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

Dana's Note................................................................................2
DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts latest.................................................2
SENSEational seminars.................................................................2
Disability Arts News.....................................................................3
Crossings...................................................................................3
Free Training for social enterprises..................................................3
Script reading workshop................................................................3
Niet Normaal - Difference on Display...............................................4
Calling all young filmmakers aged 6-16 years....................................5
Non competition films...................................................................5
‘60 metres gold handicap (King Midas)'.............................................6
Engage International Summer School 2009........................................6
Opportunity for craft workers and artist makers..................................7
Deaf Comedian John Smith............................................................8
It was murder!.......................................................................................8
Want free promotion?............................................................................8
The Accredited Coaching Course, Relational Dynamics.......................9
Portrait painters and illustrators sought............................................9
North West Student Art prize.........................................................10
Soap Box-The Mystery Workshop..................................................10
Call for submissions- Brewery Arts Centre.......................................10
Showzam Calls for artists.............................................................11
Arts Jobs..................................................................................11
Community Artist, Leaf Arts..........................................................11
Executive Director Lanternhouse International..................................11
Poetry Workshop artist................................................................12
Web designer Ludus Dance..........................................................13
Artist in residence.......................................................................13
Disclaimer.................................................................................14

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Dana's Note
Dear Readers,
If like me you're currently attempting to shed the pounds (and not just so I can shoehorn myself into Amy Winehouse's new clothing line), then you will be delighted with our newsletter this week, it's all muscle.
Yours,
Dana.
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DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts Latest
SENSEational seminars
Two exciting and inspirational regional seminars for Visual and Performing Arts Organisations to explore and discuss creativity and sensory access drawing on artist and organisations experiences. These full day seminars will prove essential! The dates of the seminars are: Thursday 25th June 2009 at The Lowry, Salford. This day will focus on Performance Arts Wednesday 1st July 2009 at Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster. This day will focus on Visual Arts. Details of key note speakers, a breakdown of the day and how to register will be available from DaDa Disability & Deaf Arts soon. Please do not contact the venues. More information will follow on our website, in our newsletter and on Facebook, Myspace and Twitter accounts.
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Disability Arts News
CROSSINGS
A gripping new theatre piece by Julie McNamara. Directed by Paulette Randall "Stunning... Wonderful writing" Disability Arts Online
Shelley wants out of the gang. But we all know you don't do that. In a raging storm one night, she finds shelter on an old Ferry boat. But this is no ordinary ship, it is the ghost of the Zong, a slaveship with a murderous history. Confronted by two powerful voices on board Shelley finds herself questioning everything she holds dear. For her or against her, will she ever get out of this in one piece?PREMIER at Rich Mix Friday 5th June & Saturday 6th June 2009. Times: 8.00pm After show Q+A: Friday 5th June 2009 9.30 pm. All performances BSL interpreted and Audio Described. Tickets: £12, £10 concs. BOX OFFICE 020 7613 7498 or online booking:
http://www.richmix.org.uk/bookings/ If you experience any difficulty with your booking please contact: voice: 020 7613 5856 or email: crossings@juliemc.com Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA. How to get there: http://www.richmix.org.uk/visitor.htm more information: Crossings' website: http://www.juliemc.com/crossings.html Crossings on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29120330831
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Free Training for Social Enterprises
At Step Clever, Tuesday 9th June - do you have an idea for a socially beneficial business? Step Clever wish to recruit 12 participants for a free course at the School for Social Entrepreneurs, which starts in July. Anyone interested in taking up this opportunity is invited to attend an informational session at 11.00am on Tuesday 9th June at South Sefton Investment Centre, Stanley Road, Bootle. For more information please see the attached flyer or contact cmt@colettet.plus.com
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Script Reading Workshop
