Dana's Welcome
- 21 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............................................................................2
DaDa Disability & Deaf Arts Chair becomes Slimming World Consultant..2
Disability Arts News.....................................................................2
Deaf led media broadcast company seeks crew.................................2
4th Manchester Kurdish Film Festival...............................................3
Director Wanted..........................................................................3
Sahir House Employability Project Invitation to tender..........................4
Performance from Foot in Hand ......................................................4
Rural Youth Arts Seminar..............................................................4
International Literature Competition..................................................5
Musicians Wanted for the New Village Fete.......................................5
Two events being held at The Bluecoat.............................................6
The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Reminder...............................6
Feature Film: Extra Work...............................................................6
The Pixel Pitch............................................................................7
Arts Jobs...................................................................................8
Find Your Talent Opportunity..........................................................8
Exciting Crafts Worker Needed!.............................................................9
Head of Education and Outreach....................................................10
Disclaimer.................................................................................10

Any items for the next newsletter should be sent to news@dadahello.com or dana@dadahello.com by 3.00pm 27th July 09 Please keep the articles short (75 words or less is ideal), and in plain text format.
Dana's Note
Dear Readers,
Just when you thought it was safe to bring out the bikini the clouds roll, thunder rumbles, lightning forks and in an unexpected deluge of rainforest proportions, summer disappears. No problem, we have plenty for you to read through this week while you're waiting for the next batch of sunshine to break through.
Yours, Dana
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DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts Latest
DaDaFest 2009
The programme is now full for DaDaFest 2009. We will be sending out more information on the full programme vey soon on our website: www.dadahello.com. To register for regular DaDaFest updates please email: news@dadahello.com to be added to our mailing list.
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DaDa Disability & Deaf Arts Chair becomes first male Slimming World Consultant in Withington
Gary Timperley (40) from Withington is a shadow of his former self. Gary tried every diet you can think of to lose weight he even starved himself on ‘cabbage soup' and the ‘egg diet' in an effort to lose weight over the years. Nothing worked and his weight just got worse. However a close friend told him he was worried about him and that he needed to lose weight. Gary said "At the time I was angry with him because I thought he was trying to scare me into action. But the more I thought about my mum the more I knew I had to do something". In January 2006 Gary joined the Slimming World group at Withington Methodist Church - a move he says ‘has changed my life completely'. "I lost 4lbs in the first week and continued to lose weight every week.The group is great , really supportive and they pick you up when you are down. I love group so much that I have decided to become a consultant as I want to share my knowledge and help as many people as possible'. Gary takes over the Withington Group on Tuesday 28th July so don't be afraid to come to Slimming World, it's fun friendly and it's the place to be on a Tuesday evening. Gary's Group meets at Withington Methodist Church 439 Wilmslow Road Withington every Tuesday 5pm and 6.30pm
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Disability Arts News
Deaf led media broadcast company seeks crew
Editor/Camera Operator/Presenter needed for a vibrant Deaf Led Media and Broadcast Company - London based. Essential Core Skills:
Ability to edit in Final Cut Pro and Premier Pro to a good level of competency. Ability to operate a Sony Z1 Camera and Sony EX1 to a good level of competency. Ability to work in a team environment and work at a fast pace. Ability to present for television and be fluent in British Sign
Language. Applications and CV's to: bev@deafeatures. co.uk Deadline for applications: Open deadline until post is filled. http://www.deafeatures.co.uk/
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4th Manchester Kurdish Film Festival
14-16 August 2009 Cornerhouse, Manchester will be the venue for the 4th Annual Manchester Kurdish Film Festival, which returns in August for an enticing weekend of feature films, shorts, and Q&A sessions with international directors. The festival programme offers 10 feature films, both drama and documentary, and special screenings in association with KINOFILM and the Family Friendly Film Festival. We have a fantastic line up of films for our audiences this year, including award-winners from Cannes, Edinburgh, Sao Paulo and IV DeHumalc Human Rights Festival.
