International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers

August 2009 Blog Posts (12)

Festival Calendar

I am looking for a calendar which lists performing arts festivals and conferences around the world. Can you send me a link or tell me about a great event that you know of. Cheers }: )

Added by Leesa Nash on August 29, 2009 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Youth lead inclusive performing arts training and events

I am planning to visit Europe and America in Spring Summer 2010. I am interested in youth lead performing arts practice - both at the creative and administrative level.

I am the director of Family Dog Circus - a youth theatre company offering training in performance , lighting, sound and stage management. FDC create training & employment opportunities for youth, focussing on performers with individual learning needs. Emerging artists are supported to develop skills then to… Continue

Added by Leesa Nash on August 29, 2009 at 7:05pm — No Comments

Arts-Activated Conference Call for Papers closes soon [Australia]

The call for papers for Accessible Arts' second Arts Activated Conference closes on August 31. The theme of the conference, Arts - Access - Excellence, will explore process, practice and innovation relating to inclusion of people with disability in the arts.

Accessible Arts invites submissions for proposals to present at the conference, which takes place at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney on 25-26 March 2010. The Arts Activated conference aims to be interactive and outcomes driven… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 11, 2009 at 10:39pm — No Comments

Arts Access Australia e-news Conference Special Issue

August 2009

International Arts and Health, Creative Ageing, Arts and Disability Conferences

1.0 International Arts and Health Conference

Port Macquarie NSW Australia 10 - 13 November 2009

2.0 4th International Conference on Creative Expression, Communication and Dementia

Adelaide Convention Centre 21 - 23 October 2009

3.0 Arts Activated, Arts and Disability Conference

Powerhouse Museum Sydney 25 – 26 March… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 10, 2009 at 10:42am — No Comments

Disability Arts Online eNewsletter

We're very excited by the rise in visitors to the new dao and have been keeping up our regular updating of the site with some juicy blogs, project profiles and reviews. You can also find the latest disability and deaf arts listings. Please check out the newest content and let us know what you think by leaving comments on our blogs or by sending an email to editor@disabilityartsonline.org.uk In the event that you no longer wish to subscribe to this mailing list, please send an email with… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 7, 2009 at 9:25am — No Comments

Arts Access eNews [Sth Australia]

Arts Access eNews

2 Aug 2009

Vol. 4, No. 2 | ISSN: 1834-8122

Welcome to Arts Access SA's latest E-News Bulletin - August 09

DISCLAIMER: Arts Access SA Inc. to the best of its knowledge believes that the information below is true and accurate. They accept no responsibility for any loss or damage caused by acting on this information. The decision by Arts Access SA to include information should and does not imply our endorsement.

Keep up to date, add your… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 5, 2009 at 8:47am — No Comments

Full Circle Arts are looking for a part-time Administrator (Manchester UK)

Full Circle Arts are looking for a part-time Administrator

Full Circle Arts is an arts organisation that is led by disabled people. We are based in Manchester, but work nationally. We provide creative solutions to inclusion in all aspects of the arts. We're only small, but passionate about what we do.

Administrator

14 HOURS (2 days) PER WEEK - SALARY (SCALE 4 SCP 18 - 21)

Starting salary ?16,941 rising in annual increments to ?18,882 (PRO… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 5, 2009 at 8:33am — No Comments

Fashion Moves on Women's Radio, with Pat Lynch

Hi all,

I have some exciting updates on the Fashion Moves Garment Design Competition. Here is the news!

Fashion Moves will work with the up and coming Garment Design students, introducing them to the large and growing population of people with disabilities and the design career potential, providing services to this demographic. When our young military personnel return from active duty with significant disabilities, where do they turn for the casual and professional clothes they… Continue

Added by Ruth Clark on August 4, 2009 at 11:21am — No Comments

Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus read from Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (Homofactus Press, 2008)

Wednesday, August 5th, Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia Street, San

Francisco, 7pm, free

Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus read from Cripple Poetics: A Love Story

(Homofactus Press, 2008)

A love story for crip culture! By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving,

Cripple Poetics: A Love Story is an immersive and sensual correspondence

that builds and heats by accretion—one keystroke at a time. Cripple Poetics

is e-mails, IMs and letters between… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 4, 2009 at 10:50am — No Comments

Wanted: feedback from blind people on podcast sign up page

Hello, I am looking for feedback from blind people on my podcast sign

up page. http://hearandthere.net/howtopodcast.aspx I have put it

together for people who are new to podcasting and I would like to know

if it makes sence to screen readers. Are the Steps easy to follow and

does it work. Please let me know if you have any suggestions and

leave feedback on my contact us page.

Hear and… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 1, 2009 at 9:54am — No Comments

2009 Call for Visual Arts Submissions for Balancing Acts

Calgary¹s 9th Annual Disability Arts Festival

www.balancing-acts.org

2009 Visual Arts Series

Balancing Acts is seeking artwork by emerging disabled artists for its 2009

Visual Arts Series. Selected pieces will be exhibited throughout Calgary

from December 1 to December 5, 2009.

All artists with disabilities are invited to submit an application to

participate in the 2009 Visual Arts Series.

Deadline for submissions is September 1,… Continue

Added by IGODAP HQ on August 1, 2009 at 9:51am — No Comments

New disability book on abuse prevention

Help promote our new book on abuse and violence prevention for people with disabilities by posting the information below on blogs, websites, in newsletters and other publications. Thank you!

Copies can be ordered from the World Institute on Disability website.

Power to the people with disabilities!

Best wishes,

Marsha Saxton

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