A week-long festival celebrating disability and challenging stereotypes
15 – 22 September storyhouse.com
Storyhouse, Hunter Street, Chester, CH1 2AR
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Welcome Kaleidoscope celebrates the diversity of human bodies. We have invited 23 local disabilityled charities and organisations to choose what happens across Storyhouse this week, in order to celebrate life with a disability and challenge stereotypes. We believe a more equal world, is a better world. 13.9 million people in this country live with a disability – 1 in 5 of us. But if you live with disability, your life chances – to access employment, justice, education, culture, transport, healthcare – are not equal in the UK today. You are more likely to face unfair treatment at work, you are 30% more likely to be the victim of crime, you are twice as likely to be unemployed as a non-disabled person. You are less likely than a non-disabled person to access decent accommodation, visit the theatre or a library, or be able to get on a train. There is a lot to challenge. Come and join us: sing, sign, knit, drum, dance, act, laugh – be inspired and energised by the extraordinary programme we are proud to host, which allows Storyhouse to speak directly with the many voices of local people living with disability. Alex Clifton, artistic director, Storyhouse
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Saturday 15 September
Mak-a-long sign and singing pop-up
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Makaton Rhyme Time
Makaton my name is booth Join the campaign to make Chester Makaton friendly! Take a seat in the booth and record yourself signing Makaton – a language programme that gives everyone a helping hand to talk. Led by Inclusive Teaching Matters (ITM), a CIC based in Cheshire set up by Amanda Glennon. Amanda’s main driver to set ITM up was her daughter Alice who was five days old when she was diagnosed with Down’s syndrome. Where: The Lobby Cost: FREE Time: 10am - 4pm (drop-in) Age: suitable for all
Life in Pictures: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Get ready to dance with Amanda and her 15-yearold nephew – DJ Jay! Take to the dance floor in The Kitchen where DJ Jay will warm up the audience with some good sing along tunes. Followed by a group Mak-A-Long session covering Makaton signs for favourites including Summer Loving, This is Me (Greatest Showman) plus more of your favourite tunes!
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FILM & Q+A
You may have watched Mr Tumble on CBeebies – now it’s your chance to have a go at signing some rhymes using Makaton, led by Amanda from ITM. Where: Storytelling Room Cost: £5 per family Time: 12noon (45 min) Age: suitable for all Take Part
Makaton Storytelling Join Amanda from ITM as she tells your favourite stories with Makaton. Where: Storytelling Room Cost: £5 per family Time: 3pm (45 min) Age: Family friendly
Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 3.30pm Age: suitable for all TAKE PART
The Bren Project on Tour Storyhouse’s charitable partner, The Bren Project, believe that everyone has the right to work. The team will be in The Kitchen all day hosting a raft of activities including Spin Art and Smoothie Making on a bike! Also meet The Bren Project’s artist-in-residence who will be starting a week-long community arts project, giving participants the opportunity to tell Chester how the world can be more disability friendly. Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 11am – 4pm (drop-in) Age: suitable for all
Esther Lowery lives with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, an ‘invisible’ illness that causes her chronic pain.
