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‘Potent’ billboard art will highlight disabled people’s ‘many costs of living’

By John Pring on 9th March 2023 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Potent’ billboard art will highlight disabled people’s ‘many costs of living’
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Four “potent” and “extraordinary” works of art produced by disabled artists in response to the cost-of-living crisis are to be displayed on billboards across five British cities next week. The Many Costs of Living exhibition offers a response to the disproportionate […]

Round-up: Atos, Capita and Maximus, face coverings, care charging… and disability arts

By John Pring on 16th July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Round-up: Atos, Capita and Maximus, face coverings, care charging… and disability arts
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended the contracts of three discredited outsourcing giants blamed for much of the discrimination and failings within the disability benefit assessment system.  DWP had been planning to start a contract procurement exercise for […]

Disappointment at mayor’s scaled-back plans for Liberty arts festival

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disappointment at mayor’s scaled-back plans for Liberty arts festival
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Disabled artists have expressed disappointment at the mayor of London’s scaled-back plans for the capital’s annual disability arts festival, which has continued to shrink in size since its heyday in the mid-2000s. Liberty was originally launched by Ken Livingstone in 2003 […]

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders
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Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]

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 […]

‘Woeful’ arts diversity progress prompts call for ‘more power and influence’

By John Pring on 11th December 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Woeful’ arts diversity progress prompts call for ‘more power and influence’
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Mainstream arts organisations have “a mountain to climb” to ensure they have an acceptable proportion of disabled directors, artists and staff, according to leading disability arts figures. They spoke out after new figures showed a new Arts Council England (ACE) programme […]

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