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Dada-News - January 2012
Outside In Brighton A5 Open Competition
One winner, four runners up and a Private View!
In late November Outside In opened the Brighton A5 Open exhibition at The Outside In Gallery with a buzzing private view. Many of the artists who entered this unique competition joined us for tea, cakes and prizes.
First prize went to Ian Pyper for his innovative pen drawing ‘Hairy Monoped (Sciapod)’, the image featured in this news item.
Keep your eyes peeled in the new year for news about Ian’s prize of a solo show at the Outside In gallery. The runners up were Paul Bellingham, Michelle Brown, Shirley Hart and Millie Popovic.
The exhibition is open until 6th April 2012, Outside In Gallery, Wellington House Day Options, Wellington Street, Brighton, BN2 3AX
The gallery is open Tuesdays and Fridays, 1.30 until 3.30pm, with viewings also by appointment.
For more information about the Outside In gallery visit http://www.outsidein.org.uk/community_gallery
Screen South wins prestigious award for ‘outstanding’ interactive media project
uScreen has been awarded a major accolade for helping build a more inclusive world for disabled people.
The Ability Media International (AMI) award was presented on 20th November at a glittering ceremony at the world famous London Studios. The packed event was attended by some of the UK Arts industry’s most influential and well respected players – including Downton Abbey actor Dame Maggie Smith, childrens’ TV pioneer Anna Home and filmmaker Mike Leigh.
Heralded by the international panel of judges as ‘innovative’ and ‘particularly tailored to disabled young people’s needs’, the uScreen project won ‘The Interactive Media Award 2011’. The multi-media learning and collaborating project, based around the uScreen website, enables its young users to make and edit films, learn new skills and build expert contact with mentors and specialists across the UK and internationally.
uScreen is part of Accentuate, a transformational programme of 15 projects, inspired by the Paralympic Movement, which seeks to change perceptions and offer opportunities to showcase the talents of deaf and disabled people. Accentuate is funded by Legacy Trust UK, creating a lasting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK, SEEDA and the regional cultural agencies.
The AMIs support the Ability Media Centre. Set up by Leonard Cheshire Disability, the centre gives disabled and disadvantaged young people the training and skills they need to meet the demands of the media industries.
To find out more about uScreen go to http://uscreen.co.uk/about-uscreen
Clockwise from left: Mike Leigh, Emma Collins, Katy Dent, Sarah Dance, Graham Benson, Jo Nolan & Esther Fox
Big Dance 2012
The world's largest dance festival is taking place between 7 - 15 July 2012
The London Organising Committee of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has announced its big plans for the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. Big Dance is delighted to be one of the highlights that will feature as part of the 12-week cultural festival that celebrates the work of some of the leading artists in the UK and across the world.
The London 2012 Festival will see the UK explode with creative energy and dynamism. Big Dance will be harnessing that energy to ensure that as many people as possible can take part in dance in 2012 and beyond.
For ideas and inspiration to get you involved in Big Dance 2012 check out the Big Dance handbook at www.bigdance2012.com/big_dance_handbook.php
DaDaFest International 2012 Dates and Theme Announced
DaDaFest, the International Festival of Disability and Deaf Arts is returning in Summer 2012 from 13th July – 2nd September.
Based in established arts venues across Liverpool, the festival will build on the successes of the previous ten festivals in presenting the very best work by leading disability and deaf artists from across the globe.
DaDaFest International 2012 will include high-profile collaborations with international artists, further work with young people, development of the festival online and continuation of successful events such as Young DaDaFest and the DaDa Awards.
With links to the Cultural Olympiad programme, the Festival will offer a cultural celebration in the North West alongside the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Events will range from a major international visual arts exhibition, cutting-edge comedy to deaf culture events and leading international musicians, with a programme that will both entertain and present artforms from different cultural perspectives.
The theme for DaDaFest International 2012 is TransActions - Fluid Bodies: Shifting Identities, which will look at how disability affects the lives of us all, examining exchanges that occur between people and technology and how our sense of identity is bound up with our changing bodies.
A highlight of DaDaFest International 2012 will be Niet Normaal (translated from Dutch as ‘Not Normal’) programmed by co-curators Garry Robson and Ine Gevers in partnership with the Bluecoat. An adaptation of a successful Amsterdam-based exhibition (http://www.nietnormaal.nl) Niet Normaal includes new commissions and an accompanying programme of talks and films posing the questions ‘what is normal and who decides?’. Examining this through art celebrates difference in the Olympic and Paralympic year, in the context of a disability and deaf arts festival.
Disability Arts and Culture has grown over the last 20 years into a discernibly confident and accomplished artistic movement of expression around experiences of disability. DaDaFest was the first and is now the biggest, most comprehensive and challenging festival of Disability & Deaf Arts in the world.
http://www.dadahello.com/dadafest
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