Articles for the ‘the arts’ Category

by Mark Glasgow 25 Jan 2012

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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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by Mark Glasgow 21 Nov 2011

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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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by Mark Glasgow 20 Sep 2011

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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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by Paul 26 Dec 2010

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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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