Saturday 27 June and Saturday 4 July (two days 10.30am until 4.30pm) A two-day course that teaches analysing and reporting on scripts as an introduction to the film development process. This course will be hosted by respected developer Barbara McKissack, who has previously worked as BBC Scotland's Head of Drama and Executive Produced Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar. It is open to anyone with an interest in and familiarity with reading screenplays. Participants should have a passion for film and storytelling as well as an enjoyment of collaborative working. The primary aim is to provide a resource of new script expertise in the region. Contact Jenny Hughes at Vision and Media (jennyh@visionandmedia.co.uk) asap. Applicants will be required to complete a report of a short script provided by NWV&M to assess their state of readiness for training. This should be completed and returned with a brief CV to NWV&M by Monday June 1st at the latest. Having emailed Jenny, applicants will be required to complete a report of a short script provided by NWV&M and fill out a brief application form to assess their state of readiness for training. This will be considered, alongside brief CVs, and all applicants will be advised on 15th of June of the outcome of their application. Venue: Central Manchester - Cornerhouse, 27 June and 4 July 2009, 10.30am - 4.30pm. *** Vision and Media are intending to do a script editing course later in the year - those who participate in this module will be given priority.***
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Niet Normaal - Difference on Display
Beurs van Berlag, Amsterdam 15 December 2009 to 8 March 2010 OPEN CALL: Niet Normaal Wants Your FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS! Niet Normaal - Difference on Display is a new campaign from the Netherlands that dares to seek and reveal how "normal it is to be different." Artists, filmmakers and other producers are challenging how norms and difference operate in contemporary society. This call for the funniest home videos seeks to reveal often hidden realities, which most ‘outsiders' don't dare to laugh. Through humor and shared recognition we can discover the commonalities between disabled and non-disabled people who, in turn, help us communicate with one another. We are especially interested in funny videos where identities shift unexpectedly and where disabilities, like other differences, are surprisingly made and unmade. The selected films will be presented on the website of Niet Normaal, which will also be on display at the exhibition space in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Deadline: September 30, 2009 Link to begin uploading: http://www.nietnormaal.org Contact email: opencall@nietnormaal.nl
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Calling all young filmmakers aged 6-16 years
Jack Drum Arts is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the first ever UK Kids for Kids Film Festival for children and young people in collaboration with Kids for Kids and CIFEJ (International Centre of Film for Children and Young People). The UK Kids for Kids Film Festival is now seeking submissions of short films made by children and young people of up to 10 minutes for more information please contact: helen@jackdrum.co.uk Jack Drum Arts, 8 South Terrace, Crook, County Durham, DL15 9AD.
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NON COMPETITION FILMS
TO BE SCREENED DURING DEAFFEST 2009 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME Friday 27 - Sunday 29 November 09 Guidelines: This is the Deaffest 2009 Submission Form for films to be screened during the festival programme. Films entered for submission must be returned with this form by Fri 31 July 2009. We welcome submission of films made at any time in the past as well as recent productions. However, we are unlikely to show films that have been exhibited previously at Deaffest. There should be a significant Deaf involvement in the production. You will be asked to describe this in your submission form. Deaffest regrets that films cannot be returned. For more information and to get a submission form please contact: Zebra Uno Ltd &Zebra Access, Creative Industries Centre Wolverhampton Science Park Glaisher Drive, Wolverhampton WV10 9TG, UK
e: zebra_uno@hotmail.com Website: www.zebra-uno.com
PLEASE NOTE: Films which arrive without this form will NOT be accepted. For more information about the festival please contact:
Marketing Coordinator Lindsay Wiggin t. 01902 719821
e: lindsay@light-house.co.uk. The deadline for entries is Fri 31 Jul
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‘60 Metres Gold Handicap (King Midas)'
New short by Aaron Williamson showing at the Royal Festival Hall until 1st June. It is on a loop in Royal Festival Hall Level 2 Foyer (blue side), 10 am - 11pm daily: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/all-events/productions/100-metres-gold-.... In a state-of-the-art Olympic Athletics Centre (Lee Valley, London), King Midas - the mythical Greek figure - is attempting the 60 metres. He really ought to be the perfect Olympian since everything he touches turns to gold. However having turned himself to gold he is heavily handicapped for his race. ‘60 METRES GOLD HANDICAP' shows the artist Aaron Williamson in the guise of King Midas taking a whole hour to cover a 60 metres indoor running track. A world record of sorts - the slowest attempt ever - Williamson's Midas moves almost imperceptibly towards the camera at the end of the track. On two occasions, as a point of contrast, the European 60 meters record holder, Dwain Chambers, powers past to run the distance in just 6 seconds. The film is shown on a loop that for much of the hour's duration appears to be a single, unmoving image. However, gradually, King Midas reaches right up to the camera, his face filling the screen, only for the film to loop back to the start for him to begin his heavy-laden, gold-handicapped task again.
