Dana's Welcome
- 8 July 09
All the latest opportunities from
DaDa-Disability and Deaf Arts

Dana's Note................................................................................2
DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts latest.................................................2
DaDaFest 2009 is on its way..........................................................2
Disability Arts News.....................................................................2
On Me Onez................................................................................2
Abandon Normal Devices this September!..............................................3
Charles Darwin shows in the Treasure House Theatre.........................3
Artists/Makers commission............................................................3
Liverpool Arts Journal seeks contributors...........................................3
TV Documentary requires participants..............................................4
NICE Festival..............................................................................4
Slow Magic at The Bluecoat...........................................................4
Casting off A Coat for a Boat!................................................................5
Find Your Talent website Call for content..........................................6
Learning Disabled actor wanted......................................................7
Wheelchair user actors required.....................................................7
Contemporary Dance Teachers wanted............................................8
Get Naked!...........................................................................................8
Artist Statement writing workshop...................................................9
Everyone's 2012..........................................................................9
Experimental Art Summer School...................................................10
Go Penguins!.......................................................................................10
Sitcom Shorts............................................................................11
Arts Jobs..................................................................................11
Arts for Health Lead....................................................................11
Find Your Talent Year 2 Research project........................................12
Dance Teacher wanted................................................................12
Disclaimer.................................................................................13

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Dana's Note
Hello my readers,
If you've been busy pre booking your Harry Potter tickets then take some time out from the queues to have a read of what we have on offer for you this week.
Yours, Dana
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DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts Latest
DaDaFest 2009 is on its way...
For updates and information, keep checking our website: www.dadahello.com.
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Disability Arts News
ON ME ONEZ
20 Stories High Youth Theatre are back with an explosive new hip hop musical! Blending fantastic original music, unforgettable characters, elements of masked performance and a magical, bittersweet story...On Me Onez begins on a Liverpool estate one September. We follow a chaotic family whose mum is keeping a secret, a young couple with a baby on the way, and a group of lads who feel the need to toughen up, to hold their own on the streets. Being part of a group can be the making - or the breaking - of you. But is the right answer trying to stay on your own? Written and devised by the young people's group, under the direction of 20 Stories High Co-Artistic Directors Julia Samuels and Keith Saha. The show will be great fun, thought provoking and inspiring. Don't miss it! Friday 10 and Saturday 11 July 2009, 7:30pm Cornerstone Theatre, Hope at Everton, Haigh Street, L3 8QB Tickets: £2.50 full price, £1.50 concessions (U18s, OAPs, unwaged). Please contact us if you would like to reserve tickets. 20 Stories High Metal 6 Marmaduke Street
Liverpool L7 1PB 0151 260 5185 www.20storieshigh.org.uk
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Abandon Normal Devices this September!
It's time for you to get involved! Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, hits Liverpool and the region in full and for the first time this September. We are now recruiting festival, film & new media loving volunteers from all backgrounds that are keen on getting their hands on, supporting us during the run-up and delivery of the festival.
If you love the buzz of festivals, have some time to spare in mid/late September, are over 18 with a confident, outgoing and friendly manner then we would love to hear from you! Roles available for volunteers include: stewarding, ushering, information assistance, festival promotion, supporting the recording and documentation of events, helping with install and de-install of artworks, assisting with set-up and clearing of events, and carrying out market research. Please download an application form and send it to martina@andfestival.org.uk with 'AND Volunteer' in the subject line or snail-mail to Martina Puchberger AND Festival 88 Wood Street
Liverpool L1 4DQ. Closing date: Monday 17 August 2009
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Charles Darwin shows in the Treasure House Theatre
28th Jul 2-3pm Adult presentation "Reflections of Darwin" Sat 8th Aug will be BSL interpreted at 2pm and 3.30. 29th Aug Audio described performance for visually impaired visitors.
