Events

StopGAP Dance Company - 2008 UK Tour

Region : Various Regions . Type : event Date : 25 Jan 2008 - 13 May 2008

Fresh from an international tour, StopGAP Dance Company are taking their new contemporary dance show PORTFOLIO COLLECTION on a 16 venue UK tour! Prepare for a raw, rugged male duet charged with testosterone from Hofesh Shechter, a stark, rock infested descent into unraveled reality by Nathalie Pernette (France), a provocative powerful duet by Gary Clarke, and Rob Tannion (Stan Won’t Dance) on the quest for love, where the innocent are corrupted and the pure is plastic, revealing with humour the dark dirty underside of unrequited lust. StopGAP will also be presenting Corpus, an uplifting, tender dance set after a party. These performances will feature live audio description (headsets using words to describe the dance-useful for students studying dance). 25 Jan, 7.45pm, Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury. 28 Jan, 7.30pm, Farnham Maltings, Farnham. 31 Jan, 8pm, The Theatre, Chipping Norton. 6 Feb, 8pm, Darlington Arts Darlington, Co. Durham. 7 Feb, 7.30pm, Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham, Northumberland. 12 February, 7.45pm, The Brewhouse Theatre Taunton, Somerset. 13 Feb 8pm, Acorn Arts Centre, Penzance, Cornwall. 21 Feb 7.15pm, Grand Theatre-Studio, Swansea. 22 Feb 8pm, MAC, Birmingham. 26 Feb 7.30pm, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. 27 Feb 7.30pm, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon, Surrey. 20 Mar 7.30pm,Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester. 27 Mar 7.45pm, The Hawth Studio, Crawley, West Sussex. 8-9 April 8pm, Robin Howard Theatre @ The Place London. 15 April 8pm, The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 13 May, Caravan Assembly, Brighton, West Sussex.

Contact : For further info go to website or phone 01252 745 443
Email : sho[at]stopgap.uk.com
Website : www.stopgap.uk.com

Invitation to Play and Display Your Art

Region : Various Regions . Type : opportunity Date : 14 Mar 2008 - 13 Mar 2010

iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses generative art as re-generative force, art as medicine, polyphonic narrative. An Online Exhibition Curated and Engendered by Ajaykumar. iPak is open to all. You do not have to be ‘mad’, 'disabled', or have experienced racism to submit a work. You just need to be interested, playful and responding to the themes. Just go to the website and see how simple it is to upload your work. Together with its playful inter-activity, and generative processes, iPak facilitates a space of immersion and contemplation. iPak involves three inter-connecting works – chaos, jukebox, and platform: chaos and jukebox involve random generation of images, texts, and sounds, to create an entirely new composition each time you view it. jukebox also allows you to select and play with combinations of material: creating your own private chaos: unique and different with each play. platform is an online gallery where you can exhibit your art in response to the themes - upload still

Contact : A Turbulence New Media Gallery Commission.
Email : ajaykumar[at]ajaykumar.com
Website : turbulence.org/Works/iPak

Who'S WhO - Defining the Faces of an Arts Movement

Region : South West . Type : event Date : 15 Mar 2008 - 19 May 2008

A collection of portraits created by Tanya Raabe challenging the notion of portraiture using disability aesthetics and visual language. Explore the portraits of established and new emerging disabled artists who have and continue to pioneer disability arts and culture. Including Mat Fraser, Tony Heaton and Julie McNamara.

Contact : Faith House, Holton Lee, Dorset: www.holtonlee.co.uk/arts
Email : arts[at]holtonlee.co.uk
Website : www.tanyaraabe.co.uk/whoswho

Lipstick and Lollipops

Region : Various Regions . Type : event Date : 30 Apr 2008 - 21 Jun 2008

Lipstick and lollipops follow Isabel, a Deaf teenager who moves to London with her mother. Unsettled, Isabel rebels by escaping to a late night party. As the night unfolds, Isabel confronts the past she has been hiding for so long. This production will creatively use of British Sign language (BSL) voice, visual, movement,fully accessible to both Deaf and hearing audience.

Contact : For touring details, please email either Paula or Mark at either paula@definitelytheatre.co.uk or mark@deafinitelytheatre.co.uk
Email : paula[at]deafinitleytheatre.co.uk
Website : www.deafintielytheatre.co.uk

Scottish Arts Council: Head of Equalities

Region : Scotland . Type : opportunity Date : 01 May 2008 - 01 Jun 2008

At an exciting time for the arts in Scotland we invite you to contribute to creating a confident cultured Scotland where everyone takes part in the arts. £26,010 - £30,774 pa.(fixed term appointment / secondment opportunity until 31 March 2009). With Equalities a priority policy area for the Scottish Arts Council as we move towards Creative Scotland (anticipated in April 2009) we want to ensure that the Scottish Arts Council’s policies, plans and activities reflect the needs and aspirations of Scotland’s diverse population. As Head of Equalities you will lead on the development, implementation and integration of our Equalities policies, relating to the arts in Scotland. Current policy areas include arts & disability, cultural diversity, and arts & health. As an experienced manager, you will be passionate about the arts in Scotland and have a detailed knowledge and experience of Equalities issues and compliance. The Scottish Arts Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer and positively encourages applications

Contact : For further information and an application pack please contact Linda Fenton on 0131 240 2552
Email : linda.fenton[at]scottisharts.org.uk
Website : www.scottisharts.org.uk

Conquest of the South Pole

Region : London . Type : event Date : 20 May 2008 - 24 May 2008

Following an acclaimed regional tour, Theatre Resource's production of 'Conquest of the South Pole' comes to the Oval House Theatre in London. The play tells the story of a group of disabled friends who try to stave off the boredom of un-employment by re-enacting Amundsen's expedition to the Antarctic. Conquest of the South Pole, by Manfred Karge, was originally written and set in Thatcher-era Britain, but has been given a stirring contemporary shake by Theatre Resource directors Jeff Banks and Anna Wallbank. Having worked during production with physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, Conquest of the South Pole is moving and provocative with outstanding performances from a cast of disabled actors, including Andrew McClay, whose 'Down Came a Spider' was a big hit at Oval House last year. Conquest of the South Pole continues Theatre Resource's innovative use of incorporating a BSL signer as one of the cast.