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Engage International Summer School 2009
13-16 July Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland
Initial Deadline for applications: 5 May 2009 Shifting Perspectives: Positioning Learning at the Centre of the Gallery. engage is pleased to announce the return of its International Summer School for experienced gallery educators, artists, curators and academics This peer-led event represents a significant opportunity for colleagues at a similar stage in their careers to work together in order to: Reflect on aspects of current practice in gallery education; Review current research and political agendas; Consider the positioning of gallery education within the cultural sector; Learn about international contexts for gallery education; Network with UK and international colleagues.This year engage Summer School will be held at historic Kilkenny Castle, Republic of Ireland, two hours from Dublin. We will be hosted by Jean Tormey of the Butler Gallery, which is based in the castle and has a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century Irish art and a programme of changing contemporary exhibitions. See http://www.butlergallery.com, http://www.kilkennycastle.ie and http://www.ccoi.ie. A day of visits to galleries in Dublin is scheduled as well as two days of peer-led discussion and activity. An invited key speaker will open the event and the following sessions will be devised and facilitated by members of the group.The theme, Shifting Perspectives: Positioning Learning at the Centre of the Gallery, is an invitation to participants to consider how their own work is situated within contemporary gallery practice and to debate how far learning and engaged practice influence what is shown in galleries and contribute to a growing public understanding of contemporary art and its place in society.There will be a maximum of 30 delegates at Summer School. You may be working in gallery education in one of several ways: leading or part of an education team based in a gallery, as a freelance artist educator, as an academic, or as a curator or director with a strong commitment to education. In order to ensure a balance of participants we ask you to complete a brief application form and submit a CV. To support the Summer School's peer-led philosophy, we invite colleagues to briefly describe what their perspective on gallery education is and to outline what their contribution to a session would be: an activity, workshop or discussion of an academic paper in progress. For an application form, details of costs and possible grant funding through Grundtvig European Visits and Exchanges Programme visit the engage website http://www.engage.org, email info@engage.org or call +44 (0) 20 7729 5858
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Opportunity for craft workers and artist makers
The PAD Gallery, Preston www.padshopandgallery.com Monday 22 June 2009 (Can book whole day or half day sessions) Kelda Savage is Crafts Programme Officer at Manchester Craft and Design Centre. She has been curating art, craft and design exhibitions and organising complimentary events in gallery and offsite venues for almost a decade. Sally Payne is a leading contemporary textile artist with a wealth of experience in showing and selling her work in both solo and group exhibitions. She also has a long history of lecturing and workshop delivery and planning. Facilitated by Pete Flowers. Artist, Co-Founder Green Close Studios Experienced Lecturer, Project Delivery and Management, Curating, and Professional Development for Artists.Places are strictly numbered so booking is essential. You can book for full or half day. Please Contact - pete@greenclose.org Allocated on a first come first served basis
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Deaf Comedian John Smith & Special Guest Sign Singer Colin Thomson
At Derby Guildhall Theatre on Saturday 6th June 2009, Start 7:30pm
Come down and join the fun!!! All Welcome, Deaf, Hearing, Students, Alien? Interpreter (voice over) Tickets from beautifulbsl@yahoo.co.uk
See website: http://www.assemblyrooms-derby.co.uk/WhatsOn/Shows/090606johnsmith.htm
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It was murder!
The bride was lovely, the wedding was perfect and now family and friends were celebrating at the party....but not everyone was enjoying themselves!! Become a detective and help the police to solve the murder.
Tickets £6.00 including meal (Over 12s only) we cannot sell tickets on the door. For more information on www.3dderbydeafdrama.co.uk
Friday 26th June 7.30pm Saturday 27th June 7.30pm
Rycote Centre, Derby.
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WANT FREE PROMOTION?
ConstantCasting are looking for new faces to be featured on their homepage with a picture and bio? All you have to do is e-mail them at: info@constantcasting.com with a professional colour headshot and a small biography of yourself and you may be one of the lucky people featured on their homepage which in constantly viewed by casting professionals!