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Artists/Makers Commission
Budget £20,000, deadline Friday 24th July. WICED, the Women's International Centre for Economic Development, is seeking applications from artists/makers to design and fabricate a large-scale art commission that will be located in or around its purpose-built centre, due to reach completion in Liverpool city centre late next year. The selected artist will respond to the themes of women and entrepreneurship to develop a permanent installation that will form a focal point in or around the building and enhance people's experience of it. The commission is open to individual artists or those working collaboratively, and is open to all art forms and media. Budget in the region of £20,000 but please note this funding is not confirmed at present. For a more detailed brief please email your details and enquiries to info@jointhedots.net. Deadline for submissions Friday 24 July 2009.

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Liverpool Arts Journal seeks contributors
unpaid, deadline Sunday 19th July The Liverpool Art Journal is producing a special edition for the upcoming 'Apocalypse Now' exhibition at Red Wire Gallery on Liverpool 24th July. Creative writing and drawing in all forms is required for this special edition journal including essays, drawings, verse, poems, commentary, reviews etc on the theme of the exhibition. Deadline for submissions is Sunday 19th July. For more information please go to www.theliverpoolartjournal.blogspot.com
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TV Documentary Series requires participants
2nd or 3rd generation British families. Ricochet, the makers of Channel 4's 'No Going Back' and "Super Nanny" are producing a new TV series that follows this trend for a new documentary series. Four 2nd or 3rd generation British families will be given the opportunity to 'road test' a new life in the country of their parents or grandparents for several months, to find out about jobs, schools and housing. They might like it so much; they decide they want to stay. If you and your family are thinking about making such a move, or have always wanted to find out what life would be like where your parents or grandparents come from; then please contact Ricochet on 01273 224 816, email familyroots@ricochet.co.uk or see www.Ricochet.co.uk.
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NICE Festival
NICE is a combined arts festival celebrating Nordic art and culture based in the North West of England, taking place from 19th November until 3rd December 2009. NICE-Festival welcomes submissions of short films of all kinds - fiction, documentary, animation and experimental - to be part of the festival's moving image programme. Shorts can be entered from across the Nordic countries - Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - to be selected to premiere in Liverpool UK. See the Submissions criteria attached, or contact Melanie.Iredale@nice-festival.com for details on how to get your film screened at the UK's only Nordic Art & Culture Festival!
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Slow Magic at The Bluecoat
Slow Magic will be exhibited during July 31st - Sept 9 2009. The exhibition is an attempt to make sense of the slow magic that is painting, by presenting different ways artists explore the power of brushstroke daubs, drips and drags, and the playful ways they coax pigment and palette. The Bluecoat School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX 0151 702 5324 Fax 0151 707 0048
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Casting Off...A Coat For A Boat!
Exhibition. Do come along and see this beautiful show. It's a very special community project and never would you have seen anything quite like this before! The boat launch is scheduled for Sunday 12 July 1pm onwards. This is a once in a lifetime event so you just cannot miss it! Nowhere in the world has a knitted boat been launched on the river...so if you miss THE EVENT OF THE YEAR...well, then you've missed out! (I say this in the nicest possible way of course). Casting Off...A Coat For A Boat! has attracted wide spread attention and captured many people's hearts and imaginations. We have worked with approximately 350 knitters, regionally, nationally and internationally, with knitted items making their way from as far afield as Australia and New York. Regional textile artist Ingrid Wagner was appointed to be lead artist and The North East Maritime Trust commissioned to build our beautiful 21ft Coble. There will be an array of other maritime activities / organisations present on the day, so it will be an event all the family can enjoy. Do get here early as parking may be busy. The Customs House Arts Centre Mill Dam South Shields Tyne & Wear ENGLAND NE33 1ES Email: esen@customshouse.co.uk
Web: www.customshouse.co.uk
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Find Your Talent Website Call for Content