The event will open as is customary with a spectacular performance of traditional and modern Kurdish music, to be held at the Dancehouse, Manchester. Furthermore, during the months of September to November, the festival highlights will tour around selected North West regional high schools. We suggest tickets are bought early to avoid disappointment! Matinee tickets cost £3.50/7 and evenings £5/7 and can be bought from Cornerhouse Manchester.For further information, contact Festival Director Alan Amin, (07916 288 095) or Festival Manager Sandra Chapman (07879 625 272) The Kurdish Creative Film Centre, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St, Manchester, M4 1LE,
www.kurdishcreativefilm.com kcfcfilm@yahoo.co.uk, for bookings or more information contact: Cornerhouse, 0161 200 1500 or www.cornerhouse.org
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DIRECTOR WANTED
3D is looking for a volunteer Director for the Christmas Pantomime. The theme we are doing is called Magical Christmas Stories. The stories could be about anything, but we have no one to lead the team. Is anyone out there interested in directing 3D? Starting in September and performing at DEDA on 9th December 7.30pm, 10th December 2.30 and 7.30pm, and on the 11th December 2.30pm. We rehearse every Wednesday 6.30 - 8pm plus 2 weekends and some workshops. Deaf or hearing as long as you can use/understand BSL Level 2. The deadline is next Wednesday 22nd July. For more information please contact: janstreather@msn.com

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Sahir House Employability Project Invitation to Tender
Sahir House is a multicultural HIV support centre. We provide information and support to HIV positive people, their families and friends. We are currently inviting tenders for the delivery of a project designed to improve the employability of HIV positive people, particularly those who have not worked for over 12 months. We are seeking a suitable qualified individual to deliver a number of activities designed to increase job search, application and interview skills, and to provide relevant follow up activities.
Please return you completed tender to Nicholas Kavanagh, Sahir House, PO Box 11, Liverpool, L69 1SN or email to nicholas@sahir.uk.com by Friday 24th July 2009. Please request information for details of the project and what we require to be included in your bid.
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Performance from Foot in Hand
FOOT IN HAND Dance Company presents an evening of dance to inspire and fascinate with two unique works choreographed by Louise Katerega, who is fast becoming a national figure in the development of dance by, for, and with disabled people. Wednesday 29 July 2009 8pm Sign Language interpreted performance The Peepul Centre Orchardson Avenue, Leicester, LE4 6DP(Behind Sainsburys, off Dysart Way) Tickets £8 - £12.50 Box Office 0116 261 6000 www.peepularts.com
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Rural Youth Arts Seminar
FREE SEMINAR Wednesday 9th September 2009 Lanternhouse, The Ellers, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0AA 10.30 am- 12.30 pm. ENYAN, English National Youth Arts Network invites you and your colleagues in the North West Region to a FREE event which will profile outstanding rural youth arts projects, explore arts and cultural strategy for rural communities and discuss what further action is needed to support the development of rural youth arts projects. The network is delighted to welcome Claire Smith who will present information about the Cheshire Rural Touring Network. She will provide information about their rural youth project and DVD resource which offers a new model of how a performing arts project can successfully and meaningfully engage young people in rural communities.
Ian Hunter from LITTORAL Arts will be presenting information about their rural arts and culture projects. Since 2002 LITTORAL Arts has been working on a series of research projects aimed at surfacing a co ordinated arts and cultural strategy for rural communities in England. Models of best practice will be profiled and there will be some focused discussion around the issues that are unique to developing, running, promoting sustaining rural youth arts projects. If you would like to attend please email enyan@artswork.org.uk with your full contact details to reserve a space. Spaces are limited so early booking is essential.
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International Literature Competition
An exciting opportunity has arisen for writers living or originating from the Tees Valley. Working in partnership with Oberhausen, Germany, Italy and Turkey, Local writers have the opportunity to submit a short story into the competition. With prize money totalling 1400 Euros, and a chance to gain international recognition all local writers are encouraged to enter. Middlesbrough Council Culture and Tourism are offering a number of free creative writing master classes and a 10 week creative writing course for £60 For further details regarding terms and conditions of the competition or the creative writing workshops please contact Lisa Bean on 01642 729288 or email lisa_bean@middlesbrough.gov.uk
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Musicians wanted for the New Village Fete
If you're a budding musician then this is the platform for you!
