eddy Hardy. »» ‘A Flock Apart’ • Sue Napolitano dies. • Milton Keynes Disability Arts Festival • DANN DARES (Direct Action Network »» Poetry June 26-30 Nottingham) Disability cabaret with: »» Sculpture July 1-5 »» Ian Stanton »» Music July 15-19 »» Johnny Crescendo »» Performers: Heart ‘n Soul, Lawnmowers, Ian »» Caroline Parker Stanton, Julie McNamara, Claire Graydon-James, »» Jez Colborne Stanley Acrington, Caroline Parker, Mat Fraser, »» Wanda Barbara Shirley Ogiste, Colin Thomson, Rupa Sarka • ‘Brixton Community Sanctuary’ anthology. and Super Disken, plus photography exhibition 1st-13th April ‘Images of Disability’ (Also see DAIL117 The • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre in Bungalow Boogaloo Band and Colin Thomson) Newcastle, performing ‘What We Want to say to • Corali Dance Co, ‘Diary of a Dead Artist’. (Around San Jose’ and putting on Deaf Café Cabaret with London.) Newcastle Deaf Drama Group. 14th June 4th April • The Workhouse (Stoke Newington Library Gallery, • Survivors’ Poetry Launch of Brixton Sanctuary N16) » Anthology (Diorama) » Diane Pungartnik »» Mat Fraser 10th April »» Pauline Ng • Beautiful Octopus Club »» and Martin Davis, Jurg Heiniger, Caroline »» Prevac Parker »» Heart ‘n Soul 15th June »» The Zen room »» Open mike slot • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Joe Bidder 13th April »» Maroushka Monro • Survivors’ Poetry Hampden Community Centre »» Zep Tati »» P.J.Fahy »» Kath Tait »» John Arthur 24th June - 7th July »» Eamer O’Keefe »» Jillian Tipene • DASH ‘96. Shropshire Disability Arts Festival. »» 24 June ‘Changing Images’ Visual arts 22nd April exhibition at Telford Library • Survivors’ Poetry Women only Survivors’ Night »» 5 July Dance Showcase with Blue Eyed Soul, (Diorama) Aquamira and Ace Project, compered by Johnny »» Julie McNamara Crescendo »» Kath Tait »» 6 July Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre »» Bushy Kelly ‘Answer Me with Silence’ »» and others »» 7 July Cabaret Night with Heart ‘n Soul and Caroline Parker May 1996 • Aidan Shingler‘s ‘Beyond Reason’ shows in Bishop July 1996 Auckland. • Brendan Wilson and Sav Kyriacou ‘The 18th May Whirlwind Continues’, critique of the psychiatric • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) system (Pub. The Lila Huset) »» Isha (MC) • Simon Smith and the Useless Eaters, Johnny »» Brian Docherty Crescendo, Steven Oliver, Heart ‘n Soul Experience, Shirley Ogiste, Mat Fraser, Diane Pungartnik, Baluji »» Francis Rwama, Genie Cosmos with Fish Shrivastav, Hassan Erraji, Katherine Araniello, Out of Water, Steve Flagg, Open Chord Theory, Shakani, Beggars Belief, Liz Porter. Special guests Indigo, Treefellas, Dave LeVay Trio, Band With from the USA: Rod Myers and the Ramps. No Name. Headlined by Jim McCarty of the 1st-7th July Yardbirds. • Shropshire Disability Arts Festival 28th-29th July »» 5 July Dance Showcase with Blue Eyed Soul • 3rd Milton Keynes Disability Arts Festival. Heart »» 6 July Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre ‘n Soul, Caroline Parker, Julie McNamara, Ian ‘Answer Me with Silence’ Stanton, Mat Fraser, The Lawnmowers, Shirley »» 7 July Cabaret night with Heart ‘n Soul and Ogiste, Super Disken, The Bungalow Boogaloo Caroline Parker (signed song) Band, Colin Thomson. Tony Heaton workshop. »» 6-7 July ‘Take Note! 2’ Islington Disability (See also June.) Music Festival (Union Chapel, N1) 9th-27th July August 1996 • Corali Dance Company ‘Diary of a Dead Artist’ • ‘The Story Teller’ Shape Hammersmith and • ‘The Ubiquitous Dishcloth: a history of the work of Fulham present ‘An exhibition of narrative Mavis Arbuckle’ Mounted by Sue Vass. ‘Exhibition paintings, poetry and performances by visually of hand-knitted dishcloths made by many Disabled impaired artists’: people, whose names are unknown. The fact that »» Daniel Bool, Sally Booth, Jonathan Huxley, their names are unknown speaks volumes about Jennifer Maskel Packer, Terry Miles. the way disabled people are oppressed by society.’ »» (Curated Terry Miles.) Available for hire as exhibition alone, or with »» Plus evening of ‘ballads, song and storytelling comedy and poetry events. by visually impaired artists’: • ‘And the World Really Had Changed’ (Leeds »» Caroline Hextall Survivor Poets Anthology) »» John Wilson Goddard • ‘A Union of Difference’. NDAF’s exhibition of »» Damien O’Connor posters celebrating the development and diversity »» Claire Entwistle of disability Arts practice in Europe over the last »» Bob Goodwin decade. The posters represent a cross-section of 12th-14th July the flourishing disability arts scene within fifteen • Survivors’ Poetry National Jamboree ‘96 countries offering insight into the scale of work at (Hereward College, Coventry) local, national and international level.’ (Available 20th July on loan) • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) 12th-23rd August »» Peter Campbell • LDAF exhibition: Michelle Baharier and Anne »» Michael McKane Greenwood, ‘Blurring the Frontiers - Photographs, »» Hilary Porter montages and collages’. »» Fiona Branson (Songs) 17th August July - September • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • ‘Art Through The Front Door’ on show at Brent »» Razz Association of Disabled People. »» Yvonne Poulson 28th July »» Alison Smith • LDAF present ‘Radio Times’ (Victoria »» Saving Graces Embankment Gardens, WC2): »» Rona Topaz, Shirley Ogiste, Mat Fraser, Peter September 1996 Sturdy, Claire Graydon-James, P.J.Fahy, Super • West Midlands Disability Arts Forum ‘up and Disken, Annapurna Mishra, Mike Higgins, running’. Caroline Parker, Diane Pungartnik MC. • ‘Disability Politics: Understanding our Past, »» Avenue Centre, Teddington: Jazz and Blues Changing our Future’ by Jane Campbell and Mike Fest with the help of Richmond Borough Oliver. (Routledge) Council and West London Disability Arts Group • LDAF Executive Committee announces that Claire as part of Richmond Borough Festival. Includes: Collison, Cathy Gibson and Margaret Mitchell have been selected to contribute to Disabled/Woman, a November 1996 festival of disabled women artists, March 1997. 4th-22nd November • ‘Moving from Within’. Video about disability arts • ‘My Hands on You’. LDAF exhibition by by Chris Ledger. Heart ‘n Soul, Celeste Dandeker, ceramicist Padraig Naughton. JulieMcNamara, Caroline Parker, Alan Holdsworth (Johnny Crescendo), Tony Heaton, Ian Stanton. 7th November (AVA/East Midlands SHAPE production) • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘The Big Bang’. And other learning disabled theatre groups, including 30th October - 7th November Corali and Bilderwerfer. • ‘Art from the Heart’ A two-week celebration of ten years of Heart ‘n Soul including: 22nd November »» 30 Oct - 2 Nov ‘Roar!’ • ‘A Disabled Tomorrow’. ‘LDAF and Dail celebrate »» 31Oct and 1 Nov The Beautiful Octopus Club their anniversary and ten years of disabled creativity’. Entertainment with October 1996 »» Mike Higgins • ‘Mass Observation’, NDAF touring exhibition. »» Rupa Sarka Exhibition of photographs documenting the lives »» Martin Davis of disabled people in Newcastle, using photographs taken by them during 1995 with disposable cameras December 1996 supplied by Nordaf. Similar project taking place • DAIL moves to new format. in East Midlands. (Nottingham Community Arts • To celebrate International Day of Disabled People, Centre, then touring elsewhere.) Croydon Association of People with Disabilities,, • ‘Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media’ ed with LDAF and LB Croydon presents: Ann Pointon with Chris Davies. (BFI Publications) »» ‘Disabled Lives’ (A theatrical piece by • ‘Out of the Fire (1948-1983)’ (Collection of Disabled people in Croydon) poems by Peter Street). »» ‘Thalidomide Ninja Meets Frank Sinatra - A • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) Disability Arts Cabaret’ »» Isha (MC) »» Diane Pungartnik »» Paulette Ng »» The King of Rap-Thalidomide Ninja (Mat »» Colin Hambrook Fraser) »» The Nighthawks »» Caroline Parker (Signed song) »» Peter Sturdy (Singer) 6th October • DAN (the Direct Action Network) in association 2nd-14th December with LDAF presents The Dan Dares Cabaret: • ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ Written by Ray Winston, »» Mandy Colleran (MC) d Ray Harrison-Graham. (Basic Theatre and Graeae »» Julie McNamara Theatre Company production.) (Triangle Theatre, »» Johnny Crescendo NW6.) »» Wanda Barbara 7th December »» Caroline Parker • ‘Celebrate the Difference: A Festival of Disability »» Mat Fraser Art in the North-West’. (Green room, Manchester) »» Plus special guest appearance from Glenn »» Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre Tilbrook »» Margaret Shaw 16th-20th October »» Mat Fraser • Deaf Film and TV Festival (Tyneside Cinema) »» Ebony »» Off The Box 31st October - 3rd November »» Caroline Parker • Basic Theatre/Graeae Theatre Company (Oval »» Dorothy (Band) House). ‘Sympathy for the Devil’. Written by Roy Winston and directed by Ray Harrison Graham. 19th December ‘Four black performers, diverse in character, united • LDAF Xmas Cabaret (Workhouse) (Red Rose by disability, expose prejudice and hypocrisy within Club) the good causes industry.’ »» Mat Fraser MC »» Tony Gerrard »» Shirley Ogiste »» Caroline Parker »» Lea Andrews, Hilda Clea, Andrani Ash, »» Beggars Belief Deborah Batt, John Bellany, Clarissa Beothy, »» Special guests India Campbell, Root Cartwright, Helen 20th December Chambers, Gary Goodwin, E.J.Grose, June • Survivors’ Poetry Xmas Event (Hampden Heap, Andrew Holmes, Sophie Horton, Douglas Community Centre) Hunter, Kathleen Hyndman, Brian Jenkins, »» Diane Pungartnik (MC) Alison Jones, Ashley McCormick, Jenni »» Sam and Mano Meredith, Anne Redmond, Sally Sedgwick, Neil »» Gabby Tyrell Taylor, Jane Watt, Aaron Williamson. »» Alan Tyler 15th February • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) 1997 »» Joe Bazouki (MC) • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘What the Butler Saw’, »» Mike Lawson by Joe Orton. With Mat Fraser, Daryl Beeton, Dave »» Bushy Kelly (New poem/slide piece ‘I Want to Kent. Directed by Ewan Marshall. be a Star’) »» Varonique Walsh (Songs) January 1997 • Crippen 1997 cartoon calendar. Now out. Also March 1997 available from Crippen Publications: • Michelle Taylor. Book of poems, ‘Toucan Touch’ »» ‘Crippen Cartoon Postcards due out in late Spring. » » ‘The Thoughts of Chairman Crippen’ March - 5th April »» ‘A Barnacle on Your Bill’ (Includes cartoon • Brendan Wilson, ‘Isolation and Domestos’. published for the Rights Now campaign) (Norwich Arts Centre) »» ‘Previously Published’. A collection of some of the work published in the disability press and on 8th March film and tv. • LDAF presents Disabled Women in Camden, an evening of music and poetry at the Diorama on 16th Janury - 14th February International Women’s Day • ‘Recognition’. ‘A Disability Arts Exhibition co- »» Julie McNamara (MC) ordinated by Stoke Newington Arts Project’. (Stoke »» Alison Smith Newington Library, N16.) »» Paulette Ng »» Artists Include: Moira Coupe, Monica Close, »» Doreen Pritchard J.Louise Bibby, Rosie Bissett, Aidan Shingler »» Ruth Harris 18th January »» Em the Hag • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) 10th-15th March »» Leah Thorn (MC/Poet) • LDAF presents ‘Disabled/Woman: a festival of »» Ray Wilmott disabled woman artists’ (Turtle Key Arts Centre) »» Michelle Taylor (Blind Caribbean poet) »» Exhibition of installation work and »» A.J.Murray (Singer) photographs by Claire Collinson and Margaret February 1997 Mitchell »» New play ‘Deliverance’ by disabled playwright • ‘Sweet, Sour and Serious’. Illustrated anthology by Cathy Gibson ‘being performed by LDAF’s own Survivors’ Poetry Scotland. Really Disabled Theatre Company’: ‘Deliverance! • ‘Speaking Our Minds: An Anthology’ A collection A disabled child is born. She grows. She’s of writing by over fifty people who have experienced kidnapped and kept prisoner at the Special mental distress. (Macmillan.) School Circus She appears on Deliverance! The • (Until 31 March) Margaret Mitchell. New series of television show where you, the audience, decides ‘Secondary Stigmas’ (Watershed, Bristol). which of us lives or dies. She starts to think. She 8th February - 16th March breaks out.’ • ‘Barriers’. ‘Exhibition considering physical, »» Plus arts workshops, available to disabled sensory and intellectual limitation and its effect on women only. personal art practice.’ (Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth). Artists include: 15th March 7th May - 1st June • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • ‘A Day in the Life of..’ Exhibition resulting from »» Daniell Hope (MC) giving disposable cameras to 750 disabled people »» Fatima Durmush throughout the East Midlands, asking them to »» Leonard Lindsay take photographs of any aspects of their lives. ‘An »» Ivor Game exhibition which gives a unique insight into disabled people’s everyday lives and the largest Disability Arts April 1997 event ever to have taken place in the UK.’ (Snibston • ‘The Green Leaf Group’. Performers with learning Discovery Park.) disabilities from Lambeth, performing in ‘The 17th May Green Leaves Show’. • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • ‘A Different Life’ by Lois Keith. (Pub Livewire, The »» Hazel Lezah (MC) Women’s Press young adults imprint.) »» Yfigenija Zagoricnik 19th April »» Scott Verner • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» John Arthur »» John O’Neill (MC) »» Clinton Henry June 1997 »» Julie McNamara • ‘Take Note! Live at the Union Chapel’. (CD »» Jaki Windmill release.) 14 live performances from disabled April - 3rd May musicians, featuring Klub Mundi, Baluji Shrivastav, • ‘A Journey of Difference: Painting the Experience Johnny Crescendo, Super Disken, Mark Rowland, of Disability’. Exhibition by Sally Sedgwick Eroticis, Nabil Shaban, Grateful Dub, Plastic (Gateshead Central Library) Anorexic, The Treefellas, Wise Wound, Simon Smith • 24 April ‘High Time: Art Against Prejudice’ and the Useless Eaters, David Little, Iain Matheson. Bristol’s first Disability Arts Festival. Includes 15th June launch of Art+ Power. • LDAF presents ‘The Really Disabled Street Show’ (in Stoke Newington Midsummer Festival) May 1997 »» Mat Fraser • ‘Closed Circuits, Open Readings’ Photography »» Caroline Parker by Mary Duffy, Johnnie Gathercole, Claire »» Mike Higgins Collison, Margaret Mitchell. Poetic response by »» Shirley Ogiste Dennis Casling. (Part of ‘High Time: Art Against 21st June Prejudice’) • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) • Graeae Theatre Company ‘What The Butler »» Jade Reidy (MC) Saw’ by Joe Orton, d Ewan Marshall. Touring the »» Brenda Nicklinson country through May, then Jackson’s Lane 3-6 June, »» Alex Benjamin Oval House 11-21 June. »» Ray Wilmott • Strathcona Theatre Company, ‘An Error of »» Ramani Judgement’. ‘A moving, disturbing, funny and »» ‘Rose’ thought-provoking look at the judicial injustice »» Jayne Larnie and fellow musicians exacted against learning disabled people.’ • Tottering Bipeds Theatre Company, ‘Waiting for 23rd June - 6th July Godot’ with Jamie Beddard and Simon Startin. • DASH97 ‘Celebrate the Difference’ National tour. London gigs at Old Bull Arts Centre, 23rd-28th June Barnet and Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford • UP STAGE ‘97, young disabled people’s cancelled after Beckett estate refused permission Performing Arts Festival, including (28 June) while Peter Hall’s production was playing in the Deaf Arts Fusion: Alice in Wonderland reworked West End. by Cathy Woolley into an interactive multimedia • Until Autumn. Exhibition by Keith Armstrong. performance. (Turtle Key Arts Centre, SW6). Computer and photographic work at the Eden Including Cabarave: Restaurant, NW1. »» Suzy Bebbington »» Shakani »» Theatre Provocateur »» Juliet Prentice »» Lisa Hammond »» Tanya Raabe »» The Piccadilly Hammers »» Donald Rodney »» Natalie Hypocrite, supported by Ogechi »» Nancy Willis Eguena »» & the late Steve Cribb »» Damon Rose »» Ruth Green September 1997 »» The Cowboy Kickers 13th-14th September » » MCs: Ayoka and Clive Cherrington • Take Note! 3 » » (Co-ordinated by Maria Oshodi) »» Julie McNamara »» Val Stein and Camila Cancantata July 1997 »» Johnny Crescendo • Tragic but Brave Show ‘going back on the road »» Iain Matheson after a three year rest’. »» Body and Soul • ‘Radio Times 2’ ‘Three hours of non-stop music »» Pupils from Richard Cloudesley School from today’s hottest disabled artists’ (Victoria »» Fresh Tracks Embankment Gardens, WC2) »» Plastic Anorexic • Mat Fraser, Mike Higgins, Peter Sturdy, Francis »» Mat Fraser and Ayoka Rwama, Caroline Parker, Julie McNamara, Ayoka, »» Super Disken THWOTH, Simon Smith and the Useless Eaters. »» Peter Sturdy • ‘The Fire Brothers’, 30’ play by Theatre »» Pupils from the Samuel Rhodes School and Provocateur (Liam o’Carroll and Andrew McLay). the London Symphony Orchestra Until 16 July »» Garry Robson and Terry Swan, • ‘Deaf Dimensions’ Photography Exhibition. 20th September (Cramlington Library.) Featuring the work of seven • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) young Deaf Artists produced at workshops run »» Peter Campbell partly by the Northern Disability Arts Forum. »» Razz 16th-27th July »» Eamer O’Keefe • Nancy Willis Exhibition ‘These works, created in »» Marian Cooke the past ten years, arise from my experience of life • Independence Festival 1997 (Albert Square, as a disabled woman. Using mixed-media, I try to Manchester) find images that give an outward form for my inner »» Ian Stanton world of seeing and imagination.’ »» Julie McNamara » 19th July » Johnny Crescendo » • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) » Mat Fraser » »» Ann Dalton (MC) » ‘and many more’ » »» Lisa Jonsson » Natalie Markham and Mandy Colleran »» Peter Campbell (Comperes) »» J.Owen Williams October 1997 August 1997 • Strathcona Theatre Company, ‘Change of Heart’. • The following artists have been selected for Postal 18th October Strike, LDAF’s postcards project based on an idea by • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) Allan Sutherland »» Isha »» Kate Adams »» Andrew Spencer »» Fiametta Alley »» Jeanette Ju-Pierre »» Ben Cove »» Dave Russell »» Moira Coupe »» Libby Curtis November 1997 »» Fehmeeda Jafarey • ‘Beyond Bedlam: Poems written out of mental »» Audrey Marshall distress.’ (ed Ken Smith and Matthew Sweeney.) »» Margaret Mitchell (Anvil Press.) • Cabaret for International Day of Disabled People (It was rescued, and donated by LDAF to become (Brent Advocacy Concerns) part of the collection being assembled at Holton »» Karen Shook (MC) Lee.) » » Flexible Friends 17th January » » Damon Rose • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) » » Martin Davies and Jurg Heiniger »» Hazel Lezah » » Ayoka »» Ian Jentle 11th-23th November »» Greg Henry • ‘Incarceration Installation’. Multimedia arts »» Jane Bom-Bane installation. Includes work by Norma Pearson, Lee Squires, Graham Cunningham among others. February 1998 (Shoreditch Town Hall, N1) • Mat Fraser, ‘Survival of the Shittest’. (Cassette) 15th November 2nd February - 2nd March • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre). • Exhibition ‘The Whirlwind Continues. Bedlam: • Launch of ‘Beyond Bedlam’ with poets from the Custody, Care and Cure 1247-1997’. (Museum of new anthology. London) • ‘Inmates’ by Allan Sutherland and Stuart Morris 21st February (BBC Radio Four). A ninety minute play set in a • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) long stay institution for disabled people, starring »» Judith Silver disabled actors Matthew Fraser. Daryl Beeton, »» Inter-Ference Jonathan Keeble, Gerard McDermot, Mandy »» Peter Cadle Colleran, Mandy Redvers-Higgins and Dave Kent. »» Joon (aka Alison Smith)

December 1997 March 1998 20th December • Poetry pamphlets by Char March and James Nash: • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» ‘Pieces of Myself’ »» Jaki Windmill »» ‘Poet’s Feast’ »» Cheryl Moskovitz »» ‘Murderous Intent’ »» Tasse and Alastair Brinkley »» ‘The Passion-Hatchet Job’ (Forthcoming) • ‘Stalking Histories’, short play by Ruth Collett. 1998 With Garry Robson. (Touring) • West Midlands Disability Arts Forum established. 2nd March • High Spin Dance Co: Stone, Crash, Crash, • LDAF launches ‘Postal Strike!’, Allan Sutherland’s Founding. idea for the most accessible, wide-ranging exhibition • Oily Cart: ‘Hunkydory’. Mark Foster, actor with a of Disability Art ever (a set of postcards), involving Learning Disability, joins the company. as a central principle that artists would be paid • ‘Hear Our Voices’ Art+power with Picture This for the use of existing work or commissioned and Welsh National Opera (Bristol Old Vic). to produce new work, implemented by Diane • Full Body and The Voice founded, established Pungartnik. Artists: from the No Limits Experimental Theatre project set »» Kate Adams up by Artlink West Yorkshire. It is initially managed »» Fiametta Alley by Huddersfield Mencap and will develop into a »» Moira Coupe theatre company employing actors with learning »» Ben Cove disabilities working full time and resident at the »» Steve Cribb Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield. »» Libby Curtis »» Meena Jafarey January 1998 »» Audrey Marshall • Michelle Taylor, ‘Toucan Touch’ (Illus. Matt »» Margaret Mitchell Ward). »» Juliet Prentice • Advertisement appears in DAIL: ‘Hundreds of »» Tanya Raabe collecting cans going free’. The ‘cans’ in question »» Ann Whitehurst were Tony Heaton’s sculpture, ‘Shaken Not Stirred’. »» Nancy Willis 2nd-8th March »» New Voices - Heather Beveridge, Dave Fisher, • Exhibition of artwork from Postal Strike!, plus Caroline Kendall Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Personal Myths’. 21st May 5th March - 18th April • Survivors’ Poetry, Eastside, E1. Readings from • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Two’, by Jim ‘Beyond Bedlam’ anthology Cartwright, d Jenny Sealey. With Gary Robson, »» Ken Smith Caroline Parker. (Touring nationally.) »» John Rety » 8th March » Eamer O’Kefe » • LDAF presents ‘A Really Disabled International » P.J.Fahy Women’s Day’. May - October »» Julie McNamara • Heatwave Disability Arts Festival. Mind the..Gap, »» Annapurna Mishra Aidan Shingler, Aaron Williamson, the Tragic But »» Shakani Brave Show, Stalking Histories, Graeae, Common »» Zeedy Thompson Ground Sign Dance Theatre, Frankie Armstrong etc. »» Leah Thorn In Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. (Organised Art »» Deaf Spice Share South West.) »» (Women-only event) Until 6 March June 1998 • LDAF presents The Really Disabled Street Show at • ‘Photostories’. Exhibition of work by five the Stoke Newington Midsummer Festival photographers with learning disabilities. (Tom Blau »» Mat Fraser Gallery, SE1.) »» Totlyn Jackson with Neville Murray 21st March »» Ayoka • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» P.J Fahy »» P.J.Fahy • LDAF launch Disabled People’s Direct Art »» V.G.Lee Network ‘a Radical new initiative to bring »» Leeds Survivors promoting their anthology: autonomous disability arts activity to all disabled »» Steve Bindman people in Greater London, starting with Brent, »» Matthew Gough Croydon and Hackney’. »» Ushawant Kaur 13th-25th July »» Therese • Graeae Theatre Company presents ‘Alice at the April 1998 Drill Hall’, a free adaptation by Noel Greig of ‘Alice • Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre, ‘Answer in Wonderland’, in collaboration with Nottingham Me with Silence’ and ‘Verse for Two.’ (Old Bull, Playhouse and Roundabout Theatre in Education. d Barnet.) Geoff Bullen and Jenny Sealey. Show subsequently known as ‘Alice’. 18th April 20th June • Survivors’ Poetry (Hampden Community Centre) »» Steve Dowsett • Survivors’ Poetry, Somers Town Community »» Hilary Porter Centre. » »» Nina Finburgh » Readings from ‘Voices of Conscience’ (Iron »» CJ Schuler Press) »» Roger Lloyd Pack May 1998 »» Jehane Markham »» Richard McKane, Stephen Watts (Joint 5th-9th May editors) • CandoCo Dance Co, ‘Out of Here’. (The Place.) »» Kath Tait (Musicican) • New touring production ‘After the Volcano.’ (The »» Jilian Tipene (MC Poet) Place, May, then touring.) 16th May July 1998 • Survivors’ Poetry, Hampden Community Centre • Radio Times 3 »» John Paul O’Neill »» Mat Fraser (MC) »» Bill Lewis »» Francis Rwama »» Plastic Anorexic Useless Eaters, Deaf Cabaret (hosted »» Ayoka Clive Mason), Cabaret from LDAF (see »» Martin Davies below), Community Showcase with »» Totlyn Jackson and Neville Murray various disability theatre groups, London »» Ian Stanton premiere of Strathcona Theatre Company’s »» Blind, Black and Breathless ‘id’, Stalking Histories (Multimedia performance from Gary Robson) August 1998 »» Dance: • Heart ‘n Soul, ‘The “New” Experience’. (Chester, »» Tardis Dance, Blue Eyed Soul New Manchester, London.) Frontiers and Eye contact (double bill), • Jenny Morris, ‘Encounters with Strangers: Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre Feminism and Disability’. ‘Distant Sisters & Billy Can’ • Salford and Trafford Disability Arts Initiative. »» Art: Three year programme of work set up by the two »» Group exhibition of work by Lucy boroughs. Jones, Yinke Shonibare and Tanya Raabe 15th August (Lauderdale House) and Alison Lapper • Survivors’ Poetry, Somers Town Community (Jackson’s Lane). Centre. »» Peter Campbell October 1998 »» John Peacock • ‘The Shape We’re in’ As above plus: » »» The Essex Girls’ Poetry Collective » Oct 4 Johnny Crescendo interviews Simon Smith of the Useless Eaters, Victoria Field, September 1998 Director of Survivors’ Poetry and singer Ayoka. » • ‘Pain Is’, (Steven Dwoskin). » Oct 11 Barbara Lisicki interviews Jenny Sealey, artistic Diraector of Graeae Theatre 5th-6th September Company, Barry Avison, Administrator at • Independence Festival ‘98 (Manchester Town Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre and Marc Hall). Smith »» Heart ‘n Soul »» Oct 18 Barbara Lisicki interviews Gary »» Johnny Crescendo Robson from Stalking Histories, Tony Mitchell »» Julie McNamara from Action Space and tbc. »» Damon Rose • P.J.Fahy dies 19th September 3rd October • Survivors’ Poetry (Somers Town Community • LDAF Cabaret (Jackson’s Lane Community Centre) Centre) »» Asher Hoyles »» Mat Fraser (Compere) »» Bushy Kelly »» Leah Thorn »» Colin Hambrook »» Martin Davis »» J Owen-WilliamsF: Michelle Taylor (Blind »» Jurg Heiniger poet) Interview »» Aoka 19th September - 18th October 17th October • The Shape We’re In Conference and season • Survivors’ Poetry (Somers Town Community incorporating debates, talks and interviews, Centre) exhibitions, schools projects, artists in residence • Julie McNamara and full live performance programme. Four themed »» John Rety weeks, including »» Dee Light »» Body Culture and Identity »» Viv Youell »» Gender and Sexuality »» Homogeneity and Diversity November 1998 »» Advertising; Fashion and the media • Disability Arts/Arts and Disability Conference, »» Performances include: Bracknell (organised Southern Arts) »» Heart ‘n Soul »» Speeches from Paddy Masefield, Jo Verrent »» Music Baluji Shrivastav, Eroticis, and Daphne Payne »» Contributions from Adam Reynolds and Tony »» Art and Poetry by Paulette Ng Heaton »» Music by Francis Rwama • Dave Lupton (Crippen), ‘Welcome to the »» Compering and Ranting by Rupa Sarka Cripzone. (New book of cartoons.) »» Singing by Minika Green • P.J.Fahy ‘Freshtracks’. »» Comedy by Mike Lawson • Heatwave Disability Arts Festival »» Singing and Drums by Totlyn Jackson and »» 7 Nov Aaron Williamson performance Neville Murray (Bournemouth Centre for Community Arts) 8th-22th December » » 8 Nov Firdaus Kanga talk ‘Sixth Happiness’ • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘id’ (Young Vic) (Exeter Picture House) Devised piece about the world of circus sideshows. • Yinka Shonibare posters ‘Portrait of a Victorian D a n d y ’. 1999 • High Spin Dance Co. productions include: December 1998 »» Frog Shark Shark Shadow • 3rd Festival Europeo Cinema Handicap, includes a »» Blind Date White Noise number of films by UK Disabled People: • ‘Big Splash’. First of three Oily Cart productions » » ‘Drive’ (Raina Haig) taking place in hydrotherapy pools. »» ‘Moving From Within’ (Chris Ledger) »» ‘Beyond the Pane’ (Jenni Meredith) January 1999 » » ‘Off Limits: Strong Language’ (Ray Harrison- • Peter Street, ‘Still Standing’ (Towpath Press). Graham) »» ‘Elvis Lives - Self Animation 98’ (Iain Percy February 1999 and Clare Flynn) »» (Julie McNamara of LDAF is at the Festival. From 5th February These screenings give her the idea for the • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘A Lovely Sunday for Disability Film Festival.) Creve Coeur’ (Tennessee Williams, d Jenny Sealey). • Launch of ‘Sub Rosa: Clandestine Voices’ Touring. (Anthology by disabled poets from Newcastle-on- 27th February Tyne, working with Tyneside Disability Arts) (Live • Survivors’ Poetry (Somers Town Community Theatre Newcastle upon Tyne) Centre). Memorial event dedicated to P.J.Fahy. »» The Quayside Poets »» Talking Women March 1999 »» Fighting Voices • Football manager Glenn Hoddle sacked after »» Scribble announcing that disabled people were being »» The Comic Book punished for their sins in a previous life. »» Voices United • ‘Adorn, Equip and Accessorise’. Forthcoming »» Blind Justice touring exhibition being planned by East Midlands »» The Worm Turns Shape and Leicester City Gallery, commissioning »» Get Off Our Backs fashionable versions of disability accessories. »» Plastic Anorexic • New Playwrights Trust and Graeae Theatre • Char March ‘The Crisis Collection’ (Poetry Company in assoc with New Writing North, launch inspired by experience of a Crisis Centre) Disabled Writers Mentoring Scheme. Mentees: • Full length play ‘People Come Here To Cry’, based Jamie Beddard, Ann Fisher, Robert Findlay, Jo on the poems, to be broadcast Radio 4, March 2 Fraser Odin, Jackie Gay, Paula Greenwell, Raina 1999 Haig, Norma Pearson and Peter Wolf. • ‘Ridge Walking’ Postcard poem • ‘Wrong Bodies’, Exhibition and performances • ‘Amethyst’ Fourth poetry anthology by Gemma, (ICA) the disabled women poets collective. • Plastic Anorexic, Marisa Carnesky, Mat Fraser, • Ian Stanton dies. Jane Graham, Melinda Styles. Virtually compered 4th December by Jamie Beddard and Francesca Martinex. Photos • LDAF celebrates International Day of Disabled and artwork Alison Lapper, Tanya Raabe, Eddy People (Half Moon Theatre, E1) Hardy, Crispin PJ. »» ‘Photostories’ exhibition by Action Space • High Spin Dance, ‘Frog Shark Shark Shadow’. (Touring.) 9th-19th March Suzanne Bull (Theatre Provocateur), Wimbledon. • Survivors’ Poetry, ‘Fresher than Green, Brighter than Orange’. An exhibition of poems by Irish July 1999 women. Diorama Foyer. Anthology of same name • ‘Lifting the Lid’ (First Disability Film Festival, Lux available from Survivors Press. Cinema) Including: 14th March • ‘Sixth Happiness’ • ‘Off Limits Strong Language’ (Ray Harrison- • Aaron Williams and Craig Astil,l ‘For the Locker Grahem) and the Steerer’. (Diorama Arts Centre,) • ‘Space, The Final Frontier’ (Project Ability with 22nd March - 17th April Iain Percy) • Heatwave Disability Arts Festival. Exhibition: • ‘Elvis on the Road’ (Project Ability) »» Tanya Raabe Body Fascism • ‘Regarding the Fall’ (Bill Shannon) »» Juliet Prentice Naked Truth • ‘Representations of Disability in film from 1930 to 29th March - 30th April 1990’ (Presentation by Allan Sutherland) • ‘The Shape We’re In’. Photos by Steven Bloch. • ‘In Remembrance’ Panama Theatre Company (Jackson’s Lane Community Centre.) (Andrew McLay, Adrian Wilks, Kath Drake) (Millfield Theatre, Edmonton, July 23, then April 1999 Greyfriars Kirk House, Edinburgh Fringe 16-30 Aug) May 1999 • ‘Joyful Noise’ ‘The Fugertivs (CD, Tyneside • Graeae Theatre Company launches ‘The Missing Disability Arts) Piece’, intensive six month training course for • Francis Rwama, ‘What is this thing called love?’. disabled actors. (CD) • ‘Northern Charity, Southern Blood’. Mixed media • Frank Bangay, ‘Naked Songs and Rhythms of exhibition by Gabriel Clark-Brown examining Hope’. (Forreal editions 1999.) disability identity here and in South Africa. • DASH commissioning 3 new works by Shropshire • ‘Welcome to my Psychosis’. Drawings and and National Disability Arts groups, on the theme painting by Survivor artist Figgy Fox. (Bethlem ‘OUR PLACE/OUR SELVES’, to be launched in Jan Gallery, May 5 - June 2.) 2000. • Richard C. Leaman dies • Launch of Sue Napolitano Award, an award of £10,000 to be made to a disabled writer to produce a 17th May - 5th June body of writing which explores issues of disability as • ‘Out on a Limb: Challenging Images of Disability its main theme. through Contemporary Art’ (University Gallery, • Heart ‘n Soul and Graeae Theatre Company University of Essex) appear at Glastonbury. June 1999 • Independence Festival includes: »» Lee Stirling (Music) • Stoke Newington Midsummer Festival »» Tribute to Ian Stanton • LDAF and Hackney College present ‘Fish’. Mixed- »» Johnny Crescendo media by learning-disabled adults. (Projected on »» Bev Burkitt reading tribute to Sue Napolitano shop window 16 and 16 June) • LDAF and CandoCo ‘Emotion Through Motion’ 6th-10th July (June19) • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘The Selkie Bride’, • ‘Fittings: The Last Freak Show’. (Fittings Tricycle. Multimedia Arts with Graeae Theatre Company). Jamie Beddard, Lisa Hammond, Karina Jones, August 1999 Caroline Parker and Garry Robson. Co-directed by • Clair Lewis and Dave Lupton (aka Crippen) have Jenny Sealey and Garry Robson. (Touring, including collaborated to produce a protest song in support of Edinburgh Fringe.) BCODP ‘Pass the legislation’ campaign. • Strathcona Theatre Company ‘The Selkie Bride’. • LDAF outreach in Hackney and Croydon. ‘Mobile (June 29- July 1, Albany.) Culture Clubs’ being set up to train disabled people to use their skill in the arts. 15th-19th June • Ju90, ‘My Not-So-Secret Life as a Cyborg’ • ‘Distress Call’ One man show written and (website) performed by Liam O’Carroll, d Simon Tyler p • High Spin Dance Company, ‘Blind Date White 2000 N o i s e’. • Spider’s Web storytellers founded by Liz Porter, 21st August Kate Portal and Ghislaine Walker. • Survivors’ Poetry, Diorama Arts Centre NW1 • Shape projects ‘Vinyl Producers’ and ‘Vinyl »» Andrew Spencer Dreams’. 3 artists selected: »» A.J.Murray »» Mat Fraser ‘Genetically Modified’ »» Other performers »» Julie McNamara ‘Fly Like an Eagle’ • ‘Deadly Sensitive: Poetry by Char March and »» Neville Murray ‘Your Eyes’ (with band Club James Nash’. (Grassroots Press, Leeds and tour) Mundi) • Jenni Meredith poet in residence on P&O • Five arts documentaries screened on HTV West European Ferries from Portsmouth to Le Havre about art + power and ‘The Freedom Project’. and Bilbao (part of National Poetry Society’s Poetry • Graeae ‘Missing Piece’ Training Course launches . Places scheme). • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Woyzeck ‘ by Georg Buchner. Directed by Philip Osment. Missing Piece September 1999 One Training. London Tour. • ‘SMAC 2K’, Shropshire Millenium Festival, • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Message in a Bottle’, by commissioning several pieces of performance Michelle Taylor. Directed by Peter Rumney. Missing material from disabled artists. Piece One Training London Tour. 6th-13th September January 2000 • DASH! 99 festival. (Venues in Shropshire.) Including: 21st January »» Francis Rwama, Blue Eyed Soul, Michelle • Dashbash one (Ludlow Assembly Rooms) Taylor, Caroline Parker, Liz Porter, Kate Portal, »» Panafricana (African jazz/dance) Robson & Swan »» Angry Fish (singer/songwriter) »» Mosaic Arts (dance/drama) 25th September »» Blue Eyed Soul (New dance/video) • Survivors’ Poetry (Somers Town Community »» Short films from Matt Bedell Centre) »» Ruth Kaye (Performance poetry) »» The Caribbean Women Writers’ Aliance, MC »» London Road (‘Mike Taylor’s Pop Band) Judith Silver »» Ludlow ‘Rinse-Out’ DJs »» Chris Smart and HDAG present their film ‘An October 1999 Unwrapped Gift’ 23rd October »» ‘Disability Arts in Shropshire presents the first • Survivors’ Poetry (Somers Town Community ever touring nightclub’. Centre) »» Brian Docherty and Joon February 2000 • East Midlands SHAPE have organised placing November 1999 of sculptures in parks and woodlands across Leicestershire. All work created by groups co- December 1999 ordinated by and working with artist Martin Heron. • LDAF residency: Tanya Raabe at a crisis project • ‘Getting Noticed’. (NDAF poster exhibition based in the community for women with mental for young people, for exhibition in schools health needs. accompanied by Educational Resource Pack.) • LDAF Dance course at CandoCo’s studios at • ‘No Bony Abnormalities’ by Carrie Thomas Aspire in Harrow, culminating in performance at (Diorama). Play about the people the author met Jackson’s Lane Community Centre, Dec 4th ‘99. ‘while an inpatient of mental health clinics and 3rd December hospital’. • Lifting the Roof (For International Day of 18th February Disabled People) (Jackson’s Lane Community • Graeae, ‘The Missing Piece’ Showcase. Centre) (Culmination of training course for young disabled »» Neville Murray and band actors.) »» Annapurna Mishra »» Baluji Shrivastav (Sitarist) March 2000 »» The Real Helen Keller (Liz Crow and • ‘D’Art’ magazine launched by WMDAF, ‘a new Ann Pugh) publication produced by Disabled People about »» School (Simon McKeown) Disaability Art and Disability Culture’. »» Flash (Nicholas Ralph) • Ian Dury dies. »» Wounded Wombs (Diane Maroger) • Brendan Wilson, ‘Goodbye Asylum: The last »» Session 3: Discussion ward at Shenley hospital’. ‘Oral history project in »» Session 4: Lifting the Lid photographs documenting the lives of people about »» Second Coming to leave Shenley Hospital’. »» Extant »» The postcard lady 13th-26th March »» Walking the fine line of insanity • ‘Finding a View’, NWDAF project where disabled »» Floating Mass people were given disposable cameras to document »» To a future with...love their lives. Images displayed at Anglican Cathedral , »» Session 5: Stephen Dwoskin Retrospective Liverpool. »» Alone 24th March »» Chinese Checkers • ‘The Surgeon’s Waltz’ by High Spin Dance Co »» Trying to Kiss the Moon .(Jackson’s Lane Community Centre.) »» Discussion with Dwoskin, led by Professor Laura Mulvey April 2000 »» Session 6: Disability and Sexuality • Shropshire Millenium Art Commissions for new »» My one legged dream lover performance work: 25th May »» Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre • ‘Access Denied?’ Major conference on disability, ‘Borders and Freeways’, featuring David Bower, the arts and new technology. (Sadler’s Wells) written and directed by Kate O’Reilly »» Host: Geof Armstrong »» Steve Holland making ‘The Voice Stealer’, »» Artists: Aaron Williamson, Isa Saunders, interactive performance work for upper primary Emma McMullan, Juliet Robson, Jenni Meredith, kids based around stammering. Kathy Kapliov. »» Caroline Parker teaming with Jamie Beddard »» Presentations: Ann Whitehurst and Paul (w) and Garry Robson (d) to make a one woman Darke, Graham Harwood, Sandra Barefoot, show (‘Walking with Sleepers’). Peter Hill, Ju Gosling, Damien Robinson. »» Mat Fraser developing ICA work ‘Wrong »» Discussions: Systems Usability; Disability: are Bodies’ into performance piece ‘Seal Boy: Freak’. we still disabled artists when working online? »» Nabil Shaban and Blue Eyed Soul have Barriers to the web; Dissemination: getting your expressed interest in making a dance/film work work out there; Collaborations; Working with for young people. techies; What is digital art? Can we assess it »» Various venues. All performances come using the language of critical practice? together Sept 15-16 at Ludlow Assembly Rooms and 25-26 Sept, Nottingham Playhouse. 26th May • New Breed Theatre Company ‘So here it is...’ 2 • Drake Music Project play at Millenium Dome. week set of workshops to develop a performance, led 26th May - 26th June by Garry Robson. • A month-long Film Festival every Friday evening. Starts with seminar with Paul Darke and hopes to May 2000 invite Steven Dwoskin to talk about his films. 6th-7th May »» New play by Simon Grenville in the Jephson • Lifting the Lid (2nd Disability Film Festival) (The Gardens Lux). Session 1: Worldwide disability »» A survivors poetry and music event organised »» Disability Culture Rap by South Warwickshire User forum »» Minorities Against Minorities (Fran- »» A Cabaret evening Joseph Huainigg) »» A poetry slam »» Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril »» 25 May Launch at Warwick Arts Centre with Diop Mambety) »» Caroline Parker »» Session 2: Reflecting disability on TV »» Robin Surgeoner »» Mat Fraser Panic, Stratfoprd Mercenaries, Fish Brothers, »» Paul Darke Gertrude, Leviant. » » Excerpt from’Opera of Hope’ commissioned 18th July for the Festival from Afrikan Kutural • Disability Event as part of ‘Out of that Darkness: Kontractors. The Legacy of the Holocaust’ (ICA week). Includes End of May - end of June films ‘Children of Gaia’, ‘After the Truth’, ‘Healing by • ‘Millennium Meltdown’, Disability Arts and Killing’, Liebe Perla’, ‘One of Us’, ‘The Undesirables’ Cultural Diversity Festival in Warwickshire. Events and discussions. include: »» Exhibition by professional visual artists at the August 2000 Pump Rooms Gallery. To include: Eddy Hardy, 18th-20th August Nancy Willis, Hugh Huddy, Tanya Raabe, Peter • Independence Festival 2000, Birmingham Kiddle, Colin Marsh, Christine Robertson, Jenni »» 18th Official opening, Centenary Square Meredith »» Launch event , Ronnie Scott’s. Julie » » ‘Determinable Barriers’. Anne Whitehurst McNamara and band MacNaMayhem, Leigh works alongside Alan McClean, film-maker, Stirling & Simon Cottington actor Tony Mustoe and artist and critic Paul »» 19th Deaf Comedians, Angry Fish, Brendan Darke ‘to explore the unwritten history of King, Wanda Barbara, Mat Fraser, The Fugertivs, Disabled people’. Caroline Parker » » Short film and video festival (touring »» 20th Totlyn Jackson, Rachel Humphries. Warwickshire) Poetry from Semba Jallow Rutherford, Ruth Kaye, Michelle Taylor June 2000 »» Exhibition of 4 disabled artists at the Custard • ‘Loose Screws’. Core Arts CD. Factory, Digbeth • ‘Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture’. (Spare Change Books) September 2000 1st-14th June 18th September - 15th October • ‘Devalued People’. Photographic exhibition by • Transitions 2000 (Jackson’s Lane Community Peter O’Brien. (Nottingham Theatre Royal.) Centre ) 21st June »» 7th-8th October:‘Frida Kahlo’s Corset’ (d. • Celebration of Disability Pride. Event for lesbian Liz Crow), followed by interview of director by and gay disabled people. (ICA) Allan Sutherland »» Plastic Anorexic »» 18th September - 15th October: Transitions »» Alex Bulmer’s film ‘Beauty’ Disability Arts Conference and Season, Jackson’s »» ‘Human Desires’ (film) with poet Michelle Lane Taylor »» 28th-29th September: The Shysters Theatre »» ‘To a Future...With Love’ (film exploring HIV Company, ‘Fallen Angel’ and AIDS). »» 20th September: ‘New Signs’, signed »» Jackie Duckworth’s film ‘A Prayer before Birth’ performance »» Hosted by Julie McnaMaudsley (Julie »» 5th-6th October: ‘A Woman Called Jackie’ by McNamara) Deborah A. Williams »» Webmistress Ju90 in bar »» 12th-13th October: ‘Miss Read’ by Community Focus and Face Front July 2000 »» 29th-31st September: Graeae Theatre • ‘Beyond Reason’. Book of Aidan Shingler’s Company ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ exhibition. by Steven Berkoff. Directed by Jenny Sealey, 1st–22nd July movement direction by Liam Steel » • ‘The Art of Disability - A Retrospective’. Exhibition » Beautiful Octopus Club » of photographs by Steven Bloch. (Diorama Gallery) » Survivors Theatre Workshops »» Debates 15th July »» ‘The Arts, Identity and Action’ • Mad Pride Festival, Clissold Park. Music from »» ‘Out in the Digitial Domain’ »» ‘The Arts, Identity and Action’ »» Julie McNamara and MacNamayhem »» ‘Towards Inclusivity’ »» Dan Antolopolski »» 18th-30th September: Exhibition: Moira »» Norrin Radd Coupe and Kate Wells »» 26th September - 9th October: Exhibition: 2001 Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq • art+power Strength to Strength ‘Year of the Artist »» 30th September: Exhibition: Ling Chung the Exhibition’ at Spike Island. Dragon • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Blood Wedding’, by 20th September Federico Garcia Lorca. Missing Piece Two Training. North West Tour. • ‘Attitude is Everything’ (Campaign for access in music venues) launched with gig at Dingwalls. January 2001 26th September • ‘Vinyl Dreams’ recording programme for disabled • ‘Getting Noticed’ (NDAF poster project) launched musicians, 2nd project begins. at Tate Modern. • ‘Archive Enabled’ by James Weir. ‘A portable filing system addressing the relationship of Disability Arts October 2000 to the rest of the world.’ 13th-15th October • 5th Deaf Film and Television Festival. February 2001 • Precise information for March, April, May 2001 November 2000 is limited, as no issue of DAIL appeared during that • Graeae Theatre Company ‘The Fall of the House of time. Usher’. (Jackson’s Lane Community Centre.) • Survivors Theatre Workshops. (Jackson’s Lane March 2001 Community Centre) 19th March • Charnwood Disability Week (Loughborough • Mat Fraser performs ‘Sealboy Freak’, one-man Town Hall). Mayor to unveil sculpture by local show at Bull Theatre, Barnet. disability group. Followed by Bitter and Twisted, Jez 21st March Colbourne and Julie McNamara. • Mind The...Gap present ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. 29th November - 16th December (Bull Theatre, Barnet.) • Tandem Theatre present Pinter’s ‘Mountain 24th March Language’ and ‘Landscape’ in BSL. • New Graeae production, ‘Into the Mystic’ by 30th November Peter Wolf. Directed and designed by Jenny Sealey. • Inter-Action: International Day of Disabled Riverside Studios, followed by two month national People. Woughton Theatre, Milton Keynes. Wanda tour. Barbara, Johnny Crescendo, Bitter and Twisted, 27th-31st March Colin Thompson, Lucid Dreams drama, Drake • Heart ‘n Soul, ‘Large’. (Albany Empire, Deptford) Music Project and Chance to Dance.