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The Accredited Coaching Course, Relational Dynamics
Contact Deborah Barnard info@relationaldynamics1st.co.uk The Accredited Relational Dynamics Coaching Course. Autumn '09 starting 14th October | Zion Arts Centre, Manchester. With Deborah Barnard & Rivca Rubin. An interactive, practice based course covering an eclectic mix of skills, action learning, group exchange and investigation relating to coaching and leadership. An opportunity to understand your own leadership preferences, coaching style and approach to relational dynamics. A "varied and engaging" course suitable for those wishing to explore one-to-one coaching, enhance leadership, mentoring and facilitation skills in the workplace or day-to-day interactions. LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE - EARLY BOOKING ADVISABLE info@relationaldynamics1st.co.uk |www.relationaldynamics1st.co.uk. The first Relational Dynamics Coaching Course saw10 newly accredited Relational Dynamic Coaches working in the creative industries. We have now announced the dates for Autumn 2009 (starting 14th October) and do hope you can join us.
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Portrait Painters & Illustrators Sought, CIMPA
Contact Jai Shalimar jai.shalimar@cimpa.org.uk. As part of the Manchester Art Fair 2009, CIMPA is looking to recruit several Artists to work at various locations around the City of Manchester to paint and illustrate portraits of members of the public. Participating Artists will be able to charge a fee to the public for this service. Registration forms can be downloaded from: www.manchesterartsfair.com & returned by post or email for the attention of Jai Shalimar. We are also looking for Artists to donate a piece of artwork to be sold at a charity auction hosted by Harvey Nichols. All Artists are required to possess £5m public & product liability insurance. If you do not have insurance, CIMPA can help you with this. The deadline for receipt of completed registration forms is the 15 June 2009.
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North West Student Art Prize, CIMPA
As part of the Manchester Art Fair, CIMPA is launching the North West Student Art Prize. Artists can enter in three categories: Ceramics, Sculpture, Visual Art. Entry is completely free to all North West-based Artists, who expect to graduate in 2009. Please include no more the 3 (300dpi) images of your own original work. The deadline has been extended to the 15 June 2009. Registration forms can downloaded from the Manchester art fair website: www.manchesterartsfair.com & returned by email to: jai.shalimar@cimpa.org.uk.
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Soapbox - The Mystery Workshop/ Eliza and the Bear, Chester Performs
Contact Chester Performs info@chesterperforms.com Thursday 28th May 2009, 8pm £8.50 (£7.50) Chester's 700 year-old Water Tower, located on the city's ancient walls, will host Rebecca Joy Sharp's The Mystery Workshop - a set of original folk-influenced harp compositions, followed by a captivating performance of Eleanor Rees's acclaimed poem Eliza and the Bear, performed by Cathy Butterworth and Rebecca Joy Sharp. Soapbox presents fresh, new innovative work by a wide variety of professional artists, in some of Chester's more unusual venues.Tickets available from http://www.chesterperforms.com or by calling 0870 428 0785 or in person from Chester Tourist Information centre
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Call for Submissions, Brewery Arts Centre
Contact Sara Last sara.c.last@gmail.com Call for Artists The Brewery Arts Centre is looking for artists to exhibit in The Sugar Store Gallery (approximately 35metres of wall space), The Warehouse Arts Cafe (10meters) and Artisan café located in Booths Supermarket (20 meters). Please send your submission to the Visual Arts Committee care of the Brewery Arts Centre, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE, including: Low resolution images of proposed exhibition on disc or memory stick, a selection of images of your work on paper, size, media and price of work, your CV including contact details. Please do not send items of value or work that you may want to be returned. Deadline 1st July 2009
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Showzam calls for artists, Showzam Festival
Contact Claire Turner claire@claireturner.net. Blackpool's Showzam festival is looking for circus, magic, new variety and cabaret artists for both indoor and outdoor work at the Showzam festival 13 - 21 February 2010. Performances take place in venues across the town, and street theatre as part of Heat the Streets - an evening of fire installations and circus during the festival. To see events from last year's festival, visit www.showzam.co.uk Send biogs, DVDs and further information to Claire Turner, Showzam, VisitBlackpool, 1 Clifton Street, Blackpool FY1 1LY
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Arts Jobs
Community Artist, Leaf Arts
Contact Brian Raymond work@leaf-arts.co.uk I am looking for a versatile visual community artist with some experience of working creatively with children and adults to work with me on a couple of busy community festivals this summer. You'll need to be happy to work weekends and be able to work on your own initiative after brief initial instructions. You will need your own transport to venues within Greater Manchester, be able to provide a copy of your enhanced CRB certificate dated no earlier than September 2007 and have your own public liability insurance to the value of £5 million. Please send your CV, details of 2 referees and 3 or 4 images of work done within a community arts workshop that you have led, to work@leaf-arts.co.uk
