Dana's Welcome
- 10 Feb 10
All the latest opportunities from
DaDa-Disability and Deaf Arts

Dana's Note........................................................................................2
DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts latest.................................................2
Can you offer workshops for young people?...................................2
Worked with us?...........................................................................3
Disability Arts News...........................................................................3
Achieving great art for everyone.......................................................3
Film show discussion.........................................................................3
Tell us what you love about your City...............................................4
Write a play with 20 Stories High.......................................................5
The Manchester Kiosks......................................................................5
Opportunity with Holton Lee.............................................................6
Equality is not Enough with Germaine Greer....................................6
LGBT Focus groups............................................................................7
Ignite the flame.................................................................................7
The Co-Operative Film Festival.........................................................8
Arts Jobs............................................................................................8
Project Worker- The Reader Organisation.........................................8
Development Consultant/Mentor for Music and Arts........................9
Disclaimer..........................................................................................10

Any items for the next newsletter should be sent to news@dadahello.com or dana@dadahello.com by 3.00pm 23rd Feb 10 Please keep the articles short (75 words or less is ideal), and in plain text format.
Dana's Note
Hello lovelies,
We've been busy uploading videos to our site so if you haven't had a chance to take a look yet, please visit www.dadahello.com, they're on the home page, just scroll down and get viewing. We've also got lots of opportunities and further info to tell you about, here you go! Please note there will be no newsletter next week. The next newsletter will go out on 24th Feb.
Yours, Dana.
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DaDa-Disability and Deaf Arts Latest
Can you offer workshops for young people?
Young DaDa-Disability & Deaf Arts is looking for artists/practitioners who have experience of working with Disabled/Deaf young people to lead workshops for forthcoming festival, and artists/practitioners with ideas for arts projects working with Disabled/Deaf young people. (Pending Funding)
We are updating our pool of artists from a range of art forms who have experience and knowledge of access support and working with young Disabled and Deaf people. If you are interested please send your CV with covering letter with details of your experience and knowledge of working with young Disabled and Deaf people. If you are and artist/practitioner and you have an idea or proposal for a project working with young Disabled/Deaf people, please send a short outline no more than 1 page of A4 long by the end of March 2010. Please send to events@dadahello.com or to Young Peoples Arts Officer, DaDa-Disability and Deaf Arts, The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX. Please note freelance artists/practitioners will be appointed subject to an enhanced CRB check.
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Worked with us?
If you are an artist or performer who has worked with us recently and you are currently involved in a project that you would like us to mention on our website, do let us know. You could be a dancer with a new piece, a writer with a play about to open, a musician launching your tour... we would like to include you! You can also send us images. We cannot guarantee inclusion onto the site of all the information we receive. Please send details to news@dadahello.com. To view Helen East's information please go to: http://www.dadahello.com/artists
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Disability Arts News
Achieving Great Art for Everyone
Arts Council England had put forward a consultation about future priorities for the arts, including the future of disability arts and deaf arts. You can get involved by following the link:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/consultation/taking-part/ and answering the questions.