Deadline 5pm Thursday 9th July Find Your Talent is a landmark £25 million national government programme which asks the question: 'what would it take to give every young person the chance to experience cultural activities for at least five hours a week?' The programme is exploring this question through ten pathfinder projects across the country, each of which is approaching the question in very different ways and from within a very different context. One of these pathfinders is the Liverpool City Region. (For further details please visit http://www.findyourtalent.org/pathfinders/liverpool.html) Find Your Talent's Liverpool City Region programme is producing a new website targeted at 11 - 19 yr olds who may wish to either to attend or take part in cultural and creative activities. This could be independently, with their friends or their family. Phase 1 of the website is having a soft media launch on 20 July 2009 and will provide information for 11-19 yr olds including: a what's on guide. A place to see examples of work produced by their peers through Find Your Talent and other projects. This new exciting resource is a key opportunity for organisations to disseminate their programme and showcase their work to young audiences. Phase 2 of the website (2009 date tbc) will offer 11 - 19 yr olds: careers information and skills profiling tools. A chance to create and develop an online cultural portfolio to evidence their creative experiences. An online evaluation tool to enable young people to evaluate their cultural experiences and feed their views back to the cultural organisations in the city. We would like to invite you to submit information for Phase 1 of the website including your details, programme information, young people-specific news items and a short suggestion for a case study. There will be a formal launch of the website to young people from across Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens at Tate Liverpool on 24th July 2009. There are 4 distinct areas of the website that you can be part of (News, Showcase and Whats On) will be updated by the FYT team) . These areas are: Places to Go (short description of your venue and what you offer generally to young people with web link to your site and googlemap) News (latest stories relevant to young people about your organisation/ competitions/ opportunities to get involved) Showcase (case studies of young people's) What's On (This has 2 subsections - Things to See (more passive events such as screenings, exhibitions, plays etc) and Stuff to Do (active engagement through workshops/ discussion groups). The deadline for all submissions for the launch date is Thursday 9th July 2009. There will be future opportunities to submit further content after this date but to enable you to have a presence of the site for the launch we require information by this date. We may have to make slight amends and edits to your copy to keep it consistent throughout the site. I am afraid due to the turnaround time of this round of submissions we are unable to return the copy to you for sign off before the launch date. There will be new protocols out in place for future submissions that take these issues into account. Find Your Talent Website Support Neutral Spoon Arts Project Management and Consultancy P O Box 140 Liverpool L17 3WX

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Learning Disabled Actor wanted
Leoni Kibbey is a casting director working in film and TV. She is currently casting a short film, funded by the Film Council and Screen East, and is looking for one of the lead characters who is learning disabled. He should be in the 16 - early 20s age range. You don't need acting experience but you need to be confident and interested in acting. She would like to meet people next week and the shoot is scheduled for 31st July for 3 days over the weekend. There will be a fee payable as well as expenses and accommodation provided during the shoot for the actor and a chaperone. If you are interested in this opportunity please contact Leonie on Tel: 01727 375 166 or email me@leonikibbey.com.
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Wheelchair User Actors required
Escape Artists are looking for wheelchair user actors for a rehearsed reading of an English language premiere of the Italian play 'The Bach & Mozart Project' by Adriano Vianello. A two hander in the spirit of Beckett's Waiting For Godot, 'The Bach and Mozart Project' takes its audience inside an unnamed insitution to observe two inmates who may (or may not be) Bach and Mozart as they try to escape the confines of their prison, their bodies and life itself. They are looking for a pool of actors to perform for a national tour of theatres, prisons and mental health units, beginning with a rehearsed reading in October in Cambridge. Auditions will take place in Adlgate, London, on Tuesday 14th July. For more information about how to apply, please contact Tristan Bernays at bachandmozartproject@googlemail.com with a copy of your CV.

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Contemporary Dance Teachers wanted
Candoco Dance Company is particularly seeking disabled contemporary dancers who wish to work in inclusive practice to create and perform new work for touring nationally and internationally in 2010 and 2011. Choreographers for the planned season are Emanuel Gat, Sarah Mitchelson and Wendy Houstoun. Candoco dancers also deliver the company's large education & training programme. Required for application are: At least 2 years professional dance experience and/or an extraordinary natural performance style, high motivation, strong teaching and communications skills, and a commitment to fully participate in the extensive programme of ambassadorial education work worldwide.