December 2000 April 2001 1st December May 2001 • International Day of Disabled People at the Drum, May - Until 23rd June Aston, Birmingham • ‘Deaf Eyes’ exhibition. Responses of ten visual »» Steve Holland, Peppermint Lounge, Different artists to an illustrated lecture on physiological basis Beat and Angry Fish of sign language: »» The Fugertivs and Julie McNamara with »» Miles Thoms photography ‘Inside a Healthy McNamayhem. Brain’ 9th December »» Fiona Garfield Photos • Mad Pride (Button Factory, SE24) »» Martin Barrett Painting on wood »» Headjam »» Naviyot Mata Paintings »» Skinny Millionaires »» Meima Mudawi Mixed media »» Razz »» Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq Mixed media »» Christopher Scare Sculpture »» Getin Off »» Bora Tukenmez Video installation »» Al Ha’imun (The Wanderers) »» Paula Garfield Framed boxes »» Listen to the Hands of our People »» Edward Richards »» Me and Him Abroad »» Niall McCormack Paintings (late addition?) »» Shameface Requiem »» (Queensland Multimedia Centre, N7) »» Rush »» Talk June 2001 »» Tell it like it is • Frank Bangay new CD ‘A True Voice Singing’. • ‘Echoes of the Spirit’, exhibition of art by Japanese • Juan Delgado ‘Don’t Look Under the Bed’ Video artists with learning disabilities. (Diorama until installation exploring Clause 28 and its effects on 18 Aug, Project Ability, Glasgow 30 Aug- 21 Sept, young people. Bolton Museum Art Gallery 15 Dec - 23 Feb) 30th June • CandoCo 10th Anniversary double bill: » • Somers Town Blues Night » ‘I hastened through my death scene to catch »» Christina Dunhill and Frank Bangay your last act’ (chor Javier de Frutos) »» ‘Sunbryne (chor Doug Elkins) July 2001 • Drake Music Project looking for 2 groups of • ‘Wired on Words’ Survivors open mike, Poetry physically disabled people to join project with the Café Science Museum and Sinfonia 21. • ‘You’re Really Cutting Me Up?’ by Jenni Meredith • Edinburgh 2001 DEGENERATE International (Pub Colchester and Tendring Arts Project). Festival of Disability Art. (Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh): 2th-20th July »» ‘Caliban and Miranda’ (Uncommon Ground • Miles Thomas (photographer), Exhibition ‘Miles’ Sign Dance Theatre) Eyes’ (The Ability Gallery, W1) »» ‘I am the Walrus’ (Nabil Shaban) New work 8th July about David Rappaport • ‘Make It So’. One day festival in Milton Keynes. »» ‘oUo maan’ (Deborah A. Williams) Shirley Novak presents: »» ‘Walking Among Sleepers’ (Caroline Parker) »» Mat Fraser »» ‘A Fumble in the Dark’ (Jim McSharry) »» Angry Fish »» ‘Sealboy: Freak’ (Mat Fraser) »» Julie McNamara and McNamayhem »» ‘Zipper 1 Zapper’ (Talking Hands) »» Honeybee Theatre »» ‘Regarding the Fall (Bill Shannon film) »» Francis Rwama 11th August »» Siwsann George • Independence Festival »» The Bungalow Boogaloo Band »» Baluji Shrivastav Sitar »» Lucid Dreams »» Leigh Stirling Guitar »» Drake Music Project and the Scope Art Group »» Terry Simpson Survivor poet »» Neville Murray (workshop) »» Spider’s Web Storytelling circle »» Spiders Web (storytelling) »» Tanya Raabe and Julia Keenan »» Graham Patey (Circus) Art workshop 25th July »» Bev Burkitt and Natalie Markham • Mind Citizens theatre group launched. (Stratford »» Clair Lewis Singer/songwriter Circus.) »» Johnny Solstice Performance poet 28th July 28th August • Survivors’ Poetry. Launch of ‘Write on the Edge’ • Mat Fraser performs ‘Sealboy Freak’, one-man anthology. (Somers Town Community Centre.) show at Jackson’s Lane Community Centre.

August 2001 September 2001 • 3rd Disability Film Festival, including: • CD ‘Heart ‘n Soul’. »» Ballad of Una Two-Step • Spider’s Web Storytellers: Story Circles at Jackson’s »» Baptized at Lucky Lube Lane. »» Disability Culture Rap (2nd DFF showing) • ‘Large’ - New show from Heart ‘n Soul breaks new »» Feeling Space ground by exploring cast members’ past experience of discrimination. Marichi and the Italian Stallions, Jo Fraser Odin • Jenny Sealey tells DAIL about Graeae’s future (storytelling), Bitter and Twisted, Angry Fish, Sign plans: Dance Collective. Plus ‘Disability Action Nativity »» The Changeling Play 2001’. Compered by Johnny Crescendo. » » peeling 8th-10th November » » Display 4 (New writing initiative with Soho • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘The Changeling’ by Theatre and Writernet) Middleton and Rowley in a new adaptation by » » Wild Lunch (new writing project with Paines Claire McIntyre. (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Plough) Wells, then national tour.) »» Mud Men (Open residency in two schools in Camden, led by ENO Baylis programme) 16th-18th November »» In discussion about summer school for 2002 • 6th Deaf Film and TV Festival (Light House, with Mind the..Gap Wolverhampton). • Dennis Casling, ‘Endorphin Angels’. (Collection 18th November, and 9th and 16th of poems) December 13th September • LDAF course ‘The Magic of Writing’ • Survivors’ Open Mike at the Poetry Café. December 2001 28th-29th September • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘The Changeling’. • CandoCo Dance Company (10th Anniv bill). (Lilian Baylis Theatre) Stratford Circus. • ‘Silver Leaves’ anthology from Gemma. September - To 18th October • DadaFest (Liverpool) 59 activities over 10 days, • ‘Adorn Equip’ Exhibition examining issues around including design of equipment and accessories for disabled »» Merseysign Deaf Theatre Company, and people (Presumably a version of ‘Adorn, Equip, DaDaLIve (8 Dec): Accessorise, announced earlier.) City Gallery, »» Nasty Girls Leicester. Includes work by Nicola Lane - produced »» Julia-Ann Kerner during a Year of the Artist residency - which is »» Merseyside Youth Deaf Dance Company based on a group exploration of aesthetics in the »» Fishbarrel Arts production and use of prosthetics. »» Compere Julie McNamara • London Arts launches Disability Action Plan. October 2001 • Visualise. Video project for young deaf artists • ‘Take up Thy Bed and Walk - Death Disability run by Turtle Key Arts and the Serpentine Gallery. and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls’ by Lois Keith Ruth Atkins, Paul Dowdican, Frances Dumi, Paul (Women’s Press) Harrison, Rachel Didge-Harrison, Rexhep Lupqi 11th October and Diana Martin • Survivors’ Open Mike at the Poetry Café. • ‘P4 Collection’ (The Escapists) (Music CD). 24th October - 3rd November 1th-8th December • ‘I am the Walrus’, w and perf by Nabil Shaban. • DaDaFest Celebration of Disability and Deaf (Oval House). culture on Merseyside. 4th-21st December, and 3rd-5th November 2001 January • Shape projects ‘Vinyl Producers’ and ‘Vinyl • ‘Octagon Illusion’ Exhibition of work by artists Dreams’, 2nd year on Shape London course ‘In the Picture’, providing »» Charles Swiet and The escapists training in professional practice for 8 visual artists: »» Shalah Spence aka Airbubble Michelle Baharier, Hodan Ismail, Stephen Jackson, »» Minika Green Geoff Swann, Geoff Tomlinson, Martin Stevens, »» Greg Brooker with his band Kumo Navjyot Mata, Daniel Carmody (Diorama Gallery) • Mind Citizens (theatre group) ‘Breaking Through’ 6th December w Bryan Oliver d Frances Rifkin • InterAction IDDP event, Milton Keynes. • WMDAF celebrate IDPP Amy Mullin, Mat Fraser, Francis Rwama, Jacqui Christianni, Mario 2002 »» Paddy Ladd and John Wilson gave workshop • DASh becomes independent of SDC. on Deaf issues. Johnny Crescendo ran a music • art+power, ‘Expressing Our Lives’ at Bristol Old workshop and Datco a theatre workshop. Vic including theatre: ‘Sharing the Stars’; Video »» Conference poet was Julie McNamara. animation, ‘this river winding’; art installation, »» Performance by Signdance Collective. ‘Dormitory Beds’. 6th-16th February • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘peeling’ by Kaite • Mat Fraser, ‘Sealboy: Freak’, Oval House. O’Reilly. Directed and designed by Jenny Sealey. • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘The Trouble with 8th-10th February Richard’. Written and Directed by Jamie Beddard. • ‘Dancing Differently?: Independence, Inclusion • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Wild Lunch VI’. Paines and Diversity’. 3-day national conference about Plough and Graeae’s first collaboration. A series of dance and disabled people professional lunchtime readings of new work by 11th February - 2nd March disabled and non-disabled writers at The Young Vic. • ‘From the Rebus’. Exhibition of Jacqui Anderton, Yvonne Francis and Jennifer Hunter. (Diorama January 2002 Gallery) • ‘Equal Opportunities Policy Into Practice: 14th February Disability’ by Ruth Bailey. (Independent Theatre • Survivors’ Open Mike at the Poetry Café. Commission.) • ‘Painting from a New Perspective’. Accounts March 2002 from 6 blind and VI artists of their work. (RNIB • INNOVATE, new London Arts funding strand publication.) aimed at supporting the development of new work • Survivors’ Poetry inviting submissions on the by disabled artists. theme of ‘We Have Come Through’. Deadline 28 Feb • KISS by Catherine Long and Mat Fraser. 2002. (Response to Marc Quinn’s reinterpretation of 10th January Rodin’s ‘The Kiss’, for which they were both models.) • Survivors’ Open Mike at the Poetry Café. • New Breed looking for disabled actors for ‘The Irish Giant’, new play to tour Autumn 2002. February 2002 • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘peeling’ by Kaite • Launch of CD from Frankie Miller Songwriting O’Reilly. Lisa Hammond, Caroline Parker, Sophie Project. Partridge. d Jenny Sealey. • DA 21 Disability Arts Conference at Holton Lee. • ‘Imaging the Body’ (seminar organised by Speakers included Tony Heaton, Elspeth Morrison, NWDAF, Tate Liverpool and Walker Art gallery to Paul Darke, Barbara Lisicki, Moya Harris. Issues address issues raised by Marc Quinn’s sculptures of covered included: disabled people). »» Should the art form come first? 5th March - 26th April »» Does my experience of a disabling world have • mind the..gap, ‘Pygmalion’. Adapted by to be so obvious? Mike Kenny. Retelling to challenge stereotypes »» Should it be the central focus of my work? surrounding people with learning disabilities. »» Why are Deaf artists still marginalized in the (National tour.) Disability Arts Communities? »» Who is setting the agenda? 14th March »» Have disabled professionals sold out? • ‘Wired on Words’ Survivors’ Open Mike at the »» Where are all our Black and Minority Ethnic Poetry Café. peers? 23rd March »» Artists being exhibited were: • Mat Fraser and Catherine Long perform with the »» Tanya Raabe (including ‘Vacuum Wrap’) Nasty Girls (LIPA). »» James Wear (‘Archive Enabled’) »» Mandy Hollaand (‘Out to Lunch Revisited’) 27th March »» Adam Reynolds (‘Pillar of Damocles 1 and 2’ • ‘The New Blk’ by Deborah A. Williams. Work in and ‘Pandora’s Box) progress. (Diorama) »» Tony Heaton (‘Personal Column’ and ‘Quiet 30th March Revolution’) • Survivors’ Poetry in Performance (Diorama): »» Razz MC 20th May - 15th July »» Dave Russell • Spider’s Web Story Circles. (Jackson’s Lane »» Viv Youell Community Centre.) » » Pascale Petit 25th May • Survivors’ Poetry (Diorama): April 2002 »» Carrie Thomas MC • Strathcona Theatre Company: ‘The Yellow »» Steve Freeman (music) Wallpaper’ (Touring) »» Queenie (poetry) 11th April »» The Children (music) • ‘Wired on Words’ Survivors’ Open Mike at the Poetry Café. June 2002 18th-21st April • Keith Pickard dies. • ‘DARE’ with Nabil Shaban, Jim McSharry, Garry • Meena Jaffarey dies. Robson and John Hollywood. d Robert Rae. (ICA) 6th June 27th April • ‘Wired on Words’ Survivors’ Open Mike at the • Survivors’ Poetry in Performance (Diorama): Poetry Café »» Steve Tasane MC 6th-9th June »» Bruin’s Ruin (music) • 4th Disability Film Festival. (Festival programme »» Frank Bangay included in DAIL 170.) Film-makers include: Petra »» John Rety and Isha Kupers, Charlotte Collins, Ketherine Araniello, Paul »» Viv Youell Darke, Samueal Dore, Juan delGado, Chris Cristou, »» Pascale Petit Stuart McKears, Charlotte Collins, Irene Whitehead 11th June May 2002 • ‘Vinyl Dreams 2’ launch: Minika Green, Shahla • Double issue of DAIL and trial new A4 format. Spence, Chas de Swiet, Greg Brooker (Spitz) • ‘Walking Among Sleepers’ Caroline Parker w Jamie Beddard d Garry Robson. 19 May Chat’s 22nd-26th June Palace, 23-24 May The Bull, 26 May Southwark • Visualise. 2nd in series of special projects at Playhouse. Serpentine Gallery in conjunction with Turtle Key • ‘Graeae Plays 1’, edited Jenny Seeley: Arts. 5-day workshop with young deaf or Ph artists »» ‘Hound’ Maria Oshodi in response to Gilbert and George exhibition. »» ‘Soft Vengeance’ April de Angelis 25th June 2002-25th June 2004 »» ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ Ray Harrison • Graeae, ‘peeling’ by Kaite O’Reilly. Director Jenny Graham Sealey. Costume design Kevin Freeman. »» ‘Fittings: The Last Freak Show’ Mike Kenny 29th June »» ‘Into the Mystic’ Peter Wolf »» ‘peeling’ Kaite O’Reilly • Survivors’ Poetry (Diorama): » »» (Aurora New Plays) » Fiona Branson (singer/songwriter MC) » • Frank Bangay CD ‘A True Voice Singing’ » Peter Brown » • Caroline Cardus becomes artist in residence » Cheryl Moskovitz » with Artworks MK, Milton Keynes, and produces » Julie McNamara exhibition including series of nine canvasses called July 2002 ‘Dirty Words for Disabled People’. • Shelf Life (NDAF national initiative, poetic • 2002-2005 Graeae, ‘Diary of an Action Man’ by exploration of death and disability). Book planned Mike Kenny. A co-production with Unicorn Theatre for April 2003. for Children. Time Out’s ‘Best Children’s Show • Disability/deaf channel within artsonline.com 2003’. Director Jenny Sealey. • Vinyl Dreams 2 CDs 9th May »» Minika Green ‘Grounded • ‘Wired on Words’. Survivors’ Open Mike at the »» Greg Brooker and Glass Tone ‘Libertine’ Poetry Café. »» Airbubble (Shahla Spence) ‘Goddess of Rain’ »» Chas de Swiet and the Escapists ‘The P4 Collection’ August 2002 28-29 Nov) • Allan Sutherland founds the Edward Lear »» Blue Eyed Soul ‘Frankenstein’ Institute, a disability arts think tank. Its first project »» Circus and Cabaret: is to look at ways of archiving the achievements to »» Amphitheatre of the Arts (Jackson’s Lane date of Disability Arts. 13 Nov) • ‘Degenerate’, a festival within the Edinburgh »» Deaf Cabaret (Jackson’s Lane 16 Nov) festival, showcases the best of disability arts and »» Caroline Parker artists, featuring the work of Mat Fraser, Nabil »» Steve Day Shaban and Caroline Parker among others. »» Other acts »» Beautiful Octopus Club (Jackson’s Lane 13th-18th August 20 Nov) • ‘The Drowned World’ by Gary Owen, d Vicky »» Visual Arts: Featherstone. (Paines Plough in association with »» Alison Lapper (Oval House 4-30 Nov) Graeae.) (Traverse, Edinburgh.) »» Colin Hambrook, Jimmy Crow and September 2002 Afshin Nagouri (Lauderdale House 29 Oct- 10 Nov) October 2002 »» Conferences » • ‘Presto, or the Secret Life of Swift and Gulliver’. » Race and Disability (Jackson’s Lane 27 (Mat Fraser and Group K, touring) - Inclusive Nov) » theatre. » Facial Disfigurement (Jackson’s Lane 29 • Jamie Beddard ‘The Trouble with Richard’. Nov) » (Forum theatre, about to tour mainstream » Story telling and poetry: » secondary schools). » Spiders Web Storytelling ‘Have your • New Breed, ‘The Irish Giant’ w, d Garry Robson. say, create a story in a day’ ‘weaving • ‘Intimate Encounters’ (Diorama). Photos by inclusive strands into the development of Belinda Mason-Lovering on theme of disability, storytelling’ (Jackson’s Lane 24 Nov) » sexuality and body image. » Spiders Web Story Circles (Jackson’s • New BBC comedy ,‘The Office’, includes disabled Lane 9 Dec) » character, played by Julie Fernandez. » Survivors’ Poetry (Jackson’s Lane 29 • New Breed’s ‘The Irish Giant’ wins the Manchester Nov) Evening News Theatre Award 2002 for Best Fringe • International Day of Disabled People (Centennial Production. Centre, Edgbaston) • Work towards first disability History Week 2003 November 2002 • Cabaret: The Nasty Girls, The Incurables, • Xposure Festival. Theatre: Lawrence Clark »» ‘Pig Tales’ (5-8 Nov Jackson’s Lane 9th November Community Centre, 13-30 Nov Oval • Dreams and Beams Showcase for artists being House) promoted by Mencap »» ‘The Trouble with Richard’ by Jamie »» Abi Norris from About Face Theatre Co Beddard (5-6 Nov Oval House) »» JC Jamma, lead actor with Mind the ... Gap »» Dance: »» Station 17 from Hamburg »» Triple bill: ‘Changing Perspectives’ »» CD ‘Like a River Flows’ »» Corali Dance ‘Colour Stereo’ »» Venues: Jackson’s Lane, Oval House, Sadler’s »» Magpie Dance ‘Beyond the Mask’ Wells, Croydon Clocktower, Stratford Circus and »» Lynn Levett, Charlotte Derbyshire and Lauderdale House. Co: A special commission 14th November »» (Sadler’s Wells 7 Nov) • Survivors’ Poetry: Wired on Words (Poetry Café) »» (Croydon Clocktower 10 Nov) »» John Arthur and Jeanette Ju Pierre »» Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre (Jackson’s Lane 27 and 28 Nov) 15th-17th November »» ‘Blue Seagull’ and ‘Office Hours’ • 7th Deaf Film and TV Festival (Lighthouse, »» High Spin ‘An Electric Bouquet’ Wolverhampton) (Jackson’s Lane 22 Nov, Stratford Circus »» Bat Kol dancers »» ‘Key to the Stars’ poetry of Brenda Cook wins ‘Best international film’ »» ‘Skye’ DrEAdFul Productions at Kynnskino Film Festival in Helsinki. »» John Wilson retrospective of portrayal on film • ‘Faustus’ - art + power’s own interpretation of and TV Christopher Marlowe’s play is premiered at Bristol »» ‘Not the Usual Victim’ (Sofya Gollan) Old Vic. »» ‘All the Small Things’ (Sam Dore) »» ‘Silent River’ (Ning Jingwu) January 2003 »» VISION exhibition curated by Cathy Woolley • Pete Shaughnessy, visual artist, writer and activist »» Matthew Fenton ‘one of the founders of Mad Pride’ dies. »» Miles Thomas »» Dana Martin February 2003 »» Fiona McLean • EYDP funding for: »» Juan DelGado »» Nabil Shaban for play ‘About to Go’ »» Jon Hempstead »» Blue eyed Soul »» Shoot Your Mouth Off 26th November »» Equata • The Krazy Kats and Dogs Klub (Chat’s Palace) »» Ithaca • Celebration of 10 years of Survivors’ Poetry , MC Emerald. 11th-28th February • Tolleck Winner sculpture. (Diorama) 30th November • Survivors’ Poetry (Diorama) 13th February »» MC The Speech Painter • Survivors’ Poetry Wired on Words (Poetry Café) »» Lee Wilson »» MC Emerald »» Francesca Beard »» Razz 13th February - 2nd March December 2002 • ‘Diary of an Action Man’ play for 7-11 yr olds by • ‘Zeros and Nils (New Life Theatre Co, touring) Mike Kenny d Jenny Sealey. With David Ellington, 11th December Cherylee Houston, Amit Sharma, Karen Spicer. • ‘Young Producers’ concert from project to support Prod Graeae Theatre Co and Unicorn Theatre. unsigned musicians developing their careers (Union (Stratford Circus. Then Oval House and Lilian Chapel, Islington) Baylis Theatre.) »» Eugena Bertin (Rap artist) 15th February » » Lyn Levett and Matthew Holmes (electronic • Jigsaw Theatre ‘Face2Face’. (Limelight Theatre, dance musicians and composers) Aylesbury.) »» Rona Topaz (singer/songwriter) »» Stephen Hurren (blues and bluegrass guitarist) 22nd February • Survivors in Performance (Poetry Café) 12th December »» Celia Potterton MC • Survivors’ Poetry: Wired on Words (Poetry Café) »» Giten » » Barry Tebb, Brenda Williams and David »» Kath Tait Lambert 21st-22nd December March 2003 • ‘The Snow Queen’ by Hans Christian Andersen • ‘Connection’, an exhibition of new work by »» Adaptation in BSL and spoken language by disabled artists based in Wales, tours venues Jean St Clair and Jeni Draper d Jenny Sealey. In including Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon and association with Graeae Theatre Company. Pontardawe Arts Centre. • New exhibitions at Project Ability, Glasgow 2003 »» ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles part 2’ - A • European Year of Disabled People (EYDP). group exhibition by • New BBC comedy ‘The Office’ includes disabled »» participants from their developmental character, played by Julie Fernandez. workshops for people with learning disabilities. • art+power Artist’s residency at Tate Liverpool. »» ‘Imprints’ - An exhibition of prints & ceramics • ‘The Wrong Flowers’, a film about the life and by members of the »» Trongate Studios, their space for people with mental illness. 10th March • HooT Music runs a range of music workshops for • Mad Women hold a cabaret event for women in people with mental health needs in Kirklees. The Liverpool to register opposition to the impending group has recently produced a CD, ‘A Different war with Iraq. Kettle of Fish’. 11th March • StopGAP are showcasing the latest three dances • ‘Write on the Edge’ Poetry Workshop with Anna that have been created Menmuir and Hilary Porter (Survivors’ Poetry at » » ‘Rough N’Tumble’ ch. Maxine Doyle and the Diorama Arts Centre). dancers »» ‘Orbit’ ch. by Becky Edmunds 18th March »» ‘Thank You For The Eggs!’ by Bettina Strickler • British Sign Language gains formal recognition • NDAF publishes ‘Shelf Life’, a book of writing as an official language in its own right. (Though an by people with conditions that will shorten their important advance, this is not full recognition; the lives, based on a series of writing workshops, with language has not yet achieved full legal status.) illustrations by professional disability artists. Ed 21st March Kate O’Reilly, intro Geof Armstrong, foreword Nabil • ‘Faltered States’. Performance with artists Mat Shaban. Illus, Deborah Padfield, Steve Jones, Nancy Fraser, Patience Agbabi, Rachel Pantechnicon and Willis, Penny Goater, Ben Cove, Aidan Shingler, ju 90, as part of Science Museum’s ‘Naked Science’ Marlena Corcoran, Alison Jones, Juan delGado, series. Collaboration between Science Museum and Jenni Meredith, Tân Draig, Juliet Prentice. (Since Apples and Snakes. (Science Museum. Repeated NDAF’s closure, copies of this book are available Battersea Arts Centre Mar 28.) from the National Disability Arts Collection and 25th March Archive.) • Ealing Soundscape launch, Action Space. (Start • StopGAP’s next performances: of showcase of work by artists with learning »» 28 Mar Eastbourne disabilitites, continuing into April.) »» ‘Thank You For The Eggs!’ and ‘Rough N’ Tumble’ 26th March - 20th April »» 4 Apr Portsmouth • New video work by Aaron Williamson as »» Work created with local groups. Culminating part of exhibition, ‘The Translator’s Notes’, with StopGAP performing ‘Thank You For The two performances based on a contemporary Eggs!’ interpretation of the Latin ‘translation’. (The Gallery, 2nd March Southwark Park.) • Graeae Theatre Company present one-off 27th March production of Eve Ensler’s ‘Vagina Monologues’. Dir • Nabil Shaban, in protest at the war on Iraq, hands Philip Bray (Nitro Theatre Co) and Jenny Sealey back funding cheque for £24,800, the first half of an (Graeae Theatre Co). With Taharah Azam, Sarah award for his theatre project ‘The First to Go’, about Beauvoisin, Beverley Burkitt, Liz Carr, Alex Cowan, the murder of disabled people by the Nazis. Mandy Colleran, Sarah Duguid, Julie Fernandez, 28th March Paula Garfield, Minika Green, Lisa Hammond, • ‘Faltered States’. (Battersea Arts Centre See 21 Pauline Heath, Cherylee Houston, Karina Jones, Mar.) Anu Kumar, Carolyn Lucas, Vicky Lucas, Yvonne • The Boing Club ’an event to highlight and Lynch, Lara Masters, Julie McNamara, Charlotte celebrate the innovatory work that is taking place Molten-Thomas, Pamela Mungroo, Caroline involving people with learning disabilities’. Featuring Parker, Jo Paul, Sophie Partridge, Liz Porter, Mandy theatre company Oily Cart who will present a series Redvers-Rowe, Kirin Saeed, Sarah Scott, Sonali of their trampoline based shows, for young people Shah, Michele Taylor, Deborah Williams, Sian Vasey, with profound and multiple learning disabilities; Paula Thompson and Nicola Wildin. Action Space, with a workshop and open exhibition 5th March of their work; Baked Bean Theatre Company; artists • CandoCo triple bill of new work at QEH affiliated to Shape. (BAC, Lavender Hill, London.) »» ‘Sour Milk’ ch Javier de Frutus 29th March » » ‘Shadow’ ch Fin Walker • Survivors’ Poetry » » ‘’Phasing’ ch Jamie Wotton »» Dave Russell MC »» The Children (Music) 10th April • ‘Write on the Edge’ Poetry Workshop with Ferenc • Survivors Poetry ‘Wired on Words Open Mic’, and Razz. (Survivors Poetry at Diorama Arts Poetry Café, WC2. Centre.) 12th-13th April 29th-30th March • DASh (Disability arts in Shropshire) training • BDA hosts short film festival at the Other course for Disabled Artists in Carnival Arts, leading Cinema, WC2, highlighting a selection of the best to carnival procession through the streets of Ludlow, films from 2002 7th Deaf Film and TV Festival, part of DASh’s second inclusive Community Wolverhampton. Carnival. 14th April April 2003 • Shape runs ‘A Rough Guide to Communicating • Edward Lear Foundation, a new Disability Arts with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People’. ‘a new think-tank, established ‘to create new thinking practical one-day course aimed at people working in in Disability Arts, thinking that is not led by the arts venues’. (Repeated on 30 June, 8 September, 1 policy-making of arts funding bodies’. First project December) is a piece of research to discover what disability arts organisations are doing to archive their own work. 21st April • British Film Institute’s Disability Film Catalogue • LDAF present ‘Hollywood and Disability’, a talk ‘White sticks, Wheels and Crutches: Disability by Martin F. Norden, author of ‘The Cinema of and the moving image’. 132 pp, inc specially Isolation’. (Diorama Arts Centre) commissioned essays written by Dr Paul Darke. 21st April - 8th May • Shape launches Deaf Theatre Programme to • ‘Smudge’ by Alex Bulmer. Play about a young celebrate EYDP. woman’s journey towards blindness, based on the • ‘Desires’, short stories by Penny Pepper, published author’s own experience of progressive sight loss. by Bejamo Press. (Oval House, London.) • ‘Recovery’. Photographs taken by people who have 22nd April been helped or supported by mental health services. »» Cheltenham Clarence St Library Apr 24 - to • ‘Write on the Edge’ Poetry Workshop with Alison May 9. Clayburn and Hilary Porter. »» Hucclecote, Gloucester library Apr 24 - May 24th April 6. • Beautiful Octopus Club. (Deptford Albany.) » » The exhibition will then be finally located 26th April within the acute psychiatric hospitals in • Survivors Poetry in Performance. Gloucestershire for permanent display. 29th April - 1st May 1st-26th April • Sculpture by Tolleck Winner, Charity Fair 2003, • Action Space studio exhibition. (D4 Gallery.) Islington Business Centre. 2nd April • Spider’s Web Open Storytelling Circle Workshop. May 2003 (Jacksons Lane, N6.) • NDAF creates The Ghetto - Disability Arts Online 5th April Store to sell disability artwork, including: Original artwork; Copies of artwork (prints, books, videos, • Action Space Croydon video screening. (Croydon CDs, tapes, postcards...); Downloadable artwork; Clocktower). Background and research documents related to the 5th April – 18th May field of disability and the arts in the UK. • ‘The Hand of Time’, exhibition by photographer • Equata set up The Paddy Masefield Award, a new Clifford Morris and poet Semba Jallow-Rutherford. Arts Award for the South West region. £1,000 (Faith House, Holton Lee, Dorset.) will be awarded to ‘a disabled artist with learning 8th April difficulties who best uses visual art to change • ‘Bar Code’ by Greengoose, ‘an expressive arts people’s attitudes to disabled people’. The first company for people with learning difficulties or Award will be presented at Equata’s international disabilities’. (Bromley College.) ‘Above and Beyond’ Festival (19-21 September 2003). 6th May former Artistic Director of Graeae, for the • ‘Write on the Edge’ Poetry Workshop. BBC, including ‘The Egg’ (comedy starring Performance workshop with Isha and Kit Parke. Jamie Beddard, scripted by Patrick Marber, 9th May with Frances de la Tour and Tim Healey), • ‘Pathways: a Conference on Art, Disability and ‘North Face’, and ‘Urban Myth’ (with Mat Culture.’ ‘Aims to provide a focus to debate quality Fraser). » issues in relation to disability-related arts practice.’ » ‘Langer Gang’ (German/Turkish Speakers: Jo Verrent, Ann Young, Angela Edmonds feature). and Jeff Banks. Organised by Theatre Resource, • ‘Me, Blue and You’, MENCAP exhibition of Great Stony. (Ongar Arts and Education Centre.) paintings and drawings by European artists with learning disabilities. (Princes’ Trust Gallery, 13th-26th May Hoxton). • Hidden Visions, an exhibition by Resonant ,a new 9th-14th June co-operative which aims to celebrate Deaf Women in the arts. (Chats Palace, Homerton, London.) • Birmingham Disability History Week. Birmingham City Council and The Coalition of 16th May - 27th June Disabled People, a series of linked exhibitions and • ‘The Same as You’, an exhibition exploring the events, highlighting the growth of the disabled themes from the Scottish Executive’s review on people’s civil rights movement internationally. learning disability, showcases the work of five learning disabled artists from Glasgow: Edward July 2003 Henry, Tommy Mason, Cameron Morgan, John • Magpie, a group of dancers with learning Cocozza and Stephen Reilly. (Project Ability, disabilities, publish online 85 photographs by Phil Glasgow) Polglaze, documenting 10 years of work. 20th May • Graeae’s production of Lee Hall’s adaptation of • ‘Write on the Edge’ Poetry Workshop. Feedback Brecht’s ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’, an workshop with Mala Mason and Hilary Porter. outcome of the Missing Piece 3 training course, tours London venues. d. Jan-Willem van den Bosch. June 2003 • Citadel Arts Centre, St Helens, runs an ‘Arts and Disability Celebration’ month: 1st June • Louis Keith, ‘Out of Place’ pub. Crocus Books. 2nd-3rd July (Keith received the inaugural Sue Napolitano Award • ‘Dragonfly Dreams’, play about mental health for Disabled Writers to complete this novel, the problems caused by street drugs. (Production can story of a Jewish teenager who saves a disabled also be seen at the Edinburgh Festival in August.) gentile child from death at the hands of Nazi 5th-6th July doctors.) • Deaf Focus Film Festival (DFFF) in Scotland. 5th-8th June Including the following shorts: • 5th Disability Film Festival (NFT), including: »» Tricks’ by Sam Dore (Channel 4 commission). »» F**k The Disabled’ (feature-length »» ‘Skye’ (Bim Ajadi.). documentary about gay, disabled comic »» ‘Hear No Evil’ (Amanda Mundin). Greg Walloch). »» Kids’ programme »» ‘Rush 3’, (Ray Harrison Graham). »» ‘Key to the Stars’ (Pierre-LouisLevacher). »» Shorts including: »» ‘Dream On’ (Cilla Ware). »» ‘An Artist’s Guide to Schizophrenia’ »» ‘Sea Song’ (Canadian animation). (documentary about artist Aidan »» RUSH 3, followed by a Q&A with deaf actress Schingler). Sarah Beauvoisin. »» ‘Annie Dearest’ (parody of ‘The Miracle »» Brazilian feature ‘Margarette’s Feast’. Worker’). 10th July »» ‘Opera Pop’, ‘I Were Torn between the • Interlink Women’s Theatre Group, ‘Nocturne Parrot and the Armadillo’ (animations by Beyond Imagination’. Jenni and Tony Meredith). 18th July - 10th August »» ‘Journeys’ (Claudia Kappenberg) »» Shorts produced by Ewan Marshall, • ‘Another Perspective Wales’, exhibition of new work by disabled Welsh artists in celebration of 28th August the European Year of Disabled People 2003. (Oriel • The Big Big Show Washington Gallery, Penarth.) »» A celebration of The European Year of 22nd July Disabled People presented by » • ‘Murder on the Earlestown Express’ by The » disabled artists in the Hartlepool region, Lakeside Students of Wargrave House. including »» Roaring Mouse Drama Group. (Theatre 26th-31st July company of adults with learning difficulties.) • Liz Crow’s film, ‘Frida Kahlo’s Corset’, is screened »» Shoot Your Mouth Off. (Disability arts film at the Arnolfini, accompanying the feature film company) ‘ F r i d a’. »» Get Off Our Backs. (Disability theatre group). 28th-29th July »» Laurence Clark. • Oily Cart, ‘Moving Pictures’. Written and d. Tim »» (Town Hall Theatre, Hartlepool.) Webb. (Bush Hall, Hammersmith, London.) September 2003 29th July - 8th August • Arts Disability Wales launch The Write Stuff, free • ‘Identity’, exhibition drawn from workshops with writing workshops for disabled people which will thirty children and young people with Autistic lead to an anthology published in the spring of 2004 Spectrum Disorders and five professional artists. by Parthian Books. (Project Ability, Glasgow.) • ‘We Have Come Through: 100 poems celebrating courage in overcoming depression and trauma’. (Ed. August 2003 Peter Forbes. Bloodaxe Books.) 2nd-3rd August • Holton Lee publish ‘Disability Arts and Culture • ‘The Weekend Academy’: Summer School Open in the 21st Century’, the report from their 2001 Studios. Artists in residence Nancy Willis (painter conference. and printmaker) and Lynn Cox (sculptor). (Byam 1st-30th September Shaw School of Art, Islington.) • ‘Out to Lunch: A Personal Exploration of the 7th-15th August Psychiatric System’ by artist and photographer • The All-Star Charity Show, written and performed Mandy Holland. (Holton Lee, Dorset.) by Laurence Clark. Narration recorded by Mat • ‘Giants – Disabled People Reaching For Equality’. Fraser. d. Rikki Beadle-Blair. Exhibition written and photographed by David 7th-16th August Hevey, designed by Helena Roden and produced by • Degenerate2 at Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh Shape. showcases disability arts and artists within the 3rd September Edinburgh Festival. • New production of Graeae’s ‘peeling’ by Kaite 11th-15th August O’Reilly . With Lisa Hammond, Caroline Parker. • Molotov Crip-Tales, with the Nasty Girls (Liz Carr, (Leicester Phoenix, then touring Tunbridge Wells, Anne Cunningham and Natalie Markham). Music Clwyd Theatre Cymru, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff, and vocals by Keith Alexander. Versailles, Lakeside Arts Centre Nottingham, Warwick Arts Centre, Drum Theatre Plymouth, 18th-30th August Unity Theatre Liverpool, Nuffield Theatre Lancaster, • Shape’s Theatre Summer School for Deaf Adults. Arena Theatre Wolverhampton, Tobacco Factory (London Metropolitan University.) Bristol, Project Cube Dublin.) 18th August - 25th October 7th September • Graeae: ‘peeling’ by Kaite O’Reilly, d. Jenny Sealey. • Liberty: London’s Disability Rights Festival. (UK Tour.) Performances by disabled artists, musicians and 20th-26th August dancers including Mat Fraser, Besta Vista Social • WIT Women’s Music Festival . Artists for the Club, and Julie Fernandez. Disability Arts Cabaret include: 8th September »» Susan Hedges. • Artists’ Forum, ‘How can disabled artists be »» Siwsann George. empowered to develop a professional career in the »» Julie McNamara (compere). arts in Scotland?’ Speakers include: Matt Hulse, Heather Lynch, Jo Verrent. (Discovery Point, 23rd September Dundee.) • Survivors Poetry, ‘Write on the Edge’ Writing 9th September Workshop. (Diorama Arts Centre.) • Survivors Poetry ‘Write on the Edge:’ Feedback 27th September Workshop (Diorama Arts Centre.) • Survivors Poetry. William Rowe; the Stevenage 10th-12th September Survivors Poetry Group; the Armorel Weston Band • Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, ‘The Irish featuring John Gibbens (guitar) and David Miller Giant’. (Scottish Premiere.) (clarinet). (Diorama Arts Centre.) 11th September October 2003 • Survivors Poetry ‘Wired on Words’. Lee Wilson • DaDaFest 2003 Events include: and Isha. (Poetry Café.) »» Oct 3 Disability and Deaf Arts Cabaret. • ‘In View’, An exhibition of artwork by people with (Liverpool Community College Arts Centre) learning disabilities. (House Gallery, London SE5.) »» Oct 6 London Disability Arts Forum 18th September presents the ‘Disability Film Festival on Tour’. • Beautiful Octopus Club. (The Wardrobe, St Peter’s (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) Street, Leeds.) »» Oct 7-8 Graeae Theatre, Kaite O’Reilly’s ‘peeling’. 18th September - 14th November »» Oct 17 Performance Poetry and Comedy • ‘Perceptions of Pain’. Photographs by Deborah Night. (Liverpool Community College Arts Padfield. Centre.) • (The Gallery at The Western General Hospital, »» Oct 18 Totlyn Jackson: ‘Testimony of Edinburgh.) a Musical Life’ (all day event). (Liverpool 19th-21st September Community College Arts Centre.) • ‘Above and Beyond’, a celebration of the world- »» Oct, 21, 28, Nov 4 Poetry/Stand-up comedy wide development of disability arts and culture. workshops led by Jim Bennett. (Merseyside Play »» MC’s: Julie McNamara and Mat Fraser. Action Council Building) »» Comedy from David Roche, Elizabeth »» Oct 30 - Dec 6 ‘Senseless’ (Sinloss). Exhibition Navratil, Philip Patson, Alan Shain. of work by Disabled and Deaf visual artists. »» Dance from Sidiki Conde, Sign Dance (Bluecoat Arts Centre) Collective. »» Nov 6 ‘Pig Tales’ by Julie McNamara. »» Music from Tan Yue Lian Gilbert, Paul »» Nov 8 Poetry and comedy performance. Whittaker. »» Nov 14 The Nasty Girls and Lawrence Clark. »» Poetry from Allan Sutherland (Conference (Liverpool Community College Arts Centre.) Poet) and Julie McNamara. »» Nov 16 Fittings Multimedia Arts, ‘Flesh N »» Theatre from Interact Centre, Mat Fraser, Steel’ by Mike Kenny. (Unity Theatre..) TOPS Theatre Group, The Nasty Girls. »» Nov 22 ‘). »» Film: ‘Frida Kahlo’s Corset’ by Liz Crow. »» Nov22 Fittings Multimedia Arts ‘Flesh N »» Symposiums: ‘Art and Power’ - a session Steel’, by Mike Kenny, (Valley Theatre Netherley) for networking between artists with learning »» Nov 29 Performance night led by MENCAP. disabilities, ‘The Language of Diversity’. (Liverpool Community College Arts Centre.) »» Presentations; Graeae’s ‘Missing Piece’, Cathy »» Dec 3 DaDaFest Awards dinner. (Crowne Woolley ‘Deaf Art Escapes’‘ Plaza Hotel.) » » Visual Art from Penny Goater, Juliet Prentice, October 2003-2004 Mark Annis. • New LDAF exhibition at ICI. »» (Cheltenham Town Hall) October - July 20th September • Spare Tyre Theatre Co and Redbridge Youth • Inaugural Paddy Masefield Award presented to Ali and Community Services present the ‘inc Theatre’ Cuthbert for her picture ‘Disabled Friends Together’. course, a year-long drama training programme for Award presented by Liz Crow, one of those people with and without learning disabilities. responsible for setting up the Award to celebrate Paddy’’s Life and Death. (Presentation as part of 7th October ‘Above and Beyond’.) • Survivors Poetry ‘Write on the Edge’. Performance workshop. (Diorama Arts Centre.) »» Nov 25 Xposed Platform: Cathrin Long. » 8th October » Nov 26 Xposure Comedy Night: Lawrence • ‘Perceptions of Pain’ (Seminar): Deborah Padfield Clark, The Nasty Girls, Mat Fraser. » and Dr Charles Pither lead a seminar exploring » Nov 27,28 Fittings Multimedia Arts, ‘Flesh N issues raised by the work. (The Western General Steel’, a play by Mike Kenny. » Hospital, Edinburgh.) » Nov 29 Half Moon Theatre Co, ‘When Snow Falls’ by Chris Ewell. d.Daryl Beeton. At Oval 9th October House Theatre • Survivors Poetry, ‘Wired on Words’: Sheila Miller. »» Nov 19-22, 26-29 Deafinitely Theatre Co. (Poetry Café.) ‘Motherland’ by Mark Sachs. d. Paula Garfield. 17th October At National Film Theatre, London • StopGap return to Cranleigh Arts Centre for »» Nov 18 highlights from the last 5 years of an evening including choreography by Bettina LDAF’s ‘Lifting the Lid!’ Disability Film Festival. Strickler (‘Protein’), Maxine Doyle (‘First Person’) »» ‘Langer Gang’. (Yilmaz Arslan Germany 1992.) and a sneak preview of movement created with »» ‘Little Girl Who Sold The Sun’. (Djibril Diop Adam Benjamin during a recent Research and Mambety, Senegal-Switzerland-France, 1999.) Development period. »» ‘Better or Worse’. (Jocelyn Cammack, UK, 2000.) 21st October »» ‘Frida Kahlo’s Corset’. (Liz Crow, UK, 2000.) • Survivors Poetry, ‘Write on the Edge’: Writing »» ‘Scotty Dogs and Shortbread’. (Project Ability, Workshop. (Diorama Arts Centre.) UK, 2000.) At Croydon Clocktower 25th October »» Nov 2 Fittings Multimedia Arts, ‘Flesh n • Survivors Poetry. MC and poet Steve Tasane; Steel’, a play by Mike Kenny. Leon Rosselson; Mexican Rancheros from Hugo »» Nov 8 EYDP Celebration with the Drake Elizalde. (Diorama Arts Centre.) Music Project. Original music in styles ranging 30th October from improvised dance to Afro-jazz fusion • Heart n Soul + Krokodile Krew. (Newcastle performed live by Lyn Levett, Steve Knight and Telewest Arena.) Ebun Culwin. Visuals created by Ju Gosling and Julie Newman. November 2003 »» Nov 16 Corali Dance Co, ‘The Shed Show’. • Graeae run 2 week workshop for actors with »» Nov 22 Interplay Theatre Co, ‘Sita and Rama’. differing speech patterns. »» Nov 29 8th British Deaf Film Festival • ‘Senseless—art/bodies/misfits’ (Bluecoat Arts Highlights. Centre, Liverpool.) »» Sadler’s Wells »» Nov 13 Anjali Dance Company, ‘WYSIWYG’. 3rd-29th November »» Nov 14 Corali Dance Company, ‘Changing • Xposure 2003 Disability Arts Festival at Jackson’s Perspectives’. Lane, Oval House, Sadlers Wells, Croydon »» Nov 15 Act Now Disability Arts Information Clocktower, East London Dance at Stratford Circus, Fair. At Stratford Circus Byam Shaw School of Art, Shape and London »» Nov 26 - 27 Anjali Dance Company. Disability Arts Forum, Diorama Art Gallery. ‘WYSIWYG’. At Byam Shaw School of Art »» Nov 3 - 28. Aidan Shingler exhibition: »» Nov 3 - 9 Artists Nancy Willis and Lyn Cox ‘Only Smarties Have the Answer’, ‘a critical exhibit work created during a recent residency at commentary about the nature of psychiatric Byam Shaw. orthodoxy’. At Jackson’s Lane »» Nov 8 - 9 Continuing Professional »» Nov 5-8, 12-15 ‘Revolting’ . New play by Development weekend for disabled and deaf Simon Startin, performed by Ministry of visual artists. Clowns Theatre Co, with Jamie Beddard as »» Nov 4 Survivors Poetry ‘Write on the Edge’, Happenstance, ‘the cripple that Christ never Feedback Workshop. (Diorama Arts Centre.) healed’ and writer Simon Startin as Lazarus. d. Joyce Henderson p. Mandy Colleran. 4th November »» Nov 19, 20 Blue Eyed Souls Dance Co. ‘I Do..’ • ‘Reflections On..’ Magpie Dance. (Churchill »» Nov 21,22 Shysters Theatre Co, ‘Tango Theatre, Bromley.) Apocalypse’. 12th November Osment and Claire Hodgson. • ‘Heart n Soul: The Experience’. (Wiltshire Music »» Feb 21 and 22 Physical Theatre: Dance and Centre, Bradford on Avon.) Movement. With CandoCo Dance Company. » 13th November » Apr 17 and 18 Devising for Performance. • Survivors Poetry, ‘Wired on Words’: Dave Kessel . With Jenny Sealey and Mitch Mitchelson. (Poetry Café.) • NDAF’s Disability Arts Online Store is running, with work from Mat Fraser, Aidan Shingler, Jess 18th November Loseby , Hazel Speed, Julie McNamara, Angryfish, • Survivors Poetry, ‘Write on the Edge’. Writing Francis Rwama, art + power, Dave Baker, Jill Workshop. Bonner, Demetria Powell, Jason Carnevale, 25th November Ithaka, Stalking Histories, Anne Colledge, Frances • ‘Shorts: For Kids’. A compilation of short films Cashman, Penny Pepper, Anita Chang, Kathye for kids from the 2003 London Deaf Film Festival, Hilton, Dawn Parkinson, Maureen Oliver. shown as part of CineCity - The Brighton Film 3rd December Festival. Introduced by deaf actor/film director • ‘Future Perfect? Arts and Disability in Scotland’. David Ellington. (Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton.) Conference about the arts and disabled people in »» Short Animations (UK). Scotland. Programme includes: »» ‘Hamster’. (Jon Seal, UK, 2001.) »» Project Ability and Sounds of Progress, »» ‘La Clef des Etoiles’ (‘The Key to the Stars’). ‘BigBeat’. (Pierre-Louis Levacher, France, 1999.) »» Dr Laurence Clark, ‘Disabling Comedy:Still »» ‘Swallowing’. (Sofya Gollan, Australia, 1995.) Laughing?’. »» ‘Chlorine Dreams’. (Sofya Gollan, Australia, »» Jo Verrent, ‘The Future We Get We Deserve’. 1997.) »» Bill Shannon, ‘The Crutchmaster’. »» ‘Mangetout’. (Ian Cottage, UK, 1996.) Performance and video talk. 27th November »» Claire Cunningham and Speakeasy. • Launch of Martin Brüch’s ‘Out of Site’, a week »» ‘Indepen-dance’ –Four Last Songs by Richard long photographic residency for this Austrian Strauss. artist with Multiple Sclerosis, one of the artists in »» (Edinburgh International Conference ‘Senseless’. (Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, as part Centre.) of DaDaFest 2003.) • ‘21 Things to Remember’, a new film from Liz Crow to mark International Day of Disabled People 28th November – 19th December in European Year of Disabled People, commissioned • Juan delGado,‘Flêches Sans Corps’. as part of Watershed’s digital advent calendar, Interdisciplinary installation. (The Crypt, St Pancras electricdecember.org. Church, London.) 4th-19th December 29 November • ‘Moving Beyond – a Showcase of Outsider Art’. • Survivors Poetry. Frankie Armstrong sings an Visual art work by local disabled people and ‘leading array of traditional British folk songs. (Diorama practitioners from disability arts’, selected by Tanya Arts Centre.) Raabe: Colin Marsh, Janet Powick and Anna Crook. December 2003 (Custard Factory Gallery, Birmingham.) • Arts Council of England: North West withdraw 6th December - 7th January funding from New Breed Theatre Company, leaving • New Exhibition for art + power. (Northern Lights the company no option but to close down. Gallery, Bedminster, Bristol.) • Arts Council England publishes ‘Celebrating 9th December Disability Arts’, a publication as part of their work • Project Ability and Sounds of Progress, ‘Big Beat linked to the European Year of Disabled People. 3’. (Glasgow Film Theatre) • Graeae: Missing Piece 4 - Performance Training Taster Workshops 2003 – 2004 (London Met 15th December University) • CABARE! Disability cabaret with Chris Tally »» Dec 13 and 14 Voice and Improvisation Skill. Evans, Hassan Erraji, Mat Fraser, Laurence Clark, With Alex Bulmer and Arzhang Pezhman. Julie McNamara, Tanjy to celebrate Arts Disability »» Jan 17 and 18 Exploring Text. With Philip Wales’s 21st birthday and Cardiff & Vale Coalition of Disabled People’s 10th Birthday. (Chapter Arts and video, co-devised by and starring disabled Centre, Cardiff.) actors Nabil Shaban, Jim McSharry, Daryl Beeton, John Hollywood. (Buddle Arts Centre Wallsend.) 2004 12th February – 1st May January 2004 • Mind the Gap, ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’. (National tour starting in Bradford. Then Gulbenkian, 17th January Canterbury; Arena ,Woverhampton; Swan, • Jumpstart Winter Disco. (Morton Community Worcester; Bowen West, Bedford; Rose, Ormskirk; Centre, Carlisle.) The Point, Eastleigh; Croydon Clocktower; 17th January - 20th March Plowright, Scunthorpe; South Hill Park, Bracknell; • Saturday Studio, weekly Life Drawing and The Hawth, Crawley; Third Floor, Portsmouth; Printmaking Sessions for disabled people led by Southport Arts Centre; Darlington Arts Centre; artist Nancy Willis. (Byam Shaw School of Art.) West Yorkshire Playhouse.) 