Dana's Note................................................................................1
DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts latest.................................................2
Get nominating!......................................................................................2
Buy your tickets for the DaDa Awards now!............................................2
Volunteers required for DaDaFest 09................................................3
DaDaFest 2009............................................................................3
Disability Arts News.....................................................................4
Calling all deaf and disabled producers.............................................4
An invitation................................................................................5
Film a DaDaFest event..................................................................5
Digital shorts two weeks to go!..............................................................6
Bridging the gap documentary making workshop................................6
Oska Bright Film Festival..............................................................7
City Centre Gallery launch.............................................................7
Arts Jobs...................................................................................8
Stage Fight Director.....................................................................8
Ghost writer................................................................................8
Disclaimer..................................................................................9

Any items for the next newsletter should be sent to news@dadahello.com or dana@dadahello.com by 3.00pm 3rd Oct 09 Please keep the articles short (75 words or less is ideal), and in plain text format.
Dana's Note
Hello folks,
Hope you all enjoyed that hour extra at the weekend because we've got so much for you; you need to get in the prep time! If you haven't booked for your DaDaFest events yet, do take a look below as there's details on some of the easiest ways to do this and lots, lots more, all for you!
Yours, Dana.
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DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts Latest
Get nominating!
LAST CHANCE TO NOMINATE FOR THE DADA AWARDS! NOMINATIONS CLOSE on 2nd NOVEMBER! This year the DaDa Awards are held for the first time at The Hilton Liverpool on 3rd December 09 as part of International Disabled Peoples Day. Five awards are up for grabs and each winner will receive around £500 to develop their art work. See nomination form for more details as each award carries a different offer. (Go to www.dadahello.com/dadafest to download). Nominations are open to any disabled or deaf artists or group and can be self nominated or made on behalf of someone else. Applications can also be requested by contacting the office for a form. Further information can be obtained from: Faye Christiansen on 0151 703 2250 [direct line available 9.30am - 5pm Mon- Fri], Fax 0151 708 9355, Minicom 0151 706 0365 or e-mail faye@dadahello.com
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Buy your tickets for the DaDaAwards Now!
Thursday 3 December Hilton Liverpool, L1 8LW. Tickets £50, Book a table of 10 for £450 Get one place free! Telephone: 0151 707 1733 Email: events@dadahello.com, Minicom: +44 (0)151 706 0365 Fax: +44 (0)151 708 9355 The only UK Awards ceremony that acknowledges the work
of deaf and disabled artists, join us for cabaret, feasting, awards, laughter and song. So Many Excuses will host the event, a rebirth of No Excuses; Mandy Colleran, Ali Briggs and Mandy Redvers Rowe reform for this fabulous evening. From attending rallies, creating mayhem, and a movement as well as completing commissions for the BBC, they're ripe for
re-emergence in their continued quest for equality. We also be debuting the DaDaSings choir, working with Ayotunde Falona, Caroline Parker and Sense of Sound, a group of hearing singers and deaf signers will delight the senses and bring a fresh perspective to signed song. DaDaSings is funded by LCVS. Book your ticket now by contacting DaDa - Disability
& Deaf Arts direct. This year's Awards are sponsored by: Northwest Regional Development Agency, ITV Productions, The Mersey Partnership, National Museums Liverpool, Breakthrough UK and Culture Liverpool (Liverpool City Council)
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Volunteers required for DaDaFest 09
Dada is currently recruiting volunteers to assist with its 9th festival which runs from the 17th November - 5th December 2009. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers with an interest in art that captures some of the issues and experiences we come across as disabled and deaf people. Main duties will include invigilation, information assistance, event and artist support. There will also be a short compulsory induction to attend.
DaDaFest 09 takes place across Liverpool in several different venues including Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Open Eye Gallery, the Bluecoat and FACT and from time to time you may be required to work across the city. Volunteers will receive expenses of £10 per full day. This is a great opportunity for people to get involved and gain some experience of working on deaf & disability arts events. Contact Volunteer@dadahello.com for an application form and further information. Applications will still be considered up to Friday 30th October.
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DaDaFest 2009
The full brochure PDF can now be downloaded from www.dadahello.com/dadafest. To request hard copies of the brochure, please contact: info@dadahello.com. To book tickets for paying events please see below:
Wednesday 18th November: The Magic Hour: 2pm and 6pm tickets £4 and £3. Call 0871 704 2063 to book tickets or call into FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Friday 20th November: Crossings: 8pm tickets £7 and £5 Call: 0151 709 4988 or call into Unity Theatre, Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG or book online at www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
Saturday 21st November: Liz Carr: It Hasn't Happened Yet! 8pm tickets £7 and £5 Call: 0151 709 4988 or call into Unity Theatre, Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG or book online at www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
Friday 27th November: Mat Fraser: From Freak to Clique 8pm tickets: £7 and £5 Call: 0151 702 5324 or pop into The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX or book online at www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Friday 27th November: Spastic Fantastic and Unshakeable: 7.30pm tickets: £7 and £5 Call: 01228 618718 or call in to: Tullie House Museum, Castle Street, Carlisle,CA3 8TP
Saturday 28th November: DaDaNoise 8pm tickets £5 and £7. Call: 0151 702 5324 or pop into The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX or book online at www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Sunday 29th November: DaDaLesque 7.30pm tickets £5 and £7 Call: 0151 702 5324 or pop into The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX or book online at www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Tuesday 1st December: Unshakeable 8.30pm tickets £5 and £7 Call: 0151 702 5324 or pop into The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX. Book online will be available soon.