Send through your myspace links pronto and you could find yourself playing at our next event in the courtyard! With the 1st August fast approaching, now is also the time to get your last min stall enquiries in.
We've just a few places left but if you think you have something special to sell then send your images through to thenewvillagefete@live.co.uk For this next event were hoping to blow your mind with what's on offer, as with every event the quality of stalls seem to get better and better!

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Two events being held at the Bluecoat

Sunday 26th July - Swap Shop Sunday 12 noon until 4pm
Bring along your surplus items, clothes, seeds, books, veg patch produce and swap them. In keeping with an environmental focus means we will not accept electrical items. Tuesday 28th July - The Age of Stupid 6.30pm A groundbreaking docu-drama starring Pete Postlethwaite that looks at the world from 2055 and ask's why didnt we do something about climate change when we had the chance? The screening will be followed by a World Cafe discussion that allows for all voices to be heard. You can find the Bluecoat on School Lane, Liverpool City Centre, L1 3BX
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The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Reminder
Each year Shape offers a £5000 bursary with a residency in a visual arts venue for a visual artist to develop their practice. Shape are now accepting applications for the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary 2010, with a residency at Spike Island in Bristol. For more information and to download your application pack, go to www.adamreynoldsbursary.org.uk. The closing date for your application is 7 September 2009.
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Feature Film: Extra Work
Manchester based Production requires male/female's of any age to participate in the scheduled Filming for Sat 25th July, 7pm - 10pm.
We will be filming in Europe's largest Health Club, LA Fitness, Sale.
This is a great way to meet/network industry types and can be a great experience if looking to pursue a career within the TV/Film Industry.
If you're interested in participating in the above production then please email: info@fridaynightfilms.co.uk. This is unpaid supporting cast work but you would be invited to the Screening and invited to the Productions Wrap party!
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The Pixel Pitch
Is Power to the Pixel's ground-breaking new pitching forum for up to ten of the best UK and international cross-media film projects. We are looking for stories that can span film, TV, online, mobile and gaming to be presented to a select group of financiers, commissioners, tech companies, online portals and media companies in front of an audience of PTTP participants. The selected project teams will compete for the
BABELGUM PIXEL PITCH PRIZE of £6,000. Teams will benefit from significant international publicity and be introduced to new international business and partnership opportunities as well as one-to-one consultancies. Last year's Launch saw four cross-media projects presented to international companies including Babelgum, Sony Computer Entertainment, BBC, YouTube, MySpace, Amazon, Channel 4, UK Film Council, Arts Council of England, and Tribeca Film Institute. Request an application form from the email address below and email the completed form to pixelpitch@powertothepixel.com to arrive by 18.00 BST 14th August 2009. Who Should Apply? Producer-led teams whose projects are taking advantage of the growth of new tools, platforms, services and devices to develop innovative ways of telling stories and extend the opportunities to reach and interact with core and wider audiences. Projects can be in development or a work-in-progress. Part of the distribution strategy for the project should take place in a cinema or include a live event. Teams must have a strong track record within the film and other relevant creative industries. NB: Applications from teams that include students will not be eligible. Power to the Pixel will select up to ten cross-media film projects to be pitched to a hand-picked roundtable group of financiers, commissioners, tech companies, online portals and entertainment companies in front of an audience of up to 200 Power to the Pixel delegates, as part of Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Film Forum at this year's London Film Festival. Each team will have 10 minutes to pitch their project (including visual presentations) with a further 20 minutes for comments and feedback from the roundtable. Pitches will be followed by one-to-one meetings with potential financiers and partners. Submission Guidelines: Projects must have a Producer attached and be submitted through a production company. Submissions must be made by the Producer. Producer(s) must own the rights to develop and produce the project in all required media. Applications from teams that include students will not be eligible. A maximum of 2 members per team will be allowed to pitch, one of whom must be the Producer or Director. Applications and supplementary materials must be delivered in English. Power to the Pixel will give preference to projects whose team members have a credit within the creative industries (eg. broadcast, online, gaming, theatrical, novel). Projects can be in development or a work-in-progress. Application forms and all supplementary materials must be delivered online eg. stills, storyboards, moving imagery (10 mins max) by uploading files and providing urls to where materials have been uploaded. If you don't have a website, here are some places you can upload content to: Megaupload and DivShare for video, stills, music files Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa for stills YouTube and Blip.tv store video files. Part of the distribution strategy for the project must take place in a cinema or include a live event
11. All application forms and supplementary materials must be sent to pixelpitch@powertothepixel.com to arrive by 18.00 BST on 14 August 2009.
