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Review: The Silence? A faint discord, more like

19 July 2010

Melissa Mostyn-Thomas finds much to be desired in the BBC drama’s exploration of Deaf issues

Discussion: Am I hearing things? Not bloody likely

15 July 2010

Film-maker Gary Thomas has acquired another impairment. He talks frankly about invisible disability and identity.

Gallery: Dolly Sen

7 July 2010

Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She posts some of her artwork, challenging the nature of...

Discussion: William Phillips on barriers to access for visually impaired people

5 July 2010

In the run-up to In Touch with Art 2010 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in October, DAO publishes some reflections on access at museums and galleries, from a Collections Officer with the...

Review: Are you having a laugh? TV and Disability

2 July 2010

BBC 2 recently aired a 55 minute documentary charting portrayal of disability on TV over the last 50 years. Narrated by David Walliams the programme looks at the journey from Ironside to Cast Offs,...

Review: Re-Presenting Disability - Activism and Agency in the museum

15 June 2010

Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the museum is edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Colin Hambrook reviews this account of interpretations of...

Dysarticulate: a DIY intervention from Creative Campus

10 June 2010

Led by artist Jon Adams, this initiative intends to start a dialogue and a series of conversations reflecting the real issues around disability, our fragility and the nature of Public Art.

Poetry: Maureen Oliver

4 June 2010

Maureen Oliver has had several collections of her poetry and writing published by Chipmunka. Her poetry reflects her experience of the psychiatric system.

Gallery: Altered Images

1 June 2010

Altered Images - an innovative exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 17 June 2010...

Poetry: Deaf Bitch

19 May 2010

Dao presents a selection of poems that tackle barriers in society from a deaf women's experience

BLOG: Revealing Culture:HeadOn Paints on..... - Tanya Raabe

29 July 2010

Its still all go in the world or Revealing Culture HeadOn.....now where have I got up to. Well the charasmatic Tom Shakespeare sat for his portrait in Tate Modern earlyer this month and what a great...

BLOG: Colin Hambrook puts on a man suit - Colin Hambrook

28 July 2010

I am pleased the way that the blog section of DAO has taken off in the past few months. Having the opportunity to publish work continues to be a pleasure that I am very grateful for. When you've...

BLOG: Joe Mc in search of '5Rhythms' ... - Joe McConnell

27 July 2010

In the last post, I mentioned the power of music in lifting the vibe and helping you get through when it's difficult to do anything much at all. Listening to music seems key to what unlocked a...

BLOG: South Korea's Annual Mud Festival was a blast - Megan Clancy

27 July 2010

I was never a fan of mud, but I was at the Mud Festival in Daecheon Beach, about an hour south from Seoul. There were water slides, pools, baths, and people covered with mud. I went to Mud...

BLOG: Joe Kelly visits Birmingham to attend an important seminar - Colin Hambrook

26 July 2010

Recently I travelled from my home in Greenford to Whitechapel and was picked up at the Brady Centre by a minibus that took a group of us to Birmingham. The group was a keen bunch of user...

BLOG: Joe Mc and the food of love - Joe McConnell

26 July 2010

I mentioned the other day that my recent recovery from a year-long period of severe depression was helped by making art. This is still working for me. And many friends and colleagues are remarking...

BLOG: Jon Adams creates flag-fields in Chatham - Colin Hambrook

25 July 2010

Sunday started misty, the view out over the river was unclear and somewhat like our ‘heads’ due to the excitement of the night before... True the karaoke stopped on time... then came the...

BLOG: Jon Adams sets flags flying at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester - Colin Hambrook

24 July 2010

So its 10:39pm and here I am in a hotel overlooking the river Medway in Kent listening to a strange mix of sirens (same as Portsmouth), the put-put of a river boat and the ‘strangled sounds of...