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Film show discussion
'Moving Memories: Tales from Moss Side and Hulme' with the film-maker Karen Gabay in attendance from Troubadour Cultural Heritage Foundation
Wednesday 17th Feb 2010 6.30 arrival for 7.00pm screening at
WFA Media and Cultural Centre, 9 Lucy St, Old Trafford, Manchester, M15 4BX tel: 0161 848 9785, email: wfa@timewarp.co.uk, web: www.wfamedia.co.uk Entrance & temporary Film Society membership £1, children / young people free. Drinks (tea/coffee/soft) and snacks available
Partial disabled access (please contact in advance). A much acclaimed 30 minute film recalling memories of life in Moss Side and Hulme in the 1960s and 70s. Telling the story of first and second generation communities that resided in the area, particularly those of Irish, Caribbean and Sikh heritage, uniquely it mixes historic BBC footage held in the NW Film Archive (NWFA) with contemporary interviews which allow local people to tell the story in their own words, recapturing events and feelings of the times and what it means today. Premiered in October 2009, such has been its success, that the BBC broadcast an extract of it on prime time, Inside Out in January 2010.
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‘Tell us what you love about your City'
Liverpool Shanghai Photo Mission. If you had a chance to show millions of people ‘your city of Liverpool' what would you show them? English Heritage are inviting people living in or around Liverpool to enter a photo competition where the winning images and ideas will be shown at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. You don't have to be a fantastic photographer or have any experience at all! You don't even have to have a camera! It's for anyone with an idea of what represents their city. This is for anyone over the age of 8 - right up to 108! You can enter in a number of ways; you can send us one digital image of something that for you represents the city, you can e-mail us up to 100 words telling us what is most important to you about the city or you can write a letter to us telling us what you think is most important about your city. A specially formed group of people from local creative organisations will choose 10 people's ideas from the entries. Those 10 people will be invited to work with professional digital storytellers to create short digital pieces including images and voice recordings to represent ‘their city of Liverpool'. The finished 10 pieces will be shown in the Liverpool pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Liverpool is the only city in the UK to be represented at the World Expo 2010 later this year and many millions of people - mostly families - will attend the show during the 6 months that it is being held. What do you do next if you would like to enter the competition? Think about how you would represent Liverpool in photos
Either; choose one image which for you represents ‘your Liverpool' or write down not more than 100 words about what is most important to you about the city. E-mail your digital photo or your 100 words to; liverpoolshanghaicompetition@english-heritage.org.uk If you would prefer to write your 100 words in a letter, please send it to; Louise O'Brien, Historic Environment of Liverpool Programme Manager, Planning and Building Control, Liverpool City Council, Millennium House, Victoria Street, Liverpool L1 6JF. This competition is open to anyone over the age of 8. If you are under 18 and you win one of the places in the workshops you will need the permission of your parent or carer to take part and you will also need to be accompanied by an adult at the workshop sessions. The closing date for this competition is Monday 22nd February 2010. The 10 winners will be chosen by the 26th February 2010. The workshop sessions for the winners will take place in the first week of March 2010.
The decisions of the panel as to who will win the 10 places at the workshop will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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Write a play with 20 Stories High
Everyone's got a story to tell, and their own way of telling it... No experience of writing plays is necessary, but an enjoyment of writing is essential! We are keen to hear from lyricists, poets, story-writers, as well as those who might have written for theatre before. Participants must be aged 13-30, and resident in Merseyside. The project will be held over the weekend of 13th/14th March. Participants need to be available from all day on both days. It will take place at the Contemporary Urban Centre, Greenland St, L1. The project is free to take part in, and refreshments will be provided. Places are strictly limited. In order to take part in the course, please fill in and return the application form by 1st March. Please return it to Eliza Brittles: eliza@20storieshigh.org.uk , or by post to the address below. (You can also request application forms directly from 20 Stories High). Also, please feel free to contact Eliza if there are any questions about the course or the application process. She can be contacted by email, or by phoning 0151 707 2272l. 20 Stories High, Metal, Edge Hill Station, Tunnel Road, Liverpool, L7 6ND 0151 707 2272
www.20storieshigh.org.uk
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The Manchester Kiosks
This is an opportunity for a contemporary artist to produce a new film, video, photographic, sound, digital media or installation work to be commissioned and produced in collaboration with the Manchester Modernist Society. The work will be presented as part of the FutureEverything Festival, in Manchester, in May 2010. The work will respond to the 5 remaining (Giles Gilbert Scott designed) red k6 telephone kiosks, in Manchester City Centre. The commissioned artist will be offered an artist's fee of £2000. For more information and artists' brief, please e-mail info@manchestermodernistsociety.org Deadline for applications:
28 Feb 2010.
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Opportunity with Holton Lee
Holton Lee, with funding from Arts Council England, Southwest and The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, is seeking specialist input to enable the organisation and the National Disability Arts Collection & Archive Steering Group to refocus the plans for the collection and storage of artworks and archival material, and to look at sustainable models for the collection to be accessed and enjoyed by all and creating a platform for the growth of the collection through a robust acquisitions policy. For full details on this opportunity, please email director@holtonlee.co.uk or download from Holton Lee's website at http://www.holtonlee.com/news.php?id=37 , and tenders should be submitted no later than 19th February 2010
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Equality is not Enough with Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer's 1969 international bestseller, The Female Eunuch turned her into feminism's best known and most controversial names, bringing her both adulation and opposition. Greer has had a distinguished academic career in Britain and the USA, makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcaster, journalist, columnist and reviewer, including a controversial short-lived appearance as a contestant on Big Brother. In this Rebel Rant, taking up the themes she introduced in The Female Eunuch, and looking back on the both the legacy and the effect of her work and that of the feminist movement, she will argue that ‘Equality is not Enough'. Equality is not Enough with Germaine Greer. The Art & Design Academy Liverpool John Moores University, Duckinfield Street, Off Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RD Date:18th February 2010 7.30pm The event will be BSL signed and the venue is fully accessible. Tickets: £8 & £5 concessions, available from the Philharmonic Hall Box Office Tel: 0151 709 3789 Online: www.writingonthewall.org.uk
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LGBT focus groups
On behalf of The Equality and Human Rights Commission, we are looking at how LGBT people access social and health care where they need to.
Do you access personalised care? Do you know if you are eligible? We are holding two focus groups for disabled people who identify as LGBT to attend and let us know what they think about personalisation and the social care services they access. * Merseyside: 2pm-4pm Wednesday 10th February - at Neurosupport, Norton Street, Liverpool, L3 8LR
* Greater Manchester: 6pm-8pm, Tuesday 9th February - at Breakthrough UK, Aked Close, Manchester, M12 4AN. Both venues are accessible and have free parking. (We can also provide travelling expenses for up to £20 - with receipts). Please contact sian.payne@lgf.org.uk for more information or to book a place on the focus group. Don't worry if you can't get to one of these groups. If it's too far to travel, then we can make sure your opinions are heard through an email questionnaire or a telephone chat. There is more information about this research - and an online questionnaire for organisations - at: http://www.merseydisability.org.uk/show_story.php?id=415&table=news2

