Dana's Welcome
- 12 May 10
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DaDa-Disability and Deaf Arts

Dana's Note.......................................................................................2
DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts latest.................................................2
What are you doing on Monday?...................................................2
Disability Arts News...........................................................................3
Lots to see and do at Imperial War Museum.....................................3
The Manchester Writing Competition................................................4
Project Manager, DanceSyndrome....................................................4
Knowsley Carers Voice.......................................................................5
Get to Light Night..............................................................................6
Poetry in the Pennines......................................................................6
Enter Stage Write..............................................................................7
Dancing in the Moonlight..................................................................7
Dude-where's my culture?............................................................7
A rebel rant with Bonnie Greer.........................................................8
Liverpool Link event.........................................................................8
See a Voice captioning and audio description workshop.................9
Arts Jobs...........................................................................................10
Commissioning Opportunity Chester Performs.................................10
The Inconsistent Whisper of Insanity, Crew Wanted......................10
Disclaimer..........................................................................................11

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Dana's Note
Hello my readers,
What an odd week; while the UK is still in a political quandary, we've been beavering away to find you the best opportunities, events and up and coming lovely things to tell you about; here they are
Yours, Dana.
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DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts Latest
What are you doing on Monday?
Why, coming to see GIMP at Treasure House Theatre of course. If you haven't already got it diaried, here's some more info: Monday May 17th 2.00pm at the Treasure House Theatre World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool. An ALLIGER ARTS and Heidi Latsky Dance Production Gimp is a new dance work that's storming the USA. It has its English Premier at Liverpool's own DaDaFest International in November 2010. This is a chance to meet principle dancers Catherine Long and Lawrence Carter Long who will show a short film about the making of GIMP, perform a solo from the piece and answer questions about the work. "GIMP is a collision of two worlds coming together that are not supposed to co-exist. GIMP examines the uncompromising ways we are often identified or defined by our physicality." GIMP: gimp (gimp)
1. a ribbonlike, braided fabric 2. fighting spirit; vigor 3. a lame person
4. slang; a halting, lame walk 5. to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically Choreographed and Directed by: Heidi Latsky Excerpts danced by: Catherine Long
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Disability Arts News
Lots to see and do at the Imperial War Museum
OBJECT HANDLING SESSIONS Visitors of all ages can get involved TimeStack Handling Sessions* Main Exhibition Space daily at 12.30pm and 3.30pm. A great opportunity to get hands-on with objects from Imperial War Museum's collection in these themed 20-minute object-handling sessions. Join a member of staff for an opportunity to discover the stories behind the artefacts. *BSL Signed at 3.30pm on Sundays 1st August and 7th November.
FREE THEMED TOURS Introducing the Museum* Daily 11.30am and 1.30pm. Meet at the Tour Point in the Foyer. A guide to the themes, history and design of the Museum suggesting ways of navigating this fascinating building and its varied displays. * BSL signed at 1.30pm on Sundays 1st August and 7th November.
In Focus - All Aboard: Stories of War at Sea. Sunday 1st August at 2.15pm. Meet at the Tour Point in the Foyer. Beginning with an object handling session, followed by a walk and talk on gallery looking at personal stories within the Main Exhibition Space relating to the war at sea and introducing our Special Exhibition, All Aboard: Stories of War at Sea. * BSL signed at 2.15pm on Sunday 1st August.
In Focus: Remembrance Sunday 7th November at 2.15pm. Meet at the Tour Point in the Foyer. This gallery walk will explore an array of objects and stories related to Remembrance including the field gun that fired the first British shell of the First World War. Then it is your chance to discover the personal story of one fallen Salford soldier, including the opportunity to get hands on with fascinating personal artefacts, from the annotated bible he kept with him in the trenches to his final letter home. *BSL signed at 2.15pm on Sunday 7th November.
Big Picture Show Main Exhibition Space Daily Every Hour from 11am
The Big Picture" a dynamic 360 multi-screen, surround-sound experience is among the highlights of this award-winning Museum. As the lights fade down, giant screens and powerful surround sounds immerse you in the heart of the action, creating a complete sensory experience which is totally involving, and often very moving. Please note: the lights are turned down for the 15-20minute duration of each show. Subtitled and BSL
Signed. There are many more activities and tours that take place every day. To find out please go to our web site for a full event listings www.iwm.org.uk.
Introducing the Museum - Audio Described Sundays 22nd August and 14th November 1.30pm Meet at the Tour Point in the foyer.