TALK
How I Found the World When I Was Young by Alex Lowery Alex is autistic, diagnosed at four. As a child Alex found the world a horrifying place. He had heightened senses and a language of his own that very few people could understand. As he moved into his teens he found living life harder than everyone else. This was extremely difficult for him to accept. For years he was terrified of people finding out he had autism. Alex will be talking about these early years and how he has exceeded all expectations and is now as a public speaker, trainer, author and filmmaker student. This event is followed by Life in Pictures: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a film produced by Esther Lowery. Where: Garret Theatre Cost £6 (under 16s go free) Time: 11am (50mins) Age: suitable for all
With Fixers, she’s helped create a film to raise awareness of the condition. She hopes it will show that just because you can’t see an illness, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Fixers are young people using their past to fix the future. They are motivated by personal experience to make positive change for themselves and those around them. Where: Garret Theatre Cost: Free with a ticket for the previous event: How I Found the World When I Was Young by Alex Lowery Time: 12pm (20mins) Age: suitable for all
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Sunday 16 September FILM
Window Into Our World (PG) A short film package compiled by Oska Bright Film Festival Film
The Rider
FILM
Notes on Blindness (U) In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, writer and theologian John Hull lost his sight. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audio-cassette. Over three years he recorded sixteen hours of material, which form the basis for this film. A unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. This special screening is fully accessible. Integrated Caption Subtitles and Audio Description Director: Pete Middleton, James Spinney. Starring: Dan Renton Skinner, Simone Kirby, John M. Hull (voice) UK: 2016 Duration: 88 mins Where: Cinema Cost: FREE (book in advance) Time: 3pm (88 mins) Age: all ages
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Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness VR experience Into Darkness, is a multiaward-winning immersive Virtual Reality (VR) project which allows users to access John’s world of blindness in an exploratory, user-led experience. Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 1pm – 3pm (drop-in) Age: 13+
Brady Jandreau is a young Rodeo star, a South Dakota bronco rider. Working with horses is his life – he can tame any wild horse. Following a head injury during one of his shows Brady’s told he must give up the sport or face possible fatal damage if he were hurt again. A compassionate film about living with brain injury. Based on a true story – all the actors in the film are playing themselves, dramatising their own life story. Director: Chloe Zhao. Starring: Brady Jandreau, Lane Scott, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford. UK: 2018 Duration: TBC
Take a peek into the lives of the learning-disabled around the world in this global package of films guaranteed to challenge your world view. A mixture of documentary, drama and music videos this wide-ranging selection was curated by the Oska Bright Film Festival – the annual celebration of creative film work made by learning-disabled people. Where: Cinema Cost: £3 Time: TBC (90 mins approx) Age: suitable for all
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SPACE Takeover The aim of SPACE is to provide local children who have additional needs with the opportunity to play in a friendly and safe environment. Plus, a space where parents and carers can gain support, information, advice and the opportunity to meet other parents or carers. The community currently meet at Live! but will takeover Storyhouse for the day as part of Kaleidoscope festival. SPACE will be bringing along their sensory play equipment and all arts and crafts throughout Kaleidoscope will be solely sensory based. Where: The Kitchen / Den Cost: Free Time: 11am-3pm Performance
Baby Brahms Live classical music concerts, for little people. Half an hour of live classical music for you and your little ones.
Where: Cinema Cost: £9.50 conc available Time: 6pm (105 mins) Age: TBC – not yet been rated
This event is taking place in The Kitchen where there is lots of space to relax, move around and enjoy the music.
Screening all week at the Storyhouse cinema from 14 September.
Where: The Kitchen Cost: Free Time: 2pm (30mins) (drop-in)
Monday 17 September Digital Exhibition
11 Million Reasons to Dance A photography exhibition and short film programme that was conceptualised and launched in 2014 through funding from Unlimited Impact and Arts Council England. Since its launch, the exhibition has been touring the UK and overseas, featuring Sean Goldthorpe’s 20 commissioned images of iconic dance moments from film, all reimagined by Deaf, sight impaired and disabled dancers. Catch the reel throughout the day in Storyhouse all day. Where: The Kitchen (screen) Cost: Free Time: all day (drop-in) Age: suitable for all
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Tuesday 18 September Talk
Anna Jackson on Believing in yourself FILM & Q+A
Sanctuary + Q&A with Director Len Collin Larry and Sophie are young and in love. Performance
Celebrating Inclusivity in Dance
Performance
Patchwork Theatre Company Chester’s newest theatre company based at Live! Charity at the New Scene Centre in Newton directed by Matt Baker. Come along to this free performance of fun, uplifting toe tapping sing along songs. Where: The Kitchen Cost: Free Time: 12noon (30mins) Age: suitable for all