24th January 13th February - 9th March • ‘Hands off Our Genes - Diversity Not • ‘On Blindness’ by Glyn Cannon. Produced Paines Annihilation’. Disability Action North East Plough and Graeae. (Soho Theatre and Writers’ conference on genetic engineering, including Centre, London, then touring West Yorkshire cabaret by Grin and Bare It. (Mea House, Newcastle Playhouse, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.) upon Tyne.) March 2004 25th January - 5th March • ‘Only Smarties have the Answer’, Aidan Shingler’s 5th March new exhibition. (Faith House, Holton Lee, Dorset.) • ‘Diversity and Disability Seminar’. National seminar focusing on the issues faced by disabled 31st January African, Asian and Caribbean artists. (De Montfort • Powerful and Proud. A day of Disability Arts University, Leicester.) with Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People. (The Sure Start Centre, Bolton.) 8th March – 6th April • Angela Edmonds Ten Year Retrospective February 2004 Exhibition. »» (Richard Attenborough Arts Centre, February - Until 13th March University of Leicester.) • ‘A Survivor’s Art’. Paintings by Peter Stowell. (Diorama Gallery, NW1.) 10th-13th March • Deafinitely Theatre, ‘Dysfunction’. (Oval House 4th February Theatre Downstairs, London.) • Parafraze Signdance. Solo show by deaf choreographer and dance teacher Mark Smith under 11th-12th March newly formed dance company ‘Parafraze’, combining • ‘Activate! Disability and Inclusion in the Arts’ sign language and dance movements. Songs by (Tramway, Glasgow.) Aamar Butt and poems by Joyce Mear. (Robin 17th March Howard Dance Theatre, London.) • ‘Every Time You Look At Me’. TV drama with Mat 5th February Fraser, Lisa Hammond. • Spider’s Web Storytellers, ‘Perseus & Medusa’. 18th March (Jackson’s Lane Community Centre, London.) • ‘Still Inspired’. LDAF organised exhibition at ICI • Full Body and the Voice, ‘Knock, Knock’. (The headquarters, London. With Beverley Fish, Colin Citadel, St Helens.) Pethick, Miles Thomas, Georgina Birch, Jacqueline 5th February - 6th March Graining, Jayni Anderton, Jethro Woudhuysen, • ‘Testament’. Paintings by Sally Sedgwick in Mark Clay, Michelle Leon, Mike Fryer, Pauline Scunthorpe. (Visual Arts Centre, St John’s Church, Alexander, Steve Blundell, Tolleck Winner. Scunthorpe.) 18th March - 4th April 7th February • ‘The Big Show’. Exhibition celebrating the • ‘D.A.R.E.’ Theatre Workshop Edinburgh partnership between Action Space and Voltaire production mixing digital technology, live sound Studios. (Studio Voltaire, SW4.) 19th March May 2004 • Westsiders. West London club for people with • ‘Hidden Dragons: New Writing by Disabled learning difficulties. (Paddington Arts, London.) People in Wales’. Ed. Allan Sutherland and Elin ap 23rd March - 7th May Hywel. (Arts Disability Wales, in partnership with • CandoCo tour new productions: ‘Microphobia’ Parthian Books, published as part of ADW’s project, and The Human Suite’. (Wyvern Theatre, Swindon; The Write Stuff.) Lighthouse, Poole; Contact, Manchester; Chancellor 13th-15th May Hall, Chelmsford, Essex.) • Lung Ha’s Theatre Company ‘Fergus Steps Out in 31st March - 2nd April Edinburgh’. Co-Written and d. Clark Crystal and • ‘Two and a Half Women’. Exhibition by Fatma Grace Barnes. (Traverse Theatre Edinburgh.) Durmush and Sylvia Jones. (St Martin in the Fields 22nd May crypt gallery, London.) • ‘Urban Jungle – A Night of Disco Heaven’, themed disco with added games for people with learning April 2004 difficulties, disabled people and their friends. DJ 6th-7th April Michael Clark, from Grin And Bear It. (Town Hall • Face Front, ‘The Good Woman of Setzuan’ d. Theatre, Hartlepool.) Annie Smol, With Lucy Thampi, Jon French. 31st-27th May (Millfield Arts Centre, Edmonton.) • Dash Inclusive Ludlow Carnival. Disabled artists : 17th-20th April »» Terry Chinn, carnival designer. • London Disability Art Forum’s ‘1st Disability Film »» Mary Ann Roberts, dancer. Conference’. (Holton Lee, Dorset.) »» Kevin MacIntosh, musician and acrobat. »» Tanya Raabe, visual artist. 21st April • European Year of Disabled People Event. Cabaret- June 2003 style event launching an anthology of writing by • Inter-Action Milton Keynes launches ‘The Way local disabled people who have worked with writer Ahead 2004’ with disabled artist Caroline Cardus, Graham Hartill to record their memories and a project which invites people with disabilities in experiences of 2003. Plus dance display, short film Milton Keynes to make images of their everyday and music from local band 9 Mile Point. Compered experiences of access issues by using symbols from by John Harris (ex-Paralympic athlete). (Blackwood UK road signs. Some of the designs will be made Miners Institute, Caerphilly.) into real road signs to be included in an exhibition 21st April - 8th May being launched in Milton Keynes on 1 October • In Tandem Theatre Company, ‘Smudge’ . British 2004 to coincide with the final stage of the access Premiere of play by blind Canadian playwright, Alex to goods and services provisions of the Disability Bulmer. With Karina Jones d.Jessica Higgs. (Oval Discrimination Act coming into force. The aim House Theatre, London.) is to raise people’s awareness of the access needs of disabled people and the requirements of the 23rd April legislation. • Deaf Theatre Cabaret at Croydon Clocktower. MC • As part of Architecture Week 2004, artist Damian Ahmed Mudawi with voice-over interpretation. Toal creates an installation at the Metropole Gallery 29th April - 1st May in Folkestone, exploring issues around access and • art + power, ‘Doctor Faustus’ d.Jane Sallis and gallery use (a pilot for what, the following year will Kevin Brice. (Bristol Old Vic.) be ‘Inside Out’). 29th April • Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool seeks to contract a • Beautiful Octopus Club. (Deptford Albany.) Deaf or Disabled artist or artists to lead a 12-month creative project working incollaboration with groups From 30th April of disabled users to explore effective ways of making • ‘Perfect!’ by Kaite O’Reilly. Designed by Paul Bluecoat more accessible to disabled people. Clay. d. John E. McGrath. Movement Direction by Benji Reid. Music by BENT. (Contact Theatre, 7th June Manchester.) • ‘Pig Tales’ by Julie McNamara. (Live Theatre, Newcastle) 8th June July 2004 • ‘The Big Cabaret’. Julie McNamara (compere), • Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People Laurence Clark ‘The Jim Davidson Guide to receives funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund Equality’, Karen Sheader, Fathom Dance Project, to collate and promote the history of the disabled Seven Stars Theatre Co, Grin and Bare It. (Live people’s movement. Theatre, Newcastle.) 2nd July »» (Both above events organised by NorDAF as • ITC: ‘Life begins at 30’. Event to celebrate 30 years part of upcoming Symposium.) of supporting the professional performing arts. 10th June Companies taking part include Graeae, Oily Cart, • Survivors’ Poetry. John Arthur. (Poetry Café, Stan’s Cafe, 7K Extreme Theatre, Natural Theatre London.) Company, Rasa Productions, London Bubble, 11th June HamFisted!, Talawa, StopGap Dance, Pursued by • Squidz Club. (Deptford Albany.) a Bear, Oxford Shakespeare Company, The People Show and Ladder to the Moon. 12th June • ‘Disability Arts In the 21st Century -Planning for 6th July onwards Action and Change.’ A Northern Disability Arts • Deaf Escape host a series of life drawing/painting Forum Symposium. sessions for Deaf artists. (Bromley By Bow Centre, East London.) 17th-19th June • Theatre Workshop, ‘The Threepenny Opera’ by 10th July Brecht/Weill. Translation Hugh MacDiarmid. With • Survivors’ Poetry. Jeanette Ju-Pierre. (Poetry Nabil Shaban, Garry Robson, Pamela Ann Fry, Café, London.) Ysabel Collyer, Mark Beer, Robyn Hunt, Sarah 10th July - 31st August Caltieri, Cerrie Butnell, Robert Softley, Sophie • ‘Into the Light’ A visual arts exhibition by Partridge, Malawi Logan, Jim MsSharry, Sally Clay. Artists First (the visual arts group of Art + Power). (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.) (Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton.) 25th June 12th, 13th, & 17th July, 18th August, • ‘DaZed @ Komedia’. Event organised by Deaf arts and 2nd-3rd September consultancy DaZed. With Mark Smith, Ricardo • ‘Hidden Relics, Hidden Histories’ Dada-South Weare, Caroline Parker, Ahmed Mudawi (MC). project with sculptor Adam Reynolds and Sign (Komedia, Brighton.) Dance Collective working with local disabled people 25th-27th June to create an installation about the stories of disabled • Phoenix Arts hosts the Cinebility: the Leicester people within Sevenoaks Museum, Library and Disability Film Festival, a celebration of film and Gallery. video work by film-makers with disabilities. The 13th July festival highlights include: • Nasty Girls, ‘Molotov Crip Tales.’ (Unity Theatre »» Workshops for budding and developing film Liverpool, as part of Liverpool Comedy Festival, makers with disabilities. 2004.) »» Shorts including ‘Watching The Clock’ (Steve 14th July Stickley and Stepping Out Theatre, 2000), ‘Two • Laurence Clark: ‘The Jim Davidson Guide to Wheels and a Baby’ (Maggie Ford, UK, 2001) Equality’ (Unity Theatre Liverpool, as part of Company), ‘Insight in Mind’ (Dan Saul, UK, Liverpool Comedy Festival, 2004.) 2000) and ‘A Cut Above’ about a charity haircut. »» ‘Sixth Happiness’ (Waris Hussein, UK, 1997). 14th July - 1st September »» ‘The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun’ (Djibril • ‘Unseen Bodies of Work’. Mark Annis , Penny Diop Mambety, Senegal/France, 2000). Goater, Juliet Prentice . (Faith House, Holton Lee.) »» ‘Langer Gang’ (Yilmaz Arslan, Germany, 15th July 1992). • Beautiful Octopus Club. (Albany, Deptford.) »» ‘Rush 3’ (Ray Harrison Graham, UK, 2003). »» ‘Freaks’ (Tod Browning, USA, 1932). 16th July • ‘Thinking Aloud’, a day of discussion about setting up a Disability Arts Archive at Holton Lee in Dorset. (Faith House, Holton Lee.) August 2004 by Sense Scotland and played for the first time by the Expression Unlimited Ensemble, 8 deafblind 4th-29th August performers and musicians from Scotland, Italy, • Laurence Clark, ‘The Jim Davidson Guide Greece, Slovakia and Croatia. (Gilmorehill, to Equality’. (Pod Deco, Edinburgh as part of Glasgow.) Edinburgh Fringe Festival.) • Disability Film Mini-Fest Films from Equata 12th August (Disability Arts Development Agency for the South • Survivors’ Poetry. Roz Kane. (Poetry Café, West) and London Disability Arts Forum’s Disability London.) Film Festival. (Exeter Phoenix) 24th-30th August »» ‘Frida Kahlo’s Corset’ (Liz Crow, UK 2000). • Women in Tune Festival: Buy One get One Free »» ‘Little Girl who Stole the Sun’ (Djibril Diop includes appearance by the Nasty Girls. Mambety Senegal / Switzerland / France 1999). »» ‘Mr Stoker’ (Lou Birks, UK 1999). 31st August onwards »» ‘The River Winding’ (Ann Pugh, US 1999). • ‘The Private View’. Exhibition of digital imagery by »» Panel Discussion: Disability Film Action Plan Stephen Jackson. (Datasync, Islington, London.) (Liz Crow , Ann Pointon). »» Representative from Screen South West. September 2004 »» ‘Freaks’ (Tod Browning, USA 1932). • Frank Bangay CD ‘This Topsy Turvy Life’. With »» ‘Gettin Off’ (Raina Haig, UK 1999). Tunde Busari. • Mike O’Hara becomes first artist to take up October 2004 residency in new accessible studios at Holton Lee, • Full Circle Arts release European Year of Disabled Dorset. People Legacy DVD, highlighting arts events and 4th September projects that received EYDP funding. • ‘Liberty!’ Free one-day festival. Including From October performances by: • ‘Time Troupers’. New Nasty Girls show, premiered » » Susan Hedges at the KickstART2 Festival in Vancouver, September » » 1st Chancers 2004. (Touring.) »» Nasty Girls »» Muskaan Dance Group October 2004 - January 2005 »» Minika Green and Caroline Parker • ‘ Under My Skin’. Exhibition of textile designs »» Sidiki Conde by artists with learning disabilities, a partnership »» Denise Leigh between Manchester Art Gallery, Platt Lane Art »» Francesca Martinez Group, Start and Benchmark, organisations that »» Rebelz support people with learning disabilities and mental »» Amphitheatre of the Arts health problems. (Manchester Art Gallery.) »» Julie McNamara and Mat Fraser (comperes) 1st October onwards »» (Trafalgar Square, London.) • ‘The Way Ahead Art Exhibition.’ Exhibition of life- 16th September sized metal road signs designed by disabled people • ‘Live @ Evolution The Beautiful Octopus Club’, by in Milton Keynes to speak out about their everyday people with learning disabilities, at Leeds’s largest experiences of access and integration, a project nightclub. (A co-operation with West Yorkshire conceived by artist Caroline Cardus to coincide with Playhouse.) the final stage of the access to goods and services provision of the Disability Discrimination Act 18th September coming into force. (Then touring the UK in 2005.) • Attitude is Everything presents ‘Dancefloor (Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes.) Massacre’. (Mook, Notting Hill.) 1st-5th October 21st September • Mat Fraser, ‘Thalidomide! A Musical’. Written and • High Spin, ‘The Dancing Detectives: ‘Who composed by Mat Fraser, d. Bill Bankes, starring Dunnit?’ Dance double bill choreographed by Mat Fraser and Anna Winslet. Maxine Doyle. (Hackney Empire, London.) 4th-10th October 30th September • ‘Art In the Atrium’ exhibition. Featuring Maurice • ‘Voyager Princess.’ Performance coordinated Orr, Oil Painter; Colin Hamilton, Photographer and »» Nov 20 Kevin Kling, ‘The Frozen Moose and Poet; Lois Davies, Digital Artist; Colm Johnston, Other Stories’. Visual Artist; Martin McGuigan, Poet (Forestside »» Nov 23 Laurence Clark’s ‘The Jim Davidson Shopping Centre, Castlereagh, Belfast, as part of the Guide to Equality’. Castlereagh Visual Arts Festival 2004.) »» Nov 25 StopGap Dance Company triple bill. » 13th-14th October » Exhibition: Ali Kamalati and Gillian Street » • Twisted I Theatre Company ‘Cain and Abel’. » Oval House » Collaboration of three diverse practitioners » Nov 3 & 13 ‘Watch The Spider’, written (Michael Addison, Jonathan Dixon and Nichola and performed Andrew McLay d.Philip Jennings) ‘who fuse their specialisms of physical Osment. » theatre, mime, puppetry and voice experimentation » ‘The Way Ahead’. Exhibition of road into visually dynamic theatre’. (Jackson’s Lane) signs about disability discrimination. » (Then regional tour of Yorkshire, including the » artsdepot » Lawrence Batley theatre, Huddersfield; York St John » Nov 19 & 20 Graeae, Martin Sherman’s College; Doncaster College; Bretton Hall). ‘ B e n t ’. »» Croydon Clocktower 14th-23rd October »» Nov 10 Programme of dance curated by • Graeae: ‘Bent’ by Martin Sherman. Directed by Corali Dance Company. Jenny Sealey. (Cochrane Theatre, London.) »» Nov 12 Kevin Kling, ‘The Frozen Moose 20th October and Other Stories’. • Launch of Disability Arts Cymru (the new name »» Nov 15 -17 Mind The Gap, ‘Never Again’ for Arts Disability Wales.) Including performance (forum theatre performance). by Swansea-based master-musician Hassan Erraji, »» Sadler’s Wells and Laurence Clark performing ‘The Jim Davidson »» Nov 11 Workshop by Corali Dance Guide to Equality’. (Grand Theatre Swansea.) Company. »» Nov 12 ‘Inflections’, a programme of 23rd-24th October dance curated by Corali Dance Company. • Theatre Resource: ‘The Big D’. A weekend of arts »» Nov 8 -13 CandoCo residency. activities and cabaret for deaf and partially-hearing »» Albany Theatre young people, run by professional deaf artists. »» 13 Nov ‘Albany Xposure’, a one day event 23rd October - 11th December showcasing the multi-media work by three • Saturday Studio Autumn term. (Byam Shaw of its resident companies, Drake Music School of Art.) Project, Heart and Soul and EntelechyArts. »» Siren Arts November 2004 »» Joy Hurkoo exhibition. • Central London Employment Tribunal awards »» Byam Shaw School of Art disabled writer and artist Dr Ju Gosling just under »» Work from deaf and disabled artists. GBP 8,000 in compensation for the discrimination 3rd-13th November that she suffered at the NationalUnion of Journalists’ • Independent Old Ladies, ‘Watch the Spider’. annual conference in April 2000. This was the Written and performed Andrew McLay, d.Philip first case to be taken under the provisions of the Osment. ‘The psychological and emotional journey Disability Discrimination Act 1995 that related to of a man coping with a spinal injury that leaves him the benefits of trade union membership. paralysed, incontinent and impotent.’ (Oval House • Caroline Cardus creates ‘The Ruby Slippers’. Theatre Downstairs, London.) 1st-27th November 12th-27th November • The third Xposure Arts Festival • Kevin Kling, ‘The frozen moose & other stories’. »» Jackson’s Lane Arts Centre, hub of the Festival (Touring nationally, including Xposure and »» Deafinately Theatre, ‘Children of A DaDaFest.) Greater God’ by Tomato Lichy. »» Nov 18 Comedy night: Philip Patston, 16th November The Nasty Girls. • Michael Devenney (b 2/6/59) dies. »» Nov 19 Heart and Soul, ‘A Sense of 18th-19th November T i m e’. • ‘Silent Rhythm’. A cross art-form collaboration between writer/director Kaite O’Reilly, dancer 2005 Denise Armstrong, visual artist Alison Jones and sonic artist Dave Handford. (Bluecoat Arts Centre, January 2005 Liverpool, as part of Liverpool Live, the Bluecoat’s • Nabil Shaban, ‘Dreams My Father Sold Me’. live art programme for the 2004 Liverpool Biennial (Collection of poetry and illustrations.) of Contemporary Art.) • DASh set up Digital Now II project to encourage 26th-28th November the development of Digital Art skills for Disabled • 9th Deaf Film and TV Festival. (Light House, People. Wolverhampton.) • Laurence Clark, ‘The Jim Davidson Guide to Equality’, on tour to Manchester, Leicester Comedy 27th November Festival, Jersey Comedy Festival, Bedford, Hemel • Mad Chicks! launch event. (Union Chapel, Hempstead, Mold, Glasgow Comedy Festival, London.) Cambridge, Wolverhampton, Winchester, 29th November Portsmouth Comedy Festival, Colchester, Ormskirk, • The Oska Bright Film Festival: Films by and with Wellingborough, London, Guildford, Harlow, Learning Disabled Artists. (The Old Market Arts Tunbridge Wells, Taunton, Bath, Darlington, High Centre, Hove.) Wycombe, Penzance. January - July December 2004 • DASh Digital Still Image course. (Part of Digital • Lesley Child, Chair of LDAF 1995-2001, dies. Now II project.) • DaDaFest 2004 41 productions taking place in 9 different venues across Merseyside. 14th January - 16th February • ‘The Way Ahead’. Caroline Cardus’s road signs 1st-5th December start a national tour. (Faith House, Holton Lee.) • 6th Disability Film Festival opens with ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ (UK 2004/Dir Matt Dickinson, 15th January - 12th February starring Steve Warden and Derek Jacobi). Other • Project Ability, ‘Young Talent 2005’. (Scotland films include ‘Proud to be Disabled’ (Paul Street School Museum, Glasgow.) Greene),’The Alien who lived in the Sheds’ (Nabil 15th January - 19th March Shaban), ‘The Other’ (Cybil ah-Manne and Russell • ‘Saturday Studio’ Spring term. (Byam Shaw School Hall). of Art.) 2nd December 20th January - 15th April • CanCan Cabaret Disability cabaret for • Max Reeves ‘Unbearable Truths’. Photographic International Day of Disabled People. (Woughton Exhibition. (Institute of Psychiatry. Previously at Theatre, Milton Keynes.) Bethlem Gallery, Kent.) 3rd December 28th January • Brenda Cook wins second Paddy Masefield Award • North West Disability Arts Forum in partnership for her picture ‘Strength’. Award presented by Sandy with North West Playwrights host a presentation of Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery. work in progress as part of their ongoing distance- In addition, from the runners up shortlist Sandy learning project, Off the Page. (Unity Theatre, selects Lyn Martin’s ‘She Looks Sad’ to hang at the Liverpool.) (Programme co-ordinated by Kaite NPG in his office. He also opens a portal on the O’Reilly.) NPG’s website for a direct link to art + power’’s new website. February 2005 • Extant Theatre, ‘Resistance’. Adapted by Maria 14th-18th December Oshodi from ‘And There Was Light’, autobiography • ‘Mind Games’ by Mark Ware. A play, ‘Free Speech’, of Jacques Lusseyran, a blind teenage leader within a large screen video composition, ‘The Dog that the French resistance. (Touring.) Barked like a Bird’, and an exhibition of digital • Graeae, ‘Diary of an Action Man’. Show for photographic prints taken from the ‘Mind Games’ 7-11 year olds. Touring to Newcastle upon Tyne, series. (Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton.) Glasgow, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Chipping Norton, Trowbridge, Galway, London, Birmingham and Stirling. • Holton Lee has assembled a Project Team to • High Spin ‘The Dancing Detectives’. Dance double further develop and plan for the National Disability bill. Arts Collection and Archive. Director Tony Heaton »» ‘Who Dunnit?’ ch. Maxine Doyle says, ‘Presently there is no central place in the UK »» ‘Sleepwalker’, dance for three created to see and understand the history and culture of Miriam King the Disabled Peoples movement and Disability »» (Spring tour.) Arts; this heritage is in danger of disappearing or • Graeae: Missing Piece 5 taster workshops. Two- being misrepresented. The project will articulate day performance training disabled adults with this social phenomenon and give disabled people some performance skills, a taster experience of the and those interested in the social and psychological Missing Piece course. development of this culture a centre of excellence • North West Disability Arts Forum (NWDAF) for study. This will be the first national archive of its has commissioned visual artist Ben Cove to realise k i n d .’ a public artwork for transART - a mobile public 2nd February art project that celebrates Disability Arts and • ‘Grubs, Slugs and Boogie Bugs’. New production Culture. The project will involve taking art directly for 2 to 5 year olds by Half Moon Young People’s to Disabled communities across Merseyside by Theatre. (London based to Easter, then touring transporting the artwork literally in the back of a nationally until 8th May.) van. • Mar Candoco Easter Lab 2005 International 3rd February School of Dance. • Alison Lapper and Tanya Raabe discuss the 4th March - 1st May portrayal of beauty and identity in the context of disability arts. (Whitechapel Art Gallery.) • Extant Theatre, ‘Resistance’. (Croydon Clocktower, then touring nationally. Tour ends Riverside 5th February Studios, London, 26 - 30 Apr.) • ‘De-Scribe: Disability Life Drawing Workshop’. 9th March A day of life drawing for people with disabilities, led by artists Alison Lapper and Nancy Willis. • Preview, ‘The Crime of Uglification’, film (Whitechapel Art Gallery. In association with commissioned by Functionsuite, Artlink, raising Toynbee Hall.) questions about life in a modern psychiatric »» (Above two events part of ‘Faces in the Crowd hospital. Scripted by artists Jeanette Bell and - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today’ Mishelle Naismith. Artists in discussion with exhibition.) audience. 12th-13th February 10th March • ‘Trace’. Theatre Resource digital art and animation • StopGAP perform as part of the Woking Dance project for children aged 9-14. Festival. Vicki Balaam, Artistic Director, being interviewed by Eckhard Thiemann, clips of old 14th February rep, extracts of current rep, the Woking Premiere • Blue Camel Club. Resident DJ Chris Love and of ‘Dancer’s Syndrome’, ch. Adam Benjamin, ‘and, guest DJ Richard West. Beat Express and Heavy if they can squeeze it in, a sneak preview of a piece Load. (Old Market Arts Centre, Hove.) currently in research and development’. Plus ‘an • Kiss It! XX. March against ‘the inhumanity of exhibition in the foyer charting the company’s psychiatric assault’. Protesters are invited to apply transition from dream to reality’. (Rhoda McGaw injection plasters in the form of two X’s to the seat of Theatre, Woking.) their pants, a tactic devised by artist Aidan Shingler. 11th March - 8th April 25th February - 5th April • ‘Home’. New work created by the Dalmeny Art • ‘View of a Schizophrenic’ An exhibition of Group from East Renfrewshire exploring individual photographs and diary entries by Stuart Baker and group responses to living in one’s own home. Brown. • ‘Dwelling’. Work in progress by East West Dialogue - a collaborative project involving artists March 2005 from the Trongate Studios and from Stepping Stones • ‘Looped’, Corali’s new double bill of ‘Kissed’ and group in Edinburgh. ‘Refrain’. (Tate Modern, then touring.) »» (Both at Project Ability, Trongate • Mind the Gap, ‘On the Verge’. (Touring.) Studios, Glasgow.) 12th March - 15th May poetry reading by Sean Burn. • ‘Making Sense’. Exhibition of artworks created »» (Fabrica Art Gallery, Brighton.) by people living with brain injury. Project initiated by artists Steve Rooney and Sue Williams from April 2005 community-based TAG (The Artists Group), • April 2005 Shape, in partnership with Arts and working with patients from the Brain Injuries Business, launches its Arts Bursary Scheme, a new Unit Rehabilitation Unit at Rathbone Hospital in professional development programme for disabled Wavertree. (The Conservation Centre, Whitechapel, and deaf artists. Liverpool.) • Dada-South launched at Fabrica Art Gallery, 12th-13th March Brighton. • Exploring Text With Claire Hodgson. 4th-10th April 13th March • Maureen Oliver, ‘Recent Paintings.’ (Wimbledon Library Gallery.) • Disabled filmmakers and supporters party outside London’s Cafe de Paris in protest against the 6th-7th April exclusion of filmmaker Liz Crow from the closing • Freewheelers Theatre Company, ‘Samurai’ by night party of the Birds Eye View film festival. Liz Geoffrey Case. has a film in the festival but is excluded from the »» (The Development Centre of Queen closing night party because it has been moved to a Elizabeth’s Foundation, Leatherhead). venue which is not accessible. 9th-10th April 15th March • ‘Devising for Performance’. With Jenny Sealey and • Beautiful Octopus Club. (Club Evolution, Mitch Mitchelson. Missing Piece 5 taster workshop. Cardigan Fields Leisure Complex, Kirkstall, Leeds.) 13th April - 31st May 20th-26th March • ‘Giants - Disabled People Reaching for Equality.’ • Exhibition by Paul Lake and Andre Figuerido. Photographic exhibition by David Hevey, designed (Diorama Arts Centre, London.) by Helena Roden. (Discovery Museum, Newcastle.) 23rd March 17th April • ‘On the Map!’. Day to show learning disabled • ‘Looped’ Corali’s new double bill of ‘Kissed’ and people and others what involvement in the arts ‘Refrain’. (Cafe Gallery Projects, Southwark Park.) means for learning disabled people, funded by Arts 20th April Council England, North West as part of a research • ‘The Power’. Free night of entertainment on the project on funding learning disability art in the theme of voting, aimed at people with learning region. (The Zion Centre, Manchester.) difficulties. Including: 24th March »» Question Time with audience asking • DASH, ‘Close Up’. A day of BSL interpreted films questions to real prospective parliamentary presented by DASh (Disability Arts in Shropshire), candidates. partnering Borderlines Film Festival: »» Flexitones - guest band featuring people with »» ‘Close-up and Personal’. Two regionally profound learning & physical disabilities. based filmmakers will present their work: Alan »» World Premiere of new film about the Wild Wijgerden ‘A Way of Life’ and ‘Camera Angles’, Bunch club night. Matt Bedell, ‘Spit’ and ‘The Promise of Land’. »» ‘The Power’ - new play about voting. »» ‘Afterlife’ (Alison Peebles, UK. With Lindsay »» (Jacksons Lane Theatre, London.) Duncan, Paula Sage, Kevin McKidd and Shirley Henderson ). May 2005 »» (Courtyard Theatre, Hereford.) • ‘Fittings: The Last Freakshow’ opens at Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. Before the opening, local 31st March Liberal Democrat councillor Malcolm Gwinnett • Dada-South, newly formed disability arts calls for the show to be banned. development agency, hold their Launch event. • Clare Hill, ‘Living Without Marbles’. Poetry, Features include ‘Ruby Slippers’, a photograph by stories and information about mental health. Caroline Cardus; an object-installation by Noëmi (Chipmunka Publishing.) Lakmaier; a film by Gary Thomas; a film-installation • ‘George Dandin or Mr Waddle, the Outwitted by Caroline Ward; a dance film by Laura Jones; Husband’ by Molière, translated & directed by Philip 17th-24th June Osment. Performed by Graeae Missing Piece actor • ‘Riita Sits Badly’ disability arts festival, Salisbury training graduates. (Touring venues throughout the including: London region.) »» ‘The Way Ahead’. » 6th May » ‘Flights of Fancy, wicker sculptures by people • Siwsann George dies. with learning disability with disabled artist Mike O’Hara. 6th May - 3rd June »» Gini Churchill, exhibition of prints. • Theatre Resource, ‘At Home with the Cripps’ by »» Caroline Parker, with support from musician Tony Craze’. 12-date national tour visiting Louth, Carl Morgan. Pontypridd, Cambridge, St Asaph, Bristol, Chipping »» Carl Morgan, lunchtime classical guitar Ongar, Reading, Luton and Ipswich. concert. 10th May »» Showing of ‘Freaks’ (Tod Browning, USA, • Disability Arts Cymru: Cabaret with Susan 1932). Hedges, The Nasty Girls. (North Wales Conference 18th June Centre, Llandudno.) • DASh, ‘The Freaks Are Out!’ Performance of The 12th May Last Freak Show. • Graeae Missing Piece 4 graduate showcase. • ‘In Yer Face’. DASh street festival ‘reflecting the (RADA, London.) change in society’s views of Disabled people’. (Pride Hill, Shrewsbury.) 16th-27th May • ‘Wireless’. An interactive sound and tactile 20th June environment. Soundscape by Francis Rwama. • ‘In the Frame’, Mencap learning disability arts Tactile pieces by Diane Pungartnik. (Stoke conference, run by people with a learning disability Newington Gallery, London.) for people with a learning disability, gallery managers and arts officers. Includes launch of 19th May Artspider web site. (Tate Modern.) (Part of Learning • Launch event for ‘Planet of the Blind’, new CD by Disability Week, Jun 20 - 26.) Karen Sheader, formerly of disability rock band The • ‘The Staircase Miracles’ (Aaron Williamson, 2005) Fugertivs. Music on CD by Derek Mathews and and ‘The Filmmaker’s Way’ (Simon Raven, 2005). Mark Scott. (Town Hall Theatre, Hartlepool.) (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.) 28th May 21st-22nd June • Alternative TV gig for Mad Pride. (The Plough, • ‘Abnormally Funny People!’ New show with Walthamstow.) Simon Minty, Liz Carr, Chris McCausland, Steve June 2005 Day, Tanee Lee Harris, Steve Best. (Soho Theatre, then Jul 26-28 Jackson’s Lane, Aug 3-28, Pleasance 4th June Dome, Edinburgh.) • ‘Deaf in the Evening.’ Deaf comedian Steve Day. 22nd June (Waterside Arts Centre, Sale.) • Launch of ‘Inside Out’, an online exhibition 11th June - 24th July exploring the relationship between disability and • ’Doc_u’ interactive installation by disabled architecture, using a team of artists to make work multimedia artist Jess Loseby . (Babylon Gallery, responding to places and spaces in the south east. Ely and online.) This year’s artists are: Rachel Gadsden & Dylan 12th June Trigg (‘Poetics of Decay’), Damian Toal (‘Home • Liz Crow’s film ‘ Frida Kahlo’s Corset’ screens is where the heart is’), Mark Ware (‘The Three at Tate Modern as part of ‘Angel of Fire’, the Frida Dimensional World’), Rubbena Aurangzeb Tariq , Kahlo Film Programme. (Also 10 July, 7 August, 4 Caroline Cardus and Noëmi Lakmaier. September, 9 October.) 24th June 17th June - 16th July • 1 in 4 company, ‘Fifty Feet and Falling’, with • ‘Jim Davidson Guide To Equality’ Extra Tour Steve Huison, d. Theresa Smith, ‘Scarred’, d.Effie (Gateshead, Windsor, Liverpool, Birmingham.) Aristides. (Holt Park Community Theatre, Leeds. Then Oct 5 at London Oratory Theatre.) 28th-30th June August 2005 • Mind the Gap, ‘Animal Farm’ (Lister Park, • ‘Face Ache’, w. and d. Ann Cattrall, with Andrew Bradford. As part of Bradford Festival.) D. Davies wins best comedy award at Portobello Film Festival. July 2005 • Degenerate Festival includes: Laura Solon, • Shape, ‘Open The Door’. A series of disability ‘Kopfraper’s Syndrome’; Noel Faulkner, ‘Shake access seminars in London for anyone who works in Rattle and Noel’; Steve Holland ‘The Voice Stealer’; the arts, creative and leisure sectors. First three are: Deborah Williams, ‘Good Little N***a’; Lemn Sissay »» Disability Equality Seminar. ‘Something Dark’ d. John E. McGrath; Caroline »» Deaf Awareness Seminar. Parker ‘Signs of a Diva’ by Nona Sheppard, d. Jenny »» Customer Care Training. Sealey. 4th July 10th-26th August • Grin And Bare It, ‘Get In’. Confidence Building • ‘Vision Light’. Group video project examining and Performance Skills workshop. (Buddle Arts experience of visual impairment, led by Trinidadian Centre, Wallsend.) artist Maria Lewis. (198 Gallery, Herne Hill.) 8th-9th July 1st-19th August • ‘Stepping Stones’. Two days of music and digital art • Nasty Girls, ‘Time Troupers’. (Theatre Workshop, for people with learning disabilities aged 16+ living Edinburgh.) in Essex. (Theatre Resource, Chipping Ongar.) 11th August 15th July - 26th August • Adam Reynolds dies, 2 days before his piece • Project Ability presents ‘Journeys’, a partnership ‘Sisyphus’, with Sign Dance Collective, is due to be project between Project Ability and The National performed in front of Tate Modern. Museums of Scotland (NMS), involving five 16th-20th August groups of adults with learning disabilities from • ‘Pig’s Sister’ By Julie McNamara, d. Jessica Higgs. across Scotland, to build links with the NMS (In association with Theatre Workshop, Degenerate Learning and Programmes staff and to advise on 3.) increasing intellectual access to Scotland’s museum collections. It also aims to support and encourage 17th August the participants, who all have an active arts practice, • Equata Artist Talk. Colin Pethick on his latest to use the collections in their own learning and exhibition of works at the Bridge Gallery. (The creative work; and to be an inspirational project Bridge Gallery, Exeter Phoenix.) with a lasting and positive experience on all the project partners. This sits within the broad aims September 2005 of the ‘There and Back’ programme developed by • September/October issue of DAIL magazine Project Ability to build links and support creative marks the Chronology of Disability Arts by networks between learning disabled artists across reprinting Allan Sutherland’s introductory text. Scotland. The programme particularly looks to (DAIL 189.) bring together people living in rural communities. • Signdance Collective announce 2 films called This year ‘There and Back’ will showcase artwork by ‘Secret Signs’, created during a residency in people from Skye, and from Cupar and Dunfermline Birmingham, which feature well known BBC in Fife. (Project Ability, Glasgow.) presenters working with members of Signdance Collective. 29th July • Survivors Poetry funding cut. • Fiona Whelpton nominated for ‘You’re a Star • Sept - Nov DASh Digital Moving Image course. Award’ for her book ‘The Cycle Path’ (Chipmunka), (Part of Digital Now II project.) about her experience of Conversion Syndrome • Mind the Gap tour ‘Of Mice and Men’, performed Disorder. in an earlier production in 2000. 30th July onwards September 2005 - May 2006 • Jo Spence, ‘Works from the Archive’. (Street Level • Graeae Missing Piece 5, a performance training Photoworks, Glasgow.) course for aspiring actors with physical and sensory impairments, run in partnership with London Metropolitan University. The course includes: Voice & Singing; Acting Techniques; Improvisation; 19th September - 14th October Dance & Physical Theatre; Acting for Radio & TV; • ‘One Eye Open - One Eye Shut’. An exhibition Audition Skills; Central London Showcase. of recent drawings by Deaf artist Cathy Woolley. September 2005 - late 2007 (Bancroft Library, London, E1.) • Marc Quinn’s ‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’ occupies 19th September - 27th November the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. A • Mind the Gap, ‘Of Mice and Men’, adapted by large replica of the statue will feature in the 2012 Mike Kenny from John Steinbeck’s novel. (Touring.) Summer Paralympics opening ceremony. 21st September - 13th October 3rd September • Extant Theatre, ‘Resistance’. Touring Darlington, • Liberty, London’s Disability Rights Festival 2005. Hounslow, Nottingham, Sevenoaks, Halifax, Includes performances by Deptford. » » Blue Eyed Soul 21st-22nd September » » Dead Beat International • The London Disability Arts Forum exhibits the » » Sign Dance Collective work of disabled artists at Independent Living » » Besta Vista Social Club London, Alexandra Palace: Steven Bloch, Jayni » » Caroline Parker Anderton, Melissa Mostyn, Aidan Shingler, plus » » Heart ‘n Soul Club Posse poetry from ‘Hidden Dragons’ (Disability Arts » » Mat Fraser Cymru) and ‘Shelf Life’ (NDAF). »» Minika Green »» Totlyn Jackson 24th September - 30th October »» Susan Hedges • Moira Coupe ‘Feel’. (Holton Lee.) »» Unity & Devision 28th-29th September »» Plus ‘The Way Ahead’. Exhibition by Caroline • CandoCo premiere their new programme Cardus. featuring two new works, ‘The Journey’ (score Ben »» (Trafalgar Square, London.) Park), ‘In Praise of Folly’, ch. Athina Vahla. (Contact 8th September Theatre, Manchester, then Poole Lighthouse, • Launch of ‘Eclectic’, LDAF’s 3rd visual arts Colchester Mercury, and a London premiere at the exhibition at ICI Corporate Centre, London. Artists Queen Elizabeth Hall.) exhibiting are: Helen McConnell, Rachel Duerden, Roger Maycox, Tony Heaton, Kate Wells, James October 2005 Lake, Alice Dass, Mike Juggins, Cathy Woolley, • ‘Thalidomide! A Musical’. Written & Composed Mary Ellen Archer, Maureen Oliver, Ursula Pfister, by Mat Fraser, d. Bill Bankes- Jones. Starring Anna James Hall, Elmoudni Abderrahmane, Theresa Winslet and Mat Fraser. UK tour. Kiyota Rahman, David C. Williams. 4th-5th October 9th September - 30th October 2005 • ‘Dance Feast’. The South West’s first showcase • Animal Mineral Vegetable. An exhibition and of Disabled dance practice. (Landmark Theatre, publication of artwork by members of the Rathbone Ilfracombe.) Youth Project showing alongside Mark Dion: 14th October Microcosmographia. (South London Gallery) • ‘After Dark Cabaret’. ‘The first ever event in Wales 13th September focusing on the arts and culture of Deaf people.’ • ‘To Be or Not To Be: The Place of Disability in With Ramesh Meyyappan (mime from Singapore), Creative Identity.’ Facilitated panel discussion Tyron Woolfe (signed song), John Wilson about the way in which disability informs, shapes or (performance poetry). Plus Bernadette Foster, Paul defines our creative identity. With: Saunders. (Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport.) »» Michèle Taylor (Chair) 24th-29th October »» Jackie Gay • CanDoCo in Wales: »» Alison Jones »» Oct 24-28 Choreographic Residence. »» Aidan Shingler CanDoCo spend a week with young people from »» Nancy Willis the local community to produce an integrated »» (Loughborough Library.) site-specific work in St Donats Arts Centre. »» Oct 28 Oct Dance and Training Workshop. (Barry Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry.) »» Oval House Theatre »» Oct 29 Highlights of their new season, »» ’The Chess Set on’, a giant chess set, including excerpts from ‘The Journey’, ch. Fin created by and for those with visual Walker, and ‘In Praise of Folly’, ch. Athina Vahla. impairment. Plus taster of past work including work from ‘A »» ‘An Evening with Heart n Soul’. Human Suite’ (Stephen Petronio’s) and ‘A Maze Multimedia/ cabaret event. (Two separate in You’ (Jurg Koch). (St Donats Arts Centre, evenings) Vale of Glamorgan.) »» The Albany, Deptford » 29th October » Multimedia/ cabaret/ club nights with • NorDAF relaunch as arcadea. Drake Music Project and Heart n Soul. »» 30 Nov Club Attitude. November 2005 4th November • No Limits Theatre, ‘Attic’. Revival of one of the • Touchdown Dance, ‘Closer’. Improvised piece company’s early works. (Touring.) of dance theatre. (Forum 28, Barrow. Also Nov 9 • Extant, ‘Weights’. Autobiographical one-man Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster.) show by US playwright, actor, and athlete Lynn 4th November Manning. (Touring UK.) • ‘Sensual Clues Seminar’. Seminar led by visually • Half Moon New Productions impaired people examining how an understanding »» ‘Mermaid and the Mirror’ (3-7 years) With of primarily non-visual perception and sensual clues Mandy Colleran (A Jackson’s Lane Xposure 2005 can be utilised in arts venues to provide greater theatre commission.) accessibility to all visitors. A collaboration between »» 23 - 26 Nov My Friend Snow (2 - 7 years). the Serpentine Gallery, Shape and Art Through New play by Chris Elwell featuring fully Touch. Following on from ‘Sounding Architecture’ integrated British Sign Language d.Chris Elwell, project at the Serpentine Gallery. (Victoria and music Rob Lee, design Alison Cartledge, With Albert Museum.) Hambi Pappas, David Sands, Ben Neil. (National tour until 12 March 2006.) 4th-11th November • ‘Mad Brighton’. Exhibition of artwork, film and 1st-17th November poetry about mental health in Brighton. • ‘All Around My Flat.’ Photographic Exhibition by Colin Hamilton. (ADF Gallery, Belfast.) 8th November • Final exhibition of ‘Journeys’, a partnership project 1st November - 12th December between Project Ability and The National Museums • ‘Xposure 05’. London Disability and Deaf Arts of Scotland, as part of the ‘There and Back’ project. Festival. (See 15 July for greater detail on these projects.) »» Jacksons Lane (National Museum of Scotland.) »» Half Moon Young People’s Theatre ‘Mermaid and the Mirror.’ 10th November »» Mind the Gap ‘Of Mice and Men’, • Corali Dance Company, ‘Kissed’ and Gary adaptation by Mike Kenny. Stevens, ‘The House’. (Laban Centre.) »» (And Croydon Clocktower.) 15th November »» Exhibition of work by German • ‘Finding a Voice’ A showcase and celebration of photographer Sabine Gruhn. the work of learning disabled artists in the Somerset »» Stratford Circus area »» East London Dance present four »» Unlimited Company. productions, »» Moves Afoot (storytellers). »» Bill Shannon (aka Crutchmaster), »» Count Me In (drumming group). ‘Regarding the Fall’. »» Frome Enterprise Players. »» Dina-13 TanzCompany, ‘Skinbetween’. »» Humbug Theatre Group. »» Sadlers Wells »» Speakers: Gus Garside (National Arts Co- »» An evening of mixed works with High ordinator for Mencap) Spin Dance, Amici Dance and Blue Eyed »» Members of Art & Power from Bristol Soul. »» (Merlin Theatre, Frome.) »» Dance workshops. 17th November »» Dec 3 ‘Swallow The Pill’. A night of punk, • Synergy Focus. Disability Arts Conference. Part indie and upbeat folk. (Head of Steam, of the Synergy Season presented by Ithaca (autumn Liverpool.) 2005), ‘the first ever Disability Arts Festival for 28th November Oxfordshire and surrounding areas’. The Synergy • The Oska Bright Film Festival (The Old Market, Season is the culmination of a two-year programme Hove.). Winners are: that has supported the personal and professional »» Best Overall Film: Matthew Hellett, ‘Cooking development of emerging disabled artists. (Pegasus with Matthew’. Theatre, Oxford.) »» Best Drama: Shystershadows, ‘My Bloody 21st-22nd November Valentine’. • Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company, ‘Touch’. »» Best 10 Minute Film: Roaring Mouse Drama, Performance with dance, aerial work and film. ‘Nuts for Pudding’. (Shrewsbury Music Hall.) »» Best 5 Minute Film: Q Arts Club, ‘Better to 21st & 23rd November, and 1st & 3rd be Safe Than Sorry’. » December » Best 1 Minute Film: Matthew Eggert, ‘By The • Shallal Dance Theatre ‘Mask’. (Acorn Theatre, Seaside’. » Penzance.) » Oska Bright Film Training Bursaries (2 days training with Junk TV in film-making 24th November techniques): Broken Bone Sound Architect, • Bill Shannon ‘Spatial Theory’. (The Junction, Hadlow Down, East Sussex, and Ash Cottage Cambridge.) Animations, Brighton. 24th November - 3rd December 30th November - 4th December • DaDaFest 2005. Including: • 7th Disability Film Festival. Includes: »» Nov 24 ‘Thalidomide! A Musical’, by Mat »» ‘Dancer’ (Opening gala). Frase.r (Unity Theatre) »» ‘Special People’ (Justin Edgar, UK, 2005). »» Nov 25 ‘Jim Davidson’s Guide to Equality’ »» ‘Bella’ (Sally Pearce, UK, 2004). by Laurence Clark. The Citadel Arts Centre, St. »» ‘The Cost of Living’ (Lloyd Newson, UK, Helens.) 2004). »» Nov 25 Poetry Night with open mike slot. »» ‘Spit It Out’ (Jonathan Skurnik). (Alexandra Suite, Empire Theatre.) »» ‘Disability Takes on the Arts’ (Sharon Snyder). »» Nov 26 ‘this two’ by girl jonah. Dance and »» ‘Self Preservation: The Art of Riva Lehre’ workshop,devised and performed by Caroline (Sharon Snyder). Bowditch and Fiona Wright. (Unity Theatre, »» ‘Derek Jarman: Life As Art’ (Andy Kimpton- Liverpool.) Nye). »» Nov 26 Deaf Culture Celebration. »» ‘Nectar’ (Liz Crow). (Community College, Myrtle Street.) »» ‘A Woman’s Face’ (George Cukor, 1941) »» Nov 27 Comedy Night With The Nasty Girls, presented by Victoria Lucas. Becky Virgo, Sandra Donovan, Gemma Nash. »» (National Film Theatre, London.) »» Nov 28 Disability Film Night. Collection of short films from local, national, and December 2005 international disability artists. (Brindley Arts • Winners of EtCetera electronic postcards Centre, Runcorn.) competition: »» Nov 28 - Dec 3 Disability Now Community »» Rachel Gadsden, ‘Cathedral Detail’. Photographic Exhibition. (The World Museum.) »» Robert Reddick, ‘Inky Snowman’. »» Nov 29 The Shysters, ‘Shards’; The Heroes. »» David Cole, ‘Photogram’. (Citadel Arts Centre, St. Helens.) »» Belinda O’Shea, No Title. »» Nov 30 Comedy Night with Steve Day and • Signdance Collective, ‘But Beautiful’/’Scenes from Laurence Clark. (Head of Steam, Liverpool.) a Romance’, a new performance with The Luke »» Dec 1 Dinner and Awards. (Crowne Plaza) Barlow Band based on the art and life of the jazz »» Dec 2 ‘The Jim Davidson Guide to Equality’ musician Art Pepper. (Touring.) by Lawrence Clark (Parr Hall, Warrington.) 1st December »» Dec 3 Young Peoples Event and Talent Show. • DaDaFest Awards Results announced: (Community College, Myrtle Street.) »» Emerging Visual Artist: Roger Cliffe- Caroline Parker, Grin and Bare It Theatre Company, Thompson. Karen Sheader, Kev Howard (electronic-trance »» Emerging Performance Artist: Craig didgeridoo), Roaring Mouse ‘Nuts For Pudding’ MacDonald. (Oska Bright award-winning film). »» Performance Artist: Laurence Clark. »» Visual Artist: Rachel Gadsden. 2006 »» Performance Company or Group: The Heroes. (Integrated Pop group just to start recording January 2006 tracks for their 2006 album Classic) . • Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire given MBE for »» Community Arts Company or Group: ‘services to Art’ in New Year’s Honours List. Sundowns. • Paddy Masefield: ‘Strength: Broadsides from • Dec 1st Launch, as part of the 7th Disability disability on the arts’. Foreword Lord Puttnam. Film Festival, of nutter.tv , which ‘explores how to Specialist bibliography, directory and chronology portray online the experience of being psychotic, of Disability Arts by Allan Sutherland. Consultant or in non-consensual reality’. (Produced Chas de Editors Dr Scilla Dyke MBE FRSA, Julie McNamara Swiet, designed and built Edward Hill and Nicholas BA FRSA, Dr Alastair Niven OBE, Adrian Phillips, Watton.) Sarah Scott , Allan Sutherland. (Trentham Books.) 