Friday 4th December: Tom Doughty 8pm £5 and £7 Call: 0151 702 5324 or pop into The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX. Book online will be available soon.
Tickets for DaDaFest events are already selling so do book now! We look forward to seeing you there!
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Disability Arts News
Calling Deaf and Disabled producers
Improbable and Greenwich+Docklands Festivals with Arts Council England are currently recruiting for three Deaf and disabled producers for an intensive programme of work-based learning with a cultural organisation, working on a specific project (or projects), and time with a mentor to build confidence and help talented people use more of their potential - identifying career options, selecting goals and taking steps towards those goals. Are you: A Deaf or Disabled person? 
A producer or a person with aspirations to be a producer who is ready for more structured support and training? An individual with three or more years involvement in the arts? Interested in and excited by different types of theatre and performance, and exploring different ways of making theatre happen? Ambitious, enthusiastic, rigorous and committed? Available to start January / February 2010? Timetable Deadline for applications: 5pm, Wednesday 11 November 2009 Interviews: Improbable - Monday 23 November, Arts Council England, London GDF - Tuesday 24 November, Arts Council England, London. Interpreters and access workers will be available upon request. Placements start: Monday 1 February 2010 (flexible) Placements finish: as agreed by each successful individual with the host organisation. For more information on how to apply and for a job description (available in a range of formats), please contact Melanie Rashbrooke: SMS: 07834 546379 Voice: 0207 2404556
Email: melanie@improbable.co.uk We are committed to ensuring this project is accessible.

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An Invitation:

As part of a project exploring approaches to audio description of film, City University London invites you to a free audio described screening of David Lean's classic "Brief Encounter" on Wednesday 4th November 2009 at Cass Business School near Moorgate in Central London. Light refreshments will be provided from 11.30am, and Brief Encounter begins at 12 noon. The film lasts for 1 hour and 20 minutes and you will be invited to answer a short questionnaire at the end of the screening. A companion is welcome to accompany you if necessary. The event is due to finish by 2.15pm. If you would like to attend, or have any queries, please contact Louise Fryer at louise@utopians.co.uk, or Gail Marsom at enterprise@city.ac.uk as soon as possible, giving your name, email and telephone number; and if you are bringing a companion please provide their name as well. Please let us know if you will be bringing a guide dog and whether you would like your dog looked after during the screening. Address: Cass Business School 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ Website: http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/ Location Map: http://www.city.ac.uk/maps/cass/index.html How do I get to Cass Business School? By underground tube: The nearest underground stations are Moorgate and Old Street (Northern Line City branch), Barbican, Liverpool Street and Moorgate (Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and Circle Lines) and Liverpool Street (Central Line). The Business School is ten minutes' walk from the nearest underground stations. By car: Parking for Bunhill Row is either in the Barbican Centre's car parks or in the National Car Parks in Aldersgate Street, London Wall and Finsbury Square.
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Film a DaDaFest event!
A message from Liz Carr: Hi all, I'm performing my play 'It Hasn't Happened Yet' at the Unity Theatre on Saturday 21st November and I'm hoping there's someone out there who can film it for me? Running at just under an hour, the piece is a darkly comic mix of theatre and standup comedy, a play about a wheelchair using stand-up comedian, trying to make her way in the mainstream world. I want a visual record of it for various reasons - for use in rehearsals, for arts council evaluation and to promote the show to other venues. For the latter reason, I do need the quality to be fairly good as I'd like to put together a 10 minute promo DVD in the coming months, using clips from the show as recorded at unity. I'm too bloody untechnical but if there's anyone out there who could help me? There's a bit of dosh for expenses and a small fee of £50. let me know if you can help... contact me via liz.carr@virgin.net Many thanks! liz
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Digital Shorts two weeks to go!
Northwest Vision and Media are inviting applications for their Digital Shorts scheme 2009/10, funded by Northwest Vision and Media and the UK Film Council. The aim is to provide an opportunity for emerging filmmakers to develop their professional experience and create high quality digital films that are cinematic and appeal to a broad range of audiences. Vision and Media are searching for new stories that show passion and imagination. These should be projects that are unique and challenging, which progress filmmaker's capabilities and develop their individual voice while also having the potential to screen at festivals nationally and internationally. Northwest Vision and Media will commission up to six engaging films of no more than 15 minutes and with budgets of up to £12,000. The Digital Shorts scheme is also aimed at new and experienced writers and directors with a track record in shorts or similar experience in another filmmaking medium, and producers who have a track record and the ability to deliver a project on a budget.
Also available to those working in theatre, new media, and artist film and video who are interested in moving into cinematic, narrative filmmaking.
