Disability Arts Online

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  Commission: The Explorer - a cycle of poems by Allan Sutherland

  A series of transcription poems which reflect the creative journey of visual artist Nancy Willis.

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  Commission: Transformation by Nancy Willis with music by Chris Morris

  Animated art by Nancy Willis, based on 'The Explorer' by Allan Sutherland, with music by Chris Morris.

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  Video: Disabled Avant Garde

  Katherine Araniello and Aaron Williamson of the Disabled Avant Garde have published two new films satirising the current state of disability arts. Take a look and weep.

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  Disability Arts Online Highly Commended in 2009 Jodi Awards at the V&A

  Disability Arts Online has won its first national accolade. The site was highly commended at the Jodi Awards, announced December 2, 2009 at the Sackler Centre, V&A, in London. The national and international Jodi Awards celebrate the best use of digital technology in the service of access to culture for disabled people.

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  Profile: Dada-South takes a role in Accentuate

  Dao editor, Colin Hambrook spoke to Dada-South’s director Stevie Rice about the organisation’s role in Accentuate over the next couple of years.

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  Interview: Tony Heaton discusses Shape's Animate artists' talks

  Animate will explore the rich history of Disability Arts, through a programme of talks and workshops. Colin Hambrook asked Tony Heaton, sculptor and Chief Executive of Shape, what he plans to talk about himself, and what he is looking forward to hearing about from the artists leading these events?

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  Interview: Noemi Lakmaier discusses Shape's Animate programme

  Animate explores the rich history of Disability Arts through talks and workshops. Colin Hambrook asked visual artist Noemi Lakmaier about her plans for the second of these talks at Shape on 8 February 2010

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  Review: Climbing Mountains in the Dark by Cate Jacobs

  Colin Hambrook gives a personal response to a recently published collection of poems by Cate Jacobs titled 'Climbing Mountains in the Dark'

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  Review: Wings are Giving Out by Sean Burn

  Wings are Giving Out is Sean Burn’s third full length collection from Skrev Press. Colin Hambrook reviews the latest collection from one of the UKs foremost experimental writers.

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  Review: How to Look Good Naked... with a Difference

  Caroline Cardus reflects on the issues raised by Gok Wan's latest Channel 4 series - ‘How To Look Good Naked… with a Difference

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  Gallery: Russell Jones presents Unleashed

  Dao is delighted to present a gallery selection of paintings from Unleashed an exhibition of Russell Jones work presented by Creative Future at Brighton Media Centre Gallery from 20 - 31 July 2009.

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  Gallery: Jon Adams presents The Goose on the Hill

  Jon Adams presents a gallery of images of artworks on exhibition at Pallant House Gallery from 13 October – 22 November 2009

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  Gallery: David Feingold

  David Feingold is a visual designer turned social worker, turned doctoral student in disability studies at National-Louis University, Chicago. He has found a way to turn pain into pictures and anguish into art - Disability Art, that is - in the form of digital visual assemblages.

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  Discussion: Liz Porter reflects on the movement

  Liz Porter reflects on what the Disability Arts movement has given her over the years – and where she is now – in response to discussions at the Lead On conference as part of the government funded Cultural Leadership Programme held in Cheltenham Town Hall on 21 September 2009.

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  Discussion: Colin Cameron - further towards an Affirmative Model of Disability

  Colin Cameron is currently conducting PhD research at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, looking at an affirmative model of disability. Colin Hambrook interviews Cameron to discover how his work is defining and redefining models of disability.

• Discussion: Art of Difference Festival and Symposium 2009

  Colin Hambrook, editor of dao, attended the Art of Difference Disability and Deaf Arts Festival at the Gasworks, Melbourne from 10-21 March 2009. He also went along to the Momentum09 one-day conference in Auckland on 27 February 2009. Here he compares the differences between the development of Disability Arts in the UK in comparison to developments in the Antipodes.

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  Editors' rant: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll - the Ian Dury biopic

  "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" - the biopic of the life of punk legend Ian Dury opens in London on 8 January 2010. Colin Hambrook discusses the pros and cons of choosing Andy Serkis to play the lead role.

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  Interview: Tony Heaton discusses Shape's 'Animate' programme

  Colin Hambrook talked to Tony Heaton, Chief Executive of Shape about the inspiration behind Shape's 'Animate' programme

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  New writing: Peter Street's memoirs

  Writer Peter Street recalls the first chapter of his life: "Disability has been a big part of my life. It is who I am. In many ways it has been the making of me..."

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  Short story: Matt Padmore's 'Can Zombies Run?'

  Matt Padmore kick starts 2010 with a hilarious short story: Can Zombies Run?