1st-21st December 14th January onwards • ‘Textile Tales to Tell’. 2nd annual touring • ‘We Are Here!’ Exhibition by members of FASED, exhibition by the Speaking Up Groups in County including Aidan Shingler, Tan Draig, Annie Delin, Durham, a self-advocacy project run by and for Dave Everitt. (Various sites in Derby, including Q people with learning disabilities. Arts, Derby Dance Centre and the Guildhall.) »» Dec 1 -14 The Thames Centre, Newton 20th January - 17th February Aycliffe. • ‘Difference’. Exhibition of art films and digital »» Dec 15 -21 Castle Gallery, Barnard Castle. images, by ten regional disabled artists who took »» Jan The Store Cafe, Dipton, Stanley. part in DASh’s Digital Now II. (Qube, Oswestry) »» Jun The Print Room, Durham Light Infantry Museum, Aykley. 31st January - 12th February • Mat Fraser, ‘Thalidomide! A Musical.’ (Battersea 3rd December Arts Centre.) • Inter-Action MK: Celebrating International Day of Disabled People. With Julie McNamara; Sign Dance February 2006 Collective ‘But Beautiful’; MacIntyre Gang ‘Dr Who • ‘Access to Culture for Disabled and Deaf People - rescue in London; Bungalow Boogaloo; Eye for Art in London’. Shape report, commissioned by the samba band; Dart Dance; the Water Eaton Youth Mayor’s Office. Group; Woughton Theatre. • Two live performances to mark the launch of the • Project Ability: Special Event For The debut CD by Tongue and Groove, six musicians International Day of Disabled People. Screening of from Milton Keynes who play using assistive 6 short films made during their 2005 film making technology. programme. (Project Ability, Glasgow.) »» Feb 27 The Stables, Milton Keynes. • Paddy Masefield Award presented to Jonathan »» Mar 1 The Castle, Wellingborough. Barr Lindsay for ‘Indian Mountains’ at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Presented by Sir Christopher 15th February Frayling, Chair of Arts Council England, who also • South West Disability Film Festival. The best of the selects from the shortlist Jack Mundy’’s picture London Disability Film Festival, including » ‘Trumpet’ to hang in Arts Council England’s offices. » ‘Harvie Krumpet’ (Australia, 2003). »» ‘21 Things to Remember’ (UK, 2003). 6th-10th December »» ‘Waiting for Ronald’ (USA, 2003). • Extant Theatre ‘Weights - One Blind Man’s »» ‘Nectar’ (UK, 2005). Journey’ written and performed Lynn Manning. »» ‘Afterlife’ (UK, 2003). (Oval House, London.) »» (Exeter Phoenix.) 16th December 22nd February • The mimosa club. Disability Cabaret first gig of • Fundraising Event for Survivors’ Poetry. With arcadea’s new touring event. With Mat Fraser(MC), John Hegley, Ralph Brown, Debjani Chatterjee and others. (George Bernard Shaw Theatre, RADA, 30th March London.) • ‘Close Up’, a day about Disability and Film. Special guest Mat Fraser. (DASh in partnership with March 2006 Borderlines Film Festival.) • ‘Sealboy: Freak’ Written and performed Mat Fraser. (Caedmon Hall, Gateshead.) April 2006 3rd-24th March • Interplay Theatre, ‘This Land’. Show about Woody • ‘Beam’. A month of events showcasing nationally Guthrie. (Touring over the next six months.) acclaimed learning disabled artists working in • West Midlands Disability Arts Forum’s Board theatre, dance, film, music, visual arts and club decide to close the company. nights across Leeds, Bradford and Yorkshire. The April - March festival presents work by Mind the Gap, StopGAP • ‘Space Between’ exhibition, commissioned by Dance Company, Oska Bright Film Festival and Oily Artshape. Includes Jon Adams works ‘Intrusion Cart. Including (24th Mar) a day about learning struckture 11’ and ‘dyslexic library’. (Tour includes disabled artists. (City Hall, Bradford.) WWT Slimbridge Glos, Brewhouse Theatre 4th March Taunton, Holton Lee Arts Centre Dorset and • The Shysters ‘Shards’. Plus Actability, ‘Behind the Salisbury Library & Galleries.) Mask’, with live music and spoken word presentation 5th April of ‘Down to Earth’, Actability’s next piece. (Hume • ‘The Conquest of the South Pole’ by Manfred Theatre, St Marys Catholic School, Bishops Karge. Workshop production by a group of disabled Stortford.) actors and directors. (Theatre Resource, Chipping 14th March Ongar, Essex) • ‘Octopus Crew with a Licence to Kill’, the Beautiful 9th April Octopus Club’s 007th appearance at Club Evolution. • ‘Deaf Man Walking’. One-man show by Australian DJs from The Octopus Crew and Heart n Soul, Rob Roy Farmer. (Glee Club, Cardiff Bay.) Heart n Soul’s Clubs Posse (singing and digital 26th April arts) and the Beautiful Octopus Band. Leeds based • ‘Frogtastic’. A club night for people with Learning Interplay Theatre, DJs from Heart n Soul and music Disabilities, in Manchester. (The Heroes Project in by Jez Colbourne. (Club Evolution, Kirkstall, Leeds.) association with The Frog and Bucket.) 20th March • ‘The Groovy Gecko Club’ A club night run by May 2006 people with learning disabilities and Inter-Action • ‘Dorset meets Bristol’. art + power exhibition of MK. Including live performances from the Heart n work from two well-established groups of disabled Soul Posse. (Mood Nightclub, Milton Keynes.) artists from Bristol and Bournemouth, showing 20th March & 5th April their preliminary work for a forthcoming public art sculpture. (Centrespace Gallery, Bristol.) • Touchdown Dance: ‘Closer’. Improvised piece of • NorDAF News re-launched as Mimosa Magazine. dance theatre accessible to the visually impaired. • Frontline Dance, ‘5th Anniversary Tour’ now Devised by the company with Julyen Hamilton and touring Staffordshire, including performances in Angus Balbernie. Opens two dance events: Stafford, Uttoxeter, Leek and Hanley. »» Mar 20 Sadlers Wells ‘Connect’. (Lilian Baylis • Learning-Disabled Actor Anna-Marie Heslop, Theatre.) a founder member of Mind the Gap, gains part in »» Apr 5 Swindon Dance ‘Move 4 Change’. BBC’s daytime drama Doctors. (Town Hall Studios, Swindon.) • DaDa Fest wins Partnership Annual Tourism 25th March - 4th May Awards ‘Best Small Event’ Award. • ‘Beyond the Asylum.’ Exhibition of paintings and 1st May drawings by Rachel Gadsden. (Faith House, Holton • First Blogging Against Disablism Day. Lee, Dorset.) 5th-6th May 28th March 2006 - 3rd February 2007 • CandoCo, ‘The Journey’/‘In Praise of Folly’ . ‘The • Graeae, ‘Blasted’ by Sarah Kane. Direction and Journey’ ch. Fin Walker of WalkerParkDanceMusic. design Jenny Sealey. Touring. ‘In Praise Of Folly’ ch. Athina Vahla. (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.) 5th May onwards July 2006 • ‘Signs of a Diva’ by Nona Shepphard. Performed • Liz Carr and Tanyalee Davis, ‘Bravetarts’. (BAC, by Caroline Parker. d. Jenny Sealey and Nona London, as part of N20 comedy season.) Shepphard. Presented by The Drill Hall. • Laurence Clark, ‘Jim Fixed It For Me’. (Soho »» (National Tour.) Theatre, London.) 20th May - 12th June 1st-16th July • ‘Elemental Landscapes’. Paintings by Abi Kremer • Every Sat and Sun, Oily Cart, ‘Blue’. New multi- and photography by Richard Jeffery. (Holton Lee, sensory show for young people with Complex Dorset.) Disabilities and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. (Unicorn Theatre, London.) June 2006 5th-16th July • Peter Campbell, ‘Brown Linoleum Green Lawns’ • The Fingersmiths , ‘In Praise of Fallen Women.’ (Hearing Eye). Dramaturged by Kaite O’Reilly. With Jean St Clair • Graeae Theatre ‘Blasted’ by Sarah Kane. With and Jeni Draper. (The Drill Hall, London.) David Toole, Daryl Jackson, Gerard McDermott, Jennifer Jay Ellison. 6th July • Opening of Theatre Museum exhibition marking 9th June Graeae’s 25th anniversary. • Arts and music festival at Holton Lee Includes Signdance Collective, ‘But Beautiful’, with Luke 6th-7th July Barlow Band, plus Bournemouth-based The Viff • Mind the Gap: ‘Phoenix’. (Lister Mills, Bradford.) and exhibition ‘Elemental Landscapes’. (Holton Lee, 10th July Dorset.) • Paddy Masefield workshop for aspirant disabled 16th June writers at Dartington’s ‘Ways With Words’ Literature • mimosa club with Laurence Clark, Francesca Festival. Martinez, Luke Hardwick, Flex Dance Company, The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company. August 2006 (Gala Theatre & Cinema, Durham.) August - December 23rd June • Sophie Woolley ‘When to Run’. (National Tour, • Paddy Masefield workshop for aspirant disabled launching at Edinburgh Festival, then touring writers at The Winchester Writers’ Conference, York; Ilkley Literature Festival; Royal Festival Hall, the first of a series following the publication London; All Saints Centre, Lewes; Birmingham of Masefield ‘s new book ‘Strength: Broadsides Repertory.) from Disability on the Arts’. (Trentham Books.). Until 19th August (Also Dartington, Ilkley, Sheffield, Birmingham, • ‘Giants’ photographed David Hevey, designed Newcastle Upon Tyne.) Helena Roden, produced Shape. (North Edinburgh 23rd-25th June Arts Centre, then touring Edinburgh throughout the • Dilston arts and sport festival, celebrating festival.) Mencap 60 and the final weekend of Learning Disability Week. With Full Body & The Voice, The September 2006 Lawnmowers, No Limits Theatre, Headway Theatre, • Mimosa Festival. Festival celebrating the artistic JC Jamma. (Dilston College, near Corbridge.) equality of disabled people across a range of venues (Dance City; The Sage, Gateshead; the AdHoc 28th June Gallery; Buddle Arts Centre; The Mushroom Works, • Deborah A. Williams Master Class for experienced Ouseburn.). Highlights of the festival include: performer/writers. »» ‘Transition’ visual art exhibition. 29th June »» Sep 1 Mimosa Dance. Pauline Heath, • ‘oUo-maan’ One woman show by Deborah ‘Hanging Around for a Man with a Pulse’,;Wayne Williams (Caedmon Hall, Gateshead and touring. Hooks, ‘New World’; Rachel Kay ‘Tear’ ch. 30th June - 15th September Caroline Bowditch. Plus ‘This Two’ a dance duet • ‘The Cancer Works: Waystations and Journeys’. film from Girl Jonah and Common Ground Sign Exhibition by Rick Ulman (The Gallery, Western Dance Company ‘Breaker’. General Hospital, Edinburgh.) »» ‘Unseen’ Exhibition showcasing Twink »» ‘Cooking with Matthew’. and Aidan Moesby (The Mushroom Works, »» Masterclass by Oska Bright filmmakers. Ouseburn. Until Sep 29.) »» (Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter.) » » Sep 15 Mimosa Club Tom Shakespeare and 8th September - 22nd October Topsy Qu’ret, ‘Falling and Laughing’, live art • Katherine Araniello and Aaron Williamson, performance; Girl Jonah ‘This Two’; Giovanna ‘The Disabled Avant-Garde Today!’ Collaborative Maria Casetta ‘Looking Good’ presents live film exhibition of video works and paintings, revisiting and performance; Sean Burn ‘Tattooing Lorca’ the work of such practitioners as Leigh Bowery, digital art performance. Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tom & Jerry, Jake & » » Sep 25 Mimosa Screen Shorts from regional Dinos Chapman, Simon & Garfunkel, Martin and national film makers, including Liz Crow, Kippenberger and Busby Berkeley. (Gasworks ‘Nectar’; Terence Healy,‘Andy’ ; Tinch Minter, Gallery, Vauxhall Street, London.) ‘Wheeling Dealing’; Shoot Your Mouth Off, ‘Nuts for Pudding’. The Sage, Gateshead.) From 19th September »» Sep 25 ‘Divine Disabled Divas’ Cabaret. • Jigsaw Theatre Company: Technical Taster. 12 Caroline Bowditch (MC), Caroline Parker, week course to introduce disabled people to the Minika Green, Karen Sheader. (The Sage, backstage world of theatre. Gateshead.) 21st September »» Sep 29 Laurence Clark ‘Jim Fixed It For Me’ • Shape launch ‘Open the Door’ campaign (Unicorn and Tom Shakespeare ‘No Small Inheritance’. Theatre) to improve access to London’s creative (The Sage Gateshead.) industries for disabled people. »» Sep 29 Metamorphosis Ball, celebrating 21st-29th September arcadea’s first birthday and the completion of the • ‘Riita Returns’ Disability Arts Festival in Salisbury festival. Liz Carr and Brave Tarts, DKing from A week long festival of exhibitions, workshops, the Krokodile Krew. (The Sage Gateshead.) performances and film. Events include: • Ju Gosling (aka Ju90), artist advisor for the »» workshop with Michael Mitchell and Sign Disability Arts Archive, launches blog on her work Dance Collective, with the Archive. »» poetry workshops with Sarah Hopkins September - 31st March 2008 »» rock concert with Heart n Soul • Artist Ju Gosling undertakes residency at National »» the new Deaf Dramaturgy ‘In Praise of Fallen Institute of Medical Research which explores Women’ ideas about normality, and asks whether there is a »» performance by Sign Dance Collective. ‘Scientific Model of Disability’ that is distinct from »» exhibition organised by Link Up Arts the ‘Medical Model of Disability’. »» (Creasey Gallery, Salisbury Library) 2nd September 29th September • ‘Liberty, London’s Disability Rights Festival 2006’ • Project Art Works Open Day (Project Art Works, »» Celebrates 20 years of the London Disability Hastings) Arts Forum and includes performances by: • ‘Heart n Soul Unplugged’. All new acoustic show »» CandoCo featuring Pino Frumiente, Lizzie Emeh and Mark »» Johnny Crescendo & Andy Morgan Snead. Plus music from Heart n Soul DJs in the »» Marlo Donato café. (artsdepot North Finchley.) »» The Heroes »» Carousel October 2006 »» Ramesh Meyyappan • Shape launches training course in Arts Journalism »» Creative Routes for disabled people, led by Allan Sutherland. »» Rory Heap 1st October »» Kickin’ Kangaroo Club • Paddy Masefield workshop for aspirant disabled »» (Trafalgar Square, London.) writers at Ilkley Literature Festival. 5th September October 2006 - October 2007 • Oska Bright On The Road. Includes: • London Disability Arts Forum’s fourth year-long »» ‘Nuts for Pudding’. exhibition of works by disabled visual artists at ICI »» ‘My Bloody Valentine’. headquarters. (Manchester Square, London.) 4th October South East region: Jon Adams, Esther Appleyard, • Deafinitely Theatre: ‘Dysfunction’. (The Albany, David Dixon and Victoria Goodacre. (Cranbrook Deptford.) Library, Kent.) • ‘Prism D.ART Day’. Speakers include Tom 15th November Shakespeare, Caroline Bowditch, Laurence Clark, • ‘Lost Luggage’. A music and dance performance Chris Hammond and Ben Cove. Starfish & DIY by Musical ARC working with dancer Beth Cassani. Theatre Companies perform an improvisation piece. (Rheged Discovery Centre, near Penrith.) 16th-18th November • Proud and Loud Arts, ‘Because you’re Worthless’. 5th October (The Lowry, Manchester.) • The Beautiful Octopus Club. 16th November - 6th December 10th October • Carousel, ‘Debbie Rock Angel’ . ‘The first ever • ‘Mad Book Fair’, celebrating Mental Health Day. rock opera created by and for people with a learning (South London Gallery, SE5.) disability.’ (Brighton, Bognor Regis and East 13th October Grinstead.) • Mat Fraser in ‘Thalidomide! A Musical’. (Salisbury 18th November Arts Centre.) • ‘The Visual Extravaganza’. Deaf Cultural 18th-19th October Celebration with Sign Choir of Knotty Ash Primary • CandoCo, ‘The Journey’ and ‘In Praise of Folly’. School and hosted by Janice Connolly and Barry (artsdepot, North Finchley.) Kirwan and featuring Common Ground Sign Dance 21st October Theatre, Frank Essery, Ramesh Myyappan, Rebecca- • Paddy Masefield workshop for aspirant disabled Anne Withey. (Liverpool Playhouse, as part of writers at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Festival of Writing DaDaFest 6.) and Reading. 21st November - 1st December • ‘Wild Lunch’. Readings of eight new plays. Paines November 2006 Plough and Graeae. (Young Vic, London.) • Maureen Olive, ‘Breaking Down and Poetry.’ 22nd November (Chipmunka Publishing.) • Half Moon, ‘Igloo Hullabaloo’. Production for • Deafinitely Theatre, ‘Dysfunction’ by Steve Webb. 2 - 6 years old using fully integrated British Sign New rewrite of their 2004 success. (National tour) Language and English. (Then touring nationally • ‘Shining Brightly’. Installation inspired by the work until March 2007. ) of Action Space artists from Croydon. Partnership project with Action Space, Croydon Clocktower and 23rd November Tate Modern. (Croydon Clocktower entranceway.) • ‘In The Frame Liverpool.’ Daytime event for people with a learning disability and others working 13th-17th November in visual arts. Follow-up to an exhibition and • Xposure 2006. Jacksons Lane Disability Arts conference organised by Mencap at Tate Modern in Festival. Including: 2005. Part of DaDafest 6. (Tate Liverpool.) »» Nov 13 ‘Fluff’ by Sophie Partridge • ‘Link One’. Artists’ Professional Development Day »» Nov 14 ‘Bye Baby Bunting’ by Penny Pepper, for Deaf and Disabled Londoners, part of Shape’s Rehearsed reading. ‘Link Up’, a careers advice and mentoring support 13th November - 12th December programme for emerging deaf and disabled arts • DaDaFest 2006 Including: practitioners. » » ArticulEight visual arts with James Lake, 30th November Louise Croft, Leila Romaya, Max Zadow. • ‘Static on the Radio’ by Danny Start. Product of ‘ »» Comedy with Nasty Girls and Laurence Clark. Wild Lunch’ project. (Young Vic.) »» Aisle 16 with Poetry Boyband. »» ‘Visual Extravaganza’. Deaf Night (see Nov 18). December 2006 14th November - 5th January 2008 • Ongoing: ‘DaDaFest 06’ Liverpool venues • ‘In Other Words’. Exhibition organised by Dada- taking part include National Museums Liverpool, South, curated by Noëmi Lakmaier brings together Liverpool Playhouse, Unity Theatre, Hope at the work of 4 Deaf and disabled artists living in the Everton’s Cornerstone Theatre, Alima Centre, Tate Liverpool, Out of The Bluecoat and Sefton Park »» Apr 24 Godalming (Penny Beschizza). Palm House. Plus, for the first time, Manchester »» May 29 Farnham (Josephine Dickinson). venues Contact Theatre, Comedy Store and Royal »» Jun 26 Godalming. Exchange. »» 3 Dec Family Fun Day February 2007 »» 6th and 7th Dec Reading of: ‘Pig’s Sister’ by • Heavy Load launch ‘Stay Up Late Campaign’ Julie McNamara and ‘Fluff!’ by Sophie Partridge. which seeks ‘to make people with learning 2nd-10th December disabilities and their staff aware of how they can work together to make shifts more flexible and • ‘Space Mapping’. A partnership project between support people to live in the way that they want to’. Intoart and the Rathbone Youth Project working • ArtsXchange. Two year project where professional with Studio Voltaire in response to the exhibition performers work with adults with learning ‘Radical Loyalty’ by Chris Evans . (Studio Voltaire difficulties and disabilities in Somerset, to culminate London) in a Showcase performance (April 2008). 4th-15th December • ‘Are You Laughing at Me?’ Disability Debate with • ‘Able Voices’. Photographs taken during three comedians Mat Fraser, Steve Day and members participatory photography projects working of the Nasty Girls plus Craig Crowley of Action with disabled people in the UK, Bangladesh and Deafness and Dr Tom Hailstone from Vista. Cameroon. (Hoopers Gallery, Farringdon) (Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester, as part of 11th December Leicester Comedy Festival.) • Workshops by David Roche and Caroline Parker, • ‘Face On: Disability Arts in Ireland and Beyond.’ followed by performance double-bill of David Ed Kaite O’Reilly. Contributors include Donal Roche’s ‘Church of 80% Sincerity’ and Caroline Toolan,, Jenny Sealey, Allan Sutherland, Philip Parker’s ‘Signs of a Diva’. (Wales Millennium Patston, Pádraig Naughton, Nabil Shaban, Rosaleen Centre, Cardiff.) McDonagh. (Arts & Disability Ireland.) • Graeae: ‘Whiter Than Snow’ by Mike Kenny. 2007 Directed by Jenny Sealey. Retelling of the Snow • Mind The Gap move into new premises in the White story for 7-13 year olds and their families. Lister Mills building, Bradford. (Spring tour.) • Graeae Theatre Company with Birmingham Rep, • Sense Scotland reveals winners for its Helen Keller ‘Whiter than Snow’ by Mike Kenny. Directed by International Award. Main prize Yvonne Larkin, Jenny Sealey. for her collaborative piece ‘Love Colour’. Under 16 prize: Hannah Duncan. January 2007 • StopGAP Dance Company Spring Tour. 62 performances including rural performances, visiting 16th January - 3rd February Canterbury, Slough, Woking, Hemel Hempstead, • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Blasted ’by Sarah Kane. Derby, Strawley and Somerset. With Jennifer-Jay Ellison, Gerard McDermott, David Toole. Directed by Jenny Sealey. Soho 10th February - 3rd March Theatre. • ‘On the Next Level - Space Between.’ Exhibition at John Creasy Museum, Salisbury Galleries, Wiltshire. 20th January - 10th March Exhibition consists of 53 pieces of artwork from 19 • Holton Lee Disability Arts Competitive artists, including James Lake, Jon Adams, Arabella Exhibition. Weir, Bonita Leatherman, Ken White, Clare 27th January Fuller promoting equality of access and exhibiting • Disability Arts Cymru, ‘Unusual Stage School’. professional, non- professional, non-disabled and (Grand Theatre Swansea.) disabled artists without distinction. Previous venues 30th January - 2nd June include: Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, • Dorothy Miles Cultural Centre present a series of Gloucestershire; Faith House Gallery, Holton Lee. ‘Pub Poetry’, each led by a professional sign language 13th February poet. • Link 2: Performing Arts Career Development »» Jan 30 Godalming (Richard Carter). Day. Speakers include David Bower, Maria Oshodi, »» Feb 27 Farnham (John Wilson). Michele Taylor. Part of Shape’s ‘Link Up’ career »» Mar 27 Farnham. development programme. (Hammersmith & Fulham Irish Centre.) Down’s syndrome and one without. » 16th February » Shorts: ‘I Saw A Girl’ (Arty Party adult group, • ‘Valentines Wild Bunch’, ‘learning difficulties Telford), ‘Life as a side effect’ (Dolly Sen), ‘Aye dating extravaganza’. (The Rocket, Holloway Road, Aye Captain’ (stop frame animation by learning London.) disabled filmmakers) ‘Phizog’ (Neil Webber), ‘Reeling’, two short films by Sean Burns. 21st-22nd February, and 1st-2nd »» Paul Darke ‘From Freak to Normalised’. March »» Liz Crow Shorts. • ‘Space Between’. Exhibition, discussions and »» ‘Sex and Disability’ session. Screening of practical art workshops with Caroline Cardus. ‘The Crippendales’ (Havana Marking), plus (Salisbury Library & Galleries.) presentation from Claire Fisher with examples 22nd-24th February from the BBC series ‘Desirability’. Discussion • Scottish Dance Theatre, ‘Angels of Incidence’ by led byTanya Raabe. Adam Benjamin. (Dundee Rep Theatre.) »» ‘Time Bandits’. »» (Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford.) 27th February • Art Expo 2007. Scotland’s first ever National April 2007 Conference for Artists with Learning Disabilities, • CandoCo Double Bill: ‘And who shall go to the organised by Project Ability. (The Arches, Argyll Ball?’, ch. Rafael Bonachela, composer Scott Walker. Street, Glasgow.) ‘The Stepfather’ by Arthur Pita. • Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company, ‘Don’t Push Me’. March 2007 Triple bill of dance and aerial work directed by Liam • VisAbility Arts Festival. A series of events Steel and Jess Curtis, with music by Derek Nisbet. ‘celebrating the creativity of disabled people in (Touring until June 2007). Camden’. Club Attitude, ‘Giants’ exhibition, video installations by Dutch artist Aernout Mik, a new 24th April film by Nicola Lane , a performance by blind dancer • ‘Being at St Clements’. Created by a group of and actor Jack Birkett. patients based in a London Psychiatric Hospital, • ‘Leading Edge’. New project from Mind the Gap, working with 3 artists commissioned by SPACE setting up a national network to support the work of (Elizabeth Hobbs , Jocasta Lucas, Douglas professional learning disabled artists. Nicolson), and mentored by Core Arts. Includes the premiere screening of ‘Hotel de Pinhey’, filmed on 15th-31st March Pinhey ward, and animation made with Bowhaven, • Shape Deaf Theatre Master Classes with director a user run Mental Health day centre. Plus live Jenny Sealey, writer Jenny Lecoat and guest tutor performance from Ben Watson (and 20-month-old Steve Day. (A follow-up to Shape’s Deaf Theatre daughter Iris), Melanie Clifford, Frank Bangay and Academy, which finished in 2005.) Tunde Busari. (SPACE, Mare Street, London.) 21st March 28th April • 4th LDAF exhibition at ICI headquarters opens. • Launch of ‘Tales from the Boarders’, recording Artists include: Richard Dawkes, Olivier Jamin, the history of Great Stony School, formerly The Rafael Arias, Jean Akam, Mary Braithwaite, David Hackney Home, in Chipping Ongar. Venues McGargle, Lawrence Sabin, Tommy Mason, Barri include: Theatre Resource, Epping Forest District Hitchin, Sumea, Jon Adams, John Daly, Alan Liddle, Museum and Barleylands Museum. Cameron Morgan, Robb Carswell, Debbie Mayes, Christine Thompson, Colin Pethick. April - 18th May • ‘Intimate ENCOUNTERS’ Photographic 29th March exhibition by Australian photographer Belinda • Film and Disability Day. Borderlines Film Festival Mason. (Holton Lee, Dorset.) presents the third annual event focusing on film and disability in partnership with DASh. May 2007 » » Digital Stories produced by members. • ‘oUo-Maan’ by Deborah A Williams (Brewery Arts » » Herefordshire College of Art and Design Centre, Kendal) access course for students with learning • Nabil Shaban, ‘The First To Go’. Shaban’s new play difficulties, ‘Plus’, followed by ‘Ben’, a drama of about the Nazi euthanasia programme. (Sirius Book friendship between two students – one with Works publishing) 2nd June • Aidan Shingler & the Antidotes, ‘Only Smarties • BonkersFest! ‘a free annual one day summer arts have the Answer’. Aidan Shingler, who is labelled and music festival, promoting creativity, madness, with paranoid schizophrenia, narrates how individuality and eccentricity; combating stigma psychiatry and the treatment it imposes has and promoting good mental health’. (Camberwell impacted upon his life. Illustrated by puppetry in Green, South London.) the tradition of Punch and Judy. (Show available for • ‘Priscilla Queen of the Deaf World’ by The booking.) Alexandras (all dancing, signing troupe led by Jenny May - June Sealey and featuring Caroline Parker plus deaf drag • ‘Boundless: Southwark’s Disability Arts, Sports artistes Mark Smith and Daryl Jackson). (Exchange and Culture Festival’. Includes theatre, dance, music, Square, Manchester.) cabaret, visual arts and a conference. 11th June - 7th July • ‘Half Moon’s Sensory Journey’. New multi-sensory • Oily Cart: ‘BLUE’, a multi-sensory show for installation workshop/performance programme at young people with complex disabilities and Half Moon’s East London venue and in 33 centres autistic spectrum disorders. (Two-week interactive across Tower Hamlets. residency in two Manchester schools commissioned May - July by the Manchester International Festival.) • ‘Open the Door’ Seminars. Shape’s training for the 14th June - 18th July arts, cultural and leisure sectors. • Deafinitely Theatre, ‘Playing God’. (Albany 14th May - 13th July Deptford and National tour.) • ‘Spectrum’, an exhibition by children with autistic 20th June spectrum disorder. (Project Ability Gallery, • ‘Arabian Nights’ Bubble Club at the Rhythm Glasgow.) Factory. Special guest belly dance performance. 23rd May (London E1.) • Bubble Club. (Rhythm Factory , Whitechapel 20th-21st June Road, London.) • ‘Discover! 2’. Second conference looking at the • Frogtastic Club Night. (Manchester.) representation of disability hosted by Colchester 23rd-28th May Museums. (Ickworth House, near Bury St • DASh carnival workshops. Theme ‘shopoholics’. Edmunds.) Speakers include: Anne McGuire MP, Minister for Disabled People; Tom Shakespeare; Dr 31st May Paul A. Darke (Dip.S.W., B.A., M.A., Ph.d). • Mind the Gap in association with Croydon 22nd June - 8th July Clocktower presents ‘CAST!’, a one-day event about casting for learning-disabled artists. Speakers • ‘Different Spaces’. New paintings, prints and include casting directors and producers, artists and drawings from Intoart’s Studio Project artists people who work in disability related organisations. (Angela Campbell, Ntiense Eno-Anooquaye, Selina Helene, Mawuena Kattah, Doreen McPherson, June 2007 Philomena Powell , Clifton Wright). (Studio • Exhibition of work from The Studio Project Voltaire, Nelson’s Row, London.) artists studio at Studio Voltaire, where artists with 29th-30th June learning disabilities from Lambeth are working with • Diverse City, ‘Strange Cargo’ d.Claire Hodgson Intoart artists to develop their own artwork. To be and Jamie Beddard. Performed by Sandie documented in The Studio Project book, published Armstrong, Jamie Beddard, Erin Geraghty, Jeniffer in Autumn 2007. Maidman, Christ Streeks and Dave Toole. (Rich • Shape launches the Adam Reynolds Memorial Mix Cultural Foundation, Bethnal Green Rd, Bursary, a £5,000 award for disabled or deaf visual London.) artists, based, in the first year, at Camden Arts Centre, where Adam himself had a residency. July 2007 1st June • ‘Soundbite’ DVD catalogue produced by • ‘Space Between’ conference. With Paul Betney Gloucester-based charity Art Shape ‘to celebrate (compere), Tony Heaton, Jon Adams, Richard and share the learning of’ the ‘On The Next Level’ Cragg, Laurence Clark, The Fingersmiths. project (a regional touring development project, exhibition and commission programme for Dorset, theme of ‘Barriers’. (Shrewsbury town centre.) Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire). • Baluji Shrivastav: ‘Shadow Of The Lotus Tour’. UK August 2007 tour of his latest album. • Degenerate 4 »» Venues include the Croydon, London and »» Aug 9-18 ‘Voice Stealer 2 - Curse of the Edinburgh Melas. Umbrellatron’ With Steve Holland. • ‘Their Finest Hours’. New exhibition by the »» Aug 9 - 10 ‘Fluff’. Written & performed by disabled artists group ‘Talking Pictures’. (Royal Air Sophie Partridge, with Liz Carr & Taharah Force Museum, Cosford.) Azam. » 17th July » Aug 9-18 Lynn Manning, ‘Weights: One Blind Man’s Journey’. • ‘Link Up Written Word Career Development »» Aug 9-18 Fittings Multimedia, ‘Heelz on Day.’ Shape event for creative writers, in association Wheelz’. with the Arvon Foundation. Speakers include Julie »» Aug 9 - 18 Sounds of Progress, ‘Blind Gurl and McNarama, Philip Cowell and Peter Salmon from the Crips’. the Arvon Foundation, group workshops with »» Aug 10-11 Extant, ‘The Effing and Blinding Sophie Woolley and Michele Taylor. (Stratford Cabaret!’. Circus, London.) »» Aug 11 - 18 Brian Wharton, ‘Footballer’s 23rd July - 27th July Boyfriend’. • CandoCo Dance Company: International Summer »» Aug 13 - 18 Deafinitely Theatre, ‘Playing God’. Lab. »» Aug 13 - 18 Bind Productions, ‘A Gay »» In partnership with Dance South West and Disabled Transexual Love Story Told to a Ticket Gloucestershire Dance. (National Star College, Inspector at Alton Towers’. Gloucestershire.) »» Aug 16 - 18 Krazy Kat Theatre Company (Sign 23rd July - 3rd August Language Arts), ‘Growing, Growing, Gone...The • Half Moon Young Peoples Theatre, ‘Moving Story of Jack and the Beanstalk’. Voices’: A drama project designed for young people »» Aug 16 ‘ An Audience with The Crippendales.’ with physical and/or sensory disabilities, with Junior »» Ali Smith ‘Hotel World.’ and Senior sections (2 weeks each). (Half Moon »» Third Angel ‘Presumption’. Young Peoples Theatre, White Horse Road, London »» Aug 16 Degenerate4 Cabaret with Laurence E1). Clark. »» (Theatre Workshop Edinburgh.) July - to 4th August »» Also at Edinburgh: • ‘Splitscreen’, new moving image work by Nicola »» Liz Bentley, ‘I’ve Only Got Myself to Lane. (City Gallery, Leicester.) B l a m e’. July - to 18th August »» Francesca Martinez, ‘In Deep’ • ‘Redefining Bedlam’. Group show of over thirty »» Paul Betney, ‘Unshakeable’. artists brought together via the Bethlem Gallery based at The Bethlem Royal Hospital. Exhibiting September 2007 artists: Sue Morgan, X Aqua, Imma Maddox, • Holton Lee Arts Centre offer two £1,000 bursaries Maureen Scott, Lisa Biles, Reginald Harrison, David with accessible studio space for disabled artists Beales, Lauren Shear, Lee Galpin, Terence Wilde, living in Dorset. Colin Clarke, Bibi Herrera, Raymond, John McKie, • CandoCo Dance Company start their Autumn R. Edwards, Nicky Nicholls, Max Reeves, John Tour of ‘And Who Shall Go To The Ball?’ and ‘The O’Donnell, Elena Brebner, Robin Aluko, Leon Baily, Stepfather’ by Arthur Pita and Rafael Bonachela, and others who wish to remain anonymous. (Novas music written by Scott Walker, performed live by Contemporary Urban Centre, Southwark Bridge members of London Sinfonietta. (Queen Elizabeth Road, London.) Hall, Southbank Centre.) 28th July - 1st September 1st September • ‘East Meets West’. Sally Booth solo show. (Faith • Liberty Festival. Freeslave, Heart n Soul, Heavy House Gallery, Holton Lee.) Load, Liz Carr, Vicky Malin, the Laundrettas, the 30th July - 4th August Alexandras. • DASh Multi Media Project artist residency on the 8th-9th September • Touchdown Dance Workshops (Sale, near »» Oct 16 - 20 Drum Theatre, Plymouth. Manchester.) »» Oct 23 - 27 Hampstead Theatre, London. 12th September & 24th October 8th October - 23rd November • ‘Critical Writing in Disability Arts’. Two New • ‘Mental Image’. An International Open Art Writing South masterclasses on critical writing Exhibition exploring Mental Health. Part of and reviewing for artists and writers working in Scotland’s first National Arts, Film and Media disability arts. Sessions led by Carole Woddis and Festival about Mental Health. (Project Ability, Allan Sutherland, joined by Colin Hambrook and Glasgow.) others. (The Women’s Library, Aldgate, London.) 12th October - 2nd December 13th September • ‘The Boy Who Grew Flowers’, by Jen Wojtowicz, • ‘What I want you to know is...’ Joanne Dunbar, adapted by Kazzum for children aged 4 - 8 years. d. Marc Brew and Jacqui Johnson tell stories about Daryl Beeton. uncovering uncomfortable truths, using British Sign 15th-16th October Language, dance and audio description. (Presented • Oska Bright Film Festival (Brighton). Includes in Touch Wood season at The Place London.) Awards at the Oska’s/Blue Camel Club party on the 14th September - 27th October Oct 16. Award Winners: • Work by visually impaired artist Fiona Zobole as »» Bursary Training Award: Dance Delight,‘Park part of exhibition ‘Departure: Further Explorations Life’ and Phoenix Centre, Newbury, ‘Amarillo’. in Print’. (London Printworks Trust, Brighton »» Best Animation: Project Ability, ‘Country Terrace, London.) Road Take Me Home’ . »» Best Documentary: Serena Nordon‘In Our October 2007 Shoes - Serena’. • Disability Theatre Lab and Master Classes. »» Best Special Effects and Camera Work: Work Professional development and training project for Power,‘Germ Academy’. Disabled actors in the North East region. Conceived »» Best Overall Film: Arty Party, ‘I Saw A Girl’. and designed by theatre director Vici Wreford- »» Best Acting: The Shystershadows, ‘The Raven’s Sinnott for Arcadea. With Julie McNamara. Tale’ . • Fittings ‘Welcome to the Institute: A Medical 16th October Musical Extravaganza’ by Manchester musician • First Adam Reynolds Bursary awarded to Leigh Stirling, d. Garry Robson. (Touring the UK.) Austrian-born Noëmi Lakmaier, who receives • ‘The Conquest of the South Pole’ by Manfred £5,000 and an artist residency at Camden Arts Karge. Theatre Resource with Frantic Assembly. Centre Mar-Apr 2008. (Touring.) From 19th October October - November • ‘Life Beyond the Label’ exhibition represents the • ‘Eight Weeks of Change’. Live art installation with stories of disabled people, past and present, from Davina and Daniel - artists Davina Drummond Colchester. Includes multi-media, multi- sensory and Daniel Lehan. (Space Station Sixty Five, East interactives, an art installation by artist Caroline Dulwich.) Cardus and new museum collections, resources 1st-15th October and stories that have been gathered from the • Living Newsletter. First three of Dada-South’s community. (Castle Museum Colchester.) networking events for Deaf and Disabled Artists 27th October and those working in the Arts & Creative Industries. • Disability Arts Workshop with Paddy Masefield. Guest artists include Sign Dance Collective, (Part of Off the Shelf Festival of Writing and Anjali Dance Company, Caroline Cardus, Esther Reading.) (Quaker Meeting House, Sheffield.) Appleyard, Sophie Woolley, David Dixon. 28th October From 5th October • Talk by Paddy Masefield. (The Showroom, • Graeae, ‘Flower Girls’ by Richard Cameron. Paternoster Row, Sheffield.) Directed by Jenny Sealey and Pete Rowe. Play telling the true story of a group of disabled women 29th October - 9th November who lived and work at The Crippleage, Edgware. • Djamu: Cornwall’s First Celebration of Disability »» Oct 5 - 13 New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Arts: »» Gloucester Dance: Velcro Integrated Dance 16th November - 21st December Workshop. • 15 Days in Clay and Studio 2 Printmakers. Annual »» Fittings Multimedia Arts: Welcome to the Selling Exhibition. (Faith House Gallery, Holton Institute. Lee.) » » Week of 29th October Fittings work with local 22nd-25th November groups. • ‘It Hasn’t Happened Yet!’ Written and performed » » 6th Nov Oska Bright on the Road: 42 short Liz Carr films that were in this year’s festival. »» d.Huw Thomas, additional material by Paul » » 7th Nov Oska Bright team run a Film Making Darke, Steve Day, Luc Mullinger. Masterclass. »» Nov 22 Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton (Part » » 7th Nov Steve Day. of Outside-centre Festival). » » 8th Nov Kazzum Theatre, ‘The Boy Who Grew »» Nov 24 Contact Theatre, Manchester (Part of Flowers’. Dadafest 2007). » » (Acorn Arts Centre and Equata.) »» Nov 25 People Show, London. November 2007 25th November - 15th December • Cirque Nova, ‘Stellar’ (recruiting). • Rachel Gadsden, ‘India and Beyond’. (Shakespeare • John Mondino and Nick Ward win the Holton Villas, Raynes Park, London.) Lee visual arts bursaries 2007. Mondino will work 28th November in film, Ward in print, linocut/ woodcut and solar • Nasty Girls, ‘Another Nasty Night Out’. (Unity etching. Theatre, Liverpool.) • Who’S WhO. Collection of portraits of established From 29th November and new emerging disabled artists, created by visual artist Tanya Raabe. • Project Ability Annual Christmas Fundraising Exhibition. 4th November • Liz Carr ‘It hasn’t happened yet’, Peoples’ Show December 2007 Studio, Bethnal Green, London. • Rachel Gadsden appointed the first Historic Royal 9th & 16th November Palaces Artist in Residence Hampton Court Palace. • ‘Critical Skills Seminar’. Dada-South programme • DaDaFest 07 Awards: giving Deaf and disabled artists room to critically »» Newcomer Award: Millie Dollar. engage with each others’ practice and to put their »» Writer’s Award: Charlie Swinbourne. work into context »» Visual Arts Award: Gus Cummins. »» 9th Nov ‘Peer Critique’ David Dixon and »» Performance Award: Rosie Lugosi. Noëmi Lakmaier. »» New Media Award: Liz Crow. »» 16th Nov ‘Critical Thinking’ Ronda Gowland »» Community Event or Group Award: 3D Derby and Noëmi Lakmaier. Deaf Drama Company. »» Music Award: Andrew Coleman. 16th November »» Lifetime Achievement Award: Mandy • Arcadea, ‘Sycorax Rising : A Day of Disabled Colleran. Women’s Poetry’. • At a meeting held In Camera, so that neither staff • Nancy Willis, ‘Elegy for the Elswick Envoy’ (BFI, nor advisers are allowed to be present, the Board London). of Directors of the National Disability Arts Forum 16th November - 19th December decide on its closure on 31st January 2008 and the • DaDaFest ‘07. 32 different events in 16 different subsequent withdrawal of its services. venues across Merseyside and Greater Manchester. • Dec 2007, LDAF hears it has lost its Arts Council »» Sexy burlesque to classical Indian Music, funding. The organisation resolves to appeal from poetry to clubbing, from live comedy to and to get on with organising X’O8, London’s visual arts and a theatre masterpiece by Samuel 8th International Disability Film Festival at BFI Beckett. Southbank, which has already been scheduled for »» Launch on Nov 16: ‘Rags to Riches’ - a visual February 2008. arts exhibition developed by Venture Arts. »» Deaf Arts Day at Merseyside Deaf Centre. 3rd December 2005), ‘Tiresius’ (Petra Kupers and Sadie Wilcox, • London Disability Arts Forum Debate, ‘Should USA, 2007), ‘Chekov’, ‘Stealing brecht’ (Sean Disability and Deaf Arts be dead and buried in Burn, UK, 2006), ‘The Raven’s Tale’ (Kathy Joyce, the 21st Century?’ Melvyn Bragg (Chair), Paddy with the Shyster Shadows, UK, 2006). Masefield, Ju Gosling, Jenny Sealey, Nabil Shaban, »» ‘Oska Bright Festival Roadshow’. Films from Sandy Nairne, Yinke Shonibare. The motion is Oska Bright. roundly defeated. (Tate Modern.) »» Shorts 2: ‘Butterfly (Yulia Mahr, UK, 2006), 15th December ‘Slide’ (Sharon Katz, Canada, 2005), ‘Coming • The Elements! First ever live performance by Out’ (Louis Neethling, UK, 2006), ‘Wheels On this new band of young people with learning and Fire’ Shabouz Mohammed, UK, 2005), ‘Try physical disabilities. (The Musician, Leicester.) Hard’ (Martina Klich, UK, 2005), ‘John and Michael’ (Shira Avui, Canada, 2007), ‘Georgina 2008 Goes Out’ (Georgina Studd, UK, 2007), • Routledge publish Bobby Baker’s ‘Bobby Baker: ‘Dreaming Sideways’ (Heidi Vilkman, UK, Redeeming Features of Daily Life’, a retrospective of 2006). » 35 years of her career. » ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ (Jack Arnold, USA, 1957). Presented by Allan Sutherland. January 2008 »» ‘Coming Down the Mountain’ (Julie Anne • Arts Council announce funding cuts to 194 arts Robinson, BBC UK, 2007.) By Mark Haddon organisations, including complete withdrawal of with Nicholas Hoult, Tommy Jessop, Julia Ford funding to the National Disability Arts Forum and Neil Dudgeon. (NDAF) and the London Disability Arts Forum »» Playback. Favourites from past festivals (LDAF). chosen by Caglar Kimyoncu and Julie • Disability Arts Defence Group (a Yahoo group) McNamara: set up ‘for everyone who wants to work to defend »» ‘The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun’ (‘La Petite Disability Arts’. Vendeuse du Soleil’) (Djibril Diop Mambéty, • NDAF publishes its final issue of EtCetera. The Senegal/France 1999) With Lissa Belera, Aminta publication continues to be issued, by a new Fall. company, Disability Cultural Projects. »» ‘Harvie Krumpet’, Uncle’, ‘Cousin’, ‘Brother’. • LDAF hear that their appeal to ACE has been All Adam Elliot, Australia). unsuccessful. »» ‘What Do Stick People Wear Beneath Their • ‘Prelude’. 20 minute solo dance performance Clothes?’ (Sally Pearce, UK, 2004). incorporating BSL signed song by Wreckless Arts »» ‘My One Legged Dream Lover’ (Penny Fowler- Artistic Director/choreographer Jemima Hoadley. Smith, Christine Olsen, Australia, 1999). (Further stage of this project due July 2009.) »» Maverick Films - 3 documentaries from their • X’O8 London’s 8th International Disability Film New Shoots series with disabled directors: ‘Elegy Festival. Over 40 events, talks, workshops and Q & for the Elswick Envoy’ (Nancy Willis, UK, 2007), A sessions. Includes: ‘Sightseeing Blind’ (Amar Latid, UK, 2007), »» ‘Special People’ (Justin Edgar, UK, 2007). ‘Gone to the Dogs’ (Klaus Fried, UK, 2007). »» ‘I want to tell you something’ (‘Ich Muss Dir »» ‘Koko Nainen’ (‘A complete woman’) (Marika Wass Sagen’) (Martin Nguyen, Austria, 2006). Vaisanen, Finaland, 2007). »» ‘Ex Drummer’ (Koen Mortier, Belgium, 2007). »» ‘Red Like the Sky’ (‘Rosso come il cielo’) »» ‘The Silent Twins’ (Jon Amiel, UK, 1986). (Cristiano Bartone, Italy,2007). »» Director’s Showcase -Daniel Cormack. »» ‘Shameless’ (Bonnie Sherr Klein, Canada, McCormack presents ‘Amelia and Michael’, ‘A 2004). Fitting Tribute’, ‘Make Me a Tory’, ‘Nightwalking’ »» Shorts 3: (2008 - All others 2007). »» ‘Mercury Stole My Fire’ (Anitra Nelsom, »» Shorts 1: ‘Butterfly (John Allen, Uk 2007), Australia, 2005). ‘Deaf Person’s Guide to the Sound Sensitive’ »» ‘Rahidian Gutterfish’ (Ben Otos,UK, 2005). (James Banks, UK, 2005), ‘Twitch’ (Leah »» ‘I Ain’t Looking for Your Sympathy’ (Twiz Meyerhoff, USA, 2004), ‘Sexy Because Seeing Is Evans, UK, 2003). Believing’ (Danny Terry and Jason W. Young, »» ‘Dancing in a Different Space’ (Sally Pearce, UK 2007), ‘Word Food’ (Maria Warren, UK, UK, 2005). »» ‘The Wrong Trainers’ (Kez Margrie, UK, research’. The stated aim of DCP is ‘to progress the 2006). cultural equality of Disabled People’. » » ‘Soluna’ (Luke Jacobs and Jo Shapland, UK, 1st February - 28th March 2003). • ‘Double Act’. Exhibition based on Project » » ‘Forbidden Acts’ (Todd Herman, USA, 2006). Ability initiative pairing four artists with learning » » ‘Four Deaf Yorkshiremen’ (Charlie disabilities with four professional artists. (Project Swinbourne, UK, 2007). Ability, Glasgow.) »» Talk by Raina Haig and Ewan Marshall. »» (BFI Southbank) 6th February »» Alongside this LDAF produces issue 202 of • ‘Frogtastic’. (The Picket, Jordan Street , Liverpool.) ADC magazine, which has a primary focus on February - 8th April the film festival programme. • Graeae and Suspect Culture, ‘Static’ by Dan • StopGAP Dance Company, ‘Portfolio Collection’ Rebellato. Directed by Jenny Sealey and Graham (features the work of French choreographer Nathalie Eatough. (Touring.) Pernette, Hofesh Shechter, Gary Clarke and Rob 14th-15th February Tannion), ‘Corpus’. (UK Tour.) • ‘Travelling Light’. Two day festival celebrating the • Artist Tony Heaton, Director of Holton Lee, is role of people with learning disabilities in dance, appointed as Shape’s new Chief Executive. visual art and film. Includes: 19th January - 8th March »» ‘Oska Bright on the Road’ short film festival. • Second Holton Lee Disability Arts Competitive »» Dance from Cut Dance, D4Dance and Spin- Exhibition. Exhibiting artists include last years off. winners Jon Adams and Rachel Gadsden, plus John »» Exhibition by RoaR visual artists. Mondino and Nick Ward, recipients of last years »» (The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk.) Holton Lee and Dorset County Council Visual Arts 16th February Bursary. • Oska Bright @ BFI London Selection of films from 23rd-26th January, & 30th January - the 2007 Oska Bright Film Festival, as part of the 2nd February X’08 London International Disability Film Festival. • ‘Abnormally Funny People Too’ With Liam (BFI London, South Bank.) O’Carroll, Caroline Parker, Paul Betney, Gareth 18th February Berliner and Juliet Cowan. (Soho Theatre.) • BAFTA backs out of a decision to show Richard 31st January - 31st March Butchin’s ‘The Last American Freak Show’ as part of • ‘Abnormal: Towards a Scientific Model of X’08. Disability.’ Exhibition documenting Ju Gosling’s 25th-26th February 2006 - 2007 artist’s residency at the National • DIY Theatre Company, ‘Platform 1’. (The Lowry, Institute of Medical Research, which explored Salford.) ideas about normality, and asked whether there is a ‘Scientific Model of Disability’ that is distinct from 25th February - 1st March the ‘Medical Model of Disability’. (Then touring • ‘Writing Radio Drama’. Residency on writing Huddersfield, Bournemouth, Liverpool as part of audio drama for disabled writers, run by Graeae DaDaFest International 08, Edinburgh Festival, St Theatre Company, BBC Radio Drama & BBC Albans.) Writersroom. 