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

Dana's Note................................................................................1
DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts latest...............................................2
Disability Arts News.....................................................................2
Wicked Fish seeks new Board members...........................................2
The Tipping Point Commissions......................................................3
Hope Street Apprenticeship Programme............................................4
Evolving Words...........................................................................4
Liverpool Peoples Poet..................................................................5
The Way Out 15mm Films.............................................................5
Urbeatz workshops and projects......................................................6
Project for Theatre makers............................................................7
Filmonik.....................................................................................7
Andrew Coleman performance........................................................7
Performance artists wanted............................................................8
Festival Coordinator post...............................................................8
Media Relations...........................................................................8
Arts Jobs...................................................................................9
Liverpool based photography workshop facilitators..............................9
Opportunity with Wigan Leisure Trust...............................................9
Disclaimer.................................................................................10

Any items for the next newsletter should be sent to news@dadahello.com or dana@dadahello.com by 3.00pm 24th March 09 Please keep the articles short (75 words or less is ideal), and in plain text format.
Dana's Note
Hello to you all,

It's a lovely spring day here in Liverpool and if like me your finally feeling the warmth at last, it's time to get round to the important part of the week!

I hope you're all keeping in touch with us on our new social networks; if you have any feedback, do let me know. Any comments on our new website would be very useful as it's still growing. If you haven't had a peek yet, please go to www.dadahello.com We've had so many opportunities and exciting bits of news this week, that it's just a toothsome club sandwich of a newsletter in the DaDa picnic awaiting you, we hope you enjoy it.

Yours,

Dana

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DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts Latest

Our recruitment for the Consultancy Post has now closed after a fantastic response. We are still seeking an Artistic Director for DaDaFest 2010, the closing date for applications is 30th March, so if you haven't applied yet, there's still time, do email DaDa direct for further information.

Also, if you're not following our Twitter account yet, please do feel free to take a look at: www.twitter.com/dadadisdeaf.

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Disability Arts News
Wicked Fish seeks new Board Members
Wicked Fish is a professional performing arts company, based in Liverpool. All the performers in Wicked Fish are people who have Learning Difficulties who have had training in performing arts and/or experience of acting for a range of audiences. As well as performing, they co-lead workshops in theatres, schools and day centres during Wicked Fish projects. The company has worked in the UK, Spain and Portugal and has been supported by the Arts Council and Liverpool Culture Company.

Our board meets every two months, and is attended by a performers'
representative. We want to welcome new board members to join us as we
develop one of the most exciting companies in the North West. For further info, please contact Wicked Fish Direct: Gostins Building, 32-36 Hanover Street Liverpool L1 4LN

0151 709 4343 (Office) 0777 134 7998 (Mobile) info@wickedfish.org.uk
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The TippingPoint Commissions

The theme of climate change is intended to provide a stimulus and a springboard for the commissions. Artists are invited to submit projects that stimulate audiences towards the radical and imaginative thinking necessary to comprehend a world dominated by climate change. We are not looking for a didactic exposition of the subject. Rather, we are seeking proposals that offer creative reflections on a world that is rapidly changing and on humanity's role and responsibilities within it.

Proposals can be made by practitioners of any performance discipline, as individuals or groups, by artists on their own or together with partners or producers.

‘Artists of every kind have one overriding moral duty, which is to do their work as well as possible. But since that work partly consists of responding to what the world itself is up to, it would be strange if the best work being produced didn't take some account, in some way, of what's happening to our climate. Art is not only about beauty: sometimes it has to warn.'
Philip Pullman, Patron, the TippingPoint Commissions

This first year we will be able to sponsor around 4 commissions. The maximum award will be for £30k although we anticipate that most awards will be for less. Applicants may wish to commission a composer, a writer, a choreographer or work with a range of collaborators as part of a devising process. We recognize that you are likely to undertake additional fundraising from other sources to take the initial commission to production. Proposals must be submitted by Monday 4th May at 5pm. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to develop ideas a little further and attend an interview. Recipients of the awards will be announced in late June by Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

You can download the criteria and an application form at:
www.tippingpoint.org.uk

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Hope Street is now recruiting for its Apprenticeship Programme

