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This bulletin is a free bi-monthly service promoting details of the most recent events and jobs / opportunities within the disability arts field. For more events and jobs / opportunities, please go directly to the listings pages on the DAO website If you would like to take advantage of this service, please post your listings via the online form
National events listings: Japanese Homes: Evening Exhibition Talk 07/06/2011 A special free evening at the Geffrye: Join our deaf guide Jennifer Little on a highlights tour of our special exhibition At Home in Japan: Beyond the Minimal House. Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA
Japanese Homes: Evening Craft Workshop 07/06/2011 Enjoy some refreshments and create a lucky owl with deaf artist Sheng Kai Chou. Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA
Touring Performance: Shape Creative Steps
09/06/2011 Shape Creative Steps is for those interested in creating and touring their own work, or are developing a long-term project and want to learn from someone who has experience of making things happen - at Deane House Studios, Kentish Town, London
Arts Catalyst and Shape present Alternative Ways of Thinking 10/06/2011 The Times Cheltenham Science Festival, hosts two events reflecting on recent ideas about the minds of autistic and dyslexic people, considering whether these ‘impairments’ can or should be thought about in different ways.
CoolTan Arts Open Day & Mad Hatters Tea Party
11/06/2011 Join CoolTan Arts for a fun-filled afternoon, learn more about CoolTan Arts and the Largactyl Shuffle, imagine, inspire, create!
National jobs listings: Shape Service Co-ordinator – Training & Access Services Location: Kentish Town, London | Closing date: 7 June 2011 Remuneration: Salary £20,550 plus benefits, (full time – 12 month fixed term contract) Shape is looking for a focused, confident and highly professional Service Co-ordinator to be responsible for the reconfiguration and delivery of Shape’s Training & Access Services.
Shape Programme Manager – Audiences, Training & Access Location: Kentish Town, London | Closing date: 7 June 2011
Remuneration: Salary £25,907 - £28,634 plus benefits (Full time) Shape is looking for a focused, confident and highly professional manager to be responsible for a portfolio of services.
Shape Service Co-ordinator - Audiences Location: Kentish Town, London | Closing date: 7 June 2011 Remuneration: Salary £20,550 plus benefits (full time – 12 month fixed term contract) Shape is looking for a focused, confident and highly professional Service Co-ordinator to reconfigure and deliver Shape’s audience-related services.
Fittings Multimedia seek Administrative Director
Location: Liverpool | Closing date: 22 June 2011 Remuneration: Fee: £10,000 plus expenses Invitation to tender: Development Consultant, Fittings Multimedia Arts
DaDaLive Director Location: Liverpool | Closing date: 29 June 2011 Remuneration: Pay: £5,200 fixed fee (to be paid in instalments) DaDaLive are looking to appoint a Director for year two of DaDaLive, on a fixed term freelance position.
National opportunity and workshop listings:
Ability Media International Awards 03/06/2011 - 15/08/2011 These awards celebrate artistically excellent work from virtually every field of the arts and media. Winning works are creatively excellent and either have been produced by disabled people or promote greater understanding of disability issues.
Youth Express present drama, animation and art workshops 01/06/2011 - 01/08/2011 Youth Express – Ground breaking arts events across the Eastern Region for young people with physical, hearing and visual impairments. Drama, animation and art workshops exploring pathways and overcoming barriers to creativity.
PhotoVoice Training Workshops 25/05/2011 - 22/07/2011
Book now for Designing & Running Participatory Photography 3 Day Training Workshops at HCVS, London E8
Physical Disability in Culture and Literature: A Public Discussion Group
25/05/2011 - 22/06/2011 A series of events to explore the representation of the physically disabled body in contemporary literature, culture and society.
DAO: The New Voices Project 20/05/2011 - 17/06/2011 DAO is looking for deaf or disabled people in the Brighton area - keen to develop arts writing skills and experience.
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