29th February - 15th March February 2008 • ‘The Almond and The Seahorse’ by Kaite O’Reilly. • After a brief bridging issue, produced to dispel (Sherman, Cardiff.) confusion on the advice of the Information Commissioners Office, Etcetera is published by March 2008 Disability Cultural Projects, set up to publish • Kaite O’Reilly secures Arts Council funding to EtCetera, maintain Arts Access UK and the online create an oral history record of diverse disabled Disability Arts Events Diary. As they become individuals in Wales and to write a selection of established they hope to develop these and related monologues, The ‘D’ Monologues, informed by her services and to ‘undertake discreet projects in learning and her practice as a dramatic writer. partnership with other agencies and initiate • ‘Inspired by 2012’ . Shape announces that it will commission four deaf or disabled arts practitioners Drake Music and Historic Royal Palaces. or disabled led organisations to develop work 15th March - 19th May inspired by the 2012 Olympics, in four areas: • Tanya Raabe, ‘Who’S WhO: Pioneers from the » » Spoken Word/ Performance Poetry. Disability Arts movement’. Portraits of ‘established » » Dance. and new emerging disabled artists who have and » » Visual Arts / Media. continue to pioneer Disability Arts and Culture’. » » Street Arts. Portraits include Dr Paul Darke, Mat Fraser, Colin » » Events with Noëmi Lakmaier as part of her Hambrook, Tony Heaton, Nikki Hewish, David Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary residency: King, Julie McNamara, Zoe Partington-Sollinger, » » Mar 26 Talk and open studio Noëmi Allan Sutherland and Joy Tudor. (Faith House Lakmaier in conversation with writer and Gallery, Holton Lee.) curator, Lisa Le Feuvre. »» Apr 9 Screening: Freaks (Tod Browning, 26th March 1932) and Das Experiment (Oliver • Bubble Club with Minika Green. Hirshbiegel, 2001). Films selected and 26th-29th March introduced by Noëmi Lakmaier. • ‘Inclusion from the outside: a photographic »» May 11 Open studio. Showing work exhibition by Disabled Young People’. (Novas produced during the residency. Contemporary Urban Centre, Southwark Bridge »» (Camden Arts Centre.) Road, London.) • South West disability arts organisation Equata 28th March changes its name to Kaleido. • Heart n Soul’s ‘The Squidz Club’. (Deptford • StopGAP present their new show Portfolio Albany.) Collection as part of their first ever UK National Tour. Featuring new work by Hofesh Shechter, April 2008 Rob Tannion (Stan Won’t Dance), and French • Adam Reynolds Bursary exhibition in Shape’s choreographer Nathalie Pernette amongst others. Kentish Town gallery, the first exhibition in these Touring new premises. Featured Artists: Noëmi Lakmaier »» Mar 20 Richard Attenborough Centre, (Winner), Sally Booth, Aaron Williamson, Leicester. Harmonica Matt. Lakmaier has been resident at »» Mar 27 The Hawth Studio, Crawley. Camden Arts Centre. »» Apr 3 The Albany, London. • The Arts Council agrees to give LDAF transitional »» Apr 8 -9 The Place, London. funding with the proviso that they use the funds to »» Apr 15 Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead. wind the organisation up. 3rd March • ‘The Almond and The Seahorse’ by Kaite O’Reilly, • The Deafness Resource Centre in St Helens, prod. Phillip Zarrilli. (After start in Cardiff, now Merseyside celebrate International Womens Day. touring Brecon, Mold, Aberystwyth, Manchester.) • Mad Chicks, ‘Losing It Again’. (For International 1st April Womens Day.) Features Ana da Silva, Maggie Nicols • Attitude is Everything leaves Artsline, becoming and Francine Luce, Liz Bentley, Dolly Sen (MC). ( an independent organisation. Corsica Studios, Elephant Road, London.) • ‘Fayre Exchange’. Professional development event 8th March for all disabled artists, organised by Full Circle Arts. • The FATHoM Project: Double Bill. ‘Slight (love at Keynote Speaker: Philip Patston. (Bridgewater Hall, first)’ ch. Adam Benjamin, ‘type’ d. Tracey West. Manchester.) (Dance City, Newcastle Upon Tyne.) 1st April - 1st June 10th-12th March • ‘I C*N’T SPELL’. Dyslexia-themed exhibition by • ‘The Heroes: The Fond Farewell’. 10th Rachel Clatworthy and Jon Adams. (Anita Gallery Anniversary Celebration and farewell shows as the Space, Dalston.) band end after 10 years. (The Lowry, Salford ) 3rd April 12th March • StopGAP Dance Company, ‘Portfolio Collection • ‘Into the Light’. Light and sound installation / Corpus’. With Hofesh Shechter, Nathalie Pernette, at Kew Palace, Surrey. Site-specific soundscape Gary Clarke, Rob Tannion . (Deptford Albany.) commissioned from composer Chas de Swiet by 4th April with the Albany. (Deptford Albany, then national • ‘The Party Pirates’. Entertainment evening for tour.) disabled people. »» ‘With comedy acts from local performers Wilf May 2008 Horris and Richard Peel, and DJ set by 27a’s own • ‘The First To Go’ by Nabil Shaban. d. Peter Clerke. dynamic DJ’s.’ (27a Access Artspace, Leicester.) (Premiere at the Lyceum, then touring to the Tron 7th April in Glasgow and across the UK.) • ‘Welcome to the Institute: The History Project’. • ‘In Conversation with Philip Patston.’ (Xfi Centre, Fittings Multimedia Arts have received funding University of Exeter.) from the Heritage Lottery Fund to archive writer 9th-10th April and composer Leigh Stirling’s original recordings • Film and Disability 2008 (Fourth DASh Disability for ‘Welcome to the Institute’ of people who Film Festival) at the Borderlines Film Festival. experienced these institutions. They plan to add Highlights include: to these by interviewing disabled people today. The »» Oska Bright film making master class. recordings will be used as part of an exhibition »» ‘The Trials of Little Red Riding Hood’(Tony at DaDaFest International in September and will Gammidge and About Face Theatre Company eventually be stored in the National Sound Archive. with Jess Mackenzie, UK 2007). 2nd May »» The Shorts. • ‘The Beautiful Octopus Club’. (Deptford Albany.) »» Oska Bright ‘On the Road’. »» ‘Who’S WhO’ with Tanya Raabe. 2nd-30th May »» Discussion on art films, led by Tanya Raabe • ‘Inside The Mind’. Abstract artwork from James ,with Dr Paul Darke. MacAtear. »» Special People (UK, 2007. d.Justin Edgar. 10th May With Dominic Coleman, Robyn Frampton, • The Co-operative Young Film-Makers Festival, Sasha Hardway, Jason Maza.) presented by Project Ability and the Scottish Co- » » (Courtyard Theatre, Hereford.) operative Membership. (Glasgow Film Theatre.) 10th April - 2nd May 12-13th May • Entelechy Arts and the Albany ‘Market’ • Project Ability and the Glasgow Film Theatre Interactive, multi-sensory exhibition. (Deptford present ‘The best of the Oska Bright film festival - Albany.) Scottish premiere’. (Glasgow Film Theatre.) 18th-20th April 14th May • Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival. (Light • Oska Bright Film making master class. (Project House Cinema.) Ability, Glasgow.) 19th April 16th May - 16th June • Extant, ‘Eye For Um Eye!’ (Wolverhampton Art • Art Trek artists exhibit work at the National Gallery.) Museum of Scotland: ‘Power and Death’ and 21st April - 27th June ‘Resources and Movement’- ‘a visual exploration of • Hijinx ‘Full Circle’ by Glenys Evans, ‘a show for Early People’. people with learning disabilities and the community, 20th-24th May inspired by the true story of Andrew Williams, a • ‘The Conquest of the South Pole’ by Manfred man with Down’s syndrome, who climbed Everest in Karge. d.Jeff Banks and Anna Wallbank. Designer 1996’. With Gareth Clark as Andy. (Touring.) Kimie Nakano Cast includes Andy McLay. Theatre 26th April Resource with Frantic Assembly. (Oval House • ‘Young Talent on the Big Screen’ A selection of Theatre, London) short films, spoof adverts, animations and other filmmaking experiments made by young filmmakers June 2008 from Project Ability. (Glasgow Film Theatre.) • Dada-South and English Heritage invite applications across all art-forms for ‘Go Make!’ 30th April - 1st May residency at Fort Brockhurst, Gosport. Final • ‘Lipstick and Lollipops’ by Charlie Swinbourne, exhibition or performance will take place as part of d.Paula Garfield. Deafinitely Theatre in association Heritage Open Days. • Heavy Load release ‘Wild Things - songs of the allowing visitors to order their art experience from disabled underground Vol.1’ on their own record the Arts Waiter. Plus ‘Performance Interventions’, label. The CD showcases 16 different artists with pieces of theatre ‘that just happen’, and Performance learning disabilities, all playing original songs. All Poetry. (Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol.) proceeds go towards future Stay Up Late activities. 28th June • ‘Russia, Freaks and Foreigners’ by James • Signdance Collective premiere their new MacDonal. A collection of three thematically work ‘Three Films Plus One’ An evening of live linked plays - ‘Bread and Circus Freaks’, ‘The performance, dance, theatre and film. David Bower Sweetheart Zone’ and ‘Emigrés’ - ‘set against the with ‘Listen’, exploring his relationship to sound backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian through movement and dance, followed by ‘The society’. Supported by accompanying critical essays. words’ ‘Travel’ and ‘Here’. (Intellect publishers, Bristol.) 30th June June - 4th July • ‘Shut It’, new Heavy Load album, is released. • ‘The Writing’s on the Wall’. Exhibition of work based on the theme of ‘story telling’, comprising all 31st July - 25th August new work on canvas by Trongate studios artists. • Lynn Manning’s ‘Weights’, d. Robert Egan. As part of the West End Festival, the exhibition (Edinburgh Fringe, Assembly @ George Street.) coincides with a series of story telling workshops and events. (Hillhead Library, Glasgow.) July 2008 • LDAF closes. 6th June - 15th August • Rachel Gadsden appointed the first Historic Royal • Project Ability Summer Exhibitions: Palaces Artist in Residence Hampton Court Palace. » » Jun 6 - Aug 15 ‘My Life in Pictures’. She undertakes a painting project about the Palace Photographic exhibition celebrating the lives of taking as a starting point a psychogeographical people with learning disabilities, by people with exploration, and she will be taking part in the learning disabilities, from across the world. ongoing process of projecting the Palace as an » » Jun 6 - Aug 15 ‘Trams and Tracks’ Solo historic monument. (Exhibition Nov 20.) exhibition of paintings by Trongate Studios artist • ‘Cabaret of Fools’. The Lawnmowers Fool William Smith, looking back at old Glasgow. Ensemble, Theatre Mimi and Horsewife » » (Project Ability, Glasgow.) »» July 15 Live Theatre, Newcastle. 10th-18th June »» July 17 The Sage, Gateshead. • Art Trek and Friends, ‘Shared Landscapes’. »» July 21. Caedmon Hall, Gateshead. Original paintings by Art Trek and four friends, all • Project Ability release ‘Making Connections’ artists from Project Ability’s adult learning disability DVD, four films made by young people aged 16 - 25 programme. The artwork is inspired by the artists’ who took part in the ‘Making Connections’ project. favourite Glasgow Landmarks. (Glasgow Botanics 6th July Visitor Centre.) • ‘Slice of Life’ Disability Film Festival (Walton 13th June Gardens, Warrington.) • The Squidz Club. (Deptford Albany.) 11th July • Disability Pride Wales With Mat Fraser (host), • The Beautiful Octopus Club. Dave Sawyer and Caroline Parker and Gareth Berliner (Abnormally Friends, the Woodbine Steel Pans, Open Mike. (The Funny People), Hot Topics, Slapping Skins and the Albany, Deptford.) Welsh National Opera. (Cardiff.) • Squidz Club cultural event for young people aged 19th July 14-25 with learning disabilities and their friends and • Bonkersfest 2008. (Camberwell Green, London.) families. With The Fish Police and young club DJs. 24th July (The Albany, Deptford.) • ‘Salon in King’s Wood’ and ‘What does Deaf Art 19th-21st June mean to you?’ Two documentaries exploring deaf • ‘Fight Face’ by Sophie Woolley. With Sophie visual art in progress. (Salon, The Hub, Torrens Woolley and Richard Katz. (Lyric Hammersmith.) Street, London.) 22nd June - 26th July • ‘art + power: TransformARTive’. With arts menu, 30th July - 24th August 30th August • ‘Spastic Fantastic!’. Laurence Clark’s latest • Liberty Festival 2008. stand-up show previews at the Edinburgh Fringe. »» Film and Video Zone - programmed by Mutt (Pleasance Courtyard) ‘n Jeff Pictures. »» Club Zone - programmed by Heart ‘n Soul. August 2008 »» Carnival Zone - programmed by Luminous • ‘21: The Last Avant Garde’. Photographic Frenzy. portraiture project by Fisheye featuring 21 portraits »» Street Arts Zone Three new performances of professional Disabled artists living or working in from: the North East of England. (Waygood Gallery and »» Paper People. Studios, Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne.) »» Graeae The Rhinestone Rollers. Choreography • Heart n Soul and artsdepot launch ‘Clive’, a fully by Marc Brew. Directed by Rachel Bagshaw. inclusive and accessible club night for young people aged 14-25 with learning disabilities and their September 2008 families and friends in North London. Part of the • Gus Cummins ‘Ictal 2008’ and work by Alison Heart n Soul’s ‘Our Scene’ project, the first step in Jones, Ju Gosling, Wolfgang Temmel and Tanya rolling out their approach to inclusive youth arts Raabe, as part of DaDaFest. (A Foundation, across the UK. With The Fish Police, open mike and Liverpool.) participatory art activities. 5th-8th September • The Medal Ceremony • DaDaFest International as part of Liverpool » » Collaboration between a team of UK artists Capital of Culture celebrations. (St Georges Hall, led by Jenny Sealey of Graeae Theatre and Sue Liverpool) Broadway from the Australian street theatre company Strange Fruit. 12th-21st September »» Comedy and Cabaret Zone. • ‘Boundless’, a celebration of disability arts, sports »» Liz Carr plus plus leading comedy acts and culture in Southwark. direct from Edinburgh and musical cabaret, »» Boundless Exhibition. Showcase of art performance and song. works from Beam and Bethlem artists and »» Circus Zone - programmed by Cirque Nova. work produced by the Boundless 2007 resident »» Children’s Arts Zone - programmed by theatre artist Tessa Cooney. (London College of director Daryl Beeton. Communications.) »» Visual Arts Zone- programmed by Barbara »» Boundless Outdoors. A sports day for special Lisicki. needs schools. »» Food Zone. »» Boundless Dance. CandoCo Dance Company, Entelechy and Falling Wide participatory 3rd August workshops for those with and without • Intoart bookstall at Publish and Be Damned Fair. disabilities from early years to elders. (Siobhan (Arnold Circus, London.) Davies Studios.) 15th-24th August »» Boundless Cabaret. Finale event. • ‘Colours around the Glens’ An Art Trek »» Independent Living Seminar, with panellists exhibition inspired by the environmental heritage including David Morris, the Mayor of London’s of East Dunbartonshire. (East Dunbartonshire advisor on disability issues. Campus.) »» Showcases from » 21st August - 26th September » Liz Bentley. » • ‘Lost in Music’ (Project Ability Gallery, Glasgow) » Steam Control artists. » • ‘Traces’ A selection of the work produced when » Beam artists. » a group of artists from Project Ability took part » Cooltan Arts poets. in an archaeology project investigating how rural 16th September - 21st October communities lived in Scotland’s past, working with • ‘Something that I’ll Never Really See’. Five archaeologists from The Royal Commission on the young photographers with learning disabilities Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. will have their work shown alongside the best art (Project Ability Gallery, Glasgow) photography from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Includes works by such photographers as Richard Billingham and David Hockney. (The Herbert, October - November Coventry.) • Laurence Clark ‘12% Evil’. (Touring.) 16th September - 4th October 9th October • ‘Fight Face’. Written and performed by Sophie • Oska Bright Film Festival at Salisbury Arts Centre, Woolley. (Lyric Hammersmith.) 38 short films shown over 4 screenings. 26th September 10th October • ‘Meet the Artists Seminar’. Shape presents its • The Mad Hatters of Bath in London. ‘The Mad artists commissions for 2012 Hatters of Bath will be taking the Normality Testing »» Kazzum Theatre Company (Street Arts Machine to London to join Rufus May and the commission). Bed Push Crew as they escape from oppressive »» StopGAP Dance Company (Dance psychiatry. We will be honouring the life of Daniel commission). Galvin (1979-2008) who died of a heart attack after »» Liz Bentley (Spoken Word / Poetry 5 years of taking the dangerous psychiatric drug commission). Olanzapine.’ (Bed push from St Ann’s Hospital, »» Aaron Williamson (Visual Arts / Media Tottenham to Parliament Hill.) commission). • ‘peeling’ by Kaite O’Reilly. Maggie Hampton, Sara »» (Royal Festival Hall.) Beer and Kay Jenkins. Produced by Disability Arts Cymru. (The Gate, Cardiff.) October 2008 22nd October • Beat Express, band of learning disabled musicians, • Anjali Double Bill ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Save the Last release debut album ‘Rockstars’. Dance’. (Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on • Lung Ha’s Theatre Company, ‘Il Panico di Avon.) Pantalone/ Pantalone’s Panic’ and ‘Il Panico di Capitano/ Captain’s Panic’(Touring.) 24th October • Articulate. Shape and Mind the Gap Theatre 1st October Company are working together to support disabled • UK premiere of ‘Heavy Load’, feature length young people to get the education, jobs and training documentary about the band, a special fundraising they deserve. At this conference 100 organisations screening followed by a gig in aid of their Stay up and individuals will have the opportunity to hear Late campaign. (Institute of Contemporary Arts, directly from disabled young people and to discuss London.) current and future provision. 2nd-20th October • ‘Drawing Breath Recycled’. New work by November 2008 Whitstable photographer Jean Fraser responding • First Movement, Derbyshire Arts organisation to a coastal journey by bike from Whitstable to who specialise in creating high quality art projects Hastings as a response to chronic illness and the for learning disabled people, move into their changes in self-perception that this can cause, and new Level Centre in Rowsley, designed by Clash aiming to raise the profile of respiratory disease. Architects, the first facility of its kind in the U.K It Plus artist Sue Ridge, a life size driftwood bicycle is expected to act as a blueprint for developing arts made with Herne Bay Junior School, new music by projects for learning disabled people nationwide. jazz trombonist Annie Whitehead for Betteshanger • Mind The Gap set up an Actors Agency to give Brass Band, a sound piece by multi-media TV, radio and theatre producers an easy way to find practitioner Rosa Ainley and an interactive ‘wall of the right actor for the part. (Mind The Gap actors air’ to be built by the audience during the exhibition. have recently appeared in BBC dramas Doctors, (Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre. Then Coming Down The Mountain and the ITV drama, travelling to Conquest Hospital in St Leonard’s, and Cold Blood.) Eastbourne District General Hospital. • ‘The Art Lover’s Guide.’ Produced by a group of 3rd October 10 people with a learning disability working with • ‘Heavy Load’ on general release at cinemas in the Tate Liverpool as part of Mencap’s ‘In The Frame’ UK, including ICA London, Empire Leicester Sq, project. The group says what they like about art, give Uckfield Picture House, Queens Theatre Belfast, tips about how to get more out of art and suggest Liverpool Fact. ways that galleries and museums can get better at welcoming and involving people. • Opening of Mind the Gap’s new home in Bradford, December 2008 Mind the Gap Studios. The studios meet Mind the • Arcadea launches its Hidden Poetry Competition, Gap’s needs for its work with learning disabled an online text art project on the theme of reflecting artists, and also provide accessible space for hire. the hidden history of Disabled people and the • ‘Lipstick & Lollipops’ by Charlie Swinbourne. d. continuing relative invisibility of our cultural Paula Garfield. DVD of Deafinitely Theatre’s stage identities. A 16 line poem on the theme of ‘Hidden’, play, in full BSL with voiceover and subtitles. is ‘hidden’ and linked, two lines at a time on the 7th November websites of eight participating ‘mainstream’ arts • Mat Fraser, ‘From Freak to Clique’. New one man venues and cultural organisations in the North show. (Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton.) East of England, until the reader finds the complete poem on Arcadea’s website. 10th November • CandoCo new works: ‘Still’ by Nigel Charnock, 3rd December and ‘The Perfect Human’ by Hofesh Shechter. (The • North West Disability Arts Forum relaunch Junction, Cambridge.) as DaDa, with new name, brand, website and patrons (Kaite O’ Reilly, Julie MacNamara, Sir 14th November - 19th December Bert Massie CBE).The announcement of the new • 15 Days in Clay and Studio 2 Printmakers. look and patrons is made at the DaDa Awards on (Holton Lee.) International Disabled Peoples’ Day. 14th-19th November • Project Ability launches its annual exhibition in Mono, with live music from Remember Remember, ‘In My Liverpool Home’. Exhibition devised and plus DJ set. (Mono and Monorail Music, Kings curated by ‘In the Frame’ group as part of Liverpool Court, Glasgow.) 08, Capital of Culture. (Studio Gallery, Tate Liverpool.) 4th December • Mind the Gap: Moth Ball Live performances and 14th-22nd November music, ballroom dancing, a late night supper and • ‘Firsts 2008’. Includes a beautiful moth mask to keep. (Mind the Gap »» Chisato Minamimura Dance Company, ‘The Studios, Patent Street, Bradford) Canon for Duet’. »» Claire Cunningham, ‘Evolution’. 4th-5th December »» (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, Covent • Extant, ‘The Effing and Blinding Cabaret’. (Rich Garden.) Mix, Bethnal Green Road, London.) From 15th November 5th-7th December • HijinxTheatre, ‘The Other Woman’ by Paul Swift. • Oska Bright curate a programme of films as part d. Louise Osborn. (Touring Wales & England.) of the Dance for Camera Festival. Includes ‘I Saw a Girl’, voted the best film of the 2007 Oska Bright 20th-26th November International Film Festival. (Lighthouse Digital • Final exhibition from Rachel Gadsden’s residency Lounge, Brighton.) at Hampton Court. (Clore Learning Centre, Hampton Court Palace.) 6th December • Cockney Crip Power! Sid Baility Productions, a 23rd November collective of disabled artists, critics and activists • ‘Heavy Load’ movie screened in Brighton as part based at DITO, presents an evening of crip power of the city’s Cine City Festival. Followed by live and disability arts. Including: performance by the band. »» Disabled Persons’ Poetry Group. 27th November »» Crip Noir - A dark visual delight that offers a • art + power celebrate their10th Birthday. (Spike surrealist critique of disability policy in the UK. Island art studios, Bristol.) Part black & white film with audio description 30th November »» Alfredo in the Draw - A performative art piece • ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’, adapted by by Alex that persons of a nervous disposition should Bulmer and Jack Thorne. (Radio 4. Episode 2, 7th approach with caution. A family of friends in Dec.) boxes, waiting to welcome you to a strange new world where painful experiences take on flesh personified. »» Allan Sutherland. Paul Miller, Richard Hardesty. Produced Dr Paul »» Open mike session. Darke. (Wolverhampton Art Gallery.) » » ‘Be prepared for the raspberry ripple fright of 1st January your life! Come stylishly, wear something dark, • ‘Living Where the Nights Jive’ by Maggie loud and wildly crip!’ Hampton. (Parthian Books.) »» (Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Road, London) 9th-10th January 12th December • Deafinitely Creative. Showcase of short plays • ‘bastilles englan.’ Installation and performance by written by Deaf writers on Deafinitely Creative, a Sean Burn. Inspired by poet John Clare’s ‘five day BSL-led playwriting course for Deaf people at the walk home to freedom’ (1841) from an Epping forest Oval House Theatre, now in its third year. (Oval asylum where he had been imprisoned because of House Theatre, London.) his ‘delusions’. (Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne.) 17th January - 8th March • Holton Lee 3rd Disability Arts Open Exhibition. Until 21st December • Gus Cummins ‘Ictal’. ‘Invaders’; a wall sized 21st January - 7th February audiovisual installation, using EEG recordings of • ‘Are you alright?’ ‘Yes, why would I not be alright?’ his own epilepsy, plus images from all previous Ictal Exhibition by Aidan Moesby and Douglas Hunter Projects, generated from brain scans, photographs from their residency at the Affective Disorders and graphic elements. (Exeter Phoenix.) Unit in the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle . (Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Kent.) 2009 22nd-23rd January • Paradigm Annual Conference and Arts Festival January 2009 Theatre and Music Festival and annual conference to • Sally Booth receives the Adam Reynolds Memorial celebrate the achievements and lives of people with Bursary 2009, and becomes resident at the Bluecoat learning disabilities. (Contact Theatre, Manchester.) Gallery in Liverpool. The annual bursary by Shape gives money and a national platform to the selected February 2009 artist, picked from open submissions from across • Kaite O’Reilly shortlisted as finalist for the Susan the UK. Smith Blackburn Prize, an international playwriting • Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director of Graeae Theatre, award. awarded MBE. 15th February - 15th March January - To 15th February • ‘My Mile of the River’. 5 part radio series looking • ‘Art, Lies and Audiotapes: Portrait of the Artist at a year in the life of Welsh disabled artist Chris by Proxy’. Sound self-portrait by visually-impaired Tally Evans. (BBC Radio 4) artist Alison Jones, created by asking strangers to 25th-26th February describe what she looks like. Part of the ‘Next Up’ exhibition. (Bluecoat, Liverpool.) • ‘Spark’ A two day residential event for disabled and Deaf artists who want to create work as part of January - April the Cultural Olympiad. (Holton Lee, Dorset.) • Red Cape Theatre, ‘The Idiot Colony’ by Lisle Turner d. Andrew Dawson. Performed and co- March 2009 created by Claire Coach, Cassie Friend & Rebecca • Laurence Clark, ‘Spastic Fantastic’ touring: Loukes. (Touring Bath, London International »» Mar 6 Arts Depot, Finchley, North London. Mime Festival, Plymouth, Aberdeen, Glasgow.) »» Mar 31 The Arena, Wolverhampton. January - To 25th April »» 9-11 Apr Soho Theatre, London. • Simon McKeown, ‘Motion Disabled’. Moving »» Jun 13 Selby Town Hall. digital sculpture created by recording the »» Jun 19 Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff. movements of disabled people as they perform »» Sept 4 The Media Factory, Preston (part of a range of ordinary and extraordinary actions. the D.vercity Festival). Actors include Mat Fraser, Frank Letch, Craig »» Sept 6 The Dukes, Lancaster (part of the Salisbury, Tanya Raabe, Paul Darke, Steve Graham, D.vercity Festival). Simon Mckeown, Pauline Heath, Luke Hardwick, »» Oct 16 The Ace Centre, Nelson. »» Laurence is also currently part of the Abnormally Funny People monthly show at 24th March - 1st May Soho Theatre and ‘Chortle’s Minority Report’ at • Susan Austin, ‘Freewheeling: Traces from a Hackney Empire. Wheelchair’. (Holton Lee, Dorset.) • Candoco visits Poole, Stirling and Nottingham 28th March with works by choreographers Hofesh Shechter & • ‘Out Of The Dark’. An evening of music and Nigel Charnock (‘Still’). comedy to celebrate Wolverhampton Disability Arts • ‘Unseen Childhoods: Disabled Characters in 20th Festival. With: Century Books for Girls’ »» Mat Fraser (Host). » » Collection of essays looking at disabled »» Blind Gurl and the Crips (‘musical cabaret characters in books by writers such as Dorita outfit, spiced with a gothic sensibility and Fairlie Bruce, Elsie J. Oxenham, Elinor M. Brent- irreverent bad taste’. With Garry Robson and Dyer, L. M. Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter and Sally Clay from Fittings Multimedia Arts). Frances Hodgson Burnett. Includes: »» Jean Vincent and the Nite Capz. » » Helen A. Aveling on the representation of »» Words Signs and Vibes (integrated Deaf & illness and disability within early 20th-century hearing Youth Theatre). fiction. • ‘Science & Politics’. Programme including » » Linda Dick on how disability was stigmatised disabled dancer and choreographer Caroline in young adult fiction for the ‘baby boomer’ Bowditch with the London premiere of ‘Proband’, generation in the U.K. and North America. drawing on the study of amino acids and the » » Louise Norlie on stereotyping in late 20th- fascinations of DNA mutations. With musician century children’s fiction. Chris Benstead. Part of East London Dance’s » » Helen A. Aveling on disabled role models in ‘Dance+’ season. (Stratford Circus.) early 20th-century girls’ school stories. »» Deborah Kent on alternative representations April of blind girls in mid- century children’s fiction. • Film and Disability 2009 » » Meredith Guthrie on ‘diabetic’ fiction. »» Apr 2 Guest presentations by Deaffest, » » Ju Gosling & Julie Newman on illness, director Raina Haig, and Heavy Load. disability & mental health in Elsie J. Oxenham’s (Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford.) ‘Abbey’ books. »» Apr 3 Shorts: » » Ju Gosling on illness and disability in Elinor »» ‘Seashell Hotel’, (Belfast’s National Deaf M. Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School series. Children Society’s 1950’s), » » Rebecca Butler on the representation of »» ‘Smile And Run’ (Telford’s Arty Party group) relationships between disabled characters and »» ‘Stranger Hero’ featuring the world’s first Kung their siblings in contemporary children’s fiction. Fu Action Hero with Down’s Syndrome, with » » Bettany Press (www.bettanypress.co.uk ). guest appearance by Mat Fraser (‘Shout Your March - To 4th April Mouth Off’ Productions, Hartlepool). • Hijinx Theatre, ‘Miss Brown to You’ by Alan »» (Ludlow Assembly Rooms.) Harris, d. Gaynor Lougher. With Sara Pickard. • Mimosa Heritage Edition. Special edition of (Touring.) Arcadea’s magazine, celebrating the history of March - May Disability in the Arts in the North East. • Rachel Gadsden appointed as the first professional • Mind the Gap, ‘BOO’ by Mike Kenny. d. Tim artist to work with Parliamentary Outreach, Wheeler. Music Jez Colborne. (Touring.) Essex library, museums and archives services and 13th March the charity group Rethink to produce ‘Breaking • Movers, ‘The Sorting Office’. (Richard Barriers’, a pilot touring exhibition and free adult Attenborough Centre, Leicester.) education programme. (Touring Southend 16th March Museum, Brentwood Library, Epping Forrest • Heavy Load start campaign to get their Stay Up Museum, Colchester Library, Chelmsford Library.) Late song in the charts. • Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus, ‘Cripple Poetics: A Love Story’. Photos Lisa Steichmann. 18th March (and monthly) Disability lovers’ poetry. Accompanying book and • Abnormally Funny People at Soho Theatre performance tour includes (Apr) Tramway, Glasgow. Company, Dean Street, London. 3rd April performance’. • ‘Disability and the Novel’. Debate at Oxford »» Kazzum Theatre Company. Literary Festival, staged by New Writing South in »» StopGAP Dance Company. association with Disability Arts Online. With Adam Mars Jones, Nigel Smith, Alex Bulmer (Graeae June 2009 Theatre Company) and Tony Panayiotou (Arts • ‘Against the Tide’ by Alex Bulmer. Directed by Council England). Jenny Sealey and Grant Mouldey. Graeae Theatre To Apr 18 Company, in association with Greenwich and Docklands International Festival. • Ju Gosling ‘Abnormal: Towards a Scientific Model • Tanya Raabe, ‘Who’S WhO’ still on tour, at the of Disability’. Includes, Apr 4, Abnormal Workshop Solihull Arts Complex, then 27a Access Artspace, with Ju. (Bournemouth Library.) Leicester. 20th April - 6th May June - To 2nd August • Jon Adams, ‘In the Arms of my Loving Father’. • Ju Gosling aka ju90, ‘Abnormal: Towards a Exhibition and ‘sonic event’. (University of Scientific Model of Disability’. (Lawrence Batley Portsmouth.) Theatre, Huddersfield.) 22nd April 2nd-15th June • Launch of Peter Street’s new book ‘Thumbing • Wolverhampton Disability Arts Festival From Lipik To Pakrac’. (Turnpike Centre, Leigh.) »» Arena Theatre and Outside Centre present 23rd-25th April three shows by and for Learning Disabled • Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival. Includes people: new commission ‘The Disabled Avant Garde’ (Aaron »» Jun 2 Side by Side Theatre Company, ‘Tempest Williamson and Katherine Araniello). in a Teacup’. 24th April - 26th June »» Jun 5 Outside Centre, ‘Past Present Future’. • Science-Art Exhibition . Exhibition that Three plays by Wolverhampton’s Learning showcases art work that engages with science. Disabled theatre groups The Discoverers, WOW Includes James Lake’s ‘Flat Pack Anatomy’ and Theatre Group and The Albert Road Players. Lorna ‘One Lump or Two’. (Shape, Deane House »» 15th Jun Hijinx Theatre, ‘Chasing Rainbows’. Studios, London.) 5th-6th June 25th April • ‘Crossings’ by Julie McNamara. d. Paulette • Project Ability, ‘Young Talent on the Big Screen’. Randall. (Rich Mix, London.) (Project Ability, Glasgow.) 5th-7th June • X.trax outdoor showcase festival presents new May 2009 work: Fittings Multimedia Arts, ‘Sputnik’; Kazzum • Holton Lee informed by Arts Council England ‘Paper People’. that their Grants for the Arts Application has not 10th June been successful. Exhibitions will continue for the rest of the year, but the posts of Curator and Archive • Anjali Dance Company, ‘Oxford Gala Assistant cannot be sustained. Performance’. Including performances from Anjali’s • Chris Tally Evans wins Creative Wales Award of latest show, ‘Unexploded Stories’. (The Theatre at £25,000. Headington, Oxford.) • Oska Bright launches its fundraising campaign for 13th June a new Mobile Cinema. • ‘Cabaret - Olé!’ Richard West (Compere), Wayne 12th May - 3rd July Dobson, Muskaan Wheelchair Dancers, Razz, • Hijinx Theatre, ‘Chasing Rainbows’ by Glenys Caroline Parker, Abnormally Funny People, The Evans. d. Louise Osborn. (National Tour of Wales Alternative plus display of art work by young and England.) disabled artists. (Performing Arts Centre, Kingston Grammar School.) May - July 15th-21st June • As part of Shape Artist Commissions Shape presents a series of events at Southbank. • Unity Festival, Cardiff. Highlights include: » »» 25 May Aaron Williamson, ‘King Midas » Heavy Load »» Oska Bright Film Festival »» StopGap Greenwich.) »» Laurence Clark »» Jun 27 StopGAP Dance Company, ‘Tracking’. »» Hijinx Theatre. (Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf.) » » Clownfish and Clownbaret (Spanish 30th June companies) • International League Against Epilepsy award Gus » » (Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay.) Cummins first prize in the Centenary Film Awards 16th June for ‘Ictal’. The award was for the best film made • Oska Bright in Wales. (Wales Millennium Centre, about epilepsy since 2000, challenging stereotypes Cardiff Bay) about the condition. 19th June - 12th July July 2009 • Signdance Collective, ‘Dances for a Lost Traveler’. • ‘The Shortlist Exhibition’. Shape showcases the New work from Signdance Collective, exploring work from the shortlisted artists for this year’s Adam disability & Deaf inclusive performance, drawing Reynolds Memorial Bursary. (Deane House Studios, on collaborations with Sardinian director Ornella London.) Dagostino from Carovana SMI, Primoz Bayzak from • Graeae Theatre Company and Strange Fruit, Slovenia’s Batontac Dance plus a range of musicians, ‘Against the Tide’, Greenwich and Docklands film and dance artists. (Warehouse Theatre, International Festival. Directors: Jenny Sealey Croydon.) (Graeae) and Sue Broadway (Strange Fruit) Music: 20th June Lewis Gibson with Jazztronics from Heart ‘n Soul • Beautiful Octopus Club at Paradise Gardens Dramaturg: Alex Bulmer. Graeae performers: Festival. With Lizzie Emeh, La Rebla Fam and Chisato Minamimura, Caroline Parker, Daryl Trevor Lemon. (Victoria Park, London.) Beeton, Daryl Jackson, David Ellington and Milton 20th-26th June Lopes. Strange Fruit performers: Ben Rogan, • ‘Freewheeling’. Work created by University of Kathryn Jamieson and Maria de Braganca. Plymouth art students Sue Austin and Jack Morris 9th-25th July as part of this year’s Degree Show using temporary • ‘Revealed’. Exhibition of photographs created pitch-marking paint, Sue’s specially developed paint by seven visually disabled people, led by blind wheelchair and a paint bike. photographer Rosita McKenzie. With tactile 21st June interpretations by Camilla Adams, and sound • ‘Artists Debating Identity: Visual Arts’. Shape recordings by Rachel O’Connor and Jules event hosted by Michele Taylor. Katherine Rawlinson. Araniello, Tanya Raabe, Aaron Williamson, Jon 10th-25th July Adams and Noemi Lakmaier present pieces of their • Spare Tyre, ‘Feeble Minds’. (Albany and Rich current artwork. Mix.) 25th-27th June 11th-12th July • ‘New Outdoor Horizons’. Outdoor arts by Deaf • Oily Cart, ‘Something in the Air’. New multi- and disabled artists at Greenwich + Docklands sensory aerial show for young people with complex International Festival. disabilities or an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. »» Jun 25- 26 Fittings Multimedia Arts, Created with circus performance company ‘Sputnik’. (Peter Harrison Planetarium, Royal Ockham’s Razor. (Contact Theatre, Manchester.) Observatory, Greenwich.) 13th July »» Jun 27 - Jun 28 Extant, ‘Obscurity’. Conceived, • ‘Sit-down’ comedienne and poet Liz Bentley written and directed Maria Oshodi, sound performs at the Southbank Literature Festival (a design by Braunarts, music Baluji Shrivastaf, Shape Artist Commission). visual art by Sally Booth. (Peter Harrison Planetarium.) 20th July - 1st August »» Jun 26 - 27 Marc Brew Company, ‘Nocturne’. • ‘Creative Future: Unleashed’. Paintings by Russell (Monument Gardens, Old Royal Naval College, Jones. (Brighton Media Centre Gallery.) Greenwich.) To July 26 » » Jun 25 - 28 Graeae Theatre Company/ Strange • ‘Re-Mix’. Full Circle Arts Summer Project: Fruit, ‘Against the Tide’. (Cutty Sark Gardens, workshops for young disabled people including: »» Animation Factory, Preston). »» Music with Drake Music »» Theatre/Drama with So Many Words Theatre September 2009 Co. • Disability Arts Online publishes two new »» Photography commissions: ‘The Explorer’ by Allan Sutherland, a »» Digital Graffiti with Jam Jar Collective set of transcription poems based on interviews with »» 2D and 3D Visual Arts Nancy Willis, and ‘Transformation’, a film by Nancy »» Prop Making Willis using the poems, her own art work and music »» (Zion Arts Centre, Manchester.) by Christopher Pigeom (Chris Morris). • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Just me, Bell’ by Sophie August 2009 Partridge. Schools production • Carousel announce new initiative, ‘Shut Up and • Liberty 2009. Including excerpts from Sophie Listen!’ enabling music by people with learning Woolley’s ‘When to Run’, Kuljit Bhamra, Blue Eyed disabilities to be heard and promoted through a Soul, Penny Pepper. learning disabled-led radio show. »» Sept 18 - Oct 31 ‘Ictal’. Work by Gus • Stream Records celebrates its 20th anniversary Cummins. (Holton Lee, Dorset.) with new Fish Out Of Water CD. • Lung Ha’s Theatre Company ‘Dangerously, Yours...’ 7th-8th & 14th-15th August by Roxana Pope, d. Maria Oller, choreographed • ‘It Hasn’t Happened Yet’. Written and performed Janis Claxton, designed Jessica Worrall. Live music Liz Carr. d.Christine Bruno. (Soho Theatre. Then composed by Robert Pettigrew. » touring the UK.) » Sept 23 - 24 (Queen’s Hall Edinburgh.) » »» Aug 8 As part of Antony Gormley’s ‘One and » Sept 30 - Oct 1 (The Bridge Glasgow.) Other’, disabled artist and activist Liz Crow 22nd September spends an hour sitting in her wheelchair wearing • Wreckless Arts, ‘What I want you to know is...’ full Nazi regalia on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Dance work incorporating British Sign Language. Square, to draw attention to the Nazi treatment Choreographed Jemima Hoadley. Dancers include of disabled people and its contemporary Deaf dancer/choreographer Chisato Minamimura. relevance. Her performance, selected from 2400, (The Place, London.) is subsequently named as one of The Guardian’s ‘Top 10 from Trafalgar’ list. October 2009 24th August - 6th September • Deafinitely Theatre, ‘Double Sentence’ by Andrew Muir, d.Paula Garfield. • D.Vercity European Disability Arts and Culture • ‘The Shortlist 2’ showcases work from the five Festival. (Preston and Lancaster): artists considered for the Adam Reynolds Memorial »» ‘Disability arts as the cultural arm of the Bursary in 2009. Featured Artists: Sally Booth movement’ Seminars with Stephen Hodgkins, (Winner), Alison Jones, Jeannie Lowen, Benedict Director of Disability LIB. (Lancaster Universtiy Phillips, Anne Teahan. and UCLAN.) »» Film festivals, ‘’Unarmed and Dangerous’ plus 9th October Q and A session with Mat Fraser and Xavier • The Beautiful Octopus Club. Celebrating the Leret. launch of the album ‘Loud and Proud’ by Lizzie »» ‘Freaks’ (Tod Browning, USA, 1932) plus Emeh, released that day (Heart n Soul Records). ‘Culture and Identity’, seminar with Dr Paul (Royal Festival Hall, London.) Darke. • ‘Projecting into the Future: Representation & »» Liz Crow’s ‘Frida Kahlo’s Corset’, ‘The Real Interpretation of Disability in the Visual Arts’. Event Helen Keller’. (Dukes Theatre Lancaster and for disabled artists and others to share perspectives Mitchell Kenyon Cinema, Preston.) on how disability is seen within the visual arts »» ‘Motion Disabled’. Plus Sept 4 Dr. Paul Darke sector. in conversation with artist Simon McKeown. • As part of Light Night, a Leeds event, ‘Motion »» Aug 30 - Aug 31 Blue Eyed Soul, ‘Take a Disabled’ is projected on to the side of Leeds College walk in the park’. (Avenham Park, Preston and of Technology. The projection includes a new then Williamson Park, Lancaster.) capture of Yorkshire disabled sportsperson Richard »» Laurence Clark comedy workshop followed Brook. by Spastic Fantastic. (Dukes,Lancaster; Media 13th-22nd October 17th November • Nov Jon Adams, ‘The Goose on the Hill’. • ‘Testing the Edges’. A day of disability arts. Exhibition of works by Portsmouth-based Jon (Salisbury Arts Centre.) Adams, to coincide with ‘Outside In’, exhibition 21st-22nd November of outsider art at the Gallery, and to mark the • ‘Acting: Back to Basics’. Start of Graeae’s culmination of Adams’s two year-long project as new programme of Continuing Professional Artist in Residence for Southern Rail. (Pallant Development for actors with physical and sensory House Gallery, Chichester.) impairments. Graeae Continuing Professional 16th October Development Training. (The Actors Centre, • ’Artists Debating Identity: Performing arts ’, Shape, London.) London. Led by Michèle Taylor. Includes showing 17th November - 5th December of Liz Crow’s film about performance on Anthony • DaDafest 2009. Highlights include: Gormley’s plinth, which was created to coincide »» Nov 17 - Dec 5 ‘Resistance: Which Way the with Resistance - a moving image installation, which Future?’ Installation exploring Aktion-T4, the is currently on tour. Contributors include Julie Nazi mass-murder programme that led to the McNamara, Tony Heaton, Mandy Colleran, Liz death of quarter of a million disabled people. Bentley, Katherine Araniello. Created by Liz Crow. (Contemporary Urban 29th October Centre, The Annex, Liverpool.) • ‘next swan down the river might be black’ by sean »» Nov 17 - Dec 5 DaDaVisions. Specially burn, d.Timothy Hughes. Readings of this play set commissioned short films and video. (Big Screen on a psychiatric ward, a response to the author’s Liverpool, Clayton Square.) own sectioning under the mental health act, as the »» Nov 17 - Dec 5 ‘Young DaDaFest Exhibition’. culmination of a research & development process in (World Museum, Liverpool.) preparation for a planned national tour in autumn »» Nov 18 ‘The Magic Hour’. Film. (Foundation 2010. (Northern Stage, Newcastle.) for Art and Creative Technology.) • ‘Rhythm of the Night’. Misfits Theatre Company’s »» Nov 20 Julie McNamara, ‘Crossings’. (Unity nightclub for people with learning difficulties and Theatre.) their friends and carers .With Lizzie Emeh and in- »» Nov 21 Liz Carr, ‘It hasn’t Happened Yet!’, house DJ’s. (Trinity Arts and Community Centre d.Christine Bruno. (Unity Theatre, Liverpool.) Bristol.) »» Nov 27 Mat Fraser - ‘From Freak to Clique’. (The Bluecoat.) November 2009 »» Nov 28 ‘Creating Art with an Edge’. DaDaTalk. • November ‘Cast Offs’, Channel Four comedy- Hosted by Garry Robson. drama mockumentary follows a group of six »» Liz Crow: ‘Resistance: Which Way the disabled people sent to a remote British island Future?’ for a fictional reality show. Starring Mat Fraser, »» Polly Moseley explores the interplay between Sophie Woolley, Kiruna Stamell, Peter Mitchell, Tim performance art and her life on dialysis. Gebbels, Victoria Wright. »» Alexa Wright talks about her approaches to • Lung Ha’s Theatre Company, ‘Commedia Dell’Arte’ work. by Clark Crystal, d.Maria Oller. ‘II Panico di »» Dr Tom Shakespeare explains about his Pantalone or Pantalone’s Panic’ and ‘II Panico di work focusing on Bio Science and Ethics. (The Capitano or Captain’s Panic’. With Leigh Flynn, Bluecoat.) Mark Howie, Jamie Marshall, Nicola Tuxworth, and »» Nov 29 ‘Disability & Sexuality, The Last Stephan Verth. (Touring.) Taboo.’ DaDaTalk. Hosted by Mat Fraser • ‘The Land of the Sacred Ibis’. Exhibition of »» Diva Hollywood, ‘Identity as a Burlesque paintings and drawings by Rachel Gadsden, now performer.’ being shown in a private gallery in London. »» Dr Matt Partner, ‘Sexuality and learning 3rd-4th November disabled people.’ » • Proud and Loud Arts, ‘Fork’n Hell’ by Cathy » Aaron Williamson, ‘Sex and the Disabled’. Crabb, d.Tom Hogan. (Lowry Studio Theatre, Discussion of the film developed as part of a Salford Quays.) collaboration with Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Sept 2009. (The Bluecoat). »» Dec 1 ‘Unshakeable’ by Paul Betney, d. Keith Carter, script supervision Laurence Clark. (The • Shape CEO Tony Heaton OBE joins the Bluecoat.) national network as part of the cultural leadership »» Dec 3 DaDaAwards Cabaret. (Hilton, programme. Liverpool.) • DaDaFest International 10. 