the arts
Liverpool’s DaDaFest wins prestigious prize
The international disability and deaf arts festival has scooped the Lever Prize The DaDaFest in Liverpool has won this year’s prestigious £10,000 Lever Prize, just over a year after I wrote about fears over the festival’s future funding due to Arts Council cuts. The UK’s largest disability and deaf arts festival, which attracts international artists was chosen by senior representatives of the 30 largest companies in the north west to receive the prize. In 2011, DaDaFest celebrated its 10th anniversary, having begun in 2001 as a community arts event
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Guardian wins people’s choice award for excellence in disability journalism
Judges praise ‘thoughtful, entertaining, rigorous and enlightened’ coverage of Guardian series on disability and the arts The Guardian’s “outstanding” coverage of disability issues was recognised on Sunday night when it picked up the first ever People’s Choice award for journalistic excellence. The publicly-nominated Ability Media International award, created by the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability, recognises “creatively excellent work that has either been produced by disabled people or promotes a greater understanding of disability issues”.
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British culture needs the Arts Council’s Decibel showcase
Great art depends on great diversity. So why is an event that celebrates performers from all backgrounds under threat? Handling the solitary remaining testicle of an ex-cancer patient, live on stage, isn’t the most obvious way to spend a weekday afternoon
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Philip French: my life as a stammerer
The Observer’s film critic reflects on The King’s Speech – and how his own speech impediment has contributed to his life and character From as early as I can remember until 1952, when I left home at the age of 18 to go into the army, there was an annual ritual on the afternoon of Christmas Day. Dinner, which meant turkey and all the trimmings followed by plum pudding, began around two o’clock and was carefully timed to end so that everyone could sit there beneath the paper decorations, wearing the hats that came out of the crackers, and earnestly, reverently listen to the king’s Christmas message on the radio. This hallowed national tradition, initiated by Sir John Reith in 1932, was not five years old when George V, who’d given four of them, died
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STAGETEXT Captioning: 10 Years On
Gwion Wyn Jones in Oliver! With kind permission of Cameron Mackintosh Limited. Photo: Simon Annand
This November marks the 10th anniversary of STAGETEXT, which pioneered theatre captioning in the UK back in 2000. The charity’s Lynn Jackson explains how they’ve helped make theatre more accessible.
“Computers, iPods, BlackBerrys – STAGETEXT captioning is right up there with all the modern miracles of invention!”
So says a 69 year old retired school secretary who was deafened 10 years ago after a major operation. “I lost my job, friends drifted away, social life was difficult and although reading and teletext were pleasurable, they did not offer social interaction,” she explains.
“Who doesn’t enjoy a trip to the theatre, enjoying a good performance, and meeting friends? Captioning has made all this possible for me,” she adds. (more…)
Prestigious Art Prize Winner Announced
Dirty Words for Disabled People, by Caroline Cardus.
Artist Caroline Cardus has been announced as the winner of the annual Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, set up in memory of sculptor Adam Reynolds, which supports a disabled artist working in the visual arts.
Caroline will receive £5,000 and enjoy a three-month residency at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead from March to June 2011. She is “delighted” about the prospect of exhibiting at the world-renowned arts hub.
“The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary at BALTIC will give me valuable time to explore and develop ongoing themes in my work, and to further investigate where my work sits with regard to disability art and mainstream art practice,” she said. (more…)