More Reasons to Dance, is a network to share great work happening in dance for all disabilities across Cheshire and Merseyside. This event is a promenade programme of dance featuring Cheshire Dance, Bluecoat Arts Centre Liverpool and Storyhouse’s resident dance company Fallen Angels Dance Theatre. Where: Around Storyhouse – meet in Lobby Cost: £5 Time: 2pm (60 mins) Age: suitable for all
They also happen to have to have intellectual disabilities, and live in Ireland – which until recently banned pre-martial relationships between people with conditions such as theirs. On a cinema trip to Dublin – aided by one of their carers Tom – they slip away to a hotel for a bit of intimacy. Though acting out of sympathy, Tom knows that he has broken the law, and he spends the rest of the film performing damage control as his charges wander off unsupervised into the city – an unsentimental and taboo breaking comedy. Director: Len Collin. Starring: Charlene Kelly, Keiran Coppinger, Stephen Marcus, Amy-Joyce Hastings, Tara Breathnach UK: 2017 Duration: 87 mins Where: Cinema Cost: £9.50 conc available Time: 6pm (87 minutes + Q&A) Age: 15+
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People’s Choice Singing Group A fun and relaxed social session ran by Ella Speirs of Natural Voice Network. You don’t need to be good at singing, just want to have fun and meet new people. For people with learning disabilities/autism but open to the whole community. The People’s Choice group is run by See Communications CIC, funded by Cheshire West and Chester Council. Where: Den Cost: Free Time: 7pm (120 mins) Age: Age 16+
Hear from inspirational speaker and Paralympian athlete Anna Jackson as she takes you through her life story with a focus on dealing with the unexpected and believing in yourself. She will teach you some of the methods she uses when she is coaching and mentoring that you can take away and use in your own lives. Anna is an Ambassador for UK Coaching and for Maggie’s Merseyside at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and works hard to promote mental health awareness. This talk is for anyone who would like to get an insight into the mindset of a successful Paralympic athlete, sports coach, mentor and motivational speaker. Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £5 Time: 10am (60 mins inc Q&A)
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People’s Choice Group Crochet and Knitting An informal meet up for anyone who enjoys needle craft or wants to learn hints and tips from more experienced stitchers! Please bring your own material Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 10am (120 mins)(drop-in) TAKE PART
Dial House Roadshow Dial West Cheshire’s vision is a society where disabled people and older people can participate equally as full citizens. Dial are on the road at Kaleidoscope for one day only where they will be in The Kitchen to chat, provide advice and information about benefits, volunteering opportunities and support programmes that meet the needs and aspirations of disabled people in Cheshire. Plus, come along all day and get crafty with some arts and crafts activities or just pop in for a brew. Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 11am - 5pm (drop-in Age: 16+
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Life Skills Using Drama Led by local theatre company Jude Theatre.
Life Skills was created for young people and adults with learning disabilities or difficulties, with the express aim of using drama techniques to look at issues that matter to that group. Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £7 Time: 11.30am (60 mins) Age: 16+ Performance
Ukulele band from St Vincent’s School for the Visually Impaired St Vincent’s School from Liverpool are proud to be the world’s first visually impaired ukulele orchestra. Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 12.30pm (30 mins) Age: suitable for all
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10 Minutes Tales Andrew Edwards, author of I’ve Got a Stat For You: My Life With Autism will not only tell his story but also be hosting 10 Minute Tales. Andrew’s life story is a powerful and inspirational tale that shows how determination, a positive outlook, and the will to succeed can overcome all odds! The panel of inspirational people telling their real-life will also include: Joanne Swift has been a dedicated volunteer at Dial West Cheshire for six years, a time she has enjoyed so much that this year she decided to go even further for them and complete a sponsored marathon cycle. Hear her inspirational story at this event. Anna Jackson was awarded the UK Coaching Disability Sport Coach of the year award in November 2017 and has recently been awarded the Prime Minister’s Point of Light Award for Volunteer work in Wheelchair Basketball. Anna tells the story of her life from hockey pitch to Paralympic Games and her 10 year career with the British Wheelchair Basketball Team. She runs her own business and works hard to promote mental health awareness. She will tell you about her life with a physical disability and long term mental health conditions. Her story is inspiring and amusing and will help you believe in yourselves.
Wednesday 19 September
Angela Black will tell the story of her son, Alex who lives with a learning disability. After a turbulent time in and out of hospital Angela is now campaigning to ensure medical professionals have up to date training on how to listen and treat people with a learning disability and their carers. Marc shares his story of growing up and some of the challenges he faced because of his disability and environment, and how he overcame them to be who he is today, looking forward to a bright future.