17th-19th November • Shape’s Articulate UK conference. • Oska Bright Film Festival 2009. (The Old Market, • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary recipient 2010 Hove.) is Aaron Williamson who wins a residency at Spike Island. 28th November • ’What is the Revolutionary Art Exhibit?’ Panel May 2010 discussion about how an artist collective that includes people who have a learning disability May - To 31st July should critically position their work in relation • Improbable Theatre, ‘No Idea’, devised theatre by to art education practices. With a new text by Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spense. Touring to Malcolm Bull, philosopher and art historian from Birmingham, Bristol and London, until 31 July 2010. The Ruskin School of Art, critiquing the practice of 14th May Intoart. Contributors include freelance curator Rob • Last performance of Fittings Multimedia’s Tufnell, artist Harold Offeh, and Sam Jones and Ella ‘Raspberry’, Croydon Clocktower. With Garry Ritchie, founding members of Intoart. (Whitechapel Robson as Spasticus and Sally Clay. Gallery.) June 2010 December 2009 • Disability Pride. • Disability Cultural Project (DCP) working with June-July Project Ability, commission three disabled artists • Matthew Lloyd, ‘Duke of York Steps.’ from Scotland to produce art work that explores issues around impairment or disability. The three July 2010 works (David McCracken ‘Polly’, Rosita McKenzie • July Royal College of Physicians’ Rethinking ‘Kilns’, Lydia Popowich ‘Gala’) become the basis Disability Project Focus Group at Shape. for Glasgow based designers Finch and Fouracre Preliminary to an exhibition next year. to create small paper models of the finished work, • Outside Centre, ‘Stamps of Disability’, an online which can be downloaded for building from DCP’s collection of postage stamps from across the world website. that depict disability. • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary 2009-10 awarded to Aaron Williamson, who will become September 2010 artist in residence at Spike Island, Bristol for 3 • Liberty Festival. months during Spring 2010. 6th-9th September 12th December • ‘The Garden’ by Alex Bulmer. Directed by • ‘Involuntary Dances’ a performance by dancer Jenny Sealey and Grant Mouldey. Graeae Theatre Rita Marcalo in which she attempts to induce an Company, in association with Greenwich and epileptic fit on stage. Bradford Playhouse. The work Docklands International Festival arouses controversy, but is supported by opinion pieces from Allan Sutherland in the Guardian and October 2010 Colin Hambrook on Disability Arts Online. • DaDaFest 2010. DaDaFest celebrate their tenth year with the theme ‘Objects of Curiosity and 2010 Desire’, investigating identity and our place in an • Shape gain the contract to support the ever changing world. Highlights included: implementation and development of ‘Unlimited’. »» ‘A few Objects of Curiosity and Desire’ - a • ‘Beyond Cultural Diversity: The Case for joint exhibition of the work of Tom Shakespeare, Creativity’ edited by Richard Appignanesi. Tanya Raabe and Simon McKeown at The • Shape launches Creative Steps programme. This Bluecoat. This exhibition also featured work by programme offers free professional development Fourth Plinth artist and Turner Prize nominee training to disabled people working in, or wanting Yinka Shonibare. to work in, the creative industries. »» Oska Bright - short films made by people with a learning disability from the Oska Bright Film 24th-26th June Festival (Brighton). • Graeae Theatre Company ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted »» ‘GIMP’ – the UK premiere of Heidi Latsky’s Hughes. Adapted for Graeae by Paul Sirett. Directed performance. by Jenny Sealey The Greenwich & Docklands • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary The Shortlist International Festival. 3 Exhibition with Aaron Williamson (recipient), Katherine Araniello, Gus Cummins, Anne Deeming, July 2011 Caglar Kimyoncu, Maya Ramsay July - September • ‘Re-framing disability: portraits from the Royal November 2010 College of Physicians’. • Graeae, ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’, with John Kelly. By Paul Sirett. Directed by Jenny Sealey. (Stratford September 2011 Theatre Royal and touring to Ipswich) • Liberty Festival 2011. • ‘Avant Garde Dance’. Brian Lobel performance December 2010 about his experience of testicular cancer. Freedom • Disabled Avant Garde (DAG) release Christmas Theatre, Brighton work ‘No Room at the Igloo’, a 9 minute video • Special edition of online journal Parallel Lines mockumentary. edited by Aaron Williamson. Includes: »» Aaron Williamson, ‘In the Ghetto? A Polemic 2011 in Place of an Editorial’ • ‘Specimens to Superhumans’. A series of four »» Aaron Williamson, ‘An Introduction to the events curated by The Arts Catalyst and Shape. Essays in Parallel Lines’ • Shape announces 29 Unlimited commissions in »» Colin Cameron ‘Disability Arts: From the preparation for London 2012. Social Model to the Affirmative Model’ • Shape wins the AMI Visual Arts Award 2011. »» Lennard J. Davis, ‘The Disability Paradox: January 2011 Ghettoisation of the Visual’ »» Ine Gevers, ‘ Which Ghetto? Curatorial February 2011 Tactics and Artistic Knowledge-Production in Normality-Driven Societies’ • Caroline Cardus wins the Adam Reynolds »» Joseph Grigely, ‘Beautiful Progress to Memorial Bursary, including a residency at The Nowhere’ Baltic, Gateshead. »» Georgina Kleege, ’ What Keeps Me in the February - March Ghetto?’ • Shape exhibition, ‘Uninterpreted’. »» Juliet Robson, ‘Ten Years On: Re-presenting VITAL, Problematising Playing Fields’ March 2011 »» Yinka Shonibare, MBE, ‘Whilst it might be March - August desirable to have a named category..’ • ‘Read Aloud’ (The Camden Summer University). 2nd-18th September • Arts Council’s Performing Arts Showcase, May 2011 Manchester. • May ‘Articulate’. Shape conference. • ‘A positive choice’. Jenny Taylor shares Shape’s November 2011 vision for disabled people to participate fully in the 30th November - 31st January arts and cultural sector. • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary The Shortlist • ‘Labyrinth of Living Exhibits’. 4 Caroline Cardus ( Bursary Winner), Katherine • Colin Hambrook, ‘100 Houses’. Published Dada- Araniello, Sue Austin, Rachel Gadsden, Sinéad South. O’Donnell, Zoe Partington-Sollinger June 2011 2012 • Graeae Theatre Company Rhinestone Rollers, • ‘Live Art and Disability’. Published Access All ‘Wheels on Broadway’. Directed by Jenny Sealey. Areas. Choreography by Mark Smith. • Bobby Baker, ‘Mad Gyms & Kitchens’ • Candoco Dance Company’s 12 by Claire Co-directed by Amit Sharma and Pera Tantina Cunningham. (La Fura dels Baus). Authors: Jules Maxwell, • Candoco Dance Company, Dance performance by Carissa Hope Lynch, Simon Mckeown (digital Marc Brew for Unlimited Parallel Lines. projection design), Darshan Singh Bhuller • ‘Write to Play’ project launches. (choreography). Directors: Amit Sharma, Pera Tantina. Producers: Graeae, La Fura Dels Baus, January 2012 Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, • Jess Thom, ‘Welcome to Biscuitland’ first Stockton International Riverside Festival. Cast published. includes: Welly O’Brien, Amelia Cavallo, Chisato 19th-20th January Minamimura, Arti Shah. Part of the London 2012 • Scottish Dance Theatre, ‘Pathways to the Festival. Profession Symposium’, Dundee. Chair Mat Fraser, 26th-29th June performances from Claire Cunningham, StopGAP, • Side By Side Theatre Company, ‘Prodigal Son’, David Toole and Lucy Hind, Caro Parker, Sarah Town Hall Theatre, Stourbridge. Caltieri, Sally Clay and Abnormally Funny People. July 2012 April 2012 • Caroline Bowditch, ‘Leaving Limbo Landing’. • Stumble DanceCircus (Mish Weaver), ‘Box of • Joel Simon, ‘MACROPOLIS’. Frogs’. • Marc Brew, ‘Fusional Fragments’. • Paul Cummins, ‘The English Flower Garden’ • Diverse City,’ Breathe’. installation. • July Launch of ‘Unlimited’ commissions at the • Simon Raven wins the Adam Reynolds Memorial Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Bursary, including a residency at Camden Arts »» ‘Unlimited: the Revelation starts here’, Centre. Southbank Centre, is an 11-day showcase for 29 Unlimited commissions, spanning dance and May 2012 performance, visual arts, comedy, circus, music • Dao announces completion of New Voices project. and theatre. These include: • Ramesh Meyyappan, ‘Snails & Ketchup’. »» Simon Mckeown, ‘Motion Disabled • DASH Arts, ‘M21’. Unlimited’ • Tin Bath Theatre Company, ‘Bee Detective’. »» Claire Cunningham, ‘Ménage à Trois’. • The Lawnmowers, ‘Boomba Down the Tyne’. »» Kaite O’Reilly, ‘In Water I’m Weightless • Fittings Multimedia Arts Ltd, ‘The Ugly Spirit’. »» ‘Push Me Please’, artists’ films 1st May July - August • DAO announces Grants for the Arts award for • Kaite O’Reilly, ‘In Water I’m Weightless’. ‘Diverse Perspectives’, which will commission July 2012 - February 2014 eight disabled artists to work with organisations • ‘Stories of a Different Kind’ project, looking at new nationally to produce new works over the period of ways of presenting disability in medical museums. a year for online presentation. Artists subsequently Led by the Research Centre for Museums and commissioned include Crippen, John O’Donoghue, Galleries at the University of Leicester with artist Ivan Riches, Liz Crow, Gini, Aaron Williamson. Mat Fraser, the Hunterian Museum at the Royal June 2012 College of Surgeons, the Science Museum, the Royal College of Physicians and SHAPE, with advice and • Cross the Sky Theatre company, ‘It’s Love I Think’’. support from the Smithsonian Institution. Barnsley. • Ramesh Meyyappan, ‘Skewered Snails’. August 2012 • Laurence Clark, ‘Inspired’ preview’ • Claire Cunningham, ‘Menage à Trois’. • Jez Colborne, ‘Irresistible’. August - September June - August • Sinead O’Donnell, ‘CAUTION’. • Rachel Gadsden, ‘Unlimited Global Alchemy’. • Sue Austin, ‘Creating the Spectacle’. • Maurice Orr, ‘The Screaming Silence of the Wind’. • Heart ‘n Soul, Dean Rodney Singers. 22nd June - 2nd August • Simon McKeown, ‘Motion Disabled’. • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Prometheus Awakes’. 29th August version features a sample of Professor • Paralympic Opening Ceremony, ‘Enlightenment’. Stephen Hawking’s voice. Hawking joins Artistic Directors Jenny Sealey and Bradley the band on stage during the performance, Hemmings. London Organising Committee of wearing their trademark torch glasses. the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) »» ‘I Am What I Am’, written by Jerry chairman Sebastian Coe and President of the Herman, sung by Beverley Knight and International Paralympic Committee Sir Philip chorus, who encourage the audience to join Craven address the audience using rostrums in verbally and with sign language. designed by Tony Heaton and based on ‘Great 31st August Britain from a Wheelchair’. • ‘Atos Closing Ceremony’. Disabled People Against » » Orbital perform “Where Is It Going?” as Cuts (DPAC) and UK Uncut attack French IT protesters with placards enter to call for equal firm Atos, an official sponsor of the London 2012 rights. Graeae Theatre Company perform Ian Paralympic Games, for administering the notorious Dury’s “Spasticus Autisticus”. Miranda and Work Capability Assessment (WCA), ‘designed Propero protest as a giant version of Marc to cut the national spend on social security’. In Quinn’s ‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’ arrives in the London, artist Liz Crow takes the fight against Atos middle of the stadium. into the heart of the Games, wearing a homemade » » Music: anti-Atos black armband stating: ‘Atos kills’. »» Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix, ‘Umbrella’ is the first song performed September 2012 during the ceremony. • Graeae and Strange Fruit, ‘The Garden’, Southbank » » DJ Walde, DJ Excalibah and Goldierocks Centre, London. - ‘Global Music Mash-Up’. • Simon Allen, ‘Resonance at the Still Point of » » ‘Principia’, a specially composed piece Change’. by Greenwich-based composer Errollyn Wallen, inspired by Sir Isaac Newton’s October 2012 Principia Mathematica, and performed • DaDaFest 2012 Festival Exhibitions and by six-London based choirs, including performances include: the London Gay Men’s Chorus and the »» ‘Niet Normaal - Difference on Display’ Lewisham Choral Society. Exhibition created by Ine Gevers and Garry »» Benjamin Britten’s 1951 Leeds Festival Robson bringing together the work of 24 artists arrangement of the national anthem, ‘God from across the world. Save the Queen’. »» ‘Changing Capacities - Changing Identities’ »» ‘Spirit in Motion’, a newly commissioned . Seminar organised by the University of song by Errollyn Wallen, sung by blind Liverpool’s ‘New Thinking on Living with Dying soprano Denise Leigh. research network’. »» An abridged version of Jupiter, from »» Aaron Williamson, ‘The Eavesdropper’. Holst’s ‘The Planets’ suite, is performed »» Terry Galloway, ‘The House of the Moles’ during the entry of the Paralympic flag, - Play about the American ‘Ugly Laws’ in the »» Handel’s ‘Eternal Light of Source Divine’ 1940s (This will become ‘The Ugly Girl’. See sung by Welsh soprano Elin Manahan DaDaFest 2014.) Thomas and accompanied by Philip Cobb, »» ‘The First Four’ symposium, a Shape and principal trumpet of the London Symphony DaDaFest collaboration which sees the first cycle Orchestra. of four Adam Reynolds bursarists talking about »» ‘Bird Gerhl’ by Antony Hegarty, sung by their experiences and the impact that winning Birdy. the award has had on their practice. Chaired »» Koch and Gilpin, ‘Gravity’, ‘Masque’ by Tony Heaton (Shape CEO), with Noemi (new commissions) Lakmaier, Sally Booth, Aaron Williamson and »» A medley of ‘Where Is It Going?’ Caroline Cardus. by Orbital and Ian Dury’s ‘Spasticus »» Evelyn Glennie performance and talk. Autisticus’, performed by Orbital and • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist Graeae Theatre Company, with John Kelly exhibition with Katherine Araniello, Leila Galloway, reprising the Ian Dury performance. The Aaron McPeake, Anne Redmond, Simon Raven (bursary recipient). including: » 31st October » Hijinx and Frantic Assembly, ‘Harder, Better, • Simon Raven event at Camden Arts Centre to Stronger, Faster’ » celebrate the ending of his Adam Reynolds Bursary » Hijinx Theatre, ‘The Adventures of Sancho residency there. Panza’ »» Cirque Inextremiste, ‘Extrêmités’ November 2012 »» Taking Flight Theatre Company, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 1st-3rd November • Liz Crow presents ‘Bedding In’, as part of the June - 26th August SPILL Festival of Performance at Ipswich Art School • ‘Alternative Guide to the Universe’, Hayward Gallery, Suffolk. Bedside Conversations each day. Gallery, London. Visions of the future through the Commissioned as part of Disability Arts Online’s work of outsider artists, including George Widener, Diverse Perspectives project. Marcel Storr, Jean Perdrizet or Guo Fengyi. 9th November 21st-23rd June • 21st Anniversary celebration of Survivors’ Poetry, • Graeae, ‘The Limbless Knight - A Tale of Rights Poetry Café, London. With Joe Bidder, Frank Reignited’, Greenwich+Docklands International Bangay, Hilary Porter, Razz, Simon Jenner. Festival, Tower Hamlets, London. Aerial and sway pole outdoor production featuring performers December 2012 from the London 2012 Paralympic Games Opening • The Rhinestone Rollers ‘Sequins and Snowballs’. Ceremony. Co-directed by Jenny Sealey and Amit Sharma. 26th June Southbank Centre. • Cross the Sky Theatre Company, ‘Would Like To Meet’, Barnsley Civic. 2013 27th June March 2013 • ‘Deaf Explorer Unconference’, Deaf Cultural Centre, Birmingham. With Christine Sun Kim 6th March and Ruth Montgomery , Rinkoo Barpaga, Andrew • Claire Cunningham ‘Ménage à Trois’, Queen Fisher, Def Motion, Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq Elizabeth Hall for Southbank’s Women of the World Christopher Sacre, Donna Williams, Mary-Jayne festival. Russell de Clifford. 8th March - To April • Opening of ‘People Like You’ exhibition, Salisbury July 2013 Arts Centre with Gini, Sue Austin and Liz Crow, • DAO set up blog for Survivors Poetry members. presnted by LinkUpArts and DAO. 2nd-6th July »» 10 April ‘From the Personal to the Universal’, • David Frame solo exhibition at Touchbase, symposium on the role of disability arts and Glasgow. Supported by Sense Scotland. activism. 2nd-29th July »» 12 April Liz Crow, ‘Bedding In’, a 48 hour • The Independent Living Association, ‘Speaking Up durational performance.The performance was for Disability Exhibition’, West Sussex Record Office, watched through livestream in over 50 countries, Chichester. Includes Royal College of Physicians had a continuous twitter feed with thousands of exhibition ‘Re-framing Disability’. messages, with extra twitter conversations laid on to cope with demand. 5th-7th July • Artsadmin and Live Art Development Agency June 2013 , ‘Totemic Festival’ , Freud Museum, London. • Dolly Sen, ‘Greenhouse of Hearts’. Documentary Performance, screenings and lectures celebrating exploring the relationship between mental health the centenary of Freud’s ‘Totem and Taboo’. project Portugal Prints (part of Westminster Mind) Screenings and live performances from Auntie and the Royal Academy of Arts access programme. Maureen, Katherine Araniello, David Blandy, Film made as part of DAO’s Diverse Perspectives Jemima Burrill with Mary Prestidge, Brian Catling, programme, funded by Arts Council England. Jack Catling , Marcus Coates, Sarah Grainger-Jones, • Unity Festival at the Wales Millennium Centre, Hunt and Darton Café, Poppy Jackson, Alastair MacLennan, Kate Mahony, Jordan Mckenzie, • Robert Softley in association with The Arches, ‘If Kirsten Norrie, Benjamin Sebastian, Holly Slingsby, These Spasms Could Speak’. Pleasance Courtyard, lili Spain, Simon Raven, Daniella Valz Gen, Aaron Edinburgh. Williamson, Verity Whiter, Nicola Woodham and Robin Bale, Mirei Yazawa and Chris Dowding, Silvia August 2013 Ziranek, Liz Zumin. Lectures and readings from 6th-7th August artist Noah Angell, anthropologist Chris Knight, • RAWD and Tim Jeeves, ‘How to Fall in Love’ Freud Museum Curator Sophie Leighton, historian promenade performance, Liverpool. Directed Christina Oakley-Harrington, artist Fabian Peake. by Tim Jeeves. Produced by Graham Hicks. 7th July Additional direction by Michael Chapman. • Signdance Collective, ‘Carthage/Cartagena’ by 9th-10th August Caridad Svich. Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford • Liz Crow, ‘Bedding Out’. Hunt & Darton Café, Playhouse. Then touring USA and Austria. Edinburgh Fringe. With WOW Petition and twitter 11th July conversations. • ‘Oska Bright On The Road’ Final screening of films from Oska Bright 2011. Tyneside Cinema. September 2013 12th July 7th September • Yinka Shonibare announced as patron and • Liberty Festival at National Paralympic Day, selection panel judge for the Shape Open 2013. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London »» Natural Diversions, ‘The Gangsters’ 13th July - 14th September »» Graeae, ‘The Limbless Knight - A Tale of • Andy Wild, ‘The Patient Experience’, exhibition Rights Reignited of paintings, MRI scans, medical notes and a »» Bicycle Ballet, ‘Everyday Hero’ radiotherapy mask. Waterside Arts Centre, Sale. »» Jonathan Hering, Jack Whiteley,Mandy 15th - 30th July Burvill, ‘Rhapsody for Clarinet and Wheelchair • Aidan Moesby creates ‘Tales Across Time Zones’ Basketball’. an accessible digital artwork recording the lives of »» Candoco Dance Company ‘Cando2 and Two disabled people, commissioned by Full Circle Arts. for C’ 17th July - 2nd August »» Epic Arts ‘All in an Instant’ • Portugal Prints Summer Art Exhibition, ‘Sweet »» Handprint Theatre and Bitter Iron’ Portugal Prints, London. »» Emergency Exit Arts »» Penny Pepper, Denise Leigh, Andrea Begley 18th-20th July • Unscene Suffolk, ‘Act One: The Cave’, New Wolsey 13th September 2013 - 2nd May 2014 Studio, Ipswich. • Laurence Clark, ‘Inspired’. Touring Durham, Aldershot, Enfield, Barnsley, Belfast, London SE16, 19th July Guildford, Birmingham, Bristol, Braintree, Bath, • The Orpheus Centre, ‘Musical of Small Remains’, Berwick Upon Tweed and Wolverhampton. Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames. 28th September 19th-21st July • ‘10,000 Cuts and Counting ’, ‘a memorial for those • Signdance Collective, ‘Carthage/Cartagena’ by who have had their lives devastated by the austerity Caridad Svich. Theaterlab, New York. programme, including more than 10,000 people 24th July who died shortly after undergoing the Atos Work • Disability Arts Cymru present the Inner Vision Capability Assessment’, Parliament Square, London. Orchestra at the Royal Welsh College of Music and The gathering follows the handing into Parliament Drama, Cardiff. of the War on Welfare (WOW) Petition which calls 25th July - 20th September an end to the Work Capability Assessment. With John Kelly (MC), Sophie Partridge, Bonk (Dickie • Cooltan Arts, ’A Postcard to the World - ONE Lupton) , Penny Pepper. YEAR ON’, Canada Water Library, London. Artwork created in response to the legacy of the Olympic Games. 31st July - 26th August October 2013 17th October - 26th November • Colin Hambrook’s ‘Knitting Time’ published • CoolTan ‘Stayin’ Alive’ exhibition, a showcase of by Waterloo Press, following mentoring by John new works by CoolTan Arts participants celebrating O’Donoghue. World Mental Health Day. CoolTan Arts, London, • ‘The Spark’, Creative Future’s literary awards SE17. prizewinners’ anthology. Editors Dominique De- 22nd-27th October Light and Simon Powell. Legend Press. Includes: • ‘Artists First Exhibition’, Parlour Showrooms, »» Sarah Walker, ‘My Father’ Bristol. An exhibition of new work and limited »» Moray Sanders, ‘The Spark’ edition prints by Bristol’s Artists First collective of »» Cathy Bryant, ‘I Want One disabled visual artists with learning difficulties. »» Jarred McGinnis, ‘What Was The Spark? »» Dolly Sen, ‘Lithium Sun’ (and 1 other) 26th October »» Sue Kent (2 pieces),Tom Jayston , Alasdair • ‘I Love Thunder’, West London rock band of Watt, Penny Pepper, David Paton, Peter Jordan. musicians who have learning difficulties. Watermans »» Contributions from established writers Lemn Theatre, Brentford. Sissay and Ros Barber • Artist Liz Crow sets up ‘In Actual Fact’, a ‘counter- November 2013 propaganda site’, created to give actual facts about • Shape announce winner of Adam Reynolds benefits and public services cuts and to counter Bursary 2013 as artist, photographer, sculptor and the political use of austerity to justify the deaths of film maker Aaron McPeake. McPeake will receive disabled people who are being cast aside. £5,000 and engage in a three month residency at • Announcement of this years Jodi Awards for Spike Island, in Bristol. Other finalists: David Lock, equal access to culture for disabled people reveals Christopher Sacre, The Vacuum Cleaner. that Liz Crow’s ‘Bedding Out’ has received a Jodi • Court of Appeal rules that ‘the Minister for commendation. Disabled People had breached equality duties when making the decision in December 2012 to close October - 3rd November the Independent Living Fund’ (Statement from • Colin Hambrook, ‘Knitting Time’. Exhibition of Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors). The government coloured versions of the illustrations from the book. goes ahead with the closure. The ILF was set up in Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 1988 in order to give disabled people more choice 4th-20th October and control to live Independent Lives. • The Shape Open. This year’s theme ‘Disability Re- • Creative Future Literary Awards. Dolly Sen, Penny assessed’, The Nunnery, London E3. Includes Jenni- Pepper and Lynne E. Blackwood are among the Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, ‘Welcome Anomaly, award winners. part 2’, Jo Paul, ‘Latent’, Jon Adams,‘Arbeitsfahig 2nd-30th November (Fit for work)’, Annie Morgan, ‘My left hand. • Candoco Dance at Duckie (‘flagship rock’n’roll Stigmata/Hand of Glory’, Aminder Virdee ‘… homo-disco’), The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London And The Odds and Sods’, Beth Lau, ‘A=Z (Work SE11. Choreographers: in progress)’. Winner: Eric Fong, ‘Reflection 01’, »» 2 Nov Matthias Sperling Runner-up: Katherine Araniello, ‘Pity’. (Both video »» 9 Nov Wendy Houstoun installations.) »» 16 Nov Javier de Frutos 12th October »» 23 Nov Lea Anderson • Launch of Colin Hambrook, ‘Knitting Time’ »» 30 Nov Nigel Charnock (Waterloo Press). With Joe Bidder and Hilary 5th November - 1st December Porter, Dave Sinclair, Monika Richards, Allan • Kate Bradbury, ‘Squalls and Murmurations’, the Sutherland, Victoria Hullatt. Pallant House Gallery, second exhibition in a series celebrating the six Chichester Award Winners of Outside In: National 2012, a • ‘Stayin’ Alive’, CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle triennial competition for artists from the margins. Sponsored Walk 2013. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 16th-17th October 6th November • Contact Theatre, ‘Mess, Manchester’. Contact, • ‘Reach’ - a sharing of development work by Manchester. Motionhouse, featuring two disabled dancers and a JCB. H E Services Plant Hire Ltd, Rochester. In 16th-19th December association with Greenwich+Docklands Festivals. • LGBT Tea Party with Regard, Vicarage Lane Artistic Director Kevin Finnan, working with David Community Centre, Stratford. Toole and Welly O’Brien. »» 19 Dec Together! Pop-Up Poetry Café with 14th November - 1st December guest poets John O’Donoghue and Allan • Project Artworks, ‘The Room and Everything In Sutherland, Garden Café, Custom House. » It’, Café Gallery, London SE16. Exhibition of work » 19 Dec End of festival party with Live Art by by Project Art Works’ Tuesday Studios Group. Katherine Araniello. Old Town Hall, Stratford. Exhibition curated by: Kate Adams, Tim Corrigan 26th November and Sarah Locke. Tuesday Artists: Annis Joslin, • DIY Theatre, ‘Picking up the Threads’ Celebration Rachel Hine, Mark Daniels, Tim Corrigan, Sara Event, Angel Centre, Salford Dare, working with visiting artists Ed Boxhall, 27th November Claire Griffiths. Co-founded by artists Kate Adams • SAVVY Theatre Company with Sutton Mencap, and painter, Jon Cole, Project Art Works gives ‘The Snow Queen’. Secombe Theatre, Sutton, Surrey. people with severe intellectual disabilities radical creative opportunities and a voice in the discussions December 2013 and decision-making processes that impact on their • Graeae Theatre Company Youth Programme, lives. ‘Deck the Stalls’. Directed by Amit Sharma, Laura 17th-19th November Dajao and Mik Scarlet. Choreographer Laura • Oska Bright International Short Film and Digital Dajao. Media Festival 2013. Includes Oyster Projects’ • SBC (SickBitchCrips) release ‘Have Yourself a ‘Timeslip’ and Station 17’s ‘Die Koenigin‘. Merry Little Christmas’. 22nd November - 19th December 3rd December 2013 - 5th January • Together! 2013 Festival 2014 »» 22 Nov 6.30-9pm Private View of the • Tom Shakespeare’s ‘Incarnate’ triptych on display Together! 2013 exhibition by locally based at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. The triptych disabled artists. Festival launch party with Live is Shakespeare’s largest body of visual work to date, Art by Katherine Araniello. Old Town Hall, and is a conversation between the artist and some of Stratford. the great works from the Renaissance to the modern »» 24 Nov Comedy workshop for disabled people era, centring on the theme of human embodiment. with Clare Summerskill, Stratford Circus.. It consists of ‘The Nightmare (After Fuseli)’, ‘Figure »» 27 Nov Liz Porter’s one-woman show with Meat (After Bacon)’ and ‘Dead Christ (After ‘Learning to See’ , St Mark’s Community Centre, Mantegna).’. Beckton »» 12 Dec Tom Shakespeare in Conversation with »» 29 Nov Story telling workshop for disabled Tony Heaton. people with Liz Porter. St Mark’s Community 5th-7th December Centre, Beckton. • Hijinx Theatre’s Odyssey group present ‘The Last » » 30 Nov Winter Sale & Art Hive with Cooltan Snow of Winter’, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Arts. St Johns’ Church, Stratford. Written by Philip Michell, features pupils from » » 2 Dec Together! Music Club with special Woodlands High School. guests Mike Oliver, Angry Fish and VJ Mouse on the Telly, RC Centre, Canning Town. 6th December »» 3 Dec International Day of Disabled People • SickBitchCrips release ‘A Fistful of Froth’, directed celebration with Act Up theatre company’s by and starring Katherine Araniello. ‘Changing Attitudes’, Signdance Collective 7th December International’s ‘Peyrot’s Stolen Dolls’ and Ju • Tim Jeeves, ‘The Kindness of Strangers’. The Gosling aka ju90’s ‘What’s Normal Anyway?’. Bluecoat, Liverpool Compere: Don Biswas. Church of the Ascension, 9th December Custom House. • Celebration launch for ‘Unlimited’, three year »» 4-5 Dec No-budget film-making workshop for commissioning programme, supported by the disabled people. National Lottery through Arts Council England, to »» 6,7,8 Dec DIY Disability Film Festival, UEL support disabled artists in developing ambitious and Docklands. high quality work, led by Shape and ArtsAdmin. 23rd January - 13th March Tate Modern. • ‘Heart n Soul’s Allsorts’, creative sessions for adults 13th December with learning disabilities. The Albany, Deptford. • ‘Shape’s Creatives’, London Canal Museum. February 2014 Launch of 7 portrait films about the participating • Sick Bitch Crips release ‘Lazy Baby’ music video. artists in Shape’s ‘Creative Steps’ professional Vocals Katherine Araniello. Backing Rachel Dowle. development training: Cara Dovecott, Gus • (Touring) Kiruna Stamell and Gareth Berliner, Cummins, Lynn Cox, Sophie Partridge, Melodie ‘One of Us Will Die’. Presented by the Disability Arts Holliday, D., J Stephen Bunce. Films commissioned Touring Network in association with DaDaFest. by Shape, produced and creatively directed by David Hevey Productions. 4th February - 2nd March 17th December • ‘Two Partnerships, Two Approaches’, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Exhibition showcasing • Katherine Araniello releases video, ‘Katherine’s the work of two Partners in Art partnerships: Mark S t o r y ’. Allen and Sue England; Joel Howie and Barbara 2014 MacFarlane. • Claire Cunningham, ‘Give Me a Reason to Live’, 5th February - 20th March solo show inspired by the work of Hieronymus • Stopgap Dance Company, ‘Artificial Things’ 2014 Bosch and the role of beggars/cripples in his work,. Tour »» 5 Feb The Point, Eastleigh (UK premiere) January 2014 »» 12 Feb Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey, 7th January - 2nd February Guildford » • ‘Nigel Kingsbury: Loves Nigel’, Pallant House » 28 Feb Deda, Derby » Gallery, Chichester. Third exhibition in a series » 6 Mar Pavilion Dance South West, celebrating the six Award Winners of ‘Outside In: Bournemouth » National 2012’, a triennial competition for artists » 8 Mar University of Bedfordshire, Bedford » from the margins. » 20 Mar Farnham Maltings, Farnham 18th January 5th February - 31st May • Largactyl Shuffle Keep Fit Walk, ‘a fun guided • CoolTan Arts present a series of London walks cultural walk for mental and physical wellbeing’. and workshops inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. 20th January - 10th October 6th February • Mat Fraser ‘Cabinet of Curiosities: how Disability • Vince Laws & Trudy Howson, ‘To Russia With was kept in a box’, live performance using museum Love’, Ku-Bar, London. Vince Laws face paints 83 objects, the culmination of the ‘Stories of a Different volunteers with the names of the 83 countries where Kind’ project. homosexuality is illegal. »» 20 January Royal College of Physicians 7th February »» 23 January Embrace Arts, University of • Kiruna Stamell and Gareth Berliner, ‘One of Us Leicester Will Die’. The Citadel, St Helens. » » 31 January Science Museum 7th February - 11th March »» 5 February Hunterian Museum, Royal College • Fingersmiths, ‘Frozen’ With Jean St Clair, Neil of Surgeons Fox-Roberts, Deepa Shastri, Hazel Maycock, Mike »» 5th June: Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds Hugo, Sophie Stone and appearing on film David 7pm Ellington, Tyrone Huggins. »» 9th June: Silk Mill Museum, Derby 7pm »» Fri 7 - Sat 15 Feb Birmingham Repertory »» 10th June: Manchester Museum, Manchester Theatre Company 7.30pm »» 18-19 Feb The Albany, London »» 9 and 10 October Museums Association »» 27 Feb-1 Mar New Wolsey Studio, Ipswich Conference , Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, »» 3-4 Mar Stratford Circus, London 2014. »» 5-6 Mar Octagon Theatre Studio, Bolton »» 8 Mar Arts Depot, London »» 10-11 Mar The Key Theatre Studio, Peterborough 11th February McKnight ,stars Amy Conachan & James Young. • ‘Flaunt It Cabaret’, The Hothouse, More Music, »» 7-15 Mar Tron Theatre, Glasgow Morecambe. »» 18 Mar Paisley Arts Centre » 15th February » 19 Mar MacRobert, Stirling » • Penny Pepper with Jo Cox at Folk in Motion. » 20 Mar The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen » Guests include Liz Porter, Sophie Partridge. Cecil » 22 Mar Lochgelly Centre, Fife » Sharp House , London. » 25 Mar Achmore Hall, near Stromeferry »» 26 Mar Eden Court, Inverness 15th February - 18th May »» 29 Mar Festival Theatre, Edinburgh • Dale Vn Marshall, ‘Walls with Wounds’, The 10th March Herbert, Coventry. Dale Vn Marshall is the second artist to be commissioned as part of The IN project, • Creative Minds - South East Conference, Brighton Disability Arts in the Mainstream. Dome. Conference planned and delivered by a group of seven learning disabled artists from five 17th February - 19th April learning disability arts organisations from across the • Zoe Partington, ‘Sound Canvas’, The Hive, South East and London. Short performances and Shrewsbury. Sound Canvas won the Jodi-Award presentations of work by Corali Dance Company, commendation for Innovation. Action Space London, Rocket Artists, Carousel, 21st February - 10th May Face Front Theatre, Chris Pavia and Stop Gap Dance • ‘The Threepenny Opera’ on tour to Nottingham Company and Oska Bright Film Festival. Playhouse, New Wolsey Theatre, Birmingham 14th-17th March Repertory Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse, • House and Frozen Light, ‘Tunnels’, a performance with a 21 strong cast of disabled and non-disabled specifically for teenagers with Profound and actors, and actor musicians, including John Kelly, Multiple Learning Disabilities. Zinc Arts Centre, Garry Robson, Amelia Cavallo, Victoria Orawari, Chipping Ongar, Essex. CiCi Howells, Jude Mahon (BSL interpreter). 15th March Co-directed by Jenny Sealey and Peter Rowe. Movement direction Mark Smith. Co-production • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Women’s Day between Graeae Theatre Company, New Wolsey Walk, London SE5 Theatre Ipswich, Birmingham Rep, Nottingham 15th March - 6th May Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse. • Heather Bowring ‘I am not who you think I am’ 24th February - 3rd April exhibition of tactile relief work portraits. Hereford • Vital Xposure ‘Let Me Stay’. Writer and performer: Museum and Art Gallery Julie McNamara. Director: Paulette Randall. 17th March - 22nd March »» 24-26 February, The Dugdale Centre, Enfield. • ‘The Reveal’, The Menier Gallery, London. ‘The »» 12–13 March The Bluecoat, Liverpool first major visual arts exhibition in Britain to solely »» 3rd April, Cooltan Arts, London promote the work of artists with Down Syndrome. 26th February - 27th April It is timed to open at the beginning of Down • ‘Intuitive Folk: Art from England and Japan’, Syndrome Awareness Week.’ Artists include Lester Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Exhibition Magoogan and Tazia Fawley. Organised by ‘Heart & juxtaposing two Japanese Outsider Artists, Masao Sold’, an organisation established to promote artists Obata and Shinichi Sawarda, with two British with Down Syndrome. Outside In artists, Chaz Waldren and Jason Pape. 21st March • Signdance Collective International ‘Bad Elvis’. March 2014 Written by Katie Hims. With David Bower. Salford • SICK Festival, Brighton Includes: University. ‘Bad Elvis’ was first broadcast on BBC »» Ridiculusmus, ‘The Eradication of Radio 4 in September 2013. Schizophrenia in Western Lapland’ »» Kim Noble ‘You’re Not Alone’ April 2014 »» Robert Softley ‘If These Spasms Could Speak’ • Aaron McPeake wins Adam Reynolds Memorial 7th-29th March Bursary, including residency at Spike Island, Bristol. • Birds of Paradise & Random Accomplice, ‘Wendy Hoose’. Directed by Robert Softley Gale and Johnny 12th April Disabled People’) and Noemi Lakmaier’s installation • Corali Dance Company ‘Empty, Theatre, Dream’, ‘The Oberver Effect’. part of Chelsea Arts Collective, St Luke’s Hall, • Graeae, ‘Signs of a Diva’ by Nona Shepphard. With London. Caroline Parker. Directed Jenny Sealey. • ‘Penny Pepper’s Mixed Bag Poetry’, The Roomz, St »» 22 May Bollington Festival Leonard’s on Sea. »» 24 May Derby Theatre 15th-19th April • Katherine Araniello & Jenna Finch ‘Screw the • Graeae and Circo Crescer e Viver, ‘Belonging’. Co- Taboo’. Live Art collaboration. directed by Jenny Sealey and Vinicius Daumas, this 13th May artistic collaboration between the UK’s Graeae and • ‘Poetry and Sign’, a major event exploring the Brazil’s Circo Crescer e Viver features performers relationship between poetry, sign language and from the London 2012 Paralympic Games Opening dance. With Jean St Clair, Ashley Kendall, Tim Ceremony and a collection of Brazilian actors, Barlow, and Deborah Galloway of Ballet Rambert. musicians and dancers. Roundhouse, London. Part Kings Place, London. A collaboration between Poet of CircusFest 2014. Then touring Brazil. in the City and Remark. 16th-18th April & 29th April - 2nd May 13th-14th May • Extant theatre company, ’The Chairs’ by Eugene • Stopgap Dance Company, ‘Artificial Things’. With Ionesco, translation by Martin Crimp. With Heather Amy Butler, Laura Jones, Chris Pavia, David Toole Gilmore and John Wilson Goddard. Directed by and David Willdridge. Sadler’s Wells, London. Maria Oshodi. 17th May » » 16-18 Apr Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Pagan Walk. » » 29 Apr–2 May The Albany, Deptford • 25th-30th April May - June • David Richardson, ‘Visionary art of David • Access All Areas, ‘Eye Queue Hear’ . With Dayo Richardson’. Cambridge Art Salon. Koleosho, Jolene Sampson, Paul Christian, Cian 28th April - 10th May Binchy, Housni Hassan, Imogen Roberts and • Art collective The Norwich Dandies present Lee Philips. Directed Nick Llewellyn and Ciara Dandifest! (St Margaret’s Church of Art, St Brennan. Benedict’s Street, Norwich). Current Norwich »» 17 May Rich Mix, London Dandies are: Eloise O’Hare, Chrissy Sabberton, »» 25 May, 1 June The Warren, Brighton Dugald Ferguson, Ann Nichols, Vince Laws. »» 5-6 June Bikeshed Theatre, Exeter 29th April - 1st June 29th May • ‘Manuel Bonifacio: My Imaginary Cave’, Pallant • Cooltan Arts: ‘At the Crossroads with Vincent’, House Gallery, Chichester. The fourth exhibition Van Gogh Audio Walk Launch Party. CoolTan Arts, in a series of six celebrating the Outside In National London. 2012 Award Winners. June 2014 May 2014 • Colin Hambrook gives presentation of Dao’s work • The Court of Appeal finds that the Department at the Senseability conference, Bath Spa University, for Work and Pensions’ decision to close the explaining Dao’s role in facilitating networks Independent Living Fund was not lawful, and supporting emerging disabled writers and overturning the High Court decision of April 2013. artists through Dao’s blogs and its programme of • Shape Gallery Westfield opening exhibition commissioning writing on the arts and disability. features James Lake’s ‘Sitting Without Purpose’, Juan 3rd-4th June Delgado’s ‘Wounded Image’ series, Jason Wilsher- • DAiSY Fest. GLive, Guildford, Surrey. Mills, Vivi-Mari Carpelan, Michael Cooms’s »» 3 Jun Dramatize, ‘I Love You’devised by sculpture ‘Dyslexia’, Tom Shakespeare’s 2009 Dramatize’s actors. Bloomin’ Arts ‘The Rose’ photographic piece ‘Figure with Meat (after Bacon)’, Dance installation by Joel Argles and Meral plus videos from the Shape Open 2013 (including Velettin. Eric Fong’s ‘Reflection 01’ , Katharine Araniello’s »» 4 Jun The Freewheelers Theatre Company, ‘Pity’ and Stephen Lee Hodgkins’s ‘A War Against ‘A Cream Cracker Under The Settee’ by Alan Bennett. With Terri Winchester, directed by 12th June - 5th December Brandon McGuire. • Laurence Clark, ‘Moments of Instant Regret’ on »» 4 Jun The Orpheus Centre, ‘Dreamland UK-wide tour. Dance’, ‘Osseus and Orseus Shadow Puppet »» 12 Jun Crack Comedy Club, Streatham P l a y ’. »» 20 Jun Colchester Arts Centre »» 4 Jun Film Lunch. »» 26 Jun Komedia, Brighton »» 4 Jun DAO presents ‘Neglected Voices’ and »» 1 Jul Black Box, Belfast ‘Lost in Spaces’. Allan Sutherland, reading from »» 7 Jul Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, London ‘Proud’, and Penny Pepper (with Jo-anne Cox, »» 24 Jul Leaf Cafe, Liverpool cello). »» 30 Jul - 24 Aug Assembly George Square, »» 4 Jun ‘Hidden’ by Gary Thomas. Edinburgh »» 4 Jun Cabaret with Firestone Rock Band and »» 26 Sept Unity Theatre, Liverpool The Orpheus Band. »» 5 Dec Dadafest, Bluecoat Arts Centre, »» 4 Jun Graeae Theatre Company concert Liverpool version of ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’, directed by 19th June - 16th August Jenny Sealey. • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist 6 » » Francesca Martinez. Also performances from Exhibition Christopher Sacre, David Lock, The Stopgap Dance Company and The Freewheelers Vacuum Cleaner and Aaron McPeake (2014 bursary Theatre Company. recipient). Shape Gallery, Westfield. 5th June 20th June - 14th August • Vital Xposure ‘Let Me Stay’ with Julie McNamara. • Trevor Wray, ‘Over and Over and Over’ by at the PULSE festival. Arts & Disability Forum Gallery, Belfast. 13th June - 13th July 21st-22nd June • Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014 London- • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Summer Solstice wide arts festival, curated by the Mental Health Midnight Walk through South London. Foundation. Includes: »» 26-28 Jun Vital Xposure: Julie McNamara, ‘Let June - Until 13th July Me Stay’, Albany Theatre, London. • ‘From There to Here: The hidden history of People »» 26 Jun-13 Jul ‘The Dizziness of Freedom’. with Learning Difficulties In Merseyside’, Liverpool Work by Outside In artists Tess Springall and Museum. Exhibition developed by performing David Bradley, Bermondsey Project, London. arts company Wicked Fish, with participants from »» 12-20 Jun 2014 Claire Cunningham, ‘Guide Moving On With Life and Learning. Gods’, show looking at the perspectives of the 19th June - 16th August major Faith traditions towards the issue of • The Shortlist 6 Exhibition, Shape Gallery disability. Choreographed and performed by Westfield, Stratford, London. Work by the four Claire Cunningham. Music composed and artists shortlisted for the 2013/14 Adam Reynolds performed Derek Nisbet, set designed Karen Memorial Bursary: Christopher Sacre, David Lock, Tennent. The Vacuum Cleaner and Aaron McPeake (Bursary »» 12 Jun GESH - Greater Easterhouse recipient). 3 July Aaron McPeake gave a talk on his Supporting Hands Spike Island residency. »» 13 Jun Glasgow University Memorial Chapel »» 18 Jun Deaf Connections July 2014 »» 19-20 Jun St Mungo Museum of Religious Life • Signdance Collective International in »» Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural collaboration with BBC Radio 4 , ‘Bad Elvis’. Programme. Co-commissioned by Ulster Bank Premiered in BBC Centre Salford, then touring. Belfast Festival at Queen’s, and Southbank Directed Sue Roberts. Written Katie Hims. Puppet Centre, London. Barbara Bulatovic. Choreography Isolte Avila. 12th June Producer Jane Jutsum. With SDCI International • Razed Roof inclusive performance company, Touring Ensemble featuring Isolte Avila Fran ‘Flood’ by Judith Johnson. Jerwood Dance House, Osimani and David Bower. Ipswich. 6th July Pig’ • Jez Colborne, ‘GIFT’, live sound installation set »» Birds of Paradise & Random Accomplice, in a shipping container, Southbank Centre. With ‘Wendy Hoose’ music producer Si McGrath, performers Joyce »» Jo Bannon, ‘Exposure’ Nga Yu Lee and Billy Hickling and many regulars »» Jess Thom and Jess Mabel Jones: Backstage in from Mind the Gap Theatre Company. Directed Biscuit Land Tim Wheeler. Commissioned by the New Music »» Chisato Minamimura: Ring the Changes Biennial and destined for this year’s Commonwealth »» Ian Johnson and Gary Gardiner: Dancer Games. »» Owen Lowery, ‘Otherwise Unchanged’ » 11th-12th July » Jo Verrent, Luke Pell, ‘Take Me To Bed’ video • Unscene Suffolk, ‘Fossils’. Ipswich Museum. installation. With Luke Pell, Caroline Bowditch, Robert Softley-Gale and Janice Parker. 12th June - 25th July »» Research and Development Projects include • ‘Working Lives: Here & There Working Lives Here Aidan Moesby and Pum Dunbar, ‘Fragmenting & There’. DadaFest exhibition exploring disability The Code(x)’ and ‘Flight Path’, Extant’s and employment. 43 Castle Street, Liverpool. collaboration with Upswing and Yellow Earth 17th July Theatre. • The Music Spark Show 2014, an inclusive 4th-25th August performance event ran by adults with learning • My Lucky Mojo presents The Fundamentalists @ disabilities. Sage, Gateshead. Edinburgh Fringe. Various venues in Edinburgh. 22nd-23rd July 18th-24th August • Hip-hop theatre choreographer Yami Lofvenberg • Hijinx Theatre presents ‘Snoutology for Beginners’, presents’ S.T.U.P.I.D’, Chelsea Theatre, London. Summerhall, Edinburgh. ‘Three dancers living with learning disorders • show us the real truth behind the beats.’ Directed/ 23rd August Choreographed Yami Lofvenberg. Music Mikey J. • Together! Pop-up Poetry Cafe with Wendy 23rd-25th July Tongue, Bonk Bipolar, Colin Hambrook (MC). • Alison Carr, ‘Matryoshka’ - Directed by Vici 23rd August - 4th October Wreford-Sinnott. Touring Bishop Auckland and Stockton-On-Tees, County Durham. With Alison • ‘The Reality of Small Differences’: textile art Carr, Ree Collins, Eleanor Crawford, Jackie Phillips. exhibition by disabled artists based in Yorkshire. Produced Little Cog theatre company. Inkwell Arts and Union 105, Leeds. 30th July - 24th August 27th August - 13th September • Laurence Clark: ‘Moments of Instant Regret’, • ‘Wendy Hoose’, UK Tour » Assembly George Square, Edinburgh. » 27 Aug The Beacon (Greenock) »» 29-30 Aug Perth Concert Hall 31st July - 24th August »» 2 Sep Platform (Glasgow) • Tim Renkow, ‘At Least Hell Has Ramps’, Heroes@ »» 3 Sept Howden Park Centre (Livingston) The Hive, Edinburgh. »» 4 Sept FTH (Falkirk) »» 6-7 Sept Unlimited Festival at Southbank August 2014 Centre • ‘Splitting in Two: Mad Pride and Punk Rock »» 10-11 Sept Sherman Cymru (Cardiff) Oblivion’ by Robert Dellar published by Unkant Books. 