Dana's Welcome
- 25th Nov 2009
All the latest opportunities from
DaDa-Disability and Deaf Arts

Dana's Note................................................................................1
DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts latest.................................................2
Buy your tickets for the DaDaAwards now!.............................................2
DaDaFest 2009............................................................................2
Training.....................................................................................4
Disability Arts News.....................................................................5
Background noise on television.......................................................5
Sign Circle 2010 call for performances and workshops........................6
Your words immortalized!......................................................................7
Snog, marry, avoid?..............................................................................7
Opportunities for artists.................................................................8
How to look good naked................................................................8
Arts Jobs...................................................................................9
Operations Manager.....................................................................9
Arts Development Officer...............................................................9
Disclaimer.................................................................................10

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Dana's Note
Hi - thought I would hijack Dana this week and write up a little about DaDaFest 09. We have just completed our first week and the response has been amazing - we have had over 50 media opportunities - a mix of press articles, interviews, radio and even BBC and ITV coverage - so after nine long years our messages, our arts and our cultures are being acknowledged and celebrated. Needless we to say we are all exhausted, but delighted that our hard work is paying dividends. There are only 10 days left of events - so do come along - tell us what you think and help us get even bigger and better for next year.
Do remember to vote - send a post card vote into the address or go online at www.dadahello.com/dadafest/nominations. It is a fantastic shortlist full of worthy winners - so helps us decide who deserves the award in Writers [ Sponsored ITV Productions], Emerging Arts [ Sponsored Breakthrough UK], Community Arts /Events [ North West Regional Development Agency and the overall Arts Award [ Culture Liverpool]!
We are really pleased to announce that Nabil Shaban has accepted the lifetime achievement award [sponsored by National Museums Liverpool: a well deserved accolade for all his many years of hard work, creative endeavours and disability campaigning. Congratulations and thank you Nabil!

Best wishes

Ruth Gould - CEO [ DaDa - Disability & Deaf Arts]
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DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts Latest
Buy your tickets for the DaDaAwards Now!
Thursday, 7pm on 3rd December Hilton Liverpool, L1 8LW. Tickets £50, Book a table of 10 for £450 Telephone: 0151 707 1733 Email: events@dadahello.com, Minicom: +44 (0)151 706 0365 Fax: +44 (0)151 708 9355 We still have some tickets available for this event, please contact us now to confirm your place. Special offer - the first 10 individuals or artists to contact the office and quote ‘ DaDaRocks' can purchase a ticket for just £15.00 get calling now or email events@dadahello.com with ‘DaDaRocks' in the subject line!
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DaDaFest 2009
Dream in a box on Thursday 26th November is now fully booked. Thank you for all your support. Please do get booking your tickets now!
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. The brochure is available in different formats. To book tickets for paying events please see below:
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 DADAROCKS! We have 15 free tickets available for this event for the lucky people who call to book a ticket and quote ‘DaDa Rocks' you can get in for this great show for FREE- but once they're gone you will need to pay for yout ticket so don't lose out- book today!
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 DADAROCKS! 15 free tickets are also available for this event call to book a ticket and quote ‘DaDa Rocks' you can get in for this great show for FREE but when the 15 are up- you will need to pay too- don't wait!
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. 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.
And don't forget about:
Join us this Friday 27th November 2009 in communal conversation as part of DaDaFest. Set in The Hub at Liverpool's Bluecoat, invited guests and passersby will observe and pitch in during an extended conversation.
Prompted by the themes of ‘Resistance', we will roam across a range of topics defined by the conversation's participants. From hidden histories to contemporary social attitudes, daily life to the impact of technology, charity to activism, and more, come and have your say. 'Conversation' will later be made available as a podcast. From 11.00am to 4.00pm in The Hub at Bluecoat, 54 Hanover Street Liverpool, L1 4AF. This event will be BSL interpreted and Palantyped.
And all our exhibitions:
17 November - 5 December Resistance: Which Way the Future?
Contemporary Urban Centre, The Annex, Liverpool L1 0BS Tuesday - Saturday: 11am - 6pm, Sundays: 11am - 4pm
www.contemporaryurbancentre.org
Created by Liz Crow. Resistance is a national touring moving image installation exploring Aktion-T4, the Nazi mass-murder programme that led to the death of quarter of a million disabled people. Telephone: 0151 702 5324 www.thebluecoat.org.uk. For details visit www.roaring-girl.com or www.dadahello.com Audio description is available for this event.
17 November - 5 December Kevin Connolly Open Eye Gallery, 28-32 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4AQ Tuesday - Saturday: 10.30am - 5.30pm, FREE Telephone: 0151 709 9460 Email info@openeye.org.uk
Reprising his exhibition that was showcased by DaDaFest 08. Kevin's book, ‘Double Take: a Memoir', which documents his photographic journey and experiences as a disabled artist will be on sale from October this year. Please visit his website for more information: www.therollingexhibition.com Audio description is available for this event.
17 November - 5 December Young DaDaFest Exhibition
10.00am - 5pm daily, FREE World Museum Liverpool, William Brown
Street, Liverpool, L3 8EN, Telephone: 0151 478 4393
17 November - 5 December Sally Booth the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool All week, 10am - 6pm, FREE Telephone: 0151 702 5324
www.sallybooth.co.uk Audio description is available for this event.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Training
Cultural Leadership Training for Disabled & Deaf Artists on Friday 4th December at 1pm ‘Leadership' is a complicated word. Is being a leader about your job title? Is it about behaving in a particular way? Can you be an artist and a leader? And if you are a disabled person, how does that change leading and leadership?
Interested in finding out more? Sync is a leadership development programme for disabled people in the arts and cultural sector, and part the Cultural Leadership Programme. With over 130 members nationally, Sync provides online and face to face opportunities for disabled people to think, learn, talk, write, reflect and find out more about leadership and leading. It's not about pushing a particular viewpoint; it is about encouraging people to think about their own perspective.
Sync and DaDa: Disability & Deaf Arts are holding an introduction to leadership session in Liverpool on 4th December as part of DaDaFest. It's a chance to find out more about leadership theories from a disability perspective. It's open to all disabled people working or wanting to work in the arts. Places are free, but limited to 15 disabled people only so please book asap by emailing joverrent@adainc.or events@dadahello.com.
To find out more about Sync, check out www.syncleadership.co.uk
Places are limited.

