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Round-up: Unheard voices, a new manifesto for Wales… and Unlimited goes digital

By John Pring on 10th December 2020 Category: Human Rights

Round-up: Unheard voices, a new manifesto for Wales… and Unlimited goes digital
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More must be done to meet the needs of disabled members of the Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT) community and to hear their voices, according to ground-breaking, user-led research. The report concludes that disabled people from the GRT community are put off […]

Benefits Street antidote ‘will not be a safe space for audiences’

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Benefits Street antidote ‘will not be a safe space for audiences’
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An award-winning disabled poet, performer and stand-up is hoping that her new show – based on more than 80 interviews with disabled and working-class people and benefit claimants – will provide an antidote to reality TV “rubbish” like Benefits Street. Jackie […]

Unlimited expansion set to influence international perception of disabled artists

By John Pring on 28th January 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Unlimited expansion set to influence international perception of disabled artists
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New funding of more than £1.5 million is set to deliver an international extension to a disability arts commissioning programme that grew out of London 2012, and help influence how disabled people are perceived in other countries. Unlimited has secured more […]

‘Assisted Suicide: The Musical’ gets Unlimited seal of approval

By John Pring on 27th March 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Assisted Suicide: The Musical’ gets Unlimited seal of approval
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A leading disabled artist and activist is hoping that securing funding to develop a musical about assisted suicide from a prestigious disability arts programme might help “tip the balance” in the continuing campaign to oppose legalisation. Liz Carr is one of […]

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