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EtCetera Issue 244
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The National Disability Arts Forum
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Jul 02, 2004 09:39 PDT
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EtCetera 244
Contents: == From NDAF == Get Netted == Get Involved == TV & Radio:
Pick of the Week ==
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From NDAF
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* Win 5 Copies of ‘One Heart, One World *
We were flooded by entries for last week’s competition (sorry to all who
didn’t make it), so we thought, why not make it a semi-regular feature?
This week you can win five copies of “One Heart, One World”, A National
Disability Arts Forum collaboration
One Heart, One World was an international exhibition of poetry by
disabled people from Japan, The UK and the USA, accompanied by
illustrations by established artists of those countries. The book of the
exhibition features all of the work in the show, including the full
colour illustrations.
All you need to do is send an email to <compet-@ndaf.org>. Please
include your name and postal address in the message.
The winners will be the first five entries arriving in the mailbox.
(Offer open to all UK residents, excluding employees and board members
of the The National Disability Arts Forum. One entry per person. Prize
is non-transferable. No cash alternative)
(If you would like to buy a copy go to our online shop
<disabilityarts.biz>)
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Get Netted
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* Snap! Online *
If you can’t make it to Mencap’s Snap! exhibition at the Victoria &
Albert Museum, just go to their website to see the best of more than 850
entries:
<http://www.mencap.org.uk/html/snap_2004/main.asp>
The Snap! 2004 photo competition was open to children and adults with a
learning disability, their families, friends, supporters and colleagues.
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Get Involved
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* Arts and Broadcasting Conference *
The future relationship of the arts and broadcasting forms the theme of
VLV's 2004 Summer Conference, 'Arts and Broadcasting - Renaissance or
Retreat?' which takes place at the British Academy in London, on
Wednesday, 7 July 2004.
Key speakers will include Jan Younghusband, Channel 4's Commissioning
Editor for Arts, Alan Yentob, the BBC's Director of Drama, Entertainment
and Children's, Roger Wright, Controller, BBC Radio 3, and Kim Peat,
Controller of Daytime, Arts & Religion, Channel 5.
Venue: The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004 2 - 3.30pm
GBP 40, GBP 20 concessions
To book call 01474 352835
Web details: <http://www.vlv.org.uk>
* Critical Essays on trAce *
Since 1996 the trAce Online Writing Centre http://trace.ntu.ac.uk has
published a wide range of new media writing projects, critical articles,
conference presentations and the frAme Journal of Culture and
Technology. It has also hosted a series of message boards, first a
webboard and more recently a forum, plus chat and MOO events logged on
the site.
The planned volume represents a timely contribution to the emerging
discussion of the development of digital writing and of the creative
transitions experienced by both print-based writers experimenting with
the new medium, and by artists and programmers coming to it by other
routes. We envisage that the book will be read in conjunction with the
trAce website and be complementary to it.
They are now planning a volume with essays that examine the materials
publicly available on the trAce site and place them within a critical
and cultural context. Discussions of the development of the trAce
community would also be of interest, and it may be possible to arrange
private access to the archived trAce webboard for research purposes.
Essays selected for this collection will be intended for both scholarly
and educated general audiences. They aim to take a multi-disciplinary
approach and welcome contributions from writers and artists, new media
and literary critics, and scholars of digital culture.
Initial brief indications of interest would be welcome. Please contact
Sue Thomas at sue.t-@ntu.ac.uk to discuss your idea.
To submit an essay for consideration, email an abstract of around
200-300 words to <sue.t-@ntu.ac.uk> by 1st October 2004. Please
include a brief CV and identify any papers previously published or under
consideration elsewhere. It is expected that essays chosen for final
consideration will need to be completed by 1st September 2005 - final
deadline tbc.
* Music Industry Advice *
Musicians are being offered free expert advice at Music Industry
seminars in locations across the South West during July. Expert speakers
will enable up and coming musicians to gain specialist information on
how the industry works at events in Gloucester (01452 544016), Newquay
(01726 68532) and Bradford on Avon (01225 860100). Each day will also
feature a guest speaker currently working within the industry who will
talk about their specialist area and ways of building a career in music.
Speakers include Dave Newton from Shifty Disco Records, Patrick
Cunningham from Exeter Phoenix and Mel Brown, press agent to Muse, The
Cooper Temple Clause and Dogs Die in Hot Cars.
Each seminar is being run by the Centre for Creative Enterprise &
Participation, Dartington Plus and a local partner organisation.
These are free events, but places are limited so please book early to
avoid disappointment.
* This Is It *
This is it is an online non--profit, non-funded publication, which aims
to promote new writers and artists, and make new writing and the arts
easily available and accessible to everyone.It invites submissions of
high quality creative work for its fifth issue, out in August.
They publish poetry, short stories, prose poems, articles, reviews,
photography, painting, digital arts, etc.
Please email submissions as an attachment to
<submis-@thisisitmag.co.uk>.
Submission guidelines can be found at
<http://www.thisisitmag.co.uk/contact.html>
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Got Some Spare Time?
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* ITC: Life begins at 30 *
ITC hosts an explosive line-up of live performance next to City Hall at
the more london riverside site, off Queens Walk, to celebrate 30 years
of supporting the professional performing arts.
The outdoor festival represents the diversity and quality of live
performance across the UK and there's something for everyone.
Companies taking part include Graeae, Oily Cart, Stan's Cafe, 7K Extreme
Theatre, Natural Theatre Company, Rasa Productions, London Bubble,
HamFisted!, Talawa, StopGap Dance, Pursued by a Bear, Oxford Shakespeare
Company, The People Show and Ladder to the Moon.
