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Mother of Jodey Whiting displays her broken heart outside DWP HQ

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mother of Jodey Whiting displays her broken heart outside DWP HQ
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The mother of a disabled woman who died as a result of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings stood outside its headquarters in Whitehall this week to remind civil servants and ministers how their actions caused her daughter’s death. Joy […]

Visitors to new wing ‘will feel the power of the disability protest movement’

By John Pring on 9th May 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Visitors to new wing ‘will feel the power of the disability protest movement’
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A new archive and learning zone dedicated to the disability arts movement is set to inspire a new generation of young people to fight for their rights. The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) facility was launched last week at […]

Katherine Araniello: Tributes to ‘force of nature’ and ‘creative genius’

By John Pring on 28th February 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Katherine Araniello: Tributes to ‘force of nature’ and ‘creative genius’
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Disabled artists and activists are mourning the death of Katherine Araniello, a “force of nature” who leaves behind a “hugely significant” disability arts legacy. Araniello was a performance and video artist who used satire and subversive humour at the expense of […]

Exhibition chronicles six years of fighting back on austerity and discrimination

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Exhibition chronicles six years of fighting back on austerity and discrimination
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A new exhibition is charting how artists have fought back against attacks on disabled people’s rights and financial support over the last six years. Shape Arts’ retrospective, Cumulative Effect: Disability and the Welfare State, looks at how that work has reacted […]

University to provide a home for NDACA disability arts collection

By John Pring on 30th March 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

University to provide a home for NDACA disability arts collection
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A collection and archive that tells the 40-year history of the disability arts movement will have a permanent home from next April, the project has announced. The latest stage of the £1 million National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) project […]

‘A book that must be published’

By guest on 17th December 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘A book that must be published’
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By Penny Pepper A small council flat in Leytonstone, nestled on an estate within the posh Victorian town houses; my first London home. It’s 1985 and I’m learning with my best friend Kate the exhausting realities for two wheelchair-users living without […]

Welcome for overdue Arts Council diversity pledge

By John Pring on 12th December 2014 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

Welcome for overdue Arts Council diversity pledge
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Leading disabled artists have welcomed a new Arts Council policy which aims to force mainstream organisations to take real action to promote diversity, but have warned that disabled-led organisations still have a vital role to play. Sir Peter Bazalgette, the chair […]

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