Performance
Petty Pool Choir
Includes Q&A Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £5 Time: 1pm (60 mins) Age: suitable for all Workshop
Drumming with Live! African drumming is a wonderfully inclusive activity which encourages creativity and self-expression. This workshop will help to reassure people of their abilities and talents whilst promoting self-confidence and a feeling of well-being and relaxation. Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £3 Time: 2.30pm (30 mins) Age: suitable for all
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Performance
Open Mic Night with comedian Laurence Clark
Candoco Dance Company: Face In and Let’s Talk About Dis
The best of Chester’s talent on stage for an open mic night – open to singers, poetry performers, comedians, musicians and actors.
Candoco Dance Company presents a dramatic and powerful new double bill. Visual artist Hetain Patel’s Let’s Talk About Dis returns to challenge notions of identity and appearances, while Yasmeen Godder’s Face In is a sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination, where images are interwoven with daring and uninhibited dance.
Each set will be approx. 5 minutes. MCd by internationallyacclaimed comedian, writer and actor Laurence Clark. This event will also include a digital exhibition of artwork for those people who wish to take part but performing isn’t their thing. To perform visit storyhouse.com Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £6 Time: 6pm (90 mins) Age: 14+
Where: Storyhouse Stage Cost: from £16.50 (each ticket is subject to a £1.50 booking fee) Book early to guarantee the best price Under 26 concessions available Time: 7.30pm Age: suitable for all
Petty Pool Vocational College is an FE provision for young adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The choir will sing a selection of current hits and modern classics in their own unique and energetic style. Audience participation is very much encouraged. Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 10.30am (30 mins) TAKE PART
Aspire
A community for autistic adults providing advice or postdiagnosis support, alternatively the group offers the opportunity to meet and socialise with other adults on the spectrum. Where: Meeting Room Cost: Free Time: 11.30am (90 mins) Age: 16+
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Thursday 20 September
Performance
Kaleidoscope Super Choir Their debut performance of This Is Me - schools and communities have come together for the first time to perform, conducted by James Sills.
Seminar
Inclusive Design - Are we nearly there yet? A seminar organised by the National Access Association which will look at the arts, sports, theatre design and the building regulations and whether developments and service provision are succeeding in the creation of a truly barrier inclusive environment for everyone – including the growing number of disabled and older people.
Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 12.15pm (15 mins) Age: suitable for all Performance
The Time Machine By Talk The Access Association Why Disability Rights RAWD presents a is Important to cabaret through the ages Everyone presented with one man’s quest to by Miro Griffiths get back to current day.
RAWD is dedicated to helping vulnerable adults grow within the arts. Creating a comfortable and fun environment where people can develop and gain new skills. RAWD work with highly skilled practitioners with many years of experience that are currently working professionally within the arts. Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £6 Time: 6pm (60 mins) Age: 14+
Miro Griffiths is an activist, researcher and teacher on human rights. He has been involved in disability rights since the age of thirteen and has advised the UK Government and European Commission, attended a United Nations ceremony in New York, and – according to the Disability New Service – is considered one of the most influential disabled people in Britain. Miro will explore his journey into activism and highlight the extensive marginalisation he – and others – have encountered. The talk will highlight key issues affecting the disabled people’s community, such as: the lack of an inclusive education system, the detrimental impact of austerity measures, and the limited opportunities for disabled people to participate in local and national decision-making.
Performance
Sign to Song
Speakers include: – Graham Lister, Project Director, Storyhouse – Jo Verrent, Senior Producer at Unlimited – Dr Jeanette Dodd, Independent Accessibility Consultant – Accessible Stadia – Richard Harral, Technical Director of Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) Where: Garret Theatre Cost: FREE (booking required) Time: 1pm (210 mins) Age: 16+
Over the past two years the Thursday We Sign group at Vivo Care Choice’s Canal Street day centre has grown in numbers. They love to play games, make conversations and share with others what they learn. Join them as they sign their favourite hits. Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 2pm (15 mins) Age: suitable for all Performance
People’s Choice Uke Group While raising awareness is important, there is also a need to offer solutions. Miro will draw on the ideas and demands that have emerged from disabled people’s activism and social movements, which can bring about the social change needed. The audience will be invited to contribute questions and comments. The purpose of the talk is to question what we can do, individually and collectively, to challenge the oppression and marginalisation of disabled people. As Miro suggests, “you are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressors, there is no other option”. Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £8 Time: 8pm (60 mins + Q&A) Age: 14+
Ageless Ukes love playing the ukulele. Their aim is to have fun and to make people smile. Expect 50s and 60s hits and of course some George Formby. Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 4.30pm (30 mins) Age: suitable for all
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Friday 21 September
Panel Discussion
Time to Change?