BLOG: Jon Adams organises some beautiful flag-fields for Open Weekend - Colin Hambrook

23 July 2010

Just in from a busy but quite fabulous day number ‘one’ of Open Weekend flag fielding alongside the University Staff sports day. Am sitting adding the days pictures to the Facebook groups...

BLOG: Megan Clancy's continuing journey in South Korea: June 2010 - Megan Clancy

23 July 2010

I've been here in Korea for over a month and I'm starting to understand some of the common words in Hangul. For example, when I take the train to Seoul I look for the Korean symbol for...

BLOG: Melissa Mostyn thinks reverse psychology could be the way to go - Melissa Mostyn

23 July 2010

Whatever we think of The Silence (see DAO review), at least it has given me a little more film-maker’s insight into how some hearing people might still perceive deaf people. Not that I...

BLOG: Joe Mc tells the truth for a change ... - Joe McConnell

22 July 2010

The writer and performer, Julie McNamara, once advised me to 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story'. Maybe it is ironic that, with her recent humdinger of a play Crossings, Julie went...

BLOG: Jon Adams is looking forwards to the Open Weekend - Colin Hambrook

22 July 2010

Open weekend is finally within grasp, just a few hours to go as I sit typing on the train heading back from installing some new work at Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent. I have had...

BLOG: Joe Mc on cutting off his book to spite his face ... - Joe McConnell

21 July 2010

Today is the day i say farewell to Facebook. I only went on it a few weeks ago because it was a way of catching up with the humanitarian flotilla which was heading for Gaza. The BBC is so unreliable...

BLOG: A Touch of RADA - Caroline Cardus introduces herself with a tale of how early experiences of impairment shaped her career - Caroline Cardus

19 July 2010

I was always a somewhat clumsy, socially awkward child. In the early 70’s, you generally were or you weren’t, without many of the labels kids with invisible impairments are given...

News: Aaron Williamson 's Study Room Guide: Disability And New Artistic Models now available as a free download

15 July 2010

In May 2010 the Live Art Development Agency commissioned artist Aaron Williamson to research and write a Study Room Guide on Live Art and Disability drawing on the many publications and films the...

News: Mind Awards 2010

9 July 2010

Every year, Mind recognises the contributions made by individuals to deepen understanding of mental health issues through four awards: Mind Champion, Book of the Year, Journalist of the Year and...

News: Shape Tickets volunteers recognised by The Queen with prestigious Award

25 June 2010

Shape has been announced as one of the UK volunteering groups to win The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE for volunteer groups. The prestigious National Honour recognises...

News: Da-Bait - Opening a Can of Worms on Disability and Deaf Arts

18 June 2010

Da-bait is a month long set of provocative, private discussions and exchanges between 8 disabled and deaf artists about the state of Disability and Deaf Arts today as part of the Creative Campus...

News: Architecture Inside Out need you!

17 June 2010

AIO need your help and objective views of the new lift installation on the top of the Nash Ramblas for the London Festival of Architecture. Friday 18 June at 1pm The project aim is to get the...

News: Lung Ha's Theatre Company have won a CAT Award for Best Ensemble

15 June 2010

Lung Ha's Theatre Company are delighted announce that their latest co-production with Grid Iron Theatre Company, Huxley's Lab, has won the Best Ensemble at the CATS Awards - Critics Awards for...

News: Bristol-based Roaring Girl Productions (RGP) screens five productions on three continents

6 June 2010

ROARING GIRL PRODUCTIONS’ INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME OF WORK Five different RGP productions will be appearing on three continents (Europe, Asia and North America) throughout June. In...

News: Disability Projects Need Your Vote

6 June 2010

Six UK-based projects that benefit disabled users have been named as semi-finalists in The National Lottery Awards 2010. The National Lottery Awards are an annual search to find the UK's favourite...

News: New ‘Resistance’ campaign urges MPs to sign up to charter as disabled people fear relaxation of assisted dying laws

4 June 2010

Disabled people from across the UK came together in Westminster on 3 June 2010 for the launch of a new campaign to ensure legislation prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia remains in...