Deadline is Thursday 5 November 2009
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Bridging the gap: Documentary making workshop
Northwest Vision and Media is pleased to welcome The Scottish Documentary Institute who will be coming to our new home in Salford Quays to deliver an outreach workshop encouraging submissions to the Bridging the Gap short documentary film scheme. The SDI will be showing examples of past award winning Bridging the Gap work, explaining the aims of the scheme and how to improve your chances to be short-listed. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to develop a career in documentary filmmaking and the scheme itself involves a huge amount of valuable industry training. This year they're looking for ideas for ten minute short docs on the theme of "Surprise" - the submissions deadline is 1 December. More Information and guidelines on www.docscene.org. Attendees should bring along an idea for a short documentary and learn how to develop and focus your treatment. For more information and to register please click on the following link http://scottishdoc.eventbrite.com
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Oska Bright Film Festival, have you bought your tickets yet?
If not then you could miss out on our biggest ever collection of amazing animations, comedies, documentaries, dramas, soap operas, dance films, as well as the brilliant awards ceremony and party.
Oska Bright is a great chance for learning disabled film makers to meet and talk to each other, have fun watching each other's films and to celebrate learning disability film. It is also an event for the wider general public to see what great films we make - and how professional we are.
We have been working hard for the past 2 years to make this festival the biggest and most exciting ever. We are proud of all the film makers from all over the world who have entered their great films. Whilst we were on the road we met hundreds of film makers and had the chance to talk to them about their film making. We are looking forward to seeing some of them at this year's festival and showing their new films. Tickets cost £1 each and MUST be booked in advance. You can book tickets by phoning Carousel on 01273 234734 or by emailing oskabright@carousel.org.uk
For more information visit our website where you can see a detailed timetable, the programmes and a short promotional film that shows a few clips from most of the films in Oska Bright 2009: http://www.oskabright.co.uk/OB2009.htm Don't forget that we are raising some money for our mobile cinema bus. We need 100,000 people to give £5 each. You can look at the fabulous "Birds of a Feather" film and make a donation by clicking here: http://www.oskabright.co.uk/great_film.htm
Please tell as many people as possible about our campaign!
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CITY CENTRE GALLERY LAUNCH!
The doors of The Gallery - Liverpool's Best Kept Secret, will open on Saturday 31st October at Clayton Square, Shopping Centre, L1 1QR. The event will be launched b Pete Price from Radio City, with guest appearances from The Lady Mayoress, Mrs Kathryn Hodson. There are many Halloween themed activities on the day for the family plus an art workshop for children in The Gallery! With an L1 postcode it is a hotspot for all visitors to the city! During the day, Madelaina (The Director an Artist) can be seen exposing her skills as she paints within the window and has adopted the moniker of ‘The Naked Artist'. Each month the window will change and reveal a new talent as local guest artists exhibit their work. The Gallery is on the first floor of Clayton Square Shopping Centre where it is open from Thursday through until Sunday between 12.30hrs - 18.00hrs (17.00hrs close Sun.) So why not put yourself in the picture and visit The Gallery - Liverpool's Best Kept Secret! Survey the hidden talents of Merseyside Artists; have a coffee with the ‘Naked Artist' and just maybe consider being ‘immortalised on canvas!' yourself!
For more information contact:
madelainartz@aol.com or www.thegallery@madelainartz.com
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Arts Jobs
Stage fight director, Whirlwind Theatre
North West Paid (£10k-15k pro rata) Contact: Myette Godwyn mmwhalley@btinternet.com Needed a stage fights director to be part of mid February & May/June half term workshops and oversee fights for summer rehearsals of The Lion, The Witch and Wardrobe. The right candidate has to be local to Lancaster, have experience working with children/young people and those with disabilities, be part of the team, CRB cleared with references and have the correct fights qualifications to teach.
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Ghost Writer, New East Manchester
Gorton 100 Commerative Book Fee £3000 Time Scales Nov 2009 - March 2010. In 1909 the larger part of Gorton became part of Manchester - or as others understand it, Manchester became part of Gorton! As a result there has been a wide range of projects taking place during 2009 to celebrate Gorton's 100-year anniversary. We are now looking to document these events so we are looking for a writer to put together a publication based on anecdotes and stories collected by the Gorton 100 Committee. This project offers: the community the chance to capture their memories of Gorton's past , an opportunity to celebrate and document its centenary year , the chance for residents to share their hopes for the future regeneration of the area . Ideally the finished book will have a scrapbook feel and will be a lasting memento of the Gorton 100 project. As well as having a strong visual element the book needs to be historically accurate and include outlines, stories and quotes from those taking part in Gorton 100 activities. The successful writer will need to have a proven track record of writing to a professional standard and have experience of working with members of the community to compile a publication. In regards to personality they will need to be easy going, patient and enthusiastic. Time Scales: Nov 2009 - March 2010 Book to be published by mid Feb 2010 Book Launch March 2010 Deadline for applications: Weds 4th November
For a more detailed project brief please contact Lela Cribbin via email at l.cribbin@manchester.gov.uk
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