In Focus - All Aboard: Stories of War at Sea - Audio Described
Sunday 22nd August 2.15pm
In Focus: Remembrance - Audio Described Sunday 14th November
2.15pm
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The Manchester Writing Competition: The Manchester Poetry Prize 2010
First prize: £10,000* Deadline for entries: 6th August 2010 Entry fee: £15 Judges: Simon Armitage, Lavinia Greenlaw and Daljit Nagra. The Manchester Poetry Prize is open internationally and will award a cash prize of £10,000 to the writer of the best portfolio of poetry submitted. The competition is open to entrants aged 16 or over; there is no upper age limit. In addition to the main prize, a bursary for study at MMU will be awarded to one entrant aged 18-25 as part of the Manchester Young Writer of the Year Award. All entrants are asked to submit a portfolio of three to five poems (total maximum length 120 lines). The poems can be on any subject, and written in any style, but must be new work, not published or submitted for consideration elsewhere. To find out more about the Manchester Poetry Prize, and enter online, go to: www.manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk If you have any queries, or would like a printable entry form for postal submission, contact: James Draper, Project Manager: The Manchester Writing School, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, Email: j.draper@mmu.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 161 247 1787
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Project Manager, DanceSyndrome
DanceSyndrome is seeking a dynamic, motivated and experienced arts professional to appoint as its first Project Manager. £100/day plus expenses up to 2 days per week for an initial 3 month period, The Project Manager will play a lead role in enabling DanceSyndrome to reach the next stage of its development. They will manage all aspects of the project including recruiting committed dancers, finding and engaging with community opportunities, identifying and securing funds, establishing networks and systems to sustain longevity. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years professional project management experience, preferably in dance and project development. They will believe passionately in the ‘rightness' of inclusive practice and have a proven track record in securing funding and working with people in the community. For further information please contact dancesyndrome@hotmail.co.uk We invite you to send your CV together with a covering letter to apply for this post. Closing date for applications is Friday May 14th 2010.
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Knowsley Carers Voice
We hold the KCV (Knowsley Carers Voice) meetings at the same time in 3 venues across Knowsley. Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:00 - 15:00 Huyton KPAC The old Schoolhouse St.John's Road Huyton Knowsley L36 0UX
Thursday, 27 May 2010Time: 13:00 - 15:00 Halewood PCRC Roseheath Drive Leathers Lane Halewood Knowsley L26 9UQ. Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:00 - 15:00 Kirkby One Stop Shop Meeting Room 1 Cherryfield Drive, Kirkby L32 1TX
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Get to Light Night
Light Night is for everyone; from the art lover to the shop 'til you dropper, budding chef to film buff, thespian to historian - everyone will find something to enjoy. It's culture after hours for all ages, so start planning your Light Night and get those invitations to your friends and family to join you for this special spring festival. Pick up your FREE 22-page programme from any of the participating venues in the lead up to the event, or download it from the Open Culture website by visiting http://www.culture.org.uk

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POETRY IN THE PENNINES
(5-9 July 2010) Join writing unlimited for a master-class with Amanda Dalton in Hebden Bridge. Poet and playwright Amanda Dalton is tutoring a poetry master-class over three mornings and also giving a reading of her own work. An optional guided walk in nearby Mytholmroyd, re-traces the boyhood haunts of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. The rest of the time is yours to crack on with your writing. So pack your notebook and head to Hebden for a blast of creativity in a landscape that has inspired many writers - including the Brontes, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Four nights, room and breakfast (plus dinner on two evenings), £550 to £450 single occupancy, £325 pp sharing. For further info about how to secure one of only twelve places, please do get in touch. 96 Victoria Road
Fulwood Preston PR2 8NN writingunlimited@hotmail.co.uk
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Enter Stage Write...
If you're interested in writing for the stage, here's a great opportunity to develop your skills North West Playwrights is launching a brand new course at The Continental in Preston. Tutored by leading theatre practitioners and including a full-day session when your writing will be workshopped, you will explore how to: Make the best use of space; Develop engaging characters; Write convincing dialogue; Get to grips with structure. The course will run over 8 weeks on Saturday afternoons, 2-5pm, starting on 29nd May 2010 (with a workshop day, 10am - 6pm on 10th July) and ending on Saturday 17th July. £90/£50 concessions.