The festival is FREE and open to all and kicks off at 12noon and winds
up at 6.30pm
Nearest tube/train: London Bridge, Tower Hill and Monument.
For further information please visit ITC's website
<http://www.itc-arts.org>.
* Laurence Clark: The Jim Davidson Guide to Equality *
Laurence Clark’s new show is in the Liverpool Comedy Festival at the
Unity Theatre on July 14th @ 7pm, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
Pod Deco, Clerk Street, Edinburgh 4 – 29 August 2004 ((not 10th, 17th,
24th)
BSL interpreted by Rose Hart.
Further info:
<http://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk> and
<http://www.edfringe.com/shows/detail.php?action=shows&id=LAURE>
“Laurence Clark has attitude in spades. He’s a searing political
satirist who ensures both his message and his jokes are on an equal
footing – never lecturing and never being less than funny...He wouldn’t
be out of place on Have I Got News For You.” (Chortle) Last October in
Plymouth, Jim Davidson cancelled a show because there were
wheelchair-users in the front row. Now disabled comedian Laurence Clark
has turn the tables on the ginger gagster by refusing to perform if Jim
Davidson is in his audience! ‘If Jim can do comedy about us then I don’t
see why disabled people can’t do the same in return’ Laurence points
out.
The UK’s “self-styled sit-down comedian”, and one of last year’s Fringe
successes, Laurence Clark returns with his new show which turns the
tables on comics who do ‘disablist humour’. The Jim Davidson Guide to
Equality, cleverly cuts – and draws comparisons - between clips of Jim
Davidson’s stand up show and Tony Blair’s manifesto speeches.
* Royal Academy of Arts: BSL Talk *
The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a dedicated BSL - interpreted
gallery talk on Friday 16 July 2004, at 6pm as part of their series of
events for the deaf and hard of hearing.
The 45-minute talk will explore the first exhibition in this country
dedicated to the work of the Russian-born Tamara de Lempicka. De
Lempicka created some of the most iconic paintings of the Art Deco age,
boldly capturing the wealth, decadence and optimism of inter-war Paris.
The talk will concentrate on key works of the artist's most productive
period between 1922 and 1945.
Deborah Neve (Deaf guide) will host the event, and she will deliver the
gallery talk directly in BSL. Meet by the Information Desk at the
reception area of the Academy at 5.30 pm.
The Royal Academy of Arts remains open until 10pm on Fridays.
Tickets can be bought in advance or on the day at GBP2.50 (special
discounted price, includes entry to the exhibition and the gallery talk)
Telephone: 020 73005995, Fax: 020 73005781, Minicom: 020 75762, Email:
groupbo-@royalacademy.org.uk.
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TV & Radio:
Pick of the Week
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Choice
Mango - R4 - Friday
Drama documentary about Anne Kilcoyne, co founder of Touchdown Dance
(who work with visually impaired people -
http://www.touchdowndance.co.uk/ - ) and her radical performance art
exploration of her breast cancer and mastectomy. Don’t Miss This.
3 July
TV
12.00 - See Hear - BBC2
Looking at key Issues regarding sign language interpreters and
interpretation. (s)
20.00 - The X Men - CH3 - Movie
Supercool Patrick Stewart (formerly of the Starship Enterprise and the
RSC) is all seeing wheelchair using Professor Xavier in this
superh(sh)eroes adaption. (s)
21.00 - The Tallest People in Britain - ITV2
The ups and downs of being very very tall.
Radio
15.30 - Indispensables - R4
Considering things it would be difficult to live without, including the
lift.
4 July
TV
22.00 - Extreme Survival - Discovery
Drastic and dramatic true story of rock climber Aron Ralston who had to
self amputate or die.
22.10 - Robocop - CH5 - Movie
The Ultimate Prosthesis strikes back. (s)
07.55 - Radio 4 Appeal - R4
John Harvey-Jones (Trouble at the Top) for the MS Society.
5 July
21.00 - Philadelphia - Living TV - Movie
Oscar winning drama with Tom Hanks as an HIV - positive lawyer.
Radio
21.30 - Night Waves - R3
Is it ethical to eradicate a living organism ? In this case the
remaining stocks of smallpox.
6 July
TV
00.20 - The Darkest Light - BBC2 - Movie
Religious drama about a girl who takes a strange vision to be a sign
that her brother will recover from leukemia. (s)
Radio
16.00 - Nice Work - R4
Creativity in the workplace. Enlightened managers want more of it, but
what exactly is it ?
20.40 - In Touch - R4
News and views for visually impaired people.
7 July
TV
14.05 - Cash in the Attic - BBC1
A chap needs an electric wheelchair, what's he to do ? In Blairs'
Britain, sell of the family silver of course. Depressing, gameshow type
stuff. (s)
18.05 - Joan of Arcadia - Living TV
Americana teen TV, notable only because one the central characters uses
a wheelchair. We lasted 10 minutes.
22.00 - Innovation - Nat Geographic
Integrating technology and the body.
23.00 - Reach for the Sky - Sky Cinema 2
Classic stiff upper lip war movie stuff. Re. legless Douglas.
23.35 - On the Edge - Sky Movies1 - Movie
Drama about friendships amongst a group of mentally ill teenagers.
8 July
TV
22.00 - What are you staring at ? - UKTV documentary
Living with facial disfigurement.
9 July
Radio
14.15 - Afternoon Play: Mango - R4
Drama documentary about Anne Kilcoyne ( co founder of Touchdown Dance,
who work with visually impaired people - http://www.touchdowndance.co.uk
) - and her radical performance art exploration of her breast cancer and
mastectomy. Don’t Miss This.__________
© The National Disability Arts Forum 2004
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