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Arts Jobs
Find your Talent opportunity

North West Closes Wed 05 Aug 2009. Contact: hannah.rapley@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk As a part of Find Your Talent in the Liverpool City Region, the Find Your Talent partners are in the process of developing a series of programmes to engage young people who are ‘at risk of missing out' and some programmes specifically with young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET). For these programs to work most effectively the FYT partners would like to employ a number of Creative Mentors on a freelance basis to support young people in one to one and group situations throughout the projects.
We are asking for applications to be made to the Young People at Risk of Missing Out FYT Cluster. This cluster is made up of representatives from Tate Liverpool, The Everyman and Playhouse Theaters, Liverpool Biennial, The Citadel and KMBC, all of these organisations are running FYT projects working with young people who are at risk of missing out in the next 10 months. Next steps post application will be made by individual partner organisations, these may come in the form of an invitation to an interview or other appropriate process. All projects will pay at recommended industry rates for artists/ creative mentors which will be no less that £200 per day for face to face work with young people.
Each of these projects takes a slightly different approach. In some cases the Creative Mentor may also be asked to deliver creative activity where as in others the mentor's role will be purely as support for the young person. Initially we would like interested Creative Practitioners/Educators to apply to be in a ‘Creative Mentor Bank' enabling them to be called upon for employment opportunities working with young people who are ‘at risk of missing out' through numerous future projects. By applying to become a FYT Creative Mentor you are agreeing for FYT to hold your information on file for future employment opportunities. Please email for further details on how to apply.
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Exciting Crafts Worker needed!
We are looking to employ a crafts worker to deliver 2 separate workshops. The first will be a 1hr workshop, delivered to families at our craft fair on 22nd August on a ‘make and take' basis. The second will be delivered to our members at a meet-up during September (date to be discussed) and should be a more in depth workshop suitable for adults. The focus of both these workshops will be ‘Contemporary Craft' ideally using recycled materials and aiming to teach an exciting craft skill. Both workshops will be delivered in Harwood, Bolton. The fee for this position will be £100 with an additional materials budget of £25. This includes a 1hr family workshop at our craft fair, a 2hr demonstration and workshop at one of our craft meet-ups and 1hr preparation time. To apply for this opportunity you must: Be registered as self employed; Hold an Enhanced CRB Certificate; Have experience working with children/families and delivering creative workshops. If you would like to be considered for this opportunity you must send a 1-page word document with a short outline of how you would interpret the theme ‘Contemporary Craft' and a list of materials needed to Kerry by Tuesday 28th July. Contact: ladykerryb@hotmail.com If using photos to explain your idea, these should be included on the word document, please do not attach additional photos to the email. Applications will then be considered by the FUSE Crafters committee and you will be informed if you have been successful by 3rd August.
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HEAD OF EDUCATION & OUTREACH
An outstanding opportunity for an exceptional individual to lead the Coliseum's pioneering education and outreach department and play a significant role in the leadership and direction of the theatre. We are looking for a dynamic and creative individual to take our vibrant and expanding participatory programme on to the next stage of its development. Hours are 43 per week. However we would be prepared to consider proposals for part time working (minimum 4 days per week) which would be paid pro rata. Please indicate your preference in your application. Closing date: Thursday 13th August, 12noon Interviews: Tuesday 25th August. For more information please download an application pack from www.coliseum.org.uk. Alternatively email mail@coliseum.org.uk or telephone Anne-Louise Jones on 0161 624 1731
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