News: Deaf and Disabled artists chosen to Go Public

2 June 2010

Three disabled artists have been awarded £55,000 by art agencies Dada-South and Artpoint to take their work into the public realm. The awards were made as part of the Go Public initiative...

Opportunity: Disabled Interactive Artist/Creative Workshop Facilitator

28 July 2010

Shape wish to recruit disabled artist facilitators who have experience leading interactive creative workshops exploring from varied disciplines to work with disabled youth groups 14 to 19 years of...

Opportunity: Commissioning art work for Chancery Lane offices

21 July 2010

Art work for Chancery Lane offices

Opportunity: Emergency Verse seek poetry in defence of the Welfare State

9 July 2010

Poetry sought in defence of the Welfare State in association with the Recusant webzine and Caparison e-books

Opportunity: Dada-South Launches Up-Stream

9 July 2010

Expression of Interest Call for Up-Stream - a South East Disabled and Deaf Artist Showcase 2011

Opportunity: Time To Change seek interviewees for documentary about mental health

7 July 2010

Time To Change are looking for people based in London (within the M25) who have experienced mental health problems to appear in a short online film exploring mental health prejudice.

Opportunity: Digital Illustrator

2 July 2010

Are you confident creating digital illustrations using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop?

Opportunity: MA Inclusive Arts Practice

18 June 2010

This masters course brings together committed arts practitioners with excluded community groups in order to challenge and learn from each other’s perspectives and experiences.

Opportunity: Fully accessible studio available

28 May 2010

The aim of The Art House has always been to build artists studios with the highest possible level of access for people who face a wide range of different disabilities, reflecting its core ethos of...

Opportunity: Shape Tickets - making the arts accessible for disabled people

8 January 2010

Shape Tickets is an accessible booking service that works with venues, museums and galleries to remove barriers to arts, culture and entertainment events.

Opportunity: Out of Focus: Hidden Fragments of London Life

26 July 2010

Genevieve Barr invites you to a performance at Only Connect Theatre, London

Opportunity: Patients; Portraits and Psychiatrists

19 July 2010

The Freud Museum London presents a series of portraits of psychiatric patients and their doctors.

Opportunity: DASH (Disability Arts in Shropshire) present Outside IN Launch Event at The New Art Gallery, Walsall

19 July 2010

Public launch of Outside IN - a pioneering visual arts project increasing the number of Disabled and Deaf artists working with mainstream galleries.

Opportunity: Gaiety!

19 July 2010

A double bill of two hillarious plays commissoned by Norwich Pride

Opportunity: Shotgun Wedding - a new play by Stephen Webb

12 July 2010

Come and see a play told entirely in BSL at The ALRA Theatre, London SW18

Opportunity: Arts2Go Workshops run by CoolTan Arts in partnership with Two2Go

8 July 2010

CoolTan Arts is building up to the London 2012 Olympics by running free Arts and crafts workshops for people of all ages. Activities ranges from face-painting to a trial Olympic marathon run on...

Opportunity: Candoco Summer Intensive in Association with Greenwich Dance

8 July 2010

Candoco Summer Intensive in Association with Greenwich Dance for disabled and non-disabled dancers

Opportunity: Being Me Being - A Go Public Awarded Project

7 July 2010

Sarah Scott is inviting people with hidden disabilities to participate in an exploration of the expressive nature of yoga with visual arts in a 3-day workshop to be held on Kent University Campus....

Opportunity: INCLUSION - O'Donnells Solicitors Art Exhibition

7 July 2010

Art exhibition to highlight the creative talents of those with mental health difficulties

Opportunity: Graeae & Strangefruit – Against the Tide

5 July 2010

A collaboration between disabled-led theatre company Graeae and Melbourne-based Strangefruit, Against the Tide is an aerial performance atop 4 metre high bendy sway poles set to a specially created...