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Project set to bring 50 years of disabled people’s movement to life

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Project set to bring 50 years of disabled people’s movement to life
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A new five-year, lottery-funded project is set to bring to life the history of the disabled people’s movement over the last half-century. The user-led disability arts organisation Shape has secured £142,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) for the development […]

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 […]

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 […]

NDACA celebrates milestone in journey to tell story of disability arts

By John Pring on 21st April 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

NDACA celebrates milestone in journey to tell story of disability arts
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Some of the country’s best-known disabled artists have come together in the House of Lords to celebrate a project that will tell the story of the disability arts movement. The reception marked the first year of the three-year, £1 million project […]

‘Unique history’ of disability arts movement set for preservation, thanks to £850K funding

By John Pring on 26th June 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Unique history’ of disability arts movement set for preservation, thanks to £850K funding
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The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded more than £850, 000 to a project that will create a digital archive of the 40-year history of the disability arts movement. The Shape Arts project will catalogue more than 1,000 pieces of artwork, […]

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