To apply: Please send CV and covering letter with clearly marked video or DVD footage if available to: Pedro Machado and Stine Nilsen Co-Artistic Directors CandoCo Dance Company 2T Leroy House 436 Essex Road London N1 3QP Application Deadline: Friday 25 September 2009
Audition: Saturday 17 October 2009 by invitation only. Applicants will only be notified if invited to audition. CandoCo cannot return any video or DVD footage to applicants. If successful, current planned start date of contract is February 2010 with up to 50 weeks work through to June 2011. For further information call the office on +44 207 7046845.
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Get naked!
How to Look Good Naked is back, celebrating the naked body in all its glory! Breasts, bums, thighs and tummies are the stars of the show, as presenter and stylist Gok Wan takes a closer look at naked Britain and hears what people really think about their bodies. The ‘Naked' team is scouring the UK for men and women willing to talk frankly about bodies, which bits they love, and which bits they loathe. The show reveals a telling portrait of Naked Britain whilst celebrating the naked form in all its glory. As always, Gok takes someone on a life-changing journey from body loathing to body loving, all without going under the knife. Each person faces their fears and gets their kit off, both behind closed doors... and in public! If you're interested in taking part in the show and over 21, please email for an application form: howtolookgoodnaked@mavericktv.co.uk - visit www.mavericktv.co.uk or call us on 0121 224 8348.
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Artist Statement Writing Workshop
Saturday 11th July, 1-2.00pm, FREE Struggling to speak about your own work? Having difficulty assessing your work from a new perspective? Want your artist statement to stand out from the rest? Then this workshop is for you! Experienced writer Steph Hurst will be taking artists through a step-by-step approach of to how to write a successful and compelling artist statement. Contact the PAD team to book your place now to save disappointment. Preston Art & Design 10-14 Market Street (Birley St side), Preston, Lancs, PR1 2AR | 01772 903471 | pad@preston.gov.uk | www.padshopandgallery.com
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Everyone's 2012
The Northwest Annual 2012 Conference Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool 24th July 2009 9.15am - 2pm Online booking is now available. England's Northwest is fully committed to playing a full part in the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, creating lasting positive sporting, social and economic legacies from the many opportunities presented. This annual conference provides an opportunity to find out how the Northwest is working to maximise the benefits of The Games and for us to celebrate the achievements of our journey to 2012 so far. In addition to presentations, including a keynote from LOCOG, there will be a number of breakout sessions highlighting good practice case studies, debate and discussion forums, and sessions on 'how to' take part in different programmes. The event also marks the official launch of the Open Weekend in the Northwest and will provide you with an opportunity to discover what is happening around the region. To register your attendance at this event please visit www.nwda.co.uk/2012event
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Experimental Art Summer School
Contact normahopkins@btconnect.com 5th 6th & 7th August 10am until 4pm Woodlands Parkway Timperley Greater Manchester/ North Cheshire Border. £45 per day, plus a £5.00 contribution to materials. Refreshments included. A creative workshop designed to tap into your creative flow. We aim to support all disciplines. Suitable for: New students starting foundation; 6th Form Students wishing to apply to degree courses; undergraduates; Staff development for teachers; Experienced Post Graduates who are looking for new directions in their work. There are 2 experienced tutors in attendance to give you personal tutorial support, you will be given a simple methodology tool to underpin your practice and go away with a bank of ideas to set you going for the coming year.
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Go Penguins!
