Disability Arts Online

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  An Interview with Maysoon Zayid

  Groundbreaking comedy performer, Maysoon Zayid, takes a break from her hectic schedule to talk to us about her craft.

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  Dysarticulate: a DIY intervention from Creative Campus

  Led by artist Jon Adams, this initiative intends to start a dialogue and a series of conversations reflecting the real issues around disability, our fragility and the nature of Public Art.

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  Review: Fittings present Raspberry - based on the life and times of Ian Dury

  Garry Robson is Spasticus! Colin Cameron caught Fittings Multimedia music-theatre production ‘Raspberry’ at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 9 April, 2010 at the start of its UK tour.

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  Review: Fittings present Raspberry - based on the life and times of Ian Dury

  Garry Robson is Spasticus! Colin Cameron caught Fittings Multimedia music-theatre production ‘Raspberry’ at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 9 April, 2010 at the start of its UK tour.

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  Review: Contemporary Art from Iraq at Cornerhouse, Manchester

  Harry Matthews reviews Contemporary Art Iraq – the first comprehensive UK exhibition of work by Iraqi artists since the first Gulf War. Now on show at Cornerhouse until 20 June 2010

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  Review: Re-Presenting Disability - Activism and Agency in the museum

  Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the museum is edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Colin Hambrook reviews this account of interpretations of disability within museum practice, in the UK and abroad.

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  Review: Are you having a laugh? TV and Disability

  BBC 2 recently aired a 55 minute documentary charting portrayal of disability on TV over the last 50 years. Narrated by David Walliams the programme looks at the journey from Ironside to Cast Offs, and from Monty Python to The Office and Little Britain. Colin Hambrook comments.

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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: urban wastelands, desolate places by Kit Wells

  By exploring our urban wastelands and desolate places in his paintings, Kit Wells points up human frailty and helplessness in a landscape created for man’s ease of living, but resulting in an inner-city hell.

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  Gallery: Maureen Oliver

  Maureen Oliver's paintings echo another dimension of reality. The narratives within her artwork engage the viewer with a need to find out more about the human drama described in her paintings - on show at at Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair, BAC, London - from 14-16 May 2010.

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  Gallery: Altered Images

  Altered Images - an innovative exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 17 June 2010 to 15 August 2010

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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: Victoria Wright addresses comedian Frankie Boyle

  Comedian Frankie Boyle has hit the news for making jokes at the expense of learning disabled people during his sell-out tour. Victoria Wright, writer and star of Channel 4s Cast Offs, writes him an open letter.

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  Discussion: Victoria Wright on language

  Victoria Wright featured on Radio 4's 'Word of Mouth' with Francesca Martinez. Here she discusses her relationship with the language used by and about disabled people, and asks questions about the importance of definitions.

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  Discussion: William Phillips on barriers to access for visually impaired people

  In the run-up to In Touch with Art 2010 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in October, DAO publishes some reflections on access at museums and galleries, from a Collections Officer with the Hampshire County Council Museums Service.

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  Poetry: Deaf Bitch

  Dao presents a selection of poems that tackle barriers in society from a deaf women's experience

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  Poetry: Maureen Oliver

  Maureen Oliver has had several collections of her poetry and writing published by Chipmunka. Her poetry reflects her experience of the psychiatric system.