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Liberty returns to Olympic Park for Paralympic festivities

By John Pring on 4th July 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

Liberty returns to Olympic Park for Paralympic festivities
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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 […]

Project will bring hidden history into the light

By John Pring on 13th June 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

Project will bring hidden history into the light
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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 […]

Novice stand-up asks if audience are laughing with him… or at him

By John Pring on 30th May 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

Novice stand-up asks if audience are laughing with him… or at him
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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 […]

Slow subtitles make viewing experience ‘unpleasant’

By John Pring on 2nd May 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, Independent Living, News Archive

Slow subtitles make viewing experience ‘unpleasant’
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Delays in live subtitles appearing on screen often lead to “omissions and misreporting of information”, according to a new report. The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom this week published its first report on the quality of live subtitling, following a consultation which found […]

Unlimited offerings include party balloons, medical aids… and a designer asylum

By John Pring on 4th April 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

Unlimited offerings include party balloons, medical aids… and a designer asylum
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Medical aids, party balloons and a “designer asylum” are just some of the inspirations for a series of new works that have been awarded more than £400,000 by the Unlimited disability arts programme. The three-year Unlimited 2013 programme this week announced […]

‘Amazing histories’ will help fill a gap in Cornwall’s past

By John Pring on 21st February 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

‘Amazing histories’ will help fill a gap in Cornwall’s past
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A new series of video interviews with disabled people shows the kind of “amazing histories” that should be recorded for future generations, according to the researcher who has led the project. Remembering and Reflecting: Disability and Community in Cornwall, headed by […]

Theatre discrimination victory ‘will have wide-reaching impact’

By John Pring on 7th February 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, Human Rights, News Archive

Theatre discrimination victory ‘will have wide-reaching impact’
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A leading entertainment group has admitted discriminating against a disabled theatre-goer by forcing him to buy a ticket for the personal assistant (PA) he needed to accompany him to a concert. Doug Paulley and seven other residents of the care home […]

High-heels, swallowing the lies, and a bedroom protest

By John Pring on 7th February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

High-heels, swallowing the lies, and a bedroom protest
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High-heels, institutional abuse, independent living, a bedroom tax protest, and a blunt challenge to the idea of pity… The subjects of the 800 images created by disabled people for the Postcards from the Edge project range across themes of communication, discrimination, […]

Captions could be next step forward for access at music venues

By John Pring on 31st January 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

Captions could be next step forward for access at music venues
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Music venues and festivals could soon be offering captions beside the stage so that deaf customers can follow a band’s lyrics as they are being sung and enjoy the banter between songs, according to a user-led charity. Attitude is Everything (AiE) […]

Nearly all disabled music fans ‘face discrimination’ when buying tickets

By John Pring on 31st January 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

Nearly all disabled music fans ‘face discrimination’ when buying tickets
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Nine in 10 disabled people felt discriminated against when they bought tickets to watch live music, because the booking system they had to  deal with was so inaccessible, according to a new report by a pioneering user-led charity. Nearly half of […]

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