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Executive Director, Lanternhouse International
Closes Mon 22 Jun 2009 Contact Sue Harrison claire@lanternhouse.org Lanternhouse International - engaging new art for new times. Executive Director (4 days a week) Salary £42K p.a. pro rata. Are you ready for change? We need a creative individual, who can inspire and support artists,engage audiences/participants and lead a skilled staff team in the growth of the organization and the development of a unique international programme. For discussion/information please ring Sue Harrison (07816 842983). For a job description and application form 01229 581127 e-mail welcome@lanternhouse.org or see website www.lanternhouse.org Application forms to be completed in full - no CVs. Interviews July 6/7. Lanternhouse International Ltd. The Ellers, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 0AA
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Poetry workshop artist, Green Spaces Forum
Closes Fri 29 May 2009 Contact Gayle Knight info@gayleknight.co.uk I need a poet who works with young children for a one-off day on Thursday 25th June. The idea is to take the children (a class of Yr 6 pupils) for a guided walk to the top of a hill in Accrington. Once there they'll be given sketch books and be asked to draw things that inspire them and write down phrases. When they get back to school the poet will then help them create poetry based on the things they have seen. Beyond this, the poems will be used in an exhibition based on the history of the hill (it's the 100th anniversary of when the hill was handed over to the people of the town for common use). The poet will come for the walk and will interact with the young people, perhaps giving a bit of chat about poetry before we set off. Then when we return to the school the poet will guide and help the young people create their own pieces. The poet will be working closely with the artist and hopefully some sketches and poems will link together. The pupils may then want to perform their poems for the class. This workshop can be expanded on or changed to some degree so it's not a rigid plan. Ultimately I just want the young people to 'respond' to the hill and the view. Fee for the poet is a flat £220 for the day, no expenses so I would suggest local.
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Web Designer / Programmer, Ludus Dance
Closes Wed 03 Jun 2009 We are seeking tenders for the production of a new web ‘frame-work' and associated design for the www.ludusdance.org web site. Based in Lancaster for over 34 years, Ludus Dance is Britain's Leading Dance in Education Company. The deadline for applications is Wednesday 3rd June at 17.00. Selected applicants will be invited to an interview at Ludus Dance in Lancaster on Tuesday 9th June 2009. This project must be completed by 17th July 2009 due to funding commitments. Please email technical@ludusdance.org for the full web brief and tender document.
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Artist in Residence - final call, In Certain Places
Closes Mon 01 Jun 2009 Contact Elaine Speight info@incertainplaces.org Date: 6th July - 3rd August 2009 Fee: £1,000 (plus travel expenses and materials) Deadline: 1st June 2009 In Certain Places are offering 3 North West artists the opportunity to make new, temporary public artworks during a short residency in St. John's shopping centre in Preston city centre. St. John's is a partially enclosed shopping centre that was built in the 1960s. It is located in the Tithebarn area of Preston, which is earmarked for regeneration. Due to its impending demolition, many retailers have moved out, resulting in a large number of empty units. The remaining tenants are keen for these to be occupied and used creatively, and the residency has been developed in response to their concerns. We want to appoint 3 artists to undertake a 4-week residency in the St. John's centre. Each artist will be offered one of the shop units as a base and studio space, in which to create new, site-specific artworks. Following an opening event, the work will be displayed in the centre throughout August. We are interested in artists who work in any media, but whose practice is concerned with notions of place and/or the social. Throughout the residency, artists will be encouraged to engage with both shoppers and tenants. Due to insurance issues, members of the public will not have access to the units, but will be able to view activities through the windows. The centre is open from 7am - 6pm and artists can spend as much time as they need onsite during these hours. To apply, please send a letter of interest with the following information to: submit@incertainplaces.org Your home address and contact details; An outline of no more than 500 words describing how you would approach the commission (not a proposal)
A current CV; up to 3 images of previous work (no larger than 600kb)
- any other types of relevant media (such as sound files, weblinks etc). For more information, please visit: www.incertainplaces.org or e-mail info@incertainplaces.org
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