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IGNITE THE FLAME
Calling all young disabled writers. Creative Writing competition
Are you a young disabled person living in Wales who has a way with words? Enter one poem or one short story of up to 500 words using `what ignites the flame for you?` as your inspiration. Think about excellence, friendship, respect, determination, inspiration, equality. Entries will be accepted from two age groups: 13-16 years old and 17-25 years old. We will work with the winners from each category to develop their writing skills. The winners` work will be included in an anthology in 2012. Contact: Send your poem or short story by FRIDAY 12th MARCH to - Ignite the Flame competition, Disability Arts Cymru Sbectrwm Fairwater Cardiff CF5 3EF Tel: 02920 551 040 Fax: 02920 551 036 Or email entries to: post@dacymru.com You can also enter by audio or CD-rom or any other format preferred.
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The Co-Operative Film Festival
The Co-operative Film Festival, formerly known as Co-operative Young Filmmakers) has returned and is seeking submissions. For more information please visit: www.co-operative.coop/filmfestival. The deadline for submissions is 28th May 2010.
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Arts Jobs
Project Worker - Liverpool / Wirral, The Reader Organisation
Closes Wednesday 17 February 2010 Contact: Jane Davis janedavis@thereader.org.uk This is a dynamic and varied job requiring you to promote, set-up, establish and facilitate weekly Get Into Reading groups in order to promote well-being and good mental health for a range of community members in both Liverpool and Wirral. Client groups include carers, people living in Care Homes, people with a range of physical or mental health problems, and members of the general population who might enjoy shared reading. You will be responsible for choosing and presenting a wide range of reading material, including poetry, and for generating free-flowing conversation as well as for addressing literary questions group members may have. In addition to well-developed literary skills, excellent social skills are necessary for dealing with group dynamics which can often be complex. You also need the confidence and enthusiasm to sell the reading for pleasure project to people for whom that may be a new and strange idea. The work will take place within libraries, community centres, social housing projects and other locations. Key Responsibilities: Plan and deliver group reading sessions with identified client groups deliver group reading sessions, develop new groups/new locations for delivery, keep up to date records and write regular project reports, develop publicity materials for Get Into Reading projects, such as leaflets and posters, and make written contributions for The Reader Organisation website, newsletter and other publications, attend and contribute to staff meetings, feeding back useful information, be an effective team member, participating in personal supervision, personal and professional development and team meetings, other duties as designated by line manager. Person Specification: Essential: A degree in English, or ability to demonstrate wide range of personal reading, including poetry, and the ability to talk about it in an engaging manner, excellent at reading aloud, a good communicator with great speaking, listening and writing skills, able to make and maintain appropriate relationships with community members, self-motivated and able to work unsupervised, able to work in a peripatetic style. Training and supervision in Get Into Reading practice will be provided. Please visit our website www.thereader.org.uk for more information.
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Development Consultant/Mentor for Music and Arts Festival, Moor Music Festival
Closes Monday 15 February. The Moor Music Festival, an annual Yorkshire-based music and arts event, wishes to appoint a mentor or consultant to provide guidance to the current festival Directors on business and organisational development through an intensive review period during March/April 2010. This independent, grass roots festival, now in its sixth year, is looking to develop its current business in order to create a sustainable future. Areas on which we wish to focus include: Development of existing business plan & organisational structure, financial controls, systems and income streams, partnership Development, long term business growth and development. The candidate will need to demonstrate experience and capabilities in some or all of the above and should have some history of working with arts, music or grass roots organizations. Work with the selected consultant will take place in March/April 2010. The appointed consultant will be expected to meet with key members of staff in early March to draw up aims and objectives and a detailed plan of activity for this period. The fee for this work is £2500, including travel and expenses, based on approximately 5 days' work or equivalent at £500 a day, with additional activity and work to be carried out by the Directors and appropriate staff between meetings. To bid for this contract, please send a brief outline proposal of how you would approach the project, along with a cover letter and CV, and send to Natasha Chubbuck at natashachubbuck@googlemail.com. Applications should arrive no later than 12 noon on Monday 15th February. Interviews will be held during the last week of February. The Moor Music Festival is an ethically minded festival that has been running for 6 years. Previously taking place in West Yorkshire, the festival moved in 2009 to a site in the Yorkshire Dales near Skipton. The festival presents a mixture of local, national and international music and arts, including arts activities for people of all ages. For more information on the festival please go to www.moormusicfestival.co.uk The Moor Music Festival is supported by an Arts Council England, Yorkshire, Grants for the Arts award.

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