To apply: Explain why you think you would benefit from the course (100 - 200 words). Write 2-3 pages of dialogue incorporating three characters and a single wellington boot. Please label your submission Enter Stage Write & send to North West Playwrights, 18 Express Networks, 1 George Leigh Street, Manchester, M4 5DL or email to newplaysnw@hotmail.com
Deadline for applications: 12 noon Friday 14th May. Successful applicants will be notified by Monday 17th May. Only 8 places available. North West Playwrights 18 Express Networks, 1 George Leigh Street, Manchester M4 5DL Tel/fax: 0161-237 1978 www.newplaysnw.co.uk
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Dancing in the Moonlight
Sunday 16 May 2010 @ the Old Rectory, Peartree Bridge, Milton Keynes MK6 3EJ. As part of the Milton Keynes Arts Open Weekend 2010 Inter-Action MK are holding a night of dance that will definitely get you up and moving. Set in the beautiful gardens of the Old Rectory, Peartree Bridge, we invite you to have a go at three very different dance styles all in one night. 6.00 - 7.00pm Salsa with RedHotRed Salsa 7.00 - 8.00pm Line Dancing with Bluegrass Line Dance 8.00 - 9.00pm Street Dance with Tee Min from Nemesis. Over the 3 hours you will be welcome to sit and watch the workshop or even better get up and have a go. Please be prepared to be outside so maybe bring a blanket and wear something warm. Food will be available. Entry is free - this is an event for the whole family. For more information please call Inter-Action MK on 01908 678514 or email lwest@interactionmk.org.uk www.interactionmk.org.uk
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Dude - Where's My Culture?
Have YOUR say about Arts, Culture and Young People 18th June 2010, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester, 10am to 4pm. Millions of pounds each year are spent on arts and cultural facilities for young people, but is it being spent on the right things? How relevant are museums, libraries and cultural services to young people today, and more importantly how could they be improved? Dude - Where's My Culture? is an event which gives young people from across the North West the chance to talk about their culture, what it means to them and let people in charge know about the sorts of arts and cultural facilities they would like to see in their area. Young people who attend will have the opportunity to take part in a workshop to explore what arts and culture means to young people today during the morning session and will have the chance to put their point of view across to senior decision makers such as Art Gallery and Museum Directors, people from the media and from Government during the afternoon.
The event is planned and designed by young people from Bolton, and Blackburn and Darwin. During the morning young people will be expected to take part in a facilitated, discussion based workshop alongside other groups of young people from across the north west. During the afternoon young people will take part in "Circles" Debates containing around 15 young people, 2-3 "decision makers" and a young person to chair the debate. Young people in the debate have the chance to discuss statements with decision makers and raise issues that affect culture and how it impacts on their lives. The aim of this is to give the young people an opportunity to be listened to and influence cultural policy for young people within the region. The morning workshops will help prepare for these debates.
Dude Where's My Culture? is open to young people 13-19 (exception to 25 years) from the North West. We are committed to ensuring a wide range of young people from across the region attend and it is free to attend. Due to the limited number of spaces groups of no more than 5 young people and 1 worker should apply. If you organisation/group has a requirement for a second worker this can be accommodated, but only if this is a necessary requirement. The closing date for applications will be Tuesday 1st June 2010 and you will be informed by Monday 7th June 2010 if your group has a place (via email). We will be unable to consider applications received after the closing date. Please return your completed forms to: Tracy Bailey North West Regional Youth Work Unit, Unit 40, Bold Business Centre, Bold Lane, Sutton, St Helens WA9 4TX, Email to info@nwrywu.org.uk Tel 01925 295 837 Fax 01925 299388

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A Rebel Rant with Bonnie Greer
Fully accessible, BSL interpreter available on request. Friday 14th May 7.30pm. Bonnie Greer, award winning novelist, playwright, and author, deputy Chair of the British Museum and transatlantic social and cultural commentator, perhaps best known recently as sparring partner to the BNP's Nick Griffin in the most controversial Question Time of recent years, brings to Liverpool her unique voice. One year on, with the Republicans back on the offensive and health service reforms being diluted by the day Bonnie takes up the question of Barack Obama - Is he doing it? The Contemporary Urban Centre, 41-51 Greenland Street, L1 0BS
Time: 7:30pm Tickets: £8/£5 available from: The Philharmonic hall box office: 0151 709 3789 For further info contact the WoW office: info@writingonthewall.org.uk or 0151 703 0020. The WoW Festival continues until 22 May 2010, with events suitable for all ages and budgets including poetry, music, workshops and live graffiti! Check out the website for the full line-up: www.writingonthewall.org.uk
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Liverpool Link Event
Thursday 27th May 2010 - at LACE Conference Centre. Liverpool LINk is hosting an open space event this May. The Open Space activities will give you the opportunity to talk about health and social care issues that are important to you and help identify issues for inclusion in future LINk work.
You will also be able to contribute to the current work LINk is doing regarding Sexual Health Services, Healthy Cities (particularly regarding mental health services and older people's services) and Wellbeing Services for Disabled People. This is a free event which is open to all on a ‘first come, first served'. Refreshments and buffet will be provided.
