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Access Scottish Theatre
The Access Scottish Theatre guide provides audiences with information about accessible performances and access at participating venues in Scotland.
Adorn, Equip
An online version of a touring exhibition originally commissioned by The City Gallery, Leicester. The work resulted from a collaboration between disabled people and artists, makers and designers. It explores issues around the design of disability equipment and accessories.
Website: http://www.adornequip.co.uk
Art Spider
Art Spider showcases and lists arts events for learning disabled people happening across the UK.
Website: http://www.artspider.org.uk
Artslife
Artslife is a new group run by artists with learning disabilities to help other people with learning disabilities to love their artslives.
Website: http://www.artslife.org.uk
BBC Ouch!
Offers a humorous take on the oft-confusing world of disability with features from disabled artists and writers. Features take a wry look at the media’s tragic but brave portrayal of disability.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch
Breath & Shadow
US-based journal for literary excellence and expression of disability culture. Breath & Shadow accept writing from disabled people on any topic for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama.
Website: http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath
Channel 4 Born Freak
Combines information about Born Freak, a show presented by Mat Fraser and Natural Born Talent, a series of short films on six disabled and deaf artists.
Website: http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/B/bornfreak
Creative Cafe
Creative Cafe is a social network where members show off their art, photography, crafts, music, videos and write blogs. Creative Cafe is a charitable group run by volunteers with mental health & other disabilities in Brighton UK. Membership is free and open to everyone. We invite you to join and get your own Creative Cafe page.
Website: http://creativecafe.org.uk
Crip-stirring Culture
Grassroots disabled activists' website containing articles, poetry, songs and cartoons.
Deaf and Creative
Aimed at young deaf people who are either graduates or are finishing school or college and thinking about what to do next, Deaf and Creative offers job information and case studies, alongside practical advice about going to university, getting a job, starting a business, and making funding applications.
Website: http://www.deafandcreative.ac.uk
Deafart.org
US website providing a directory of deaf artists and details of a range of exhibitions by deaf artists, as well as a Deaf Arts manifesto.
Website: http://www.deafart.org
Describe Online
Company offering a range of web services and solutions to make information accessible for visually impaired people. The site offers detailed guides to the London Underground and National Rail networks.
Website: http://www.describe-online.com
Disability Films
Provides a comprehensive listing, by impairment, of films involving disability. Includes a synopsis and reviews of films, plus a listing for articles and books.
Website: http://www.disabilityfilms.co.uk
Funky Flamingo TV
Funky Flamingo Tv is the first internet TV station run by and for people with disabilities. We make in house documentaries and dramas as well as broadcasting live events. We are also now hosting the films by disabled film-makers, musicians, actors, arts organisations etc. If you have footage that you would like to see on the site, then email us for more information.
Website: http://www.funkyflamingo.co.uk
Gallery Gachet
Named after the psychiatrist who treated Van Gogh, Gallery Gachet features hundreds of artists whose work is informed by mental health issues. Short film clips attached to each of the artists' galleries reveal something about their artistic practice. Contains a wealth of easily navigable material.
Website: http://www.gachet.org
Good Gallery Guide
Guide to gallery access set up and run by the Art House. Site looks at a range of some of the best galleries and art museums across the UK. Contains information on access and facilities, including a brief personal review of each gallery.
Website: http://www.goodgalleryguide.com
Grumpy Old Deafies
Subscribe to our feed. Deaf musings, politics and more from a UK perspective.
Website: http://www.grumpyoldeafies.com
Irish Deaf.com
Irish Deaf.com supports the deaf community through fundraising services, Irish Sign Language classes, provides information on our website such as news, events and directory of deaf and deaf-related organisations.
Website: http://www.IrishDeaf.com
MadNOTBad
MadNOTBad challenges the taboos, misconceptions and silence that surrounds mental ill health, as well as providing a great forum to show artwork.
Website: http://www.madnotbad.co.uk
New Audiences Programme
New Audiences is a national scheme, managed by Arts Council England, aiming to bring new audiences to the arts and take new art to audiences. The site contains an overview plus a searchable archive of projects and a monthly information update.
Website: http://www.newaudiences.org.uk
Outside In
Outside In is a groundbreaking project which was set up by Pallant House Gallery in 2006 and which invites debate on Outsider Art. It provides a platform for artists who are marginalised due to health, disability or other social circumstances.
Website: http://www.outsidein.org.uk
Pure products go crazy by Matt Hargrave
A paper reviewing three pieces of contemporary theatre which feature learning-disabled actors: Small Metal Objects by Australian company Back to Back; On the Verge, a work by Mind the Gap featuring the actor/musician Jez Colborne and an adaptation of Pinocchio by York Theatre Royal in collaboration with the Shysters and Full Body and The Voice.
Website: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713443379
Red Disability
A website on disability issues, and how they relate to a left-wing socialist outlook. Contains links to disability media and disability support groups plus a great list of famous disabled people, complete with links to source material where the individuals impairments have been mentioned elsewhere on the web.
Website: http://www.reddisability.org.uk
See Hear Blog
The official website for See Hear, the magazine programme for the Deaf community.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seehear
ECO: On Blindness and the Arts
ECO was set up in 2006 by Simon Hayhoe as an on-line knowledge base, in order to provide research resources, information and a gallery about blindness in the arts. It has now expanded, however, to include information about blindness in information technology and computing as well. Its aim is to introduce these subjects as fields of study.
Website: http://www.blindnessandarts.com