More than one hundred unique penguins will decorate Liverpool City Centre as part of the Go Penguins project - organised by Wild In Art, the team behind the Superlambanana's. The recycleable Go Penguins have been inspired by Liverpool's Year of the Environment, and the festive spectacular also aims to raise awareness of climate change by reflecting on the melting of the ice caps in Antarctica. From mid-November, colonies of small and large penguins will be on display for seven weeks in a special city centre trail. And the penguin posse are calling on schools, artists and communities to get involved in what is bound to be one of the most popular events of 2009. The team are inviting schools to adopt a 3ft penguin - for just £450 - which can be designed in any fun and creative way they like and will then go on display in a city centre indoor venue. The school will get to keep their personalised penguin once the trail has finished. Artists are also being asked to come up with designs for the 5ft penguins, with sponsors picking the designs they want to represent themselves or their organisation. Designs have to be submitted by the end of August. Businesses can become Penguin Patrons by sponsoring their own work of art for £3,000. Schools, artists and communities/sponsors who want to take part in the project should email info@gopenguins.co.uk For more information, go to www.gopenguins.co.uk The initiative is also a highlight of A Winter's Trail which runs from November to January and will see a series of special penguin-themed events take place across the city, with the support of numerous cultural organisations.
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Sitcom Shorts
Sitcom Shorts is a brand new show to be premiered at the Manchester not part of festival in July 2009. The show is a set of mini situation comedy pilot episodes - performed live in a studio theatre setting. Each episode is around 15 minutes in length - with five being performed during the show, offering a whole evening of original and hilarious entertainment. As if that's not enough you can be spirited away by the clinic for all things supernatural, or immerse yourself in the domestic bliss of a family who solve their problems with the help of telly talk shows. Performances will be on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th of July at 7.30pm in the John Thaw Studio Theatre at the Martin Harris centre. Tickets are £5 and can be ordered by phone or online. http://www.sitcomshorts.co.uk

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Arts Jobs
Arts for Health Lead
Band 7 - £29,789-39,273 The opportunity - to build and run an arts programme at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals, and make art integral to the new hospital being planned to replace the Royal. The person - an art, music or drama graduate/level with arts management and fundraising experience, able to plan, negotiate and above all enthuse. 18 month fixed term appointment in the first instance. For informal discussion please contact: Stuart Moore, Deputy Project Director 0151 706 3637 or Talib Yaseen, Deputy Chief Executive 0151 706 3138 To apply for this post please visit the following website: www.jobs.nhs.uk
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Find Your Talent Year 2 - Research project
We're looking for a market research company with experience of working with young people to undertake this research using innovative methods. We anticipate there to be some desk research to understand the national picture, followed by some formal qualitative research with young people. In choosing the successful company we will be looking for a creative approach to the project and a proven track record of successful delivery of similar projects. The research will help inform a marketing campaign for cultural organisations that will be developed by a group of young people in early 2010. We would hope that the findings of this project would provide a framework for arts organisations in the Liverpool City Region to work effectively with young people to develop the market for cultural activities. This may be rolled out through a publication or a seminar. The project will be supported by National Museums Liverpool's visitor research department and the Find Your Talent team. We already have relationships with young people across the city region and the successful company would be given access to these groups. The successful company will be given access to all the material gathered in year 1. The budget for this project is an all inclusive fee of £10,000 To express an interest in working on this project please send the following information: Previous relevant experience : An outline of the approach you would take to this project Companies may be asked to present their ideas at a later stage to help inform our decision. The successful company will be required to attend a youth engagement event at Tate Liverpool on 24 July 2009. Contact Vivien Bell, Senior Research Officer, National Museums Liverpool 127 Dale Street, Liverpool L2 2JH. Vivien.bell@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. 0151 478 4627. Deadline Tuesday 14 July 2009.
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Dance Teacher wanted
Manchester Theatretrain seeks an experienced, dynamic Dance Teacher who enjoys working with young people between the ages of 6 and 18. We meet in Chorlton M21, every Saturday between 10am and 1pm during the academic term. The fee is £20 per hour. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated practitioner to develop skills, creativity and confidence in the young people as well as preparing them for performances at small and large scale venues including the Palace Theatre Manchester and the Royal Albert Hall, London. For more information on our work please go to www.theatretrain.co.uk Please send covering letter and CV to theatretrain@ntlworld.com with DANCE TEACHER in the subject heading. Deadline for applications 16th July. Interviews 21st July.
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