30th August • Unlimited commissions 2014: • The Liberty Festival 2014,Queen Elizabeth »» Katherine Araniello, ‘The Dinner Party Olympic Park, London. With Moxie Brawl, Revisited’ Southbank Centre in the Purcell Deaf Men Dancing, Ren Harvieu, Heart n Soul, Room and Toynbee Studios (simultaneous Jez Colborne and Mind the Gap, ‘The Gift’, an performances) immersive sound installation, Louise Rutkowski, »» Juan DelGado,‘The Flickering Darkness’ Paul Hawkins and the Awkward Silences, Kali »» Julie McNamara, ‘Let Me Stay’ Perkins and Too Hot for Candy, Derek Paravicini, »» Fittings Multimedia Arts, Krazy Kat & The Paul Evans and Amelia Cavallo, Stop Gap’s ‘The Royal Exchange Theatre, ‘Edmund the Learned Awakening’, choreographed by Chris Pavia, films curated by Carousel’s Oska Bright, artists from the 27th September - 9th October Drake Music Project, Hi-jinx Theatre’s ‘Snooks • ‘Nothingness’, new work by Christopher Sacre, Brothers Aquatic’, Access all Areas ‘Eye Queue Hear’, Nucleus Arts Chatham Gallery, Kent. an audio-tour performance. Together 2012! present 30th September - 26th October a community programme of film and performance. • Michelle Roberts, ‘Day Trip to Chichester’, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Final solo show in a September 2014 series celebrating the six Award Winners of Outside • Taking Flight Theatre Company,’ Real Human In: National 2012, a triennial competition for artists Being’ touring secondary schools across Wales, to from the margins. educate young people about the impact of Disability Hate Crime on the lives of disabled people. With October 2014 Nicola Miles-Wildin, Amy Griggs, Cara Jayne • ‘Storylines: Mapping the past’ - a Carousel project Readle. Written by Matthew Bulgo, directed by Elise brings the memories and stories of older people with Davison. learning disabilities to the public through live events • Johnny Crescendo releases ‘Piss on Pity Complete’, which combine video projection, performance and his complete library of songs, through iTunes and poetry. The pilot project has been led by young CD Baby. The collection includes ‘Choices and learning disabled artists Becky Bruzas, Jason Eade, Rights’, ‘Tear Down The Walls’ and ‘Pride’ and older Tina Dickinson and Sarah Watson from the Oska songs such as ‘British Grenadiers’, ‘Bolt From the Bright steering committee. Includes a collaborative Blue’, ‘Movin’ On’ and ‘Working under Shelter’. poetry commission facilitated by Carousel in 2nd-7th September partnership with the Frances Taylor Foundation in • Unlimited 2014 Hove FTF and with Disability Arts Online. »» 2-7 Sept Juan delGado ‘The Flickering • The winner of the 2014 Adam Reynolds Memorial Darkness (Revisited)’ Bursary, to be hosted by the Victoria and Albert »» 3-4 Sept Vital Xposure presents Julie Museum with support from The Helen Hamlyn Mcnamara ‘Let me Stay’. Centre of Design at the Royal College of Arts, is »» 3-4 September Robert Softley Gale ‘If These multidisciplinary artist Carmen Papalia. Other Spasms Could Speak’ shortlisted artists are Laila Cassim, Omeima »» 3 Sept Survivors Poetry Reading ‘Perceptions Mudawi-Rowlings and Peter Matthews. of Difference’. Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Hilary • Lloyd Coleman commissioned by Disability Arts Porter, Frank Bangay and John O’Donoghue. Online to write a work for the British Paraorchestra. »» 3 Sept The Vacuum Cleaner’s Madlove Asylum • Claire McLaughlin poetry collection, workshops. ‘Remembering Blue’, published by Survivors Press. »» 3 Sept Stopgap Dance Company workshop • Peter Street, ‘Rite of Passage’. Edited by Michael »» 6 Sept Fittings Multimedia Arts, Krazy Kat & Bruce. Natterjack Press PDF download. The Royal Exchange Theatre present ‘Edmund 2nd October the Learned Pig’ • Zeynep Dagli, ‘Negotiation between Madness and » » 6-7 Sept Birds of Paradise and Random Sanity’, filmpro lates, Hoxton. Accomplice present Wendy Hoose ‘A frank and hilarious sex comedy.’ Written by John McKnight 8th October & directed by Robert Softley Gale. • Stopgap Dance Company and The Point launch the iF Platform, a unique opportunity for companies 8th September and artists producing work with disabled and non • Penny Pepper ‘Lost in Spaces’, one woman show disabled artists. It will showcase the best integrated with Jo-Anne Cox, cello. Soho Theatre, London. work from the UK at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 11th September - 3rd October from 23rd – 30th August 2015 to coincide with • Wilson-Eflerová (Kye Wilson and Helena Eflerová} the British Council Showcase year. The platform ‘Embodied Vistas’, GalleryMuse, Petersfield. is part of the larger 3-year Reach project, awarded 20th September Strategic Touring funding by Arts Council England. • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Black History The Strategic Touring Partnership is led by Stopgap Walk. Dance Company and supported by partners Embrace Arts, The Point, University of Bedfordshire and Zinc Arts. Its aim is to raise the profile of integrated work. 11th October October - Until 1st November • ‘Innovation and Transformation’, CoolTan Arts • Forest Forge Theatre Company, Kaite O’Reilly Sponsored Walk, Southwark, to celebrate World ‘Woman of Flowers’ based on the story of Mental Health Day and raise much needed funds for Blodeuwedd, Woman of Flowers, from a branch the mental health charity CoolTan Arts, looking at of The Mabinogion. With Sophie Stone, Andrew how WW1 affected society. Wheaton ,Pete Ashmore, Tom Brownlee. Dir Kirstie • Outside In event at Pallant House Gallery Davis. Creative Sign Director Jean St Clair. Music ,Chichester to celebrate World Mental Health Day. Rebecca Aplin. On tour to rural venues in Wales, Guest poets John O’ Donoghue and Wendy Young. the South-west, and South-east. Event compered by Colin Hambrook. 28th October 12th October • Creative Minds East conference on learning • ‘Warning: May Contain Nuts!’, Brighton Dome. disability arts, Jerwood Dance House, Ipswich. ‘Taboo-busting comedy and song from people who Performances by: have experienced mental health issues and others »» Corali Dance Company who have not, yet.’ Compered by Simon Munner. »» Dance East » 14th October » Act One Arts Base’s Freedom Dance » • Creative Minds South West one day conference, » Razed Roof Theatre » led by learning disabled artists and performers,. » Jez Colborne » (Harbourside, Bristol) » Films from » »» Firebird Theatre, Openstorytellers » Zinc Arts » »» Filmed projects including Jumpcuts, GDance » Oska Bright Film Festival » and Oska Bright. » Exhibition curated by Suffolk Artlink 19th October 29th October • Owen Lowery, ‘Unchanged and Retold’, The Storey, • ‘Zones of Avoidance’. Multimedia live literature Lancaster production, written and performed by poet Maggie Sawkins and directed by Mark C. Hewitt with film 24th October - 16th December sequences from Abigail Norris. All Saints Centre, • ‘The Expert View’ (Dalston Square London). Lewes. Daily Life Ltd presents its first public light box installation, featuring the work of artist Bobby November 2014 Baker alongside that of people who participated in a • Coordinated by DaDaFest, The Disability Arts series of drawing workshops over the summer. The Touring Network is a group of arts organisations exhibition looks at the theme of expertise and how and venues committed to developing disability arts it relates to people’s personal experiences of art and in their regions and across areas of the UK. The mental health. coming months will see UK tours of Gareth Berliner 24th October - 17th January and Kiruna Stamell’s One of Us Will Die, The Krip • Shape Open 2014, Shape Gallery, Westfield, Hop Nation, and Terry Galloway’s The Ugly Girl, Stratford, London. Shape Arts presents ‘[in] with Liz Carr and Julie McNamara. visible’, a disability-themed exhibition supported • Liz Crow/Roaring Girl launches ‘Figures’ by renowned artist Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA). 6th-8th November Featuring 2D, 3D and video by both disabled and • ‘Dancer’, Battersea Arts Centre, London. non-disabled artists, the exhibits featured are hugely 7th November 2014 - 11th January diverse in style and inspiration. 2015 26th October • DaDaFest International 2014, Liverpool • Three of the nine artists awarded commissions »» 7th Nov Private View of ‘Art of the Lived as part of the ‘Parliament in the Making’ programe Experiment’ with performances by Simon Raven for 2015 are disabled artists: Rachel Gadsden, Jason and Kate Mahony. Wilsher-Mills, Paula Stevens-Hoare »» 8th Nov 2014 - 11th Jan 2015 Exhibition ‘Art 29th October of the Lived Experiment ‘, curated by Aaron • Disability Arts Touring Network: ‘One Of Us Will Williamson, The Bluecoat. Includes David Lock Die: A hilarious new take on love’ (Arena Theatre, ‘Misfit Unwanted’; Tony Heaton ‘Gold Lamé’; a Wolverhampton) durational performance by Brian Catling; Simon Raven’s ‘Headspinners’ mannequin installation; »» Unlimited commissions: Mike Parr ‘Reworks’, the vacuum cleaner, ‘Ship »» Owen Lowery with Otherwise Unchanged, of Fools’; Katherine Araniello’s video of her »» Jess Thoms aka Touretteshero with Backstage negotiating the cobbled streets of Liverpool’s in Biscuit Land (R&D) Albert Dock in her wheelchair; Juliet Robson; »» Ailís Ní Ríain ‘The Drawing Rooms’ (R&D) a large scale sculpture by Joseph Grigely; a new »» Kazzum Theatre’s ‘Where’s My Nana?’ video work by Sinead and Hugh O’Donnell. (promenade performance) (R&D) » » 21st-22nd Nov Sophie Partridge, ‘Song of 11th November Semmersuaq’, Unity Theatre. • ‘Flaunt it Cabaret’, Morecambe More Music, The » » 26th Nov Terry Galloway, ’The Ugly Girl’, with Hothouse, Morecambe. Hosted by Boogie Bill Liz Carr and Julie McNamara, The Bluecoat. Roberts with rock and pop from The Beathovens » » 27 Nov Terry Galloway, ‘You Are My Sunshine and West African grooves and dances from The Beat – A Kind of Love Story’. Directed by Donna Artistes. Marie Nudd. The Bluecoat, Liverpool »» 27th Nov Krip Hop Nation support Angryfish 15th November (Singer Songwriter) & Donna Williams • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Literary Walk »» 29th – 30th November DaDaFest 19th November International Young People’s Weekend • Disability Arts Touring Network: Krip-Hop »» Young DaDa’s film ‘A Recipe for Scouse’, the Nation at Contact, Manchester. Krip-Hop Nation, culmination of a year-long project with the founded by Leroy Moore, is ‘an international Walker Art Gallery. platform for disability Hip-Hop artists and an »» Krip-Hop Nation, independent voice for disability-led justice and »» Oska Bright screening of short films politics’, featuring MC’s, rappers, DJ’s and musicians »» Painting workshop with Rachel Gadsden. from the US, Germany, Uganda and the UK. Krip »» Writing workshop with Roger Cliffe- Hop Line Up are: Thompson »» Leroy Moore California (US) »» VJing (video DJing) workshop with Oska »» Binki Woi Munich (Germany) Bright »» Lady MJ Warrior Birmingham (UK) »» 29th Nov Krip-Hop Nation, The Bluecoat. »» Ronnie Muwanga Entebbe (Uganda) »» 2nd-3rd Dec ‘DaDaFest International »» Rob Da’Noize Temple November 2014 New Congress: Disability Culture and Human Rights’, York (US) The Bluecoat. »» MC ChrisCore Munich (Germany) »» 3rd Dec Penny Pepper, ‘Lost In Spaces’ , plus »» Borries Liebl Munich (Germany) open mike, The Bluecoat. »» Sascha Hummell Munich (Germany) »» 5th Dec Laurence Clark, ‘Moments of Instant »» Scilliaka Sicsak Munich (Germany) Regret’, The Bluecoat. 20th November »» 6th Dec Staff Benda Bilili, Philharmonic Hall. • ‘The Ugly Girl’, The Continental, Preston »» Malian musical duo Amadou and Mariam (Disability Arts Touring Network) »» Matin O’Brien, Sheree Rose and Rhiannon Aarons ‘The Viewing’ 21st-22nd November »» Rehearsed reading of ‘Unsung’ a new play • DaDaFest International 2014 features Sophie inspired by the life of Edward Rushton. Partridge: Song of Semmersuaq at Unity Theatre, »» Written by John Graham Davies and James Liverpool Quinn, using Bill Hunter’s study ‘Forgotten 21st-28th November Hero’. With Paul Warriner, Joe Shipman. Chris • The Why? Festival at Forest Arts Centre, Walsall Jack. and The Glasshouse, Stourbridge » » ‘The City Speaks’,a guided tour to Liverpool’s »» 21st November Krip Hop Nation with support political and cultural history of the city and its from Angryfish (Singer Songwriter) & Donna people. Created by sound artist Chas de Swiet. Williams (BSL Poet Deaf Explorer) Narrated by Julie McNamara. »» 26th November ‘One of Us Will Die’. A » » Rachel Gadsden exhibition ‘Al Noor’, making comedy by Kiruna Stamell and Gareth Berliner connections with disabled artists from the with support from Chris Fonseca (Deaf Dancer,) Middle East. Robin Surgeoner (Spoken Word) »» Creative Writing Workshop with Robin December 2014 Surgeoner • Flip announce launch of support for nine »» 27th November The Book Thief screening emerging Disabled Artists in Scotland: composer/ (plus short Disability Arts Film) musician Amble Skuse, actor Derek Darvell, novelist »» 27th November: Krip Hop Nation support Jane Wallman-Girdlestone, spoken word performer Angryfish (Singer Songwriter) & Donna Lynn Pilkington, games designer Maki Yamazaki, Williams (BSL Poet Deaf Explorer) composer/musician Matthew Ward, dancer Neil »» Krip Hop Nation DIY Workshop Joseph Price, visual artist Pum Dunbar, composer/ »» 28th November Creative Writing Workshop musician Sonia Allori. with Robin Surgeoner • FACT, Liverpool announce forthcoming »» One of Us Will Die - A Comedy by Kiruna participatory installation ‘Madlove’ by James Stamell and Gareth Berliner with support Leadbitter as part of next spring’s Group Therapy from Chris Fonseca (Deaf Dancer) and Robin exhibition. Supported by the Wellcome Foundation. Surgeoner (Spoken Word) Produced in collaboration with the University 21st November of Liverpool’s Institute of Psychology, Health • Together! Disability History Month Festival and Society, and also supported by the British launches at the Old Town Hall, Stratford, London. Psychological Society. 21st-22nd November 3rd December - 4th January • DaDaFest International 2014 features Sophie • Disability Arts Cymru Annual Exhibition. Partridge: Song of Semmersuaq at Unity Theatre, Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay. The exhibition Liverpool. celebrates the life of Mark Anthony Annis, visual artist and long-time DAC member. 21st-28th November • The Why? Festival, Forest Arts Centre, Walsall 5th-7th December and The Glasshouse, Stourbridge ‘highlighting the • Third annual Together! Disability Film Festival, successes and learning curves of taking Disability Old Town Hall Stratford, part of the Together! Arts to places it rarely gets seen’. Organised by Disability History Month Festival. Robin Surgeoner with the support of Black Country Touring and as a partner member of the Disability 2015 Arts Touring Network. Includes Krip Hop • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary. Carmen Nation, poet Donna ‘Deaf-firefly’ Williams, Robin Papalia begins three month residency hosted by the Surgeoner, Angryfish Deaf Dancer Chris Fonseca,. Victoria and Albert Museum. • The final act of the festival, A Little Commitment (Gareth Berliner and Kiruna Stamell) in ‘One Of Us January 2015 Will Die’, songwriting workshop run by Angryfish. • Shortlist 7 Exhibition. Exhibition of artists shortlisted for Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary: 26th November Carmen Papalia (Winner), Laila Cassim, Omeima • Disability Arts Touring Network: Krip-Hop Mudawi-Rowlings, Peter Matthews. Shape Gallery, Nation at Old Town Hall, Stratford, London Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford, London. • Extant, Upswing and Yellow Earth ‘Flight Paths’, • Stopgap Dance Company and The Point The Albany, Deptford, London’. Presented by the announce the final programme for their iF Platform Disability Arts Touring Network. (Integrated Fringe), a showcase ‘featuring the best • ‘One Of Us Will Die’, Forest Arts Centre, Walsall integrated arts companies from the UK’ as part of (Disability Arts Touring Network) Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015. (See 23rd – 30th 29th November August.) • Dolly Sen announces her ‘Madvent Calendar’, 6th January a ‘cartoon a day in the countdown to Xmas with • DPAC Mass Action to save the ILF, House of ‘terrible festive mad-related jokes’ Commons. • ‘Rite of Passage’ by Peter Street Edited by Michael 20th January - 14th February Bruce is available as PDFdownload from the Natterjack Press and on Kindle. • Lea Cummings, ‘Infinite Psychic Love Explosion!’ Project Ability Gallery, Glasgow. 29th January 4th March • Shape Open Exhibition Closing Party. Winner • Stopgap Dance Company presents Sg2 in (judged by Shape Patron Yinka Shonibare MBE RA) ‘Exhibition’, ‘a collection of eclectic dance Carly Jayne for sculpture ‘Strangers’. People’s Choice miniatures featuring Stopgap’s emerging artist award split between Lucy Hutsen ‘Long Johns’ and company Sg2’. Created by Stopgap dancers in Jack Haslam for ‘Label me Jack, just another animal’. collaboration with Sg2 and choreographer Nathalie Shape Gallery, Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford, Pernette. University of Bedfordshire, Luton. London. »» ‘The Garden’ »» ‘Traces’ February 2015 »» ‘Bound For…’ February - May »» ‘Slide With The Sun’ • Liz Crow ‘Figures’. Mass-sculptural durational 4th-6th March performance starts in February in Bristol with • ‘Project Ability International Summit for learning digging of the mud that will be used in this project disability artists and supported studios’. Includes about the effects of austerity. residency by Tanya Raabe-Webber. 6th February 4th March - 25th April • LinkUpArts presents ‘Our Tales: Unveiled’,triple- • Graeae Theatre tour Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’. bill by Liz Porter ‘Learning to See’, Penny Pepper Adapted by David Ireland. Directed by Jenny Sealey. ‘Lost in Spaces’, Gini ‘Vinterblik’. Plus Q&A chaired Co-produced by Graeae Theatre Company, Derby by Colin Hambrook. Followed by a series of Theatre and Dundee Rep Ensemble., David Ireland’s Creative Storytelling and Poetry & Performance modern day re-telling of Federico Garcia Lorca’s workshops 7th Feb, 14th Feb, 21st Feb. Salisbury Blood Wedding ‘which is fuelled by searing lust, Arts Centre. love and rebellion’. 7th February - 30th May »» 4 – 14 Mar Dundee Rep Theatre » • Susan Aldworth, ‘Reassembling the Self’. » 17 – 28 Mar Derby Theatre » Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester. » 1–3 Apr Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock »» 8 – 11 Apr Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 10th February »» 14–16 Apr New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich • Owen Lowery, ‘Otherwise Unchanged’. Octagon »» 21-25 April Liverpool Everyman Theatre. Yeovil. 5th March 21st February • filmpro lates present: Mental Elves, London E2. • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle LGBT Walk, Chas de Swiet performs a live soundtrack to classic Camberwell Green, Camberwell. film portrayals of mental health and its treatment in 23rd February - 25th March the setting of psychiatric hospitals. • Tanya Raabe-Webber in residence at Project 9th-27th March Ability, Glasgow. • ‘Slippage: The Unstable Nature of Change’. Group 26th February exhibition ‘which aims to challenge assumptions • Stopgap Dance Company, ‘Artificial Things’. and encourage a new way of looking at what it artsdepot, London. means to be human’. Curated by Lesley Halliwell and Jo Thorne. With Andrew Kotting, ‘Mapping 26th February - 9th March Perception’ (installation); Alexa Wright, ’ A View • Hijinx, in association with Blind Summit ‘Meet From the Inside’; Katherine Araniello, ‘Pity’ (film); Fred’. Touring Wales. Karen Heald and Susan Liggett, ‘Paper Interior’ March 2015 (performance), Daksha Patel, Lesley Halliwell, Jo Thorne, Paddy Hartley, Eric Fong, Noemi Lakmaier. March - To 17th May Also features work by the late Lisa Bufano, in • ‘Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age’. collaboration with Jason Tschantre. March 13 FACT, Liverpool. Symposium on Arts and Disability. Mar 19,21 »» Jennifer Kanary Nikolova‘Labyrinth Talks by the curators. CASC Gallery, University of Psychotica’ Chester. »» The Vacuum Cleaner, ‘Madlove’ (installation) »» UBERMORGEN, ‘Psychosis Sensation’ (iPad app) 11th-12th March Goldsmiths, London. Victoria and Albert Museum, • Dark Horse Theatre, ‘Snakebite’, written and London. directed by Vanessa Brooks. Lawrence Batley 16th March Theatre, Huddersfield. • Brighton-based charity Creative Future launches 12th March its second Creative Future Literary Awards national • ‘Awkward Bastards Symposium’, mac birmingham competition, to discover the best writers from • Professor David Turner’s ‘Disability’s Awkward disadvantaged groups, championed by Lemn Sissay Histories’ (keynote speech). and Maggie Gee. » » Marlene Smith - Rethinking Diversity 17th March » » Tony Heaton OBE - History of the Disability • ‘Differently Abled - Driving Change’: a one day Arts Movement conference at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Key » » Gemma Marmalade - Talks about her practice note speakers include: Alice Chutter (Diverse » » Vacuum Cleaner (James Leadbitter ) - City); Dean Rodney (Heart’n’Soul’s The Fish Definitions Police and Olympic commission the Dean Rodney » » sean burn - language of lunacy Singers); Paul Richards (International Stay Up Late » » Gill Nicol - Making contemporary arts Campaign); Carousel. Presentations and practical accessible workshops from: Anjali Dance; Plymouth Music » » Matt Smith - Queering the museum Zone; Funky Llama (‘Differently Abled’ is their » » Amanda Cachia - Disabling the museum steering group’s preferred description for adults with » » Vincent Gould - Diversity decision learning difficulties.) commission • Jackie Hagan, ‘Some People Have Too Many Legs’. » » Mike Layward and Amanda Cachia - What Tuned in, Redcar. comes next? »» Lois Keidan and Abid Hussain - What comes 17th-28th March next? • Graeae Theatre Company ‘Blood Wedding’. »» Lara Ratnaraja and Garry Robson - What Adapted by David Ireland. Directed by Jenny Sealey. comes next? Derby Theatre, then touring to April 25. »» Christine Sun Kim 18th March - 23rd April »» Co-produced by DASH and mac birmingham. • Brian Hilton. ‘A is for Activism’. ADF Gallery, 12th-13th March Belfast. Exhibition of photomontage reflecting a year • CEDA ‘Impisi’. Written Clive Essame, directed of campaigning on disability issues and representing Anthony Richards. Exmouth Pavilions, Exmouth, the voice of the disability movement in England, Devon. ‘where Welfare Reform has had a devastating effect’. 13th March 19th March - 30th May • ‘How does design address immobility in our • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist 7 society?’ As part of the V&A’s regular Design Exhibition Carmen Papalia (Bursary winner), Culture Salon, Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings, Laila Cassim, Peter recipient Carmen Papalia joins a panel of industry Matthews. Shape Gallery, Westfield Stratford. experts ‘to discuss spaces of immobility to reveal 25th March - 30th August some of the inconsistencies and resistances in • Sick! Festival Includes Sue MacLaine with Nadia contemporary design culture’. With Rob Imrie, Nadarajah (BSL), ‘Can I Start Again Please?’ (Sick! Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, London (Chair); Commission). Then: Ana Carden-Coyne, Co-Director of Cultural »» Mar 25th Camden People’s Theatre as part of History of War, University of Manchester and Sprint Festival author of Reconstructing the Body; James Grant, »» Jun 5th New Wolsey Theatre as part of Pulse Senior Communications Manager, Transport Festival for London; Graham Pullin, Course Director of »» Aug 5th - 30th Red Lecture Theatre, Interaction Design at the Duncan Jordanstone Summerhall, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Dundee and author of 26th March Design Meets Disability; Carmen Papalia, V&A and Adam Reynolds Memorial Resident, in partnership • Launch event for Unlimited commissions for with Shape; Alison Thomson, PhD Candidate, 2015-16, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff: »» Aaron Williamson, ‘Demonstrating the World’ Clifford and Sue Austin, creating a fully immersive (Visual Arts). Producer: Edd Hobbs. audience experience using Oculus VR headsets and »» Bekki Perriman, ‘The Doorways Project’ projection on to 360 degree installations. As part of (Sound installation). Producer: Shiri Shalmy. the research the artwork is filmed on two alternative »» Cameron Morgan, ‘TV Classics Part 1’ (Visual 360º camera systems including the 360º EyeCam Arts). Producer, Elisabeth Gibson / Project developed by Dan Burton at Underwater Images. Ability »» Claire Cunningham, ‘The Way You Look (At May 2015 Me) Tonight’ (working title), (Dance).Producer: • Unlimited Artists on tour: Nadja Dia »» Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice, »» Jack Dean, ‘Grandad and the Machine’ ‘Wendy Hoose’, London. (Literature). Producer: LittleMighty. »» Nye Thompson, ‘Just a few words’, Brighton »» Kaite O’Reilly, ‘Cosy’ (Theatre). Director (Unlimited Impact supported)’ Phillip Zarrilli. Producer Michael Salmon. »» Touretteshero, ‘Backstage in Biscuit Land’, »» Liz Carr, ‘Assisted Suicide: The Musical’ Great Yarmouth (Theatre). Producer David Duchin in association • Arts Council England announces ‘Ramps on the with Vital Xposure Moon’, which will bring together a collaborative »» Noemi Lakmaier in collaboration with network of seven National portfolio organisation Michael Wüst, ‘Cherophobia’ (Installation). theatres, working with disabled artists and learning Producer Rachel Anderson. how to develop disabled audiences. Led by New »» Sheila Hill ‘Him’(Theatre) With Tim Barlow. Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, with strategic partner Plus exhibition of photographs by Hugo Graeae Theatre, and including Birmingham Glendinning and a documentary about the Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, making of the work by Caglar Kimyoncu. Nottingham Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, 27th March Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Sheffield Theatres. • Shape’s Shortlist 7 exhibition shows work by • Creative Future Literary Award. the 2014 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary winner Carmen Papalia, currently in residency 1st-5th May at the Victoria & Albert Museum, plus the other • Liz Crow, ‘Figures’, on tour to locations from shortlisted artists: Laila Cassim, Omeima Mudawi- London to Bristol, plus ‘guerrilla locations’ including Rowlings and Peter Matthews. Shortlist 7 is on Trafalgar Square as part of the May Day march and show until 30 May at Shape Gallery, Westfield outside David Cameron’s constituency, Witney. Stratford. 3rd May • Stopgap Dance Company ‘Bill and Bobby’. Danced April 2015 and devised by Lucy Bennett and David Toole. • Unlimited Artists on tour: Part of Brighton Festival, ‘Without Walls Weekend’. » » Jack Dean, ‘Grandad and the Machine’ , Woodingdean Central Park, Brighton. Doncaster and Stockton. »» Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice, 3rd-31st May ‘Wendy Hoose’ , London, • ‘Intuitive Visions: Shifting the Margins’, Phoenix »» Touretteshero ‘Backstage in Biscuit Land’. Brighton in partnership with HOUSE 2015. New Various venues across the UK. exhibition curated by Pallant House Gallery’s »» Cameron Morgan,’TV Classics Part 1’ in Curator Katy Norris in partnership with HOUSE Glasgow as part of Glasgow International 2015 and Phoenix Brighton. It showcases the work Festival. of Outside In artists Aradne, Blair McCormick, »» Nye Thompson, ‘Just a few words’, London Jonathan Kenneth, William Pettitt, Luc RS, Martin (Unlimited Impact supported). Phillimore, Michelle Roberts, Paul Bellingham and • Bekki Perriman, ‘The Doorways Project’. Brighton Sally Ward. Festival. 5th-7th May 30th April • Sue Austin, ‘Immersed in 360’, Salisbury Arts • Sue Austin launches ‘Immersed in 360’, Salisbury Centre. Arts Centre. This research exhibition features dance and performance on video by Kevin 6th May June 2015 • Owen Lowery,’Otherwise Unchanged’, Worktown • The Independent Living Fund (ILF) closes Literature Festival, Bolton. permanently • Jackie Hagan, ‘Some People Have Too Many Legs’. 3rd June Glossopdale Community College, Glossop. • Owen Lowery, ‘Otherwise Unchanged’, Lumb 6th-16th May Bank Centre, Hebden Bridge. • Ewan Malloy Collages, Project Ability, Glasgow. 4th-27th June 7th-8th May • Sanchita Islam, ‘Schizophrenics Can Be Good • Touretteshero, ‘Backstage in Biscuit Land’, Mothers Too’, exhibition and theatre performance. Brighton Dome Studio Theatre. Rich Mix, London. • Daily Life Ltd and Bobby Baker presents ‘The 5th June Expert View’, artist-led 2-day micro-festival • ‘Ramps on the Moon’, discussion day about the exploring ‘expertise’ in arts and mental health. involvement of Deaf and disabled people in the Queen Mary University and Kingsley Hall, East theatre sector, as part of the Pulse Festival. With London. Includes: Jamie Beddard, Sarah Holmes, Amy Netleton, »» 7th May Laura Jane Dean, ‘This Room’. Selina Charlotte Bevan,Simon Startin, Sarah Jane Leigh. Thompson, ‘Stilton Mash’. Film & Drama Studio, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Includes open Queen Mary University, rehearsal of Jeni Draper’s Fingersmiths show ‘War »» 8th May Bobby Baker, Dylan Tighe and Crimes for the Home’ and Sue MacLaine’s ‘Can I guests, Kingsley Hall, London Start Again Please’. 14th May • ‘Fragmentary presents..’ Artist talks with three • Stopgap Dance Company presents Sg2 in artists whose work explores art and mental health, ‘Exhibition’. Embrace Arts, Leicester. (See 4 March with Daniel Regan, Liz Atkin, Antonia Attwood. for details.) Chaired by art critic Anna McNay. The Free Space 14th-17th May Gallery, London. ‘Fragmentary’ is a new arts • Deaffest 2015, Wolverhampton. website exploring photography and mental health. Free Space Gallery, London. 14th & 22nd May • Disability Arts Cymru members launch booklet 13th June by DAC writers’ group at Ty Newydd Writers’ • I Love Thunder, ‘Our Big Gig’, Walpole Park, Centre, Llanystumdwy and Palas Print bookshop in Ealing. Caernarfon. 20th-21st June 15th May • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Midnight Walk, • Jackie Hagan,’Some People Have Too Many Legs’ London at Forest Theatre, Coleford and touring. 24th-27th June 19-20th May • Side by Side Theatre Company, ‘The Trial of Peter • Claire Cunningham, ‘Give me a Reason to Live’. Pan’, Town Hall Theatre, Stourbridge. Old Market, Brighton. 25th June 20th May • Vici Wreford-Sinnott, ‘The Art Of Not Getting • Vici Wreford-Sinnott, ‘The Art Of Not Getting Lost’, performed by Ree Collins and Eleanor Lost’, performed by Ree Collins and Eleanor Crawford. Northern Stage, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Crawford. The Arc, Stockton-on-Tees. July 2015 20th-30th May • Vici Wreford-Sinnott, ‘The Art Of Not Getting • Harriet Campbell, ‘Total Drama Island’, Project Lost’. Bakerloo Station, London. Ability, Glasgow. Paintings based on a Canadian • Artists Katherine Araniello and Simon Raven set animated television series. up a fake artisan pickled gherkin stall, ‘The Golden 30th May Gherkin’, beside Damien Hirst’s sculpture ‘Charity’, • Deaf & Hearing Ensemble.‘People of the Eye’. installed next to ‘The Gherkin’. Roundhouse, Camden. • The Live Art Development Agency launch a book and DVD of Katherine Araniello’s ‘Dinner Party Revisited’ LADA, who have been producing Katherine’s work, have launched a book of essays 11th July about Katherine’s work with a DVD of the live art • ‘Integrate’ Afternoon of performances by disabled piece, which was originally staged in the Purcell and non-disabled artists. Room at the Southbank Centre a year ago. »» Includes Stopgap Dance Company and SG2, 2nd July Rowan James. Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire. • Inner Vision Orchestra at The Lantern, Colston 12th July Hall, Bristol. • ‘In Conversation with the Past’, Film portrait of • Juan delGado, ‘Flèches Sans Corps’ . filmpro lates, deaf Romany, Bill Lock. Shrewsbury Museum and filmpro studio, London. Art Gallery. 3rd July 13th July • The Paraorchestra, ‘Towards Harmony’ by Lloyd • ‘Tales From the Crips: A Tribute to Stella Young’ Coleman (Dao commission). Colston Hall, Bristol. A night to celebrate comedian and disability activist 8th July Stella Young. With Liz Carr, Steve Day, Don • Abnormally Funny People, Middlesex University, Biswas, and a screening of Stella’s 2014 Melbourne London Preview of Edinburgh Festival Fringe act. International Comedy Festival Best Newcomer The group are reuniting in Edinburgh for their 10th award winning show ‘Tales From the Crip’. Hosted anniversary show. by Nelly Thomas, Stella’s friend and Director of Tales From the Crip. 10th July 15th-17th July • ‘Shaping a Diverse Future’ ‘A day of provocations, presentations and performances for artists, arts • Sue Austin: ‘Immersed in 360’. Research managers and anyone with an interest in disability exhibition featuring dance and performance on arts.’ Presented by Disability Arts Online, Stopgap video by Kevin Clifford and Sue Austin, creating a Dance Company, Salisbury Arts Centre and The fully immersive audience experience using Oculus Point. The Point, Eastleigh. VR headsets and projection on to 360 degree • Stopgap Dance Company presents Sg2 in installations. University of Plymouth ‘Exhibition’ ,The Point, Eastleigh. 16th July - 6th September • Disability Arts Online announce the launch of • Juan delGado, ‘The Flickering Darkness Viewfinder, a new £107k 18-month commissioning, (Revisited)’, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon digital media and sector development programme Tyne. funded by Arts Council England’s Grants for the 18th July - 30th August Arts, to be run in partnership with Wikimedia • Extraordinary Bodies, ‘Weighting’, a ‘large-scale UK, Sick! Festival, SPILL Festival, Carousel, the outdoor circus spectacle’ with disabled and non- New Wolsey Theatre, Culture 24 and Goldsmiths disabled performers. Creative team includes writer Disability Research Centre. Viewfinder will include Hattie Naylor, circus director Billy Alwen, of Cirque individual artist commissions, a new video channel Bijou, theatre director Claire Hodgson, of Diverse of curated content focussed on promoting disability City, and composers Dom Coyote and Ted Barnes. arts practice to broad audiences, Wikimedia UK Artists include Jamie Beddard and Karina Jones. ‘editathons’ to create Wikipedia entries about UK- Touring to Fleetwood, London and Stoke-on-Trent. based disabled artists and proactively encouraging mainstream venues to appreciate and employ more 24th-25th July disabled arts practitioners. • Jo Bannon, ‘Alba’. Ovalhouse, London. 10th-11th July 24th-26th July • ‘SprungDigi’, free digital arts festival featuring the • Pacitti Company, ‘Moving Stories: Moving work of people with learning difficulties. Various Mountains’, film installation by Robert Pacitti, venues in Horsham, West Sussex. Includes ‘Relix’, a starring Angela Dawn Wright, Giovanna Maria video game with an autistic character, based on one Casetta, Rowan James, and Tonny. Co-devised of the Sprungdigi Crew, created in partnership with by the cast, in collaboration with director Robert games producer Creative Assembly. Pacitti, camera person Deveril, make-up artist Thom Shaw, and BSL interpreter Caroline Smith. High 10th-18th July Street Exhibition Gallery, Ipswich. • Mark Wood, ‘Spirit of Nature’, exhibition of poems and paintings. Oxford Town Hall. 25th July »» The first full showing of Bekki Perriman’s ‘The • The Disabled Avant Garde, ‘Reverse Mendicants’. Doorways Project’. Roaming performance at Tate Modern, London. • Other disability performers at Edinburgh include Part of the series Turbine Festival. performer/choreographers Claire Cunningham and 25th July - 29th August Ramesh Meyyappan; Birds of Paradise and Random • ‘Fast is fine but accuracy is final’, exhibition of Accomplice ‘Wendy Hoose’; Fittings Multimedia paintings by Charlie Hammond and Tommy Mason. Arts, Krazy Kat Theatre, The Royal Exchange Project Ability, Glasgow. ‘Edmund the Learned Pig’; Paul Wady, ‘Guerrilla Aspies’. 27th July • ‘Can I Start Again Please’ wins Total Theatre award • Liberty Festival 2015 for ‘Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with »» Cirque Bijou & Diverse City, ‘Weighting’ with Form’ Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Jamie Bedard and John Kelly. 5th-30th August »» Together! present an afternoon of music and poetry. Including: • Sue MacLaine Company, ‘Can I Start Again Please’. »» Michelle Baharier Summerhall, Edinburgh . »» Allan Sutherland • Graeae, ‘The Solid Life of Sugar Water’, by Jack »» Sonic Vistas with Ivan Riches, Kris Halpin, Thorne. Directed by Amit Sharma. Pleasance Mik Scarlett, Sophie Partridge, MC Geezer, Dome, Edinburgh. A Graeae Theatre Company & Howard Jacques, Rosie Vachat, Theatre Royal Plymouth Co-Production. »» Baluji Shrivastrav, 6th August »» Hassan Eraji • Johnny Hourigan and Clare Bottomley ‘Everybody »» Mbongwana Star Says It’s All in Your Head’. filmpro, London. 30th July 12th August • Sue MacLaine Company, ‘Can I Start Again Please’, • Stopgap Dance Company presents Sg2 in The Place, London. ‘Exhibition’ at The Garage, Norwich. 14th August August 2015 • ‘Extant recommend... Ebony Rose Dark and • Unlimited, working with Summerhall, present Ping Wing’, RADA Studios London. Two-hander a programme of visual arts and mixed media developed by visually impaired performers, with installations by disabled artists in the Meadows Mickel Smithen and Easton ‘Ping Wing’ Carr. Galleries at the Edinburgh Festival. These include: »» Richard Butchin, ‘213 Things About Me’ 18th-30th August »» Lea Cummings., ‘Infinite Psychic Love • Caroline Bowditch, ‘Falling In Love With Frida’. Explosion’. Dance Base, Edinburgh. »» Aidan Moseby and Pum Dunbar, 19th August - 4th ??? ‘Fragmenting the Code(x)’ • ‘Making “Demonstrating the World”’ Performance »» ‘Does It Matter? World War I Shorts’. A series artist Aaron Williamson invites visitors to witness of 5 films from Channel 4 OD’s Does it Matter? the building of an odd set of ‘absurdist’ furniture . created by Artsadmin in association with Aaron Williamson, Edd Hobbs and Ida Martin, with Unlimited (Claire Cunningham, ‘Resemblance’; furniture makers Emma Leslie and Wilkey, build Simon McKeown ‘Ghosts’, Katherine Araniello, the furniture for ‘Demonstrating the World‘. Shape ‘Oh, What a Lovely, Lovely Ward’, Tony Heaton, Gallery, Westfield, Stratford, London. ‘Breathe Nothing of Slaughter’, Jez Colborne ‘Soldiering On’). 23rd-30th August »» A series of works for screen – Nicola Canavan, • iF Platform (Integrated Fringe) a showcase ‘Between Land and Living’, Sheila Hill, ‘Him’ ‘featuring the best integrated arts companies from (extracts), Katherine Araniello, ‘The Dinner the UK’ as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 to Party Revisited’, presented with a life-sized coincide with the British Council Showcase year. » inflatable Katherine Araniello. » Stopgap Dance Company, ‘Artificial Things’, »» An Unlimited Impact funded work by young with David Toole, Laura Jones, Chris Pavia, dance artist Craig Simpson working with Janice David Willdridge, Amy Butler. » Parker. » Jo Bannon, ‘Alba’ »» Marc Brew Company, ‘For Now I am’ »» Rowan James, ‘It’s Easy For You to Say’ 9th September »» Tourette’s Hero, ‘Backstage in Biscuit Land ‘ • The Live Art Development Agency launch a book »» ‘If Not Now When?’ (discussion day hosted and DVD of Katherine Araniello’s ‘The Dinner Party by Jo Verrent, Senior Producer of Unlimited). Revisited’ » » The platform is part of the larger 3-year Reach 13th September project, awarded Strategic Touring funding by • First ‘Coronation Street’ appearance of Alex Arts Council England. The Strategic Touring Warner, played by Liam Bairstow, an actor with Partnership is led by Stopgap Dance Company Down’s syndrome, who trained for several years and supported by partners Embrace Arts, The with Mind the Gap. Point, University of Bedfordshire and Zinc Arts. Its aim is to raise the profile of integrated work. 17th September • ‘The Coming of Age of the Disability 23rd-30th August Discrimination Act?’ Portcullis House, Houses of • Vince Laws exhibition of text art and poetry for Parliament, London. Debate marking the 20th the church of St Peter & St Paul, Oulton, Norfolk, anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act including artwork ‘We All Bleed Red’ on the church 1995. Led by Lord Chris Holmes, with panel tower. including Baroness Jane Campbell, DBE, and artist 27th August Rachel Gadsden. • Shape and The New Art Gallery Walsall announce • Vital Xposure, ‘The Disappearance of Dorothy the four artists shortlisted for the Adam Reynolds Lawrence’. Customs House, South Shields. Then Memorial Bursary: Anne Teahan, Anna Berry, touring to Ipswich, Salisbury, Wolverhampton, Caglar Kimyoncu, Pam Newel. Enfield and London’s Pleasance Theatre. 28th August - 3rd September 19th September • ‘The View From Here’. Exhibition and events • Theatre Re, ‘Blind Man’s Song’. The Lowry, Salford. launch of flip Artists, Edinburgh. With Sonia Allori, 29th September Derek Darvell, Pum Dunbar, Lynn Pilkington, • Creative Future Literary Award ceremony, on the Neil Joseph Price, Amble Skuse, Jane Wallman- subject of ‘impossible things’. Free Word Centre Girdlestone, Matthew Ward, Maki Yamazaki. , Holborn. With support from Lemn Sissay and Maggie Gee and prizes of cash and mentoring from September 2015 the Literary Consultancy. Readings include: 3rd September - 24th October »» Jackie Hagan, ‘Edna’ (Creative Future Silver • Young Talent! ‘Create’ exhibition, Project Ability, Award Wi nner) (Poem from ‘Some People Have Glasgow. Too Many Legs’). 4th September - 20th November »» Rowan James, ‘Easy For You To Say’ • Caroline Bowditch ‘Falling in Love with Frida’ UK Tour. October 2015 »» 4 Sept Woodend Barn, Banchory 1st-2nd October »» 7 Sept Platform, Glasgow • Fittings Multimedia Arts, Krazy Kat Theatre and »» 11 Sept Dance Limerick, John’s Square, the Royal Exchange Theatre, ‘Edmund the Learned Limerick Pig’, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. » » 15 Sept Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling 1st October - 30th November » » 18-19 Sept Traverse, Edinburgh • ‘Ilham’ Exhibition. Shape Gallery Westfield. » » 1 Oct Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield Originally exhibited at the Museum of Islamic » » 5 Oct Sadler’s Wells, London Art, Doha, Qatar, as part of the Definitely Able » » 8 Oct ICIA at University of Bath conference that explored issues of disability and » » 10 Oct Salisbury Arts Centre equal access to arts and culture in the Middle East. » » 15 Oct Dance City, Newcastle Upon Tyne Curated by the British Council and Shape Arts, the » » 18 Oct The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (part of Qatari exhibition showcased work by international Dance Live 2015) and Qatar based artists. This exhibition features » » 31 Oct-1 Nov Dundee Rep Theatre work by the four UK based artists from that show: » » 4 Nov The House at Plymouth University Jason Wilsher-Mills, Rachel Gadsen, Juan delGado » » 12 Nov Macphail Centre, Ullapool and Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings. »» 20 Nov Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester »» Curated by Ben Fredericks (Shape Arts) and Exhibition curated by Suffolk Artlink. Jerwood Khalifa Al Obaidly (Msheireb Arts Centre) DanceHouse, Ipswich. 2nd-3rd October October - To 21st November • Candoco Dance Company, ‘CounterActs’. Trinity • Deafinitely Theatre ‘Grounded’. Park Theatre, Laban, London. London. »» Hetain Patel, ’Let’s Talk About Dis’. »» Alexander Whitley, dance pieces, to score by November 2015 Nils Frahm. • Caglar Kimyoncu announced as winner of the 8th October Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary2016, including residency at The New Art Gallery Walsall. • Owen Lowery, ‘Otherwise Unchanged’. Morley Literature Festival, Leeds. 4th-8th November • ‘Outside In: Poetry Readings’, Pallant House • The first live art performance of Aaron Gallery, Chichester. Compered by poet, artist and Williamson, ‘Demonstrating the World’. Chapter Editor of Disability Arts Online Colin Hambrook, Arts, Cardiff, as part of Experimentica Festival. guest poets Vince Laws and Allan Sutherland. 7th November 9th October • Oska Bright Film Festival of short films made by • ‘Little Sparks’ seminar, Wales Millennium Centre, people with learning disabilities, Corn Exchange, Cardiff Bay. A new Mental Health Arts Festival for Brighton. Includes: Wales, ‘a taste of what we intend will become an all »» The Fish Police. Wales annual event’. A Disability Arts Cymru and »» Hardcore Productions on Tour, ‘Zombie Making Minds initiative. Performances by Gwyneth Crash’ Lewis, Julie McNamara, Sean Burn, Dai Sharkey. »» Barnet 16 and Aron Krause, ‘Kairo’ Keynote Speakers Eluned Parrott AM, Dr Peter »» Jez Colborne, ‘Soldiering On’, Byrne (founder of the Scottish Mental Health Arts »» Matthew Eggert ‘Out of the Hat’ and Film Festival), Mark Smith (Founder of Making »» Eric Bent, ‘Whinster Norville’ Minds). »» Short shorts, ‘Paw Prints’, ‘The Nasty 10th October Neighbour’ »» Stuart Maiden, ‘Drip’ • CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Sponsored Walk »» Ablevision Ireland, ‘ A Crack In Everything’ 2015, London SE5. 7th November - 17th January 13th-15th October • ‘Art, Life, Activism’. Exhibition to launch • Jack Dean, ‘Grandad and the Machine’. Camden University of Leicester’s new gallery at the Peoples’ Theatre, London. Written, performed Attenborough Arts Centre. With Tony Heaton, and music composed Jack Dean. Directed Polly Aaron Williamson, Noëmi Lakmaier, Adam Agg-Manning. Dramaturgy by Alex Chisholm. Reynolds, Bobby Baker, Liz Crow, Simon Raven, Performer/Technician Josh Lucas. Produced by Ann Whitehurst and David Hevey. LittleMighty. 7th November - 6th February 13th-17th October • ‘The Art of Bedlam: Richard Dadd’, Bethlem • Signdance Collective, ‘Bad Elvis’. Iris Theatre, St Museum of the Mind, Beckenham. Pauls Church, Covent Garden. 13th November 14th-19th October • Lizzie Emeh, ‘See Me Part 1 - The Clan’, EP Launch • ‘Living Portraits’ exhibition by visual artist Lynn at the Albany, London. Weddle and sound artist Anya Ustaszewski,working with four young carers. Brighton Media Centre, as 15th November part of the Photo Fringe Festival. ‘Living Portraits’ • ‘Live From Television Centre’. This two-hour prime project supported by Disability Arts Online. time live broadcast to mark the closure of BBC 28th October Television Centre features Touretteshero’s ‘Broadcast from Biscuit Land’, plus performances from Gecko, • Creative Minds East. Performances by Corali Richard DeDomenici, and Common Wealth. A fifth Dance Company, Dance East, Act One Arts Base’s performance by Islington Community Theatre is Freedom Dance, Razed Roof Theatre, Jez Colborne. released on BBC iPlayer the same day. Films from Zinc Arts and Oska Bright Film Festival. 20th November - 16th December ‘Hidden.’ • Together! Disability History Month Festival. »» Highly commended: Eileen Harrisson, Various venues, East London. Caroline Gill and Meg Kingston. Also Des »» 20 Nov-15 Jan Together! 