An interactive and creative presentation about Time to Change, the national anti-mental health stigma and discrimination campaign, for young people including how you can be there for your peers who may have a mental health problem or illness.
Our Rita’s Comedy Night Our RITA’s returns to the Garret Theatre bringing you a fantastic line-up of comedians.
Opener Laurence Clark The internationally-acclaimed comedian, writer and actor who has cerebral palsy. His observational, political stand-up and filmed stunts demonstrate the endearing naivety and ridiculousness of human behavior by seeing the world through his eyes with humor and warmth. MC Pete Selwood Only starting comedy in March 2016 Pete Selwood is a new up and comer on the circuit, combining observational humour with his unique perspective as a disabled man in modern Britain. *Line-up subject to change* Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £12.50 Time: 7.30pm (120 mins with interval) Age: 14+
Multi sensory Creative Arts
Hosted by Time to Change Children and Young Peoples Team.
PERFORMANCE
Headliner Robert White After graduating in music, Robert White spent eight years doing various jobs before trying comedy in 2004. He was finalist in the Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year competition in 2006 and in 2010 won the Malcolm Hardee award for comic originality at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2018, he appeared on Britain’s Got Talent.
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Kaety Moon is a multidisciplinary artist and trainee art psychotherapist with experience of working with children and young people with additional needs to explore their responses to different sensory media.
WORKSHOP
Active Minds Young champions will Fallen Angels are keen to raise share their experience awareness that physical activity of mental health and the helps to improve mental health. stigma and discrimination Through informal presentation they have faced. and discussion they will share
FILM
Dark Night Ends A short powerful film that gives an insight into working with people in recovery from addiction and mental health which demonstrates the power that dance and performance can have to transform lives.
their journey from adversity through participating in Fallen Angels projects and activities.
Where: Garret Theatre Cost: FREE 1pm (60 mins) Age: suitable for all
Where: Mezzanine Cost: FREE Time: 1.30 - 2.30pm (10 minute talk/discussion) (drop-in) Age: 16+ Workshop
Improve your mind and body workshop
Performed by Fallen Angels Dance Theatre. Where: The Kitchen Big Screen Cost: FREE Time: all day (drop-in) Age: suitable for all
This event is predominantly made for 16-25 year olds but suitable for all.
FAMILY
BSL Signed storyhouse Children’s stories and rhymes signed by a British Sign Language Interpreter from Deafness Support Network in Chester. Funded by Children in Need. Where: Den Cost: Free Time 11.15am (30 mins)
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre invites you to try out a taster session that has been devised by participants of the Chester group based at Storyhouse to encourage local people with mental health issues to get active in order to improve mental health. For complete beginners. Funded by Active Cheshire Where: Garret Theatre Cost: FREE (book in advance) Time: 3.30pm (60 mins) Age: 16+
Textures, sounds and scents provide an evocative experience through joint art making, with elements of music and visual story telling. This activity is suitable for young people and adults with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. This is a pilot and may continue as a regular activity at Storyhouse depending on demand and interest. Where: Den Cost: FREE (book in advance) Time: 3pm (60 mins) Age: suitable for all
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Saturday 22 September
Performance
Testify Poetry Night Featuring headliner Jackie Hagan
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An open mic poetry night that runs the first Tuesday of every month in Chester which aims to be inclusive as well as inspiring.
Live! App Launch Ongoing demonstrations throughout the day. Live! have launched an App available to download on ios and android. The Live! App will enable families to review services and attractions and their accessibility to the family’s needs.
