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Access card wins prestigious innovation award

By John Pring on 28th April 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Access card wins prestigious innovation award
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A disabled-led company has won a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for an “innovative” system that makes it easier for disabled people to secure the adjustments they need when attending entertainment venues. Nimbus is one of just 51 businesses to be […]

Mural brings disabled people and asylum-seekers together

By John Pring on 16th December 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Mural brings disabled people and asylum-seekers together
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Disabled people and asylum-seekers have worked together on a mural that illustrates some of the barriers they face in society, and which acts as a tribute to a disabled asylum-seeker who was murdered in 2016. The mural, on the side of […]

Disability arts organisation’s call for new cultural rights

By John Pring on 9th December 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts organisation’s call for new cultural rights
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A leading disability arts organisation has called on the Welsh government to provide new cultural and international rights for disabled people. Disability Arts Cymru, the leading organisation for disability arts in Wales, spoke out as it launched a new manifesto: Bring […]

Football review by Tory MP makes one mention of disabled people in 162 pages

By John Pring on 2nd December 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Football review by Tory MP makes one mention of disabled people in 162 pages
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Disabled campaigners have said they are “extremely disappointed” at the failure of a review of football governance in England to include more than a passing mention of disabled fans. The Fan Led Review of Football Governance, published last week, was commissioned […]

Paralympians tell MPs of concerns over access to grassroots facilities

By John Pring on 2nd December 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Paralympians tell MPs of concerns over access to grassroots facilities
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Two gold medal-winning Paralympians have told MPs of the need to improve access to grassroots sports facilities for disabled people. Lauren Rowles, a double Paralympic gold medallist in rowing, and Ellie Robinson, a Paralympic gold medallist in swimming, were giving evidence […]

Disability History Month launches with talk of hotels, sex and French peasants

By John Pring on 25th November 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability History Month launches with talk of hotels, sex and French peasants
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Leading disabled campaigners have spoken of the barriers they have faced due to invisible impairments, at the online launch of the 12th UK Disability History Month (UKDHM). This year’s month-long event, which ends on 18 December, is examining themes of invisible […]

Lizzie Emeh: ‘Remarkable legacy’ left by pioneering disabled artist

By John Pring on 18th November 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Lizzie Emeh: ‘Remarkable legacy’ left by pioneering disabled artist
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Fellow disabled artists and colleagues have spoken this week of the “remarkable legacy” left by the pioneering singer-songwriter Lizzie Emeh, who has died at the age of 44. In 2009, Emeh became the first person with a learning difficulty to release […]

Million-pound programme could transform how museums treat disability history

By John Pring on 28th October 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Million-pound programme could transform how museums treat disability history
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A ground-breaking programme – backed by National Lottery funding of nearly £1 million – aims to transform the way disability history is represented by museums, address the inequality disabled people face in their workforces, and improve access. More than 20 museums […]

Government has shown disabled people ‘active contempt’ during pandemic, festival hears

By John Pring on 21st October 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government has shown disabled people ‘active contempt’ during pandemic, festival hears
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The pandemic has seen a “deliberate marginalisation” of disabled people by a UK government that has shown them “active contempt”, a leading disabled artist-activist has told a festival. Jess Thom told the disabled-led Neurostages arts festival in Glasgow that many of […]

Families share experiences of DWP deaths after viewing ground-breaking exhibition

By John Pring on 14th October 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Families share experiences of DWP deaths after viewing ground-breaking exhibition
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The families of disabled benefit claimants whose deaths have been closely linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have met for the first time after visiting a ground-breaking digital exhibition. The Museum of Austerity uses the […]

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