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The charity Scope has pledged to protect the editorial independence of its Disability Now website, despite telling three of its four staff that they are likely to be made redundant. Many of the tasks currently carried out by Disability Now (DN) […]
This year’s UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) will examine the appalling treatment of veterans who became disabled after fighting in the First World War. UKDHM was set up to celebrate disabled people’s lives and explore the history of negative attitudes and […]
Liverpool’s world-renowned disability and deaf arts festival, DaDaFest, will help to mark its 30th birthday later this year with a ground-breaking conference on disability culture and human rights. The two-day DaDaFest International Congress on Disability Culture and Human Rights will be […]
A leading Deaf performer who was prevented by the mayor of London’s security staff from handing out campaigning leaflets during a disability arts festival has described their actions as “undemocratic” and “creepy”. David Bower had handed out some of the leaflets […]
Disabled artists have given a mixed response to this year’s Liberty disability arts festival, which was overshadowed again by National Paralympic Day (NPD). A low-key line-up on the main stage, combined with continuing huge public interest in Britain’s Paralympians, put Liberty […]
Performers and presenters have welcomed plans by the BBC to improve its representation of disabled people, both behind and in front of the camera. The broadcaster said its “ambitious” plans would “radically change representation on air”, and make the BBC a […]
The number of disabled-led arts organisations with Arts Council funding is set to plunge by nearly a third. Arts Council England has announced that the number of disabled-led organisations that will be part of its “national portfolio” is to fall from […]
London’s annual disability arts festival Liberty will return to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park next month as part of National Paralympic Day. It will be the second time that Liberty’s disabled artists have shared London’s Olympic Park venue with some of […]
A new project aims to highlight some of England’s most significant disability history, charting disabled people’s lives from the middle ages to the late 20th century. The Accentuate History of Place project will tell the story of disabled people’s history through […]
A disabled journalist has gone from novice stand-up to performing at London’s renowned Comedy Store in just two weeks, in a bid to find out whether preconceptions about disabled people affect how funny an audience finds their material. Paul Carter had […]