We are looking for: 7 actors, 1 director, 1 musical director, 1 production manager, 2 designer/makers, 1 sound designer, 1 press and marketing officer. The projects on the apprenticeship programme this year are Late at Tate, Liverpool's Brazilian Carnival, About Another Place and the Hope Street Feast. Details of these projects are on our website: www.hope-street.org/2009ApprenticeshipProjects.htm

Deadline for submission of application 5.00 pm on 19th March 2009
Auditions and Interviews 30th March - 3rd April 2009
Programme runs from May 11th - September 25th 2009

Tel: +44 (0)151 708 8007, Fax: +44 (0)151 709 3242
Email: peter@hope-street.org Website: www.hope-street.org

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Evolving Words
is a national poetry and science project celebrating Darwin 200 in association with the Welcome Trust and National Museums Liverpool are collaborating with Liverpool poet, Dinesh Allirajah and Greg Hurst, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Liverpool to deliver the Liverpool strand of the project. We are looking for young people, aged 14 - 25 to take part in the project which will involve them working with Dinesh and Greg, going ‘behind the scenes' with our collections at World Museum Liverpool to develop their own poetry, inspired by Darwin's theories and life. This poetry will then be developed into a performance and performed live in venues across Merseyside, and the young people will also have the opportunity to perform their poetry in London in a National Showcase in November.
Places are extremely limited and the first session starts on Saturday the 4th of April, so please could you ask the young people to get in touch as soon as possible to register their interest and secure their place.
For further details please contact Michelle on: 07766802354
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Liverpool Peoples Poet 2009

Can you write a poem that captures the essence of Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture? If so you could become the Liverpool Peoples Poet!
There are two categories:
1. under eighteen
2. eighteen and over
The winner in each category will win a prize of £500 Starting date: Monday 16th March 09 Closing date: Tuesday 7th April 09 @ Midnight
Award Ceremony: Liverpool Town Hall, Wednesday 29th of April 09
Entry details at www.liverpoolpeoplespoet.com
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The Way Out 15mm Films

To be launched by David Morris, Advisor to the Mayor of London

Beaconsfield Commissions 2009
Exhibition runs 25 March - 14 June 2009
Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY
Wheelchair access, signer, audio description and subtitles.

Disability has never had its revolutionary moment: no Suffrage, Stonewall or Watts Riots.
‘The Way Out' stages a reversal of this historical omission, imagining a world in which a violent, insurrectionary gang of ‘disability terrorists' has brought the world to its knees à la Baader Meinhof/ Angry Brigade. Under siege from the cops, the gang implodes, killing time, doing drugs, making art and writing bad pop songs as the walls of their bunker loom in...

The movie is a hole at the centre of this parody - the missing film about an absent revolution. 15mm Films challenge normative perceptions of disabled people. A collective of artists working in the fields of visual, performance and video art, they are committed to innovation and take an experimental approach to collaboration. Current members of the collective are Aaron Williamson, Katherine Araniello, Laurence Harvey, Simon Raven, Juliet Robson and Philip Ryder.

Beaconsfield offers a space for artists and audiences to experience high quality ('beacon'), challenging, new art works in a wide range ('field') of contemporary visual art media through commissions, group exhibitions, performances, publications and events.

The Way Out is a Beaconsfield commission supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Arts & Humanities Research Council.
Further information: Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY +44 (0)20 7582 6465 info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk

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Urbeatz workshops and projects

Urbeatz offers various youth projects and workshop that may be of interest to companies, groups or projects.

Please visit their website for further information, also at www.urbeatz.com/tv , they have some video footage of their various youth projects from 2008.

If you are interested, please feel free to ask for more info.

a. URBEATZ, PO Box 90, Liverpool, L31 9WA
yaw.urbeatz@gmail.com www.urbeatz.com

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Project for theatre makers

A week-long project led by PUSH, Graeae and the Lyric (UK), for artists /theatre makers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to collaborate, and explore different ways of telling stories.

Are you an artist / theatre maker who wants to feel their world stretched a little? Do you feel you're outside looking in and want to take part but don't know how? Do you want to find out more about many things including devising, improvising and making work in unusual places?

