Published 14. May 2012 at 10:49 am - No Comments
An art gallery in Poland has shown an exhibition featuring only audio description of artworks. The exhibition is intended to reveal how visual art is made accessible for people who are blind or vision impaired and celebrate audio description as an art form in its own right.
The exhibition, Art Never...
Published 3. May 2012 at 10:28 am - No Comments
Kahleen Crawford Casting, a Film and TV casting company based in Scotland, are working with a French production company who are making a film (fictional) about a family that has a son who lives with cerebral palsy.
JULIEN has quite a complex form of CP, and the film centres around his and his father’s...
Published 19. April 2012 at 1:44 pm - No Comments
Scotland’s first inclusive club night “LATE” has been branded a massive success, opening it’s doors to people with and without disabilities to enjoy a real clubbing experience.
The event took place at the famous Glasgow night club ‘The Arches’ last Tuesday evening, hosted by dates-n-mates,...
Published 17. April 2012 at 12:36 pm - No Comments
Led by Solar Bear’s Artist in residence and international deaf theatre creator, Ramesh Meyyappan,
VISUAL WORKS is a two day intensive workshop exploring and developing visual performance styles and forms focusing on the areas of puppetry, aerial work and comedy & clowning.
We are looking for...
Published 16. April 2012 at 3:59 pm - No Comments
Sony is looking to change the experience of cinema-going for anyone in need of subtitles for a movie by creating a special type of glasses that is capable of displaying subtitles on screen, just for you. Such a technology would allow anyone in need of subtitles to attend any showing they wish while...
Published 12. April 2012 at 5:39 pm - No Comments
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s ‘The Baron in the Trees’, SNAILS & KETCHUP is the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional family and follows a son taking to the trees to live an arboreal existence, escaping his brutal home environment for the solace of the forest. Powerfully told through solo performer...
Published 13. February 2012 at 2:17 pm - No Comments
Over the next month flip will be delivering training on half of the Equality Network that looks at the intersectional barriers faced by disabled LGB/T people. See below for full info and links to the booking forms.
FREE Training for Public and Voluntary Sector Service Providers
This training...
Published 9. February 2012 at 11:00 am - No Comments
Project Ability is offering six Glasgow based visual artists the opportunity to apply for a one month residency in our studios in Trongate 103.
www.project-ability.co.uk/blog/2012-residency-scheme-call-for-proposals
Our workshop is fully accessible and applications are particularly welcomed from artists...
Published 8. February 2012 at 11:19 pm - No Comments
InSync
Diversity should be about opening up and expanding our thinking, with everyone benefiting from different perspectives and alternative points of view.That’s why this week Sync – a leadership development programme funded by Arts Council England – is expanding its membership to everyone...
Published 8. February 2012 at 11:18 pm - No Comments
DaDaFest Wins The Lever Prize 2012!
DaDaFest 2012, the UK’s largest Disability and Deaf Arts Festival, has scooped this year’s prestigious £10,000 Lever Prize award.
DaDa – Disability and Deaf Arts, who organise DaDaFest, became the seventh organisation to receive the annual accolade. DaDaFest...
Over the next month flip will be delivering training on half of the Equality Network that looks at the intersectional barriers faced by disabled LGB/T people. See below for full info and links to the booking forms. FREE Training for Public and Voluntary Sector Service Providers This training will give you the knowledge and awareness required
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I’m Robert Softley, a disabled actor/artist who has been working in Scotland and elsewhere for the past 10 years. I have recently been awarded a Creative Futures residency. Disabled peoples’ bodies are central to how we exist in the world – they are the way in which others first judge us, they are the subject
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