2015 Open Mennay for second entry, ‘All My Own Work’. Exhibition, The Hub, London E16. 16th January - 5th March » » 26 Nov Signdance Collective International, • Tanya Raabe-Webber, ‘#SummitPortrayed’. ‘Carthage’. Old Town Hall, Stratford, London. Exhibition of portraits from Tanya Raabe-Webber’s » » 7 Dec Together! Music Club with Jo Cox & residency with Project Ability during the 4 – 6 Walton McClaren, River Centre, Canning Town, March ‘International Summit for learning disability London artists and their support studios’. Exhibition » » 11-13 Dec Together! 2015 Disability Film includes Raabe-Webber painting portrait of married Festival. Stratford Town Hall, London couple Robert Softley Gale and Nathan Gale live in » » 16 Dec Together! 2015 Sean Burn Poetry the gallery for the public to watch. Project Ability, Workshop and Festival Closing Party, The Hub, Glasgow. Canning Town, London. 16th January - 12th March 25th-28th November • Aidan Moesby (Curator), ‘An “in” with a stranger’. • Georgie Morrell ‘A Poke in the Eye’, Canal Cafe Featuring Catrin Andersson, Joanne Mitchell, Theatre, Little Venice, London. Zoe Preece, Tim Shaw. Llantarnam Grange Arts December 2015 Centre, Torfaen. The exhibition is a Tu Fewn project and presented as part of Llantarnam Grange Arts 3rd December Centre’s ‘Maker to Curator’ series. • Freewheelers Theatre Company, ‘ Amandla! The 18th-23rd January Story of Nelson Mandela’. Leatherhead Theatre, • ‘The Mind Machine’ exhibition by Outsider Art Surrey. organisation Mental Spaghetti, Menier Gallery, • Extant, ‘ Z eyeZ’. Filmpro lates, filmpro, London. London . New and existing artwork from Yvonne 4th December Mabs Francis, John Moore, Jan Arden, Marie-Louise • Daily Life Ltd with Bobby Baker, ‘Cure-All Plum, Mikey Georgeson, Lazz Ozerden, Vincent Karaoke’. Chats Palace, Hackney, London. Black and Terence Wilde. Includes: 30th December - 9th January »» Marie-Louise Plum, ‘Backyard Wrestling’, ‘The • Ems Coombes, ‘Welcome to my World’. Birdwood Strawberry Girl Thief’, ‘She Loves You’ » House Gallery, Totnes, Devon. » John Moore,’My Death’ »» Yvonne Mabs Francis, ‘The Bodily Time 2016 Machine’, ‘Manacles or Bracelets’, ‘The • Claire Cunningham is Artist in Residence with Impossibility of Being Inside the Head of Perth International Arts Festival, Australia and Someone Living’. Associate Artist at Tramway, Glasgow. 20th January - 19th March • Graeae Theatre, ‘The Solid Life of Sugar Water’ by January 2016 Jack Thorne . Touring: • Disability Arts Cymru launches an e-book »» 20 -30 Jan Theatre Royal Plymouth to celebrate results of its first Annual Poetry »» 2-6 Feb Birmingham Repertory Theatre Competition. Each poem was written in response »» 9 -13 Feb Royal Exchange Theatre, to a piece of artwork from DAC’s Annual Touring Manchester Exhibition 2015. The winning poems are »» 16-17 Feb The Dukes, Lancaster accompanied by the artworks that inspired them. »» 18-20 Feb Hull Truck Theatre »» First prize Rose Foran, ‘I Once Had a »» 22 Feb Cambridge Junction Heart’, inspired by Bríd Wyldearth, ‘Personal »» 26 Feb -19 Mar National Theatre, London independence Prayer’ 22nd January - 16th April »» Second prize Des Mannay, ‘Recovery’, • Mind the Gap, ‘Contained’, Features nine learning- a response to Vivi-Mari Carpelan, ‘Your disabled performers including Jez Colborne, indifference is breaking my heart’ Damien Grogan, Liam Bairstow, Paul Bates, Paul »» Third prize went to Gwenllian Jones, ‘Cuddio Wilshaw. Based on true stories from the cast. Mewn Cerdd, responding to Karen Harvey, Created in collaboration with Alan Lyddiard and on themes of mental illness, with each artist present Denis Darzacq’. Touring: to discuss their films. With Dolly Sen, Susan Young, »» 22 January MTG Studios Antonia Attwood. Institute of Psychiatry, Kings »» 22 January MTG Studios College, London. » » 25 January Gulbenkian, Canterbury 5th-21st February » » 26 January Gulbenkian, Canterbury • Shape Open 2016, ‘My Life’. Guest Projects, » » 9 February New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich London . » » 23 March The Albany, Deptford »» 10 Feb Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) talk, » » 24 March The Albany, Deptford ‘Becoming an Artist’. »» 14 April MTG Studios »» 15 April MTG Studios 5th-28th February »» 16 April 2MTG Studios • Casson & Friends in collaboration with Stopgap »» Special discussion/debate events at New Dance Company, ‘Night at the Theatre’, Wolsley Theatre: »» 5 Feb The Point, Eastleigh »» 8 February ‘Exploring Collaborative Practice’. »» 27-28 Feb The Vaults, Waterloo, London Workshop Lab ‘Leading in Collaboration’. Co- 6th-7th February led by learning-disabled Artists from Mind the • Changing Minds Festival. Including: Gap, CoCo Care & Spin Off (Dance East). Group »» 6,7 Feb Brigitte Aphrodite, ‘My Beautiful Black Discussions ‘Collaborative Practice’ Dog’. Directed Laura Keefe. »» 9 February ‘Leadership by Learning-disabled »» 6-7 Febr Sue MacLaine , ‘Can I Start Again Artists’. Panel Discussion with Amy Nettleton Please’. Conceived and written by Sue MacLaine. and Jamie Beddard (New Wolsey Theatre), Jez With Sue MacLaine and Nadia Nadarajah. Colborne & Joyce Lee (Mind the Gap), Sarah Outside eye and dramaturg: Jonathan Burrows. Watson and Gus Garside (Creative Minds), Producer: Jane McMorrow Bella Todd (Arts Journalist). »» 6 Feb Pre-concert talk: Madness and Genius 25th January - 24th February A panel of speakers including Marin Alsop • Daily Life Ltd and Bobby Baker, with Outside and Gillian Moore discuss composer Robert In and Bethlem Gallery ‘Letting in the Light’. Schumann and whether madness and genius are Exhibition is made up of artworks by artists with really linked. personal experience of mental health issues, »» 6 Feb Orchestra of the Age of featuring images of paintings, drawings, digital EnlightenmentMarin Alsop conductorPatricia and mixed media work by artists including Bobby Kopatchinskaja violin Baker, Dolly Sen, Jan Arden, Phil Baird and George »» Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme by Harding. The Grove, London, E15. Haydn (St. Anthony) »» Robert Schumann: Violin Concerto in D 27th-31st January minor • Attitude is Everything, ‘The Gloves Are On’ tour »» Robert Schumann: Symphony No.3 in E flat with Winter of ’82 (aka Kris Halpin) (Rhenish), Op.97 » » 27th Jan The Boileroom, Guildford »» This concert explores the music of Robert » » 28th Jan The Tin, Coventry Schumann. » » 30th Jan The Louisiana, Bristol »» 6 February Wishbone Theatre ‘Mountain » » 31st Jan Half Moon, Putney High, Valley Low’ Theatre project exploring what it’s like to live a fulfilling life with bipolar February 2016 affective disorder by taking up long-distance • Release of Leroy Moore’s new book, ‘Black Kripple cycling. Featuring live cycling and an immersive Delivers Poetry & Lyrics’. soundtrack by Conor OB. 1st-26th February »» 7 Feb Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin. • Graeae Theatre and the Central Illustration Anu Komsisoprano. György Kurtág: Kafka Agency, ‘Reframing the Myth’ exhibition. The Fragments, Op.24 Guardian, Kings Place, King’s Cross . »» 7 Feb Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon 2nd February conductor,Ed Cooke Co-Presenter and • The Art of Psychiatry short film evening. Showing Grand Memory Master. Wolfgang Amadeus the work of three film-makers whose work touches Mozart: Symphony No.40. For this special collaborative concert Cooke applies his playful • Sick! Festival and imaginative ‘memory palace’ techniques – »» 9-12 Mar SICK! Lab, ‘What Doesn’t Kill Us’. which he uses to improve memory retention – to Speakers, artists and contributors include Lemn Mozart’s 40th symphony. Nicholas Collon and Sissay MBE, Prof. Anthony Redmond OBE, Kim Aurora Orchestra provide musical illustration, Noble, Bryony Kimmings, Hetain Patel, Prof. culminating in a memorised performance of the James Thompson, Quarantine, Prof. Bobbie complete symphony. Farsides, Prof. Jackie Stacy, Prof. Michael Brady, »» Southbank Centre, London Dr. Jonathan Mair and Disability Arts Online. » 6th February - 15th May » Performances: » • Derek Culley Paintings. The Atkinson, Southport. » 9th-10th March Bryony Kimmings, ‘Fake It ‘til You Make It’ with Tim 12th February Grayburn • Guardian Live event ‘A Nation’s Theatre: Disability’ »» 11th March Various Artists ‘Lab Test’ in Wolverhampton, in association with Battersea Extracts from new works that explore Arts Centre, Arena Theatre and Unlimited. issues of physical, mental or social health Guardian theatre critic Lyn Gardner and a panel and well-being, followed by a chaired discuss opportunities and obstacles. The panel discussion with the audience features Sophie Partridge (Rhinestone Rollers, »» 12th March Kim Noble, ‘You’re Not Song of Semmersuaq), Kinny Gardner (Krazy Kat Alone’ Theatre Company), Garry Robson (Birds of Paradise »» 18 Mar Thomas F.Defrantz (Us) ‘I Am Theatre Company) Dr Paul Darke (Outside Centre), Black……You Have to Be Willing to Not Jo Verrent (Unlimited). Part of A Nation’s Theatre Know’. Contact, Manchester season. »» 22,23 Mar Robert Softley ‘If These 24th February - 12th March Spasms Could Speak’, Home, Manchester • Myrtle Theatre Company and Salisbury Playhouse, »» 24 Mar Anoek Nuyens, ‘Help’. Home, ‘Up Down Man’. With Nathan Bessell, Vic Manchester Llewellyn, Emily Bowker. Salisbury Playhouse. »» 24 Mar Michael Essien, ‘I Want to Play a s You …’ 25th February - 16th March »» 25 Mar ‘A Sense of Belonging’ • Birds of Paradise Theatre Company Present: »» Sue Maclaine and Nadia Nadarajah, ‘Can Purposeless Movements, Glasgow, Edinburgh and I Start Again Please?’ Inverness. Dance theatre piece that riffs on the »» Contact, Oxford Road, Manchester stories of five guys with cerebral palsy. From stories • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist told by Laurence Clark, Colin Young , Jim Fish, Pete 8 Exhibition with Caglar Kimyoncu (bursary Edwards. Dramaturg Luke Pell, movement direction recipient), Anna Berry, Anne Teahan, Pam Newall. Rachel Drazek , music Scott Twynholm, Alasdair Gray. Written and directed by Robert Softley Gale. 1st March »» 25-27 Feb Tramway, Glasgow • Kaite O’Reilly, ‘ Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors: »» 2-4 Mar Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Selected Plays’ (Oberon books). Includes the plays: »» 16 Mar Eden Court, Inverness ‘peeling’, ‘The Almond and the Seahorse’, ‘In Water I’m Weightless’, ‘The 9 Fridas’,‘ Cosy’. 26th February • Vici Wreford-Sinnott, ‘Butterfly’. Arc, Stockton- • Angryfish Album Launch. Support from Cosmic On-Tees, Nomad. Black Thursday, Birmingham. 3rd March - 24th April 27th February • ‘Inside Out’ multi-artist exhibition addressing the • Sally Edwards, disabled LGBT author, reads an issue of Outsider Art. With Darren Adcock, Nick excerpt from her debut novel ‘How To Love’, as part Blinko, Peter Darach, Andrea Joyce Heimer, Carlo of Hampshire Pride 2016. Discovery Centre Arts Keshishian, Joel Lorand, David Maclagan, Richard Centre, Winchester. Nie, Mehrdad Rashidi, Mit Senoj, Marlene Steyn, March 2016 Jenna Kayleigh Wilkinson. Curated in collaboration with David Maclagan. Castlefield Gallery, • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘Stepping Stones’ by Manchester. Mike Kenny. Directed by Jenny Sealey. Schools tour as part of the Ensemble training programme. 5th March »» 13 Apr Dorchester • Caglar Kimyoncu, Open studio sharing event. »» 14 Apr The Point, Eastleigh Caglar shares audio bites and film clips gathered »» 15-16 Apr Arts Depot, London from his research in Walsall as part of the 2015- »» 19 Apr Harlow Playhouse 16 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary. New Art »» 22-23 April Gloucester, Collaborative Touring Gallery, Walsall. Network » 8th-12th March » 29-30 April Thanet, Collaborative Touring • Kaite O’Reilly , ‘Cosy’ (World premiere). Wales Network » Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Director Phillip » 7-8 May, Great Yarmouth, Collaborative Zarrilli, assistant producer (Tom Wentworth Touring Network 9th-12th March 11th March • ‘Unsung’, a DaDaFest and Turf Love production • ‘Art D’Visions’, one-day conference organised by inspired by words and events in the life of Liverpool Dadafest addressing the lack of diversity within both abolitionist, poet and human rights campaigner, mainstream and Disability Arts. Everyman Theatre, Edward Rushton. Everyman, Liverpool Liverpool. 9th March 19th-23rd March • Mind the Gap, ‘Contained : True Stories from the • ActionSpace, ‘Shop of Curiosity’. 11 ActionSpace Heart’ New Wolsely Theatre, Ipswich. artists create work in response to the setting of Geddes Gallery, a former delicatessen. Featuring 10th March work by: Adam Crown, Ali Kamalati, Amita • CanCanCan Festival, showcasing the work of solo Ramchandani, Andrew Omoding, Hymie performers with a learning disability. Headlined by Aaronberg, Ian Wornast, Jackie Murin, Jimmy Cian Binchy’s’ The Misfit Analysis’ and supported Thorne, Thompson Hall, Tim Nixon and Tony by comedian Nicky Priest, poet Vicki Taylor and Allan. Geddes Gallery, Kings Cross London. physical theatre performer Jake Jarvis amng others. 19th March - 25th June Portraits by artist Rory Baird are on display. The CanCanCan Festival forms part of ‘Is That All There • Ramps On The Moon present ‘The Government Is?’ two day conference (9th-10th). Birmingham Inspector’, touring: » Hippodrome. » 19-26 Mar Birmingham Repertory Theatre »» 6-16 Apr New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 10th March - 8th May »» 20-30 Apr West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds • Touretteshero, ‘Backstage in Biscuit Land’, touring. »» 4-14 May Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham »» 10 Marc Nottingham Playhouse »» 8-28 May Theatre Royal Stratford East, »» 11, 12 Marc Heads Up Festival, Hull London »» 15 Marc Farnham Maltings »» 1-11 Jun Everyman Theatre, Liverpool »» 16, 17 Mar Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury »» 17-25 Jun The Crucible, Sheffield »» 19, 20 Mar Jabberwocky Market Festival, 25th March Darlington »» 22 Mar Quarry Theatre, Bedford • Sue Maclaine and Nadia Nadarajah, ‘Can I Start »» 23 Mar The Mill, Banbury Again Please?’ at Camden People’s Theatre as part of »» 24 Mar Chipping Norton Theatre Sprint Festival. »» 26 Mar New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 30th March »» 30 Mar Hertford Theatre • Disability Arts Online reports that Stopgap’s »» 31 Mar Thameside Theatre, Grays ‘Artificial Things’ is to be included on the GCSE »» 1 Apr Colchester Arts Centre Dance syllabus - the first time that it has been »» 2 Apr Norwich Playhouse mandatory for all Dance GCSE students to study »» 5 Apr Old Fire Station, Oxford work involving disabled professional practitioners. »» 6 Apr Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham »» 7 Apr The Spring, Havant April 2016 »» 8 Apr Cornerstone, Didcot 1st April » » 9 Apr South Street, Reading • ‘In Conversation’, Discussion event on Arts, » » 10 Apr Torbay, Collaborative Touring Network Disability and Collaborative Practice. FACT » » 12 Apr Cambridge Junction Liverpool. With exhibition by Simon McKeown. 3rd-29th April May 2016 • Extant, ‘The Chairs’ by Eugene Ionesco, with Tim • Priya Mistry, ‘Musical Mental Health Cabaret’, Gebbels and Heather Gilmore Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester. »» 3 Apr Harlow Playhouse 5th-22nd May »» 12 ,13 Apr mac Birmingham • Discover Art in Recovery Exhibition (DARE) »» 15 Apr The Lowry, Salford Quays Showcase of art work undertaken by more than »» 28, 29 Apr Stratford Circus, London 30 people who use NHS Mental Health Services. 6th April Barnet Arts Depot, London. • SickBitchCrips introduce ‘VeeDee’, with video ‘If 6th-21st May Only I was Normal’. • ActionSpace, ‘Watch This Space’. Series of 8 6th-16th April interactive installation workshops. Southside • ‘Shoddy exhibition’. An exhibition of textile art by Shopping Centre, Wandsworth, London. disabled artists. Live Art Bistro, Leeds. 7th-29th May 8th-25th April • Bekki Perriman, ‘The Doorways Project’. Site- • Cameron Morgan, ‘TV Classics Pt. 1’, nine specific sound installation piece, ‘which will sit paintings using iconic television imagery . Project inconspicuously round the back of shops, in fire Ability, Glasgow. exits and other spaces where you might find a 8th April - 1st May homeless person’. • Paul and Daniel Brown, ‘Scouse Roots: Art that • ‘Unlimited: Three Films at Brighton Festival’, makes itself’. New show by Liverpudlian father and Brighton Dome Cafe Bar. son artist duo. FACT, Liverpool. »» Richard Butchins, ‘213 Things About Me’ »» Sheila Hill, ‘Him’. With Tim Barlow. 14th April »» Craig Simpson, ‘It’s Like…’ • Sean Burn, ‘With Added Nuts’. ‘A wittily honest look at Sean’s lived experience of mental distress 9th-30th May fusing the humour of live art with autobiographical • Silent Faces, ‘Follow Suit’ at Brighton Fringe spoken word.’ Recovery College, Newcastle upon Festival. (Brighton Fringe iF Bursary). Tyne. »» 9 May Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton. 14th-16th April »» 27-30 May The Warren, St Peter’s Church • 2016 Mind the Gap: ‘Contained’. MtG Studios, Grounds, Brighton . Bradford. 12th May 22nd April • Sean Burn, ‘Cracking Up’. ‘A compelling • Strike a Light Festival present ‘Arts and Disability: durational live art performance from Sean Burn Why programme work by disabled artists?’ that opens up space for discussion around mental Gloucester Guildhall. distress.’ Recovery College, Newcastle upon Tyne. »» Jo Verrent & Simon Overington-Hickford (Unlimited ) From 12th May »» Rebecca Dawson( Candoco Dance Company) • Esther Fox, ‘Pandora’s Box’. Who Am I gallery, the »» Anthony Roberts( Colchester Arts Centre) Science Museum. »» Jess Thom (Touretteshero) 13th May »» Twocan Nickie Wildin (GDance & Gareae • Lizzie Emeh, EP Launch of ‘My Baboo’. The Associate Artist) Albany, Deptford, London. »» Event includes performance of Touretteshero, 16th-26th May ‘Backstage in Biscuit Land’. • Birds of Paradise and Òran Mór, ‘Role Shift’ by 30th April - 29th May Lesley Hart. With Natalie MacDonald , Louise • Thompson Hall: ‘Home Away from Home’ Solo McCarthy, Robert Softley Gale. exhibition commissioned by Outside In and HOUSE »» 16th-21st May Òran Mór, Glasgow Festival, Brighton. Regency Town House. »» 24th-26th May Ayr Gaiety June 2016 3rd June - 9th November • Touring throughout June ‘Exceptional and • Freewheelers Theatre Company, ‘Destiny Extraordinary’. A collaborative project involving Betrayed’. film-maker David Hevey, comedian Francesca »» 3 Jun Birley Centre, Eastbourne Martinez, dance company Deaf Men Dancing led by »» 20 Sep Qeii School, Horsham Mark Smith, artist and playwright Julie McNamara. »» 8 Oct Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford With the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of »» 9 Nov Leatherhead Theatre Surgeons of England (RCS); the Science Museum; »» 5 Jun Sue Maclaine and Nadia Nadarajah, ‘Can the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Thackray I Start Again Please?’ at New Wolsey Theatre as Medical Museum, Leeds; the Royal London Hospital part of Pulse Festival Museum and Archives; Surgeons’ Hall Museums 7th June at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; • Disability Arts Online launches with new website, Museum of the Mind; Langdon Down Museum of as part of its Grants for the Arts project, Viewfinder. Learning Disability. • Bekki Perriman, ‘The Doorways Project’. Edge 7th-29th June Hill Station, Liverpool. • ‘Exceptional & Extraordinary’, new commissions • Aidan Moseby appointed Disability Associate at inspired by the collections of eight UK medical Salisbury International Arts Festival. He e-curates museums ‘a series of changing interventions which highlight »» Deaf Men Dancing, ‘Let Us Tell You a Story…’ issues around disability in a playful and gently With Antony Snowden, Shane Dennis Pearson provocative manner’. His imaginary newspaper, and Hearns Sebuado ‘The Daily Compulsion’, shows a changing headline »» Francesca Martinez ‘Francesca Martinez’s of ‘questions and statements which people with Wobbly Manifesto’ disabilities often experience or are directly »» Julie McNamara ‘Hold the Hearse!’ challenged with’. In the Playhouse a bell jar houses a »» David Hevey, ‘The Fight For Life’ changing installation which highlights some of the »» Venues include: Langdon Down Centre, pejorative language and stereotypes around mental Teddington; Hunterian Museum Royal College health. of Surgeons; Royal College of Physicians; • DaiSYFest 2016 Includes DAO event ‘Words That Thackray Medical Museum; Surgeons’ Hall Defy Normality’, ‘a smorgasbord of humorous, Museums; Royal College of Surgeons of reflective, autobiographical poetry and performance’ Edinburgh; Bethlem Museum of The Mind, from Penny Pepper, Allan Sutherland and Dolly Sen. Beckingham; Science Museum, London June - August June - Until 4th July • The National Theatre’s latest production of Brecht’s • ‘What Goes On In The Mind’, exhibition by Threepenny Opera classic sports a diverse cast of 18 artists with lived experience of mental health actors including the earthy, comic presence of Jamie conditions. Museum of Oxford. Beddard, long-loved veteran of the disability arts 18th June movement. • Priya Mistry, ‘Musical Mental Health Cabaret’. 1st-5th June Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester. • ‘Twisted Tales’ Disability Arts Festival. Includes 21st-25th June workshops and performance from Candoco Dance • Art collective, Intoart, presents its first public Company, poet Mike Garry, artist Liz Fitzgerald- fundraising exhibition with over 100 artworks Taylor. Theatre production by YOU CAN by artists with learning disabilities and autism. Community Club, directed by Eleanor Samson. Exhibiting artists include: Ruth Alemayehu, 2nd-18th June Ntiense Eno Amooquaye, Selina Helene, Udehi • James Smith, ‘Steampunk Chassis’. Sculptures Imienwanrin, Kevin Jacobs, Mawuena Kattah, hand-made and upcycled by ReConnect artist James Henry Nzekwu. Christian Ovonlen, Yoshiko Smith. Project Ability, Glasgow. Phillips, Philomena Powell, Lisa Trim, Andre Williams and Clifton Wright. 3rd June • British Paraorchestra and Extraordinary Bodies 23rd June - 3rd July perform Terry Riley’s ‘In C’. ‘This is a happening, not • Hijinx Unity Festival. Wales Millennium Centre a concert.’ Fast Forward at Colston Hall, Bristol. and The Other Room Theatre, Cardiff. »» Moomsteatern adaptation of August August Strindberg’s A Dream Play 5th-30th August »» Compañía Danza Mobile • Sue Maclaine and Nadia Nadarajah, ‘Can I Start »» Caroline Bowditch, ‘Falling in love with Frida’ Again Please?’ Red Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, »» Told by an Idiot, ‘ Cabaret of Blood.’ Edinburgh. »» 23 Jun-2 Jul Hijinx, Meet Fred »» 29 Jun Candoco Dance Company, a new love 6th August - 1st October duet choreographed by Arlene Phillips CBE • ‘The Threepenny Opera’ re-opens at the National »» 2-3 Jul Weekend of free performances on The Theatre. Hayes, Cardiff City Centre. Includes: 8th August »» Taking Flight Theatre Company walkabout • Disability Arts Online announce that they have production, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ been awarded £150,000 over three years through »» Zim Zam tyre-based zany circus the Arts Council’s Elevate programme, designed to »» Blaumeier-Atelier walkabout ‘The strengthen the resilience of art organisations which Chambermaids’ are not receiving National Portfolio funding in the »» Kazzum ‘Sprung’ and period 2015–18, but which demonstrate that they »» Hijinx, ‘The Pods’ make a significant contribution to the Creative Case for Diversity. July 2016 • Launch of Disability Arts International, a website 16th August and digital newsletter from the British Council, • Liberty Festival, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park produced by Disability Arts Online. (as part of National Paralympic Day) • Heart ‘n Soul Radio launch two new podcast »» Two new outdoor shows commissioned series, ‘The Chatterbox ‘ and ‘The Awesome especially for the Liberty Festival Recorders’. »» Deaf and Hearing Ensemble, ‘Nodus Tollens’, • Disability Arts Cymru Annual Poetry from Competition 2016. Theme ‘Austerity and/or »» Nicola Miles Wildin and Daryl Beeton, ‘Bingo Extravagance’. Lingo’ »» Touch Compass, ‘Grotteschi’ 6th-14th July »» the Up! Orchestra, a large scale musical • Young DaDaFest, Liverpool project with learning disabled musicians, »» 6 Jul ‘Young DaDaFest Music’. Music Room, featuring Brazilian artists, supported by the Liverpool Philharmonic Embassy of Brazil; »» 14 Jul ‘Young DaDaFest Perform’. Liverpool »» Mind the Gap Band featuring Jez Colborne; Everyman Theatre »» Norwich based Indie band Hemingway; 12th July - 14th August »» Kris Halpin, who uses Mimu gloves • Shadowlight Artists ‘Creative Bridges’ technology in his performances ,Cornerstone Galley, Didcot. Work by Richard Hunt, »» Rockinpaddy led by John Kelly; Mark Hemsworth, Thomas Breach, Lucy Skuce, »» Lizzie Emeh Big Band, who has recently Russell Highsmith, Danny Smith. released her new EP; soprano »» Victoria Oruwari, and, 16th July - 1st October »» Billy Saga Brazilian rapper working in • ‘Portraits Untold’. Tanya Raabe-Webber holds a association with Drake Music series of live portrait events. Sitters are percussionist »» Together! 2012 will present a community Dame Evelyn Glennie (National Portrait Gallery, programme of film, comedy, music, poetry, 22nd July); Neil Baldwin, Stoke City FC mascot theatre and dance. and subject of the BBC BAFTA award winning »» Colourscape in collaboration with Laura film Marvellous Neil Baldwin (Stoke City Football Dajao, ‘Symphony of the Senses’,an inflatable Club, 19th September), artist filmmaker and walk through installation, hosting a multi- recipient of BAFTA’s life time achievement award sensory performance John Akomfrah OBE (16th July, Birmingham »» Amelia Cavallo, ‘Sailing Through The Dark’ Museum & Art Gallery,) and star of Channel 4’s The »» Marc Brew Company’s ‘Uchronia’, presented Divine David and avant-garde performance artist by Sadler’s Wells, and an afternoon of David Hoyle (1st October National Trust property performances at the Big Dance Bus. Beningbrough Hall). 17th August »» Touretteshero Jess Thom performs stand-up • DaDaFest announces that the organisation have for the first time received a grant of more than £275,000 from Big »» Arlene Phillips choreographs a love duet for Lottery Fund to be used for a new project called Candoco Dance Company with Dancers Joel ‘DaDaFest Rookies’. The project aims to increase Brown and Laura Patay employability within the creative sector for young »» Conversations on what it is to be human with disabled people through training, mentoring and playwright Kaite O’Reilly placements within arts organisations. »» Sitarist Baluji Shrivastav and violinist Takashi Kikuchi September 2016 »» Exhibitions of painting and drawing by • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘The Garden’ by Cameron Morgan and of artists from Atelier Alex Bulmer. Directed by Jenny Sealey and Grant Corners in Osaka, Japan Mouldey. Performed in Brazil during the period of »» Nye Russel-Thomson aka Stammermouth, the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. ‘Just a few Words’ • ‘Doing Things Differently’, an event celebrating »» Lemn Sissay hosts the 2016 Creative Future equality and participation for everybody, hosted by Literary Awards Bristol City Council and Diverse City. 17th-18th »» 10 September ‘Are some more equal than September ‘Weighting’ by Extraordinary Bodies. others?’ Tony Heaton chairs discussion panel 3rd September including Claire Cunningham, Rachel Gadsden, • ‘Perceptions of Difference’. Hilary Porter, John Ivan Riches and Nicola. O’Donoghue, Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Frank 15th-25th September Bangay the Bard of Hackney! MC’d by Colin • Unlimited Festival, Tramway, Glasgow Hambrook. Saison Poetry Library, Royal Festival »» 21st Century Challenges ‘43 Percent’, new Hall . multi-media work, created and performed by 4th September Gary Gardiner and Ian Johnston, which explores • Liberty 2016 Jez Colborne with Mind the Gap the medical and social definitions of being Band, Deaf and Hearing Ensemble perform Nodus human. » Tollens ‘a piece for fun aliens’. Together Tent » Claire Cunningham & Jess Curtis ‘The Way includes Jo-Anne Cox playing electric cello. Penny You Look (At Me) Tonight‘ » Pepper comperes the main music stage. Rowan » Liz Carr, ‘ Assisted Suicide, The Musical’. » James new piece Deaf Eye collaborating with Malene » Jo Bannon, ‘Alba’ » Becker and MC Geezer. » Marc Brew Company with Natalia Mallo and Gisele Calazans , ‘MayBe’. Live music by 3rd-18th September Natalia Mallo on guitar, vocal and electronic • Brazilian rapper Billy Saga’s first UK Tour, programming, Edward Cohen on piano and produced by Drake Music for Unlimited. Liam Chapman on drums. »» 3 Sept Liberty Festival, Queen Elizabeth »» NCA Small Theatre, ‘Hiraeth’ Olympic Park, London »» Sheila Hill, ‘Him’, with Tim Barlow »» 7 Sept DM Collaborate free workshop at »» Aaron Williamson, ‘Demonstrating the World’ Furtherfield, London »» Candoco, ‘Counteracts’ double bill »» 9 Sept Beautiful Octopus Club Festival at »» Hetain Patel, ‘Let’s Talk About Dis’ Southbank Centre #BOCFest »» Alexander Whitley, ‘Beheld’ »» 16 Sept Bristol, Colston Hall Foyer, 6pm »» Group exhibition of Japanese outsider art »» 18 Sept Sage Gateshead »» Nama Ato, with musical scores by Koji 6th-11th September Nishioka • Unlimited Festival 2016 Southbank Centre »» Makoto Okawa »» Liz Carr, ‘Assisted Suicide: The Musical’ »» Yasuyuki Ueno »» Claire Cunningham and Jess Curtis, ‘The Way »» Cameron Morgan with Project Ability ‘Put You Look (At Me) Tonight’ your sweet lips closer to the phone’ »» Sheila Hill, ‘Him’, with Tim Barlow »» Bekki Perriman, ‘The Doorways Project’ »» Noëmi Lakmaier, ‘Cherophobia’ »» What Next? Symposium »» Rachel Bagshaw and Chris Thorpe, New »» Exhibition of a Billy Saga music video theatre on living with pain 15th September - 15th January Deptford.) Praise by Dolly Sen In DAO for its • ‘Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond’. Wellcome representation of psychosis. Collection, London. Includes Eva Kotátková’s 20th-22nd October ‘Asylum’; James Leadbitter and MadLove’s, ‘Designer • Sheila Hill, ‘Him’, with Tim Barlow. Edinburgh Asylum’; Richard Dadd, ‘Portrait of Sir Alexander Traverse. Morison’. 21st October 26th September • Signdance Collective International, ‘Bad Elvis’. • ‘TENSE – a digital discourse on painful living’. Actors Church, Covent Garden. With Isolte Avila, Curated by Sarah Pickthall and Genevieve Smith- Pedro de Senna, Irina Kaplan and David Bower. Nunes. Installations by Jon Adams and Rachel Bagshaw. Presentations by Genevieve Smith-Nunes, 22nd October - 15th November Howard Hardiman, Clare Plumley. The Lighthouse, • Colin Hambrook and Bruchinaarts. Together! Brighton. Part of Brighton Digital Festival. exhibition. Canning Town, London. 24th October October 2016 • Robert Softley, ‘ If These Spasms Could Speak’. • Oliver MacDonald is announced as winner of the (Heart of Glass & DaDaFest in association with Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary 2017, including Homotopia). The Citadel, St Helens. residency at Turner Contemporary, Margate. • Nov Northern Festivals Network and Unlimited 27th October announce the commission of two disability–led • Deafinitely Theatre, ‘Grounded’. Park Theatre, pieces of art: Caroline Bowditch, ‘Squirt – or London. What do Snails do inside their Shells’, and Aidan 28th October Moesby, ‘A Nice Day For It’. The works will be at • Creative Minds East conference. Jerwood Dance Bluedot Festival, Just So Festival, Kendal Calling, House, Ipswich, Suffolk. Ramsbottom Festival, Underneath the Stars, and »» Discussion of ’how we define quality in Cloudspotting Festival in Summer 2017. learning disability arts’. Presented by artists with 6th-8th October learning disabilities from ActOne ArtsBase, • Sheila Hill, ‘Him’, with Tim Barlow ,Birmingham Dance East, Suffolk Artlink, Razed Roof Theatre Rep. Co , Zinc Arts, Carousel. Until 31st October 29th October - 1st November • ‘OutsiderXchanges’. Baltic Centre for • Angela Dawn Wright, Giovanna Maria Casetta, Contemporary Arts. Rowan James & Tonny ‘Moving Mountains’. A three-screen video work exploring issues of 11th October disability and power. Toynbee Studios, London. • ‘Reshaping Our Future: Theatre and Disability’ one-day conference, organised in collaboration 31st October between Park Theatre, Graeae Theatre Company • DASH launch ‘The Incorrigibles: Perspectives and UK Disability History Month. on Disability Visual Arts in the 20th and 21st Centuries’, featuring artwork by, and interviews 13th October with, 14 prominent disabled artists.: Bobby Baker, • Sir Nicholas Serota announces that sculptor Oliver Çaglar Kimyoncu, Cameron Morgan, Christine Macdonald will be the successful recipient of Shape Sun Kim, David Hevey, Jon Adams, Juan delGado, Arts’ 2016/17 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Nancy Willis, Noëmi Lakmaier, Rachel Gadsden, and accompanying three month artist residency, sean burn, Simon Mckeown, Susan Austin and hosted by Turner Contemporary, Margate. Tanya Raabe-Webber. Essays by: Amanda Cachia, • Daily Life Ltd, featuring the Roving Diagnostic Tony Heaton and Craig Ashley. ‘The Incorrigibles’ Unit, take over the William Morris Gallery. emerged out of conversations that took place after 15th October - 18th December DASH’s 2015 ‘Awkward Bastards’ conference. • Faiza Butt, ‘Paracosm’. Attenborough Arts Centre, (Compiled and edited by DASH. Published University of Leicester. mac birmingham. Distributed Cornerhouse Publications.) 19th-29th October • Belarus Free Theatre, ‘Tomorrow I was Always a Lion’. Arcola Theatre, Hackney. (Then The Albany, November 2016 24th November - 10th February • Learning-disabled actor Nicky Priest is cast by 5th-6th November the RSC in Anders Lustgarten’s ‘The Seven Acts of • Birds of Paradise, ‘Miranda and Caliban: The Mercy’, The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon. Making of a Monster’. Directed Garry Robson and Robert Softley-Gale. Two linked accessible 26th November - 5th January productions in vastly different time zones and four • ‘Auto Agents’, curated by the AaA collective, languages: the cast in Hong Kong work in Cantonese a group of five artists with learning disabilities: and Hong Kong Sign Language, and the Scotland Hannah Bellass, Tony Carroll, Diana Disley, Leah cast work in English with British Sign Language. Jones and Eddie Raue. Bluecoat, Liverpool. The The show occurs in both places simultaneously, exhibition forms part of the AHRC funded PhD linked via live video of performances from each study, ‘Art as Advocacy’ at the University of Leeds, country; it is also live-streamed. in collaboration with self advocacy group Halton Speak Out and Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project Blue 18th November - 3rd December Room. • DaDaFest 2016. Highlights include: »» Amadou and Mariam December 2016 »» Matin O’Brien, Sheree Rose and Rhiannon • Vince Laws paints ‘Debbie the Sunflower’ in Aarons, ‘The Viewing’ memory of Debbie Jolly, co-founder of Disabled »» DaDaFest International Congress, ‘All the People Against Cuts. world’s a stage… But not if you can’t get on it.’ »» Liz Carr ‘Assisted Suicide: The Musical’ 1st December »» Claire Cunningham, ‘Guide Gods’ • National Portrait Gallery hosts an event »» Joey Hateley, ‘diRTy’ celebrating the culmination of Tanya Raabe- »» Tim Jeeves, ‘The Kindness of Strangers’ Webber’s ‘Portraits Untold’. »» ‘Burlesque from Biscuitland’, cabaret show 12th-24th December hosted by Jess Thom (aka TourettesHero) • ‘Art of Norwich 46: Enlightening the Eye’s Mind’ »» 23 Nov Owen Lowery reading from , including four Disabled People Against the Cuts ‘Otherwise Unchanged’ and ‘Rego Retold’. paintings by Vince Laws. St Margaret’s Church of »» 25th Nov Invisible Flash, ‘Maddy and the Art, Norwich. Invisible Band of Groovers’. »» ‘11 Million Reasons to Dance’. Photographic 3rd December exhibition by Sean Goldthorpe. • The Bush Theatre announces today that »» 29 Nov New piece by local disabled dancers Deafinitely Theatre will become one of their new Ella Together, plus a duet by Kate Marsh and Associate Artists. This is part of the launch of Welly O’Brien, associate artists with Candoco a new talent development strategy designed to Dance Company. revolutionise the diversity and quality of artists and artistic leadership in the UK. 18th November - 11th December • Creative Future, ’Tight Modern’. Touring pop-up 10th December gallery showcasing the work of sixty disabled and • Together! 2016 Disability Film Festival includes marginalised artists, including those experiencing UK premiere of ‘A Normal Life’ (2016) by US ill-health, homelessness, financial issues, and social filmmaker Alex Herz. Newham, London. exclusion. 12th December »» 18 No -11 Dec 2016 Jubilee Library, Brighton • Arts Council England launches its diversity data »» 15 Dec-4 Jan St. Helens Central Library report ‘Equality, Diversity and the Creative Case »» 5 Jan-25 Jan 2017 Haydock Library, St Helens 2015/16’ at the ‘Power Through Diversity’,Contact »» 26 Jan-15 Feb 2017 Eccleston Library, St Manchester’. Helens 23rd December »» 20 Feb-2 Mar 2017 Redbridge Library, Ilford • ‘Dozen: The Best of Breath and Shadow’, ed »» 3 Mar-end March 2017 Aspex Gallery, Chris Kuell. Essays, poems, and short stories Portsmouth from the first 12 years of ‘Breath and Shadow’, the 23rd November ‘literary journal of disability culture’. CreateSpace • ‘Beyond the Frame’ symposium, Wales Independent Publishing Platform and ebook. Millennium Centre. 2017 »» 12th Feb Yolanda Mercy, ‘On the Edge of Me’ »» 12 Feb Casson & Friends, ‘Night at the January 2017 Theatre’ • Wendy Young, ‘The Dream of Somewhere Else’ »» 25- Feb Rowan James, ‘DeafEye’ published by Survivors’ Poetry as an ebook. • Yvonne J. Foster,’ Inside’, ‘an artist’s exploration of February 2017 living with depression’ published as an ebook. (First 3rd-25th February published in 2013 by Creative Future.). • Graeae Theatre Company, ‘The House of Bernarda • Jan Kaleido Film Collective and Feral Foxy Ladies Alba’, by Federico García Lorca. Translated by Jo , ’Balancing Acts – a textured tale of depression’ with Clifford. Directed by Jenny Sealey. Royal Exchange Katherine Vince. Network Theatre, London, as part Theatre, Manchester. of The Vaults Festival. 15th February 19th January - 2nd February • Vince Laws announces his new project, ‘A Very • Shape Open 2017, ‘Power: The Politics of Queer Nazi Faust’, ‘an experimental participatory Disability’. Includes Dolly Sen, ‘Help The Normals’; theatre project to celebrate 50 years since the partial Michelle Anderson, ‘She Wants to be Normal’; decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, and Skye Shadowlight, ‘Shade School’; Connor Collin, to highlight the plight of disabled people under the ‘Trump’; Paula De Santis Smith, ‘Judgement Day current government’. (Work Capability Assessment)’; Aidan Moesby, ‘Timed Out (ii)’; Lizz Brady, ‘Hitting My Head 17th-19th February Against a Brick Wall’; Bob Spriggs, ‘Under Pressure/ • ‘The Sick of the Fringe’, 3-day festival Crushed’; Justin Piccirilli, ‘Fuck the DWP’. commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. Various venues across London. 20th January • Hijinx, in association with Blind Summit, launch 21st-25th February ‘Meet Fred’ on a 50+ date tour. Chapter Arts Centre, • Door Ajar Theatre, ‘Thisbe’. Theatre Royal Cardiff. Then touring Germany, Spain, Czech Stratford East. Then touring nationally. Written Republic and Holland. Samantha Sutherland, directed Roberta Zuric, musical direction David Hewson, BSL interpretation 24th-26th January Jennifer Wilson. • ‘Crossing the Line Festival’ from three leading European learning-disability theatre companies: From 28th February Mind the Gap (Bradford, UK), ‘CONTAINED’, • Stopgap Dance Company, ‘The Enormous Room’. Compagnie de l’Oiseau Mouche (Roubaix, France) With David Toole, Hannah Sampson, Nadenh Poan, ‘Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse’ and Moomsteatern Christian Brinklow, Meritxell Checa, Amy Butler. (Malmo, Sweden) ‘A dream play’. Roubaix, France. Directed and choreographed by Lucy Bennett. »» 28 Feb Surrey University 26th January »» 2 and 3 Mar Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells • Vici Wreford Sinnott, ‘Butterfly’, one-woman »» Then touring Leap Festival, Liverpool; theatre piece with Jaqueline Phillips, which explores Arc, Stockton-onTees ; Pavilion Dance, the history of stigma and misrepresentations of Bournemouth; Kammer Theater, Munich. mental health throughout the ages. Arc Stockton. Then touring until April 2017 to London, Lincoln, March 2017 Exeter, Oxford, Harrogate, Washington, Halifax, Newcastle, Deptford and Bradford, with possible 2nd-26th March further dates to be added. • Yvonne J Foster, Deborah Petch, Rachel Redfern (facilitator), ‘Drawing Insight’, the exhibition of the 27th January - 26th February results of the Insight Project: a collaborative project • Stopgap Dance Company and VAULT Festival developed by Outside In at Pallant House Gallery announce iF @ VAULT, programming emerging and University of Chichester. Pallant House Gallery, artists and companies who have been supported by Chichester. Stopgap through iF over the last two years. »» 27-28 Jan Lost Voice Guy, ‘Disability for 7th-11th March Dunces: Volume 2’. • Signdance Collective International, ‘Bad Elvis’. »» 11 Feb Yolanda Mercy, ‘The Millennial Hour’ Matthews Yard, Croydon from 2016. 8th-25th March • Unlimited commissions announced at conferences • May Mind the Gap tour ‘CONTAINED’ in Manchester and Hull: »» 8-9 Mar Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, »» Main Commissions: Halifax »» The British Paraorchestra, VELOCITY – »» 10-11 Mar West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds (Music) »» 4-5 May Northern Stage, Newcastle upon »» Owen Lowery, Transitions ,(Literature) Tyne »» Jackie Hagan, Jumble Soul, (Theatre) »» 24-25 May The Lowry, Salford »» Jo Bannon, We Are Fucked, (Theatre) » 10th March » Kai Syng Tan, ‘We sat on a mat and had a chat • ‘Let’s Talk Access in the Arts’ a ‘TED-talk style and made maps!’, (Visual Arts) » symposium’ hosted by Mind the Gap and West » Fittings Multimedia Arts, ‘Vogue, The Yorkshire Playhouse, brings together industry Unlimited House of Krip’ (Combined Arts) » experts sharing best practice on how to make » Research & Development Awards: » the arts and theatre more accessible for learning- » Rinkoo Barpaga, ‘Bubble and Butch’ disabled artists. (Combined Arts) »» Omeima Mudawi Rowlings, ‘River Runs 17th March Through’ (Visual Arts) • ‘DM Resonate’, Drake Music special event »» Anna Berry, ‘Breathing Sculptures’ – (Visual showcasing a series of original commissions as Arts) part of its ‘Connect and Collaborate’ programme »» Juliet Robson, ‘HERTZ’ – (Combined Arts) working with disabled artists. Institute of »» Jack Dean, ‘Jeremiah’ – (Theatre) Contemporary Arts, London. »» Raquel Meseguer, ‘A Crash Course »» DM Collaborate, with film by Oliver Cross, a in Cloudspotting (the subversive act of member of the group. horizontality)’ – (Combined Arts) »» Royal Boil Alice, ‘Echoes In Time’, »» Chloë Clarke (Phillips), ‘The Importance of commission with the Southbank Centre . Being Described… Earnestly?’ (Theatre) »» Andreas Lopez-Muro Alfaya Y Frias »» Emerging Artists commissions: combined assistive music technology with heavy »» Aby Watson, ‘One way or another’ (Dance) rock in his piece, ‘Emerge’. »» Kristina Veasey, ‘My Dirty Secret’ (Visual »» Lucy Hale, ‘In The Wind’ commissioned in Arts) partnership with the London Philharmonic »» Thompson Hall and Ian Wornast, ‘My Life in Orchestra, and played by a quintet of members London’ (Visual Arts) of the orchestra. »» Delson Weekes, ‘Pull Up’ (Combined Arts) »» Daryl Beeton, host. »» Helen Hall, ‘Reflective Moves’ (Dance) 20th-25th March »» International Collaborations (R&Ds): • Sick Festival, Brighton and Manchester. »» VIVA Carnival and Embaixadores da Alegria, ‘Alegria Samba School’ (Combined Arts) 22nd-23rd March »» Billy Read and Ariel Ching-Wai, ‘Somebody’s • AB2, mac birmingham. Return of DASH’s Watching Me’ (Dance) Awkwards Bastards symposium. With Caro Parker »» Rachel Gadsden and Ali Saied, ‘It was and Mike Layward, Tanya Raabe-Webber. Keynote Paradise’ (Visual Arts) speech by Frances Morris, the incoming director of »» Richard Butchins and Atelier Corners and Tate Modern. Organised by DASH, and the Live Art Kazuyo Morita, ‘The Voice of the Unicorn’ Development Agency (LADA). (Visual Arts) 24th March »» Kaite O’Reilly and Peter Sau, ‘The Singapore • Hull Truck Theatre and Northern Broadsides ‘d’ Monologues’ (Theatre) announce that disabled actor Mat Fraser will play »» Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Shri Ramana the title role in their forthcoming co-production of Maharishi, ‘Antardrishti, – Inner Vision’ Richard III. Academy (Music) »» 4-27 May Hull Truck Theatre as part of Hull »» 30th Mar-1 July Ramps on the Moon, UK City of Culture 2017 ‘Tommy’. »» 30 May-4 June. Viaduct Theatre, Halifax »» 30 Mar-15 April New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 28th-29th March »» 19-29 April Nottingham Playhouse »» 4-13 May West Yorkshire Playhouse »» 17-27 May Birmingham Repertory Theatre »» 7-17 June Theatre Royal, Stratford East »» 22 Jun-1 Jul The Crucible, Sheffield.

April 2017 1st April • Alan Morrison, ‘Tan Raptures’ published by Smokestack Books. 7th April • Jamie Beddard plays the Messiah one of four one- off stagings of Handel’s oratorio as part of the Bristol Proms. (The others are with Nir Paldi, Jessica Murrain, Toby Jones.) 8th April - 13th May • Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist 9 exhibition with Oliver MacDonald (recipient), Anna Berry, Juan delGado, Ruth Le Gear, David Lock, Peter Matthews, Aidan Moesby. Artlink, Hull.

May 2017 4th-27th May • Mat Fraser plays lead in ‘Richard III’ (Hull Truck Theatre and Northern Broadsides co-production). Hull Truck Theatre, as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s second season – Roots & Routes. 26th May – 2nd June • ‘Something Else’ new tour of Deafinitely Theatre’s adaptation of Kathryn Cave’s children’s book. With Clare-Louise English, Nadeem Islam, Ian Street. Director Paula Garfield.

June 2017 2nd-3rd June • BLINK Dance Theatre, ‘Four Corners’, Stratford Circus, London. Then touring to Redbridge Drama Centre (22 June), Oxford, Bradford, Hexham and Penzance. 15th June • Creative Minds North, Manchester. With Mind The Gap (Bradford); DIY Theatre (Manchester); Lawnmower Theatre (Newcastle); Tin Arts (Durham); More Music (Morecambe); Dark Horse Theatre (Huddersfield); Blue Room at the Bluecoat Gallery (Liverpool); Prism Arts (Lancaster) and Headway Arts (Northumberland) Produced by Carousel and Venture Arts. The conference continues the discussion about how art by learning disabled people is talked about, created and presented.