More on SANe...
Visit Social Arts Network at: http://socialartsnetwork.ning.com

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Filmonik
Filmonik, the region's premiere "open mic night" for filmmakers is back! And we're having a Kabaret! Over a week of flat out, peddle-to-the-metal 24/7 filmmaking, where fortune favours the brave, the quick-witted and the fast-working, where only the strong survive and the crazy obsessives flourish. Filmmakers and creatives from around the world will be descending on Manchester with cameras, equipment and bright ideas to create new work that must be completed and screened during the week.
Join us at separate screenings during the week - at Salford Arts Theatre on March 19th, and the Ruby Lounge on March 22nd. Kick off is 7.30, and each screening will feature all-new films. For more details check out the Kabaret page on our website
www.filmonik.com

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Andrew Coleman performance

Andrew will be performing on Saturday 21st March at the Philharmonic Hall in the Liverpool Tribute to Buddy Holly. Tickets can be purchased from the Philharmonic Hall or online at www.liverpoolphil.com. Funds raised on the evening will be used to sponsor a student at LIPA.

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Performance artists wanted for International theatre and music project!

INTERKUNST in Berlin is looking for actors, dancers, musicians and acrobats for their project and tour ‘INSTANT ACTS against violence and racism' 2009. Email interkunst@t-online.de and visit www.interkunst.de to find out more!

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Festival Co-ordinator post
Preston Arts Association have a vacancy for someone to act on a part-time self-employed basis Festival Co-ordinator, pay to be discussed.

This position will be advertised and if you have good organisational skills, are IT literate, mobile, have an interest in the arts and have a few hours a week to spare then please contact

Eric Rigby 01772 863549 mob. 07759 065966 or
Pam Potter 01772 718144 or pampotter2003@aol.com

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Media Relations

My name is Karen Lewellen, aside from my own artistic creating in music, I provide media relations, nonprofit development and fund raising/ sponsorship guidance and support on an national and international basis.
I recognize that each situation is unique, and have been doing this sort of
work for more than 20 years now for both individuals and organizations.
If you are seeking some wisdom especially during these economically
challenging times, drop me a message off list. For more information please go to:
http://groups.google.com/group/igodap/t/ddad07eb6c12d15a?hl=en

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Arts Jobs
Liverpool based photography workshop facilitators needed
PhotoVoice is seeking experienced photographers in the Liverpool area to co-facilitate weekly workshops training disabled and non-disabled young people in digital photography skills between May and August 2009.
In 2009 PhotoVoice will work with Liverpool Children's Services to run participatory photography and digital media workshops with disabled and non-disabled young people who attend day centres and Fusion services. PhotoVoice will train and support Liverpool-based photographic facilitators who will lead weekly photographic workshops involving photography, digital media, creative and critical thinking skills development, visual and media literacy, editing and writing skills. The workshops will culminate in a public exhibition of the photographic work which the young people will be involved in planning and organising. The exhibition will be an opportunity for young people to speak to public audiences about their views of Liverpool and to celebrate their photographic achievements.
Training in PhotoVoice methodology will be provided. Interviews: 27th/28th April 2009 Daily rate: depending on experience
For more details or to apply please send your CV and a covering letter to Matt Daw: matt@photovoice.org PhotoVoice, 2nd Floor, 94 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH
Full job description available on our website: http://www.photovoice.org/html/workingwithphotovoice/jobopportunities/
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Opportunity with Wigan Leisure Trust
Here and Now Exploring a Sense of Place, Identity and Belonging. Are you highly creative and innovative with your ideas? Are you good at listening to people and can encourage positive participation? Then this could be for you. Skilled Arts Practitioners with a proven high level of experience working with communities, are needed to develop and deliver a 10 week arts based project based in the areas of Wigan and Leigh in Greater Manchester, during the Spring and Summer of this year. For further information and a tender application pack, please contact Helen Seddon, Arts Development Officer, Community Engagement, Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust, Elizabeth House, The Pier, WN3 4BD Tel: 01942 486917 or email h.seddon@wlct.org Tender submissions will be required by Monday 30th March 2009
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