Blind Grrrl and the Crips Show & Professional Skills Development Day
The ADF is gearing up for an exciting couple of days at the end of the month. For starters, we’re offering a stonking good night out with Blind Grrrl and the Crips at Waterfront Hall in Belfastat 7pm on Sunday 27th May. Next is a full day of professional development workshops for disabled and D/deaf musicians and writers on Monday 28th.
The Arts & Disability Forum presents:
The Case of the Drowned Archive
Rust prints by David Hughes
Exhibition dates:
4 May – 29 May
. . . → Read More: ADF Events
ADF – Mission Statement The Arts & Disability Forum is a disabled-led development agency working towards cultural equity; delivering a cross-border arts grant scheme alongside a range of challenging and innovative exhibitions, and events, plus access, education and inclusion activity:
• the lead organisation for Arts & Disability in Northern Ireland, with strong partnerships in NI, the RoI and throughout the UK;
• the driving force towards a culture where disabled people can be involved in the arts… in the manner and at the level of their choice.
• an advocate and artistic catalyst for arts organisations in Northern Ireland, encouraging positive change that benefits disabled people.
Following the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 ADF considers 'disability' to mean:
“A physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.”
ARTS & DISABILITY AWARDS IRELAND GRANT RECIPIENTS Award Winners 2011. Round 1
NI
Alice Burns, visual arts
Andrew Cochrane, visual arts
Catherine Hartley, music
Patrick Smyth, music
ROI
Cathy Henderson, printmaking
Orla Russell-Conway, film
Award Winners 2011. Round 2
NI
Stuart Calvin, visual arts
Jayne Cherry, visual arts
Fergus Jordan, visual arts
Shiro Masuyama, visual arts
Anne Quail, visual arts
ROI
Mary Duffy, visual arts
Doreen Kennedy, visual arts
Membership Offer
Free membership
For this financial year, the Arts & Disability Forum is offering free membership to individual deaf or disabled people who have an interest in the arts. Non-disabled allies and organisations can also join for a small fee. . . . → Read More: Get Involved
New Board Members
We are keen to recruit new Board Members and Board Advisors with direct experience of disability issues and skills in finance, HR, PR/Communications and law. Please contact us if you are interested.
You would gain great satisfaction from being part of a strong and lively organisation, making a positive contribution to the new Northern Ireland. . . . → Read More: About
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Where we are Arts & Disability Forum
Ground Floor
Cathedral Quarter Workspaces
109-113 Royal Avenue
Belfast
BT1 1FF
Tel within UK:
(028) 9023 9450
Tel from RoI:
(048) 9023 9450
Fax:
(028) 9024 7770
E-mail:
info@adf.ie
Web:
http://www.adf.ie
PUBLIC OPENING HOURS:
Tuesday - Friday:
11am – 3pm
The above are our core hours but we are often working away behind the scenes at other times. If the gallery lights are on just ring the bell and we’ll let you in.
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New Membership and Associateship Structure for ADF
On April 18th 2012 the board of ADF agreed to a new membership and associateship structure.
There is a new application form which you can download and return to the ADF by post or by hand.
You can download the application form by clicking the following link.
When the dialogue box opens opt . . . → Read More: Membership
Your time to … Bounce! The Arts & Disability Forum is looking for images of bouncing disabled people for a new mini festival 'Bounce!'.
The title relates to disabled people's resilience and bouncing back (these are tough times) but also to pleasure and to bouncing with joy!
Staged from 26-28 August, Bounce! is Northern Ireland’s first ever Disability Arts festival and will showcase new exciting and challenging new work by disabled artists, placing performances from overseas alongside local work. It’s a community festival aimed at disabled people, their friends, family and allies.
And you can help us …
1) Disabled people, please send us any existing bouncy photos you might have - of any technical quality and from any disabled person, including people with mental health conditions, learning disabilities and invisible impairments like dyslexia, epilepsy, diabetes etc.
2) We’re also looking for a couple of disabled people to take part in a PR photo shoot - ideally but not necessarily in Northern Ireland and ideally people who have a visible disability that will enable other disabled people to connect. We want people to think "this is a Disability Arts Festival; this looks a bit edgy; I want to be involved!".
Disabled physical theatre folