Experience creative happenings, visits by robots and an opportunity to be part of a Cultural Animation installation work. This symposium brings together two major national…
Brave, Poor (and Invisible): Gatekeepers of Past and Future Cities
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Here you will find the latest project blogs with writing, artwork, photos and videos from the D4D team and community.
Do robots threaten our humanity or provide us with opportunities for us to maintain what we cherish about being human?
By Esther Fox I’m interested in understanding what it means to be a disabled person, in the past, present and future. In particular, how troubling…
Testing the group with a trial performance of Thalidomide Acts
By Allan Sutherland
One of the interesting discoveries of the transcription poetry process has been how well the poems lend themselves to live reading. (The reason may be the accuracy with which the process preserves the individual voice of the person interviewed.)…
‘Thalidomide Acts’ – tells the life story of disabled artist Mat Fraser
‘Thalidomide Acts’ is the first outcome of the ‘Electric Bodies’ strand of D4D, a cycle of transcription poems based on a series of interviews with the performer Mat Fraser, who recently starred to great acclaim in Northern Broadsides production of ‘Richard III’.
Contemplating ‘the presence of absence’ in our first workshop session
Image from D4D cultural animation workshop. On a brilliantly sunny day in April it seemed somewhat ironic to be entering a darkened gallery space to…
What Is Cultural Animation?
At its outset, Cultural Animation came out of two specific theatre traditions. The New Vic Theatre (Newcastle under-Lyme) has 50 years of a documentary and…
Summary of ‘Now You See Us’
Urban Tensions by Colin Hambrook. Acrylic on canvas Now You See Us explores issues of integration and marginalization in schools, youth zones and the workplace.…
Martin Levinson: out and about
On 10th February, 2017 I attended a networking event set up by PLUSS at the Imperial Hotel in Torquay. The event presented an opportunity to…
In Memoriam: Dr Sue Porter 20.10.54 – 11.01.2017
Dr Sue Porter Dr Sue Porter was absolutely integral to the D4D project. From the outset, she was a central force in building D4D, developing…
Electric Bodies: disabled peoples’ lives matter
Electric Bodies examines the origins and development of the Disability Arts community, the tensions that have arisen within it and its prospects for the future.…