Where: The Kitchen Cost: FREE Time: 11am – 5pm (drop-in) Age: suitable for all
FAMILY
Sensory Music Workshop for children with additional needs Presented to you by Hello Music you will go on a sensory, musical journey and bring to life the story of The Hungry Caterpillar. This special Hello Music class will provide a unique family musical experience and if popular may continue on a regular basis at Storyhouse. Where: Den Cost: £5 family ticket Time: 2pm & 2.45pm (30 mins) Age: suitable for all
Open mic nights can be intimidating so assistance will be provided to those who encounter barriers to performing such as anxiety and accessibility issues. BSL interpreted. There is no pressure to perform and those who just want to watch are very welcome. Come as you are and speak your truth. For Kaleidoscope, Testify is bringing an open mic special with award winning poet Jackie Hagan headlining the night.
It will also provide a platform for Live! to promote services to the wider public. It is a fun and friendly App that will also include games and latest news in the local area.
Testify is the place to showcase your poetry, prose, peeves, politics and passions. Marginalised voices are encouraged!
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Talk
To sign up for a 5 minute open mic space email testifychester@gmail.com
Dee-Sign BSL Choir
Stay Up Late Campaign
Chester’s award-winning choir will perform their collection of pop hits and songs. Profoundly Deaf people in the choir only have the words of the songs not the music, so it is important that they like what they are signing.
Part talk part workshop presented by Paul Richards from Stay Up Late, a grassroots charity promoting the right for people with learning disabilities to have a choice about how they live their lives.
Dee-Sign BSL Choir are a fundraising group of volunteers under the umbrella of Chester & District Committee for Deaf People.
Paul will give you a fast track history about how the campaign was started by the punk band Heavy Load and how the charity Stay Up Late was founded.
You are not required to memorise your poetry, you are welcome to read from the page. There will be a BSL interpreter on the evening and we can wadjust the lighting to those with sensory needs.
Where: The Kitchen Cost: Free Time: 1pm (45 mins) Age: suitable for all
Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £5 3pm (120 mins) Age: 16+
All style of poetry is welcome but please give content warning if you feel the material may be triggering.
Other stuff that happens at Storyhouse Reading group for the visually impaired Join us for a monthly discussion of a talking book, to be selected at the previous meeting. Where: Meeting room Cost: Free Time: 10.30am (60 mins) Last Thursday of the Month
Tuesday 6 November
All performers should identify as disabled. It does not matter whether these disabilities are visible or invisible. We do not require proof of disability.
Where: Garret Theatre Cost: £6 Time: 7.30pm (120 mins) Age: 14+
PERFORMANCE
Stopgap Dance Company: The Enormous Room Stopgap Dance Company create exhilarating dance productions for national and international touring. They employ disabled and non-disabled artists who find innovative ways to collaborate. In the latest epic production from Stopgap Dance Company, they follow a father and daughter gradually coming to terms with the loss of Jackie – their wife and mother. Where: Storyhouse Stage Cost: from £16.50 (each ticket is subject to a £1.50 booking fee) Time: 7.30pm
Access We aim to make this and all Storyhouse events as inclusive and accessible as possible. Please contact us if you have any accessible requirements or need any information about attending. Telephone 01244 409 113 or visit storyhouse.com • The whole of Storyhouse, including the library, theatre, cinema and Garret is accessible via a lift, with wheelchair access to all areas.
Disabled parking and drop-offs • The nearest car park is Market which has 8 disabled spaces – 200 metres from nearest exit. • There is free on street parking /car park for blue badge holders on Hamilton Place and Goss Street (4 hours max) – c.300 metres away. • The best place for drop-offs is Northgate Street – 20 metres away.
• Fixed, counter-top and portable hearing loop systems available across the building. Wheelchair spaces are available in the theatre, Garret and cinema. • Assistance Dogs welcome throughout the building and to all events. • Low level counter for service at the bar in The Kitchen. For the Garret Bar, please use the end of the bar next to the window. • Large format print available on request. This brochure has been designed following the mencap guidelines. • Ramp access at ground floor levels. • Accessible toilets are available on every floor, with a Changing Places toilet on the ground floor. • Baby changing facilities are provided in all accessible toilets
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