Contact : Jonathan Goodacre Theatre Resource Great Stony Chipping Ongar Essex. CM5 0AD Tel: 01277 365626 Fax/minicom: 01277 365003
Email : jonathan[at]theatre-resource.org.uk
Website : www.theatre-resource.org.uk

Dark Inc by Spare Tyre

Region : London . Type : event Date : 21 May 2008 19:00 - 20:00

Marvel at the Bodyless Sadie. Behold the Melting Floor. Pay your respects to Anxiety Baby. We dare you to step through our doors. Dark Inc is devised and performed by the inc. Theatre Ensemble, Spare Tyre's company of actors with learning disabilities. At the Dark Inc cabaret you will be treated to a tasty menu of monstrously funny comedy, puppetry, dance, sketches and magic. 'The work is abstracted from the real world and from our own lives, our thoughts and feelings about our own identities, how we see ourselves and the world around us.' David Munns,inc.Theatre Ensemble. PLUS Workshop 4.30 - 6pm in Studio 1 There will also be a one and a half hour workshop for people with learning disabilities to explore the themes of the play and the inc. Theatre way of working. (Limited spaces for workshops) Doors open 7pm. Tickets £5

Contact : Box Office: 020 8232 1010 to book tickets www.watermans.org.uk www.sparetyretheatrecompany.co.uk
Email : info[at]watermans.org.uk
Website : www.watermans.org.uk

Heavy Load play Wychwood Festival

Region : South West . Type : event Date : 31 May 2008

We can't wait to welcome back Heavy Load to Wychwood. Some you may have caught their astonishing performance in the Wickwar Tent on the Friday at last year's Festival, but if you missed it make sure you catch them this year. Fresh from their starring role in a documentry that is being shown at SXSW no less, they are the self styled UK's only disabled punk band, the hardest working band in social care, they are too hardcore for radio 4 (but that's another story) and they invite you to 'get in or get out'! Make sure you catch Heavy Load in the Big Top on Saturday.

Contact : www.heavyload.org www.stayuplate.org www.heavyloadthemovie.com
Website : www.wychwoodfestival.com/saturday.html#215

Full Radius Dance in

Region : non-UK . Type : event Date : 06 Jun 2008 08:00 - 09:30

The physically-integrated (dancers with and without disabilities) modern dance company Full Radius Dance returns to 7 Stages (1105 Euclid Avenue, NE in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) on June 6 and June 7, 2008 for ‘Sideshow’. The company will be in performance each evening at 8:00 PM, along with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 PM. On the program will be dance works featuring the pioneering technique and innovative partnering for which Full Radius Dance is noted: The title work Sideshow – a quartet inspired by the ‘freaks and human oddities’ of the carnival sideshow. Sentire – an examination of dependence, independence and interdependence. (Sentire, meaning perceive, feel, or know is the Latin root for the word ‘sense’). Giants in the Sky- an allegorical dance about the fear, and reward, of the unknown. Fluff – a light as air romp through sunny hits of 1960s pop music.

Contact : Full Radius Dance at fullradiusdance@aol.com or 404-724-9663.
Email : fullradiusdance[at]aol.com
Website : www.fullradiusdance.org

Marat Sade

Region : Scotland . Type : opportunity Date : 01 Sep 2008 - 30 Nov 2008

Theatre Workshop Edinburgh invites applications from professional actors and rock musicians for Peter Weiss's Marat Sade. Rehearsing in Edinburgh in September and touring to large scale venues, we will be offering three month contracts. An inclusive producing theatre, we employ professional disabled actors alongside professional non-disabled actors in all productions. At this time, we are only recruiting professional disabled actors. We are also specifically seeking for a signing singer and a signing narrator. A large scale, innovative and exciting show with live music and high production values that aims to build on the success of Threepenny Opera.

Contact : Please send information, photo and CV to: The Producer, Marat Sade Theatre Workshop 34 Hamilton Place Edinburgh EH3 5AX.
Email : afleming[at]twe.org.uk
Website : www.theatre-workshop.com

Launch of new LEVEL centre

Region : East Midlands . Type : event Date : 01 Nov 2008 - 30 Nov 2008

First Movement is an arts organisation dedicated to developing high quality arts projects with learning disabled people. It operates long-term projects in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland with occasional work across the region. It creates opportunities for adults with severe and profound learning disabilities to work together to develop and promote their creativity through the arts. First Movement has received over £1.8m to develop a new 'LEVEL' centre utilising digital arts technology. The building will be launched in November 2008 and will provide a new home for First Movement, as well as performance space, technology studio, creative industry studios and support facilities. LEVEL is a radical, live arts collaboration between learning disabled people living miles apart. Using video conferencing, large-scale projection and new technologies it creates a single, virtual arts space in which participants create and perform with people they would otherwise never meet.

Contact : Tiina Taatila, Marketing Advisor, tiinataatila@hotmail.com
Email : fmt[at]first-movement.org.uk
Website : www.first-movement.org.uk