Go to http://www.liverpoollink.org.uk//news/linkopenspaceevent-may2010.phuse for booking form and more info.
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See a Voice captioning and audio description workshop
Over the past four years, the See a Voice project (a joint initiative between STAGETEXT and VocalEyes) which was funded by HM Treasury's Invest to Save programme and ACE's Grants for the arts has been working with theatres across England to help them develop their own in-house captioning and audio description services. The project has reached its conclusion and we would like to invite consultants and trainers who are working in the field of access to the arts to participate in a workshop that will further expand your knowledge about assisted performances bang up to date. 10.30am to 4pm on Tuesday 20th July Graeae Theatre Company, Bradbury Studios, 138 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DY. The day will be chaired by Michele Taylor and will include contributions from users of captioning and audio description services, the project's Audience Liaison Officers, Deepa Shastri and Kirin Saeed, and Roz Chalmers who works as a captioner and an audio describer and who worked with the project to address the needs of in-house captioners and audio describers, and a representative from one of the See a Voice venues about the challenges and opportunities in developing in-house assisted performances. The workshop is funded by the See a Voice project it is free and refreshments will be provided. If you wish to indicate your intention to attend at this stage then please email Fran Chabrel - fran@see-a-voice.org. Also, while the Graeae building is physically accessible, we want to make sure that all other access requirements are met, so if you think you will be able to attend and you have specific access requirements then it would be helpful to know about them at this stage so we can plan accordingly.
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Arts Jobs
Commissioning Opportunity, Chester Performs
Contact: Caroline Smith caroline@chesterperforms.com Commissioning Opportunity - Filmmaker / Film Artist. Deadline for proposals: Friday 4th June 2010. Chester Performs is seeking to commission a professional filmmaker / film artist to create a new short film. The film forms part of Narrative, a showcase project which draws together the five (2010) Woven Cultures projects through a high profile celebration of equality and diversity in the Northwest. Taking the theme of equality and diversity as the starting point we are keen to work with a filmmaker / film artist with a background in making socio-political films on issue based agendas. Those interested in applying for the commission are invited to address this theme broadly and creatively. Download the Filmmaker / Film Artist's Brief and supporting information from:
http://chesterperforms.com/Content/Projects/Narrative/CommissioningOppor... . Narrative is programmed in partnership with Abandon Normal Devices (AND), a festival of new cinema and digital culture, commissioned for WE PLAY - the Northwest's Cultural Legacy programme for the 2012 Games.
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The Inconsistent Whisper of Insanity, Crew wanted
Contact: Ian Moore iankarlmoore@hotmail.co.uk BLACK BOX are delighted to announce that Ian Moore's new one act play THE INCONSISITENT WHISPER OF INSANITY has been invited to be part of Manchester 24:7 Festival 2010 (between 26 July to 01 August). In addition to the five performances within the Manchester Festival Black Box will be staging the piece in Liverpool ( 16 & 17 July) and Buxton Fringe Festival (21 to 24 July). In 1921, Milena Tushkov, a young sprightly fifteen year old, leaves her home to meet a friend at the station, a journey of a few hundred metres that would take her sixty-one years to make. In 1982, Turgenyev, a retired tram driver, returns to the city in which he once worked accompanied by a mysterious companion. Manchester Evening News Nominated playwright / director Ian Moore (fourteen 2008 & Canaveral's Lurch 2006) returns with a haunting tale loss across the ages. In the initial instance Black Box are looking to create a dedicated, dynamic, imaginative team to realise the text and currently seek:- Costume / Properties Person INCONSISTENT is a period piece - set in 1920's St Petersburg thus needs a dedicated Costume / Properties Person. The appointed person will be allocated a small budget. Stage Manager / Asst Director With a cast of eight the production requires an experienced Stage Manager who will also run one or two rehearsals. Lighting Design / Operator The piece takes place over three timeframes - 1890's (briefly), 1920's and 1980's and we are looking for a Lighting Designer who can bring flair and imagination to the text. Sound Design / Operator. INCONSISTENT is centred around discovery of self and relies on a sense of heightened reality thus we require someone with good / imaginative sound creating skills, sourcing, editing and operating. Interviews will take place for the above in early May. The Production Schedule will commence with a Production Meeting on 06 June 2010 Rehearsals will run wc 21 June 2010. Interviews, meetings and rehearsals will all take place at Black Box's Liverpool Studios. Interested parties should email CV and supporting letter to admin@blackboxmerseyside.co.uk This project is PROFIT SHARE
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