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Disability Arts News
Background noise on television
In the June/July we reported the results of our February online survey on TV access. More than half of you told us you switched off television programmes because of intrusive background noise. Last year's annual survey revealed that 83% of you felt that background noise/music affected your ability to hear speech on TV, so this is clearly an issue you feel strongly about. However, it's also a complex field - so we have contacted members in the Salford and Manchester areas about some new research that has potential to make a difference.
Ben Shirley and his team from the Acoustics Research Centre at The University of Salford have been funded by Dolby Laboratories, Inc. to study aspects of what is often called "clean audio". This refers to techniques and procedures that could be used to achieve clarity of speech for the maximum number of viewers - especially those with hearing loss. Ben and his team are studying means of separating sound effects from the speech and giving a degree of control to the viewer. Their findings could lead to a technological solution where viewers can turn down the background noise when they want to.
Our volunteers are being invited to take some initial audiometric tests before being assessed on how well they can discern "speech in noise". They will then be asked to rate some film clips for intelligibility and the effort needed to understand them. Thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far. If you are hard of hearing and would like to take part yourself, please contact Danny McCaul by telephone (0161 295 4615) or email d.j.mccaul@salford.ac.uk this is open to RNID members. You would need to travel to Salford two or three times during July, August or September but will be reimbursed your travel expenses (up to £15 per day.) In the mean time, if you are unhappy about background noise on any particular television programme, please do take the time to complain directly to the broadcaster concerned. Broadcasters often tell us they don't get many complaints, so it's important you do take action in this way. To find out how to complain, visit our website www.rnid.org.uk/tvaccess or call our Information Line on 0808 808 0123 (telephone) or 0808 808 9000 (textphone).
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Sign Circle 2010: Call for Performances and Workshops
The 4th Sign Circle Deaf BSL Camping Festival calls for applications from performers and workshop leaders. If you have skills you want to share with people, why not apply and see if you will be chosen to perform or to lead a workshop at Sign Circle 2010! There is only one condition: you must be fluent in BSL. This ever growing festival will take place on Longridge Showground, Longridge, Lancashire; 28th - 31st May 2010. Past performers include: John Smith, El Show de Chavi (Spain), Ramesh Meyyappan, Krazy Kat Theatre Company and Signmark (Finland). We have had workshops in circus skills, art and drumming. We're always open to new ideas! So, are you next to step on the "Raising Hands" stage and perform to hundreds of people? Or do you want to provide a memorable workshop for BSL users? We want to hear from you! The deadline for applications is Monday 4th January 2010. Please fill in this application form, sign, scan and email it to the Programme Manager Heidi Koivisto at heidi@signcircle.org.uk. Alternatively, you can post your application to:
Sign Circle Flat 160 Sandown Court Avenham Lane Preston Lancashire
PR1 3RP
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Your words immortalised!
The final winning design in the Liverpool Echo's Open Culture Benchmark competition is to stand outside the new Museum of Liverpool, due to open in spring 2011. Designer Ilsa Parry, who recently won the Philippe Starck-led BBC2 Design for Life competition, is now asking the people of Merseyside to help to complete her Storyteller bench. The bench, which uses elements of the 08 logo, so people will sit in the recesses created by the two numbers to effectively immerse them in culture, will also be covered in stories and words to make a lasting impression on those who see it. Now Ilsa's winning design, which she also used as part of her submission to enter the Design for Life competition, is set to be turned into reality. And she's asking Merseysiders to contribute their words, phrases, poems, song lyrics, stories, amusing anecdotes, and snippets of letters or other text. A selection will then be engraved on the finished bench.
How to submit: Write about what means something to you - it could be a short story, poem, experience, snippet of conversation, words to a song you have written or something you have overheard which makes you proud to be Liverpudlian. The closing date is Friday November 27. All entries will be read but only parts of submissions may be used. Send it along with your name and contact details by either:
Post - Storyteller, Open Culture, Liverpool Innovation Park, 360 Edge Lane, Liverpool L7 9NJ
Email - storyteller@culture.org.uk
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Snog, Marry, Avoid?
We are casting for BBC Three's hugely popular television programme "Snog Marry Avoid?" which is returning for a third series. It's a fun and quirky programme with a cult following and is BBC Three's most popular Factual Entertainment programme. The programme involves people with an overly glamorous or outrageous look. This could be anything from fake tan, hair extensions etc to tattoos, piercings and outrageous clothes. A computer called P.O.D. (Personal Overhaul Device) who does not "compute" the changes they have made to their appearance, gives them a makeunder rather than a makeover, resulting in a more natural look. We are keen to involve the disabled community in our casting. Contact: Colette Callus T: 020 8222 4585 M: 07971 385 970 F: 020 8222 4088
E: Colette.callus@endemoluk.com
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Opportunities for artists
Dance Initiative Greater Manchester, greenroom and hÅb are pleased to announce that the second Turn platform is now inviting proposals from North West based dance-makers. Turn 2010, 4-6 March 2010, greenroom, Manchester. Turn is an open submission dance platform for North West dancers and dance-makers aged 18 and above. North West based dancers or dance-makers looking for an opportunity to present performance work are invited to submit proposals of finished pieces or excerpts of dance, works in progress and sited dance performances in and around greenroom building, for a new micro-festival. The greenroom in partnership with DiGM are able to commission one new dance piece (up to £1,500) with first presentation at greenroom. Works submitted must be a maximum of 20 minutes, technically simple and suitable to be shown alongside other pieces. Closing Deadline 5pm Friday 27 November 2010
For further info please visit:
http://www.greenroomarts.org/about-greenroom/artist-development/turn/
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How to look good naked
Gok wants to hear from you. Please go to the survey link below:

http://howtolookgoodnaked.com/blog/2009/09/09/take-the-new-how-to-look-g...

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Arts Jobs
Operations Manager, Horse + Bamboo Theatre
Closes Monday 14 December 2009 Contact: Emma Porter Emma@horseandbamboo.org Horse + Bamboo Theatre need an Operations Manager to run the Boo, their home in Pennine Lancashire. The Boo is a creative hub, a performance space, a quirky arts centre, a multi-purpose building. You need great communication skills, a good knowledge of health and safety legislation, some experience of working with volunteers, a strong interest in the arts, and love working as part of a team. The Boo - A centre for imaginative, intelligent and playful creative work. A place for local families who want to see good quality and accessible theatre. A place to support students of visual and mask and puppet theatre, both at school and college level. A regional and national hub for arts professionals working with puppets, masks, and other visual theatre techniques. The home of Horse + Bamboo Theatre Company. The Operations Manager is a new role and absolutely vital in ensuring we fulfill our vision for The Boo. It's a great opportunity to be involved in an exciting well organised company with a clear view of the future.
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Arts Development Officer (Part Time), Wyre Borough Council
Closes Friday 4 December 2009 Contact: Marc Whittaker mwhittaker@wyrebc.gov.uk Following a restructure of the Leisure Services Directorate we are looking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and self motivated individual to develop and promote arts activities that increases attendance and participation across the district. You will be confident in your abilities to lead on arts related projects, develop networks and creative approaches to engage and increase participation amongst target groups. You will develop an overall strategy to develop the arts and creatives industries and you will work in partnership with key local and national organisations and authorities.You should have completed a recognised course of study in the Arts or Creative Industries (preferably to degree standard) and you should be able to demonstrate excellent customer care and posses sound planning and organisational skills. You must be a self-starter, a good organiser, possess excellent communication skills, a keen negotiator with exemplary reporting skills. You'll also have the ability to manage a small team in an effective, friendly and productive manner. For an informal discussion please contact Alexandra Holt or Rachel Reeves, Visit Wyre Manager on 01253 887445. This is a part-time position working 22 hours 12 minutes per week. At Wyre, we can offer a full and attractive range of benefits, including structured training programme, free parking, and flexible working arrangements. If you wish to join an enjoyable yet challenging working environment that forms part of an organisation committed to making a real difference for the community that we serve, then we want to hear from you. To apply online and for more information about this vacancy, please visit our website www.wyrebc.gov.uk or telephone 01253 887509 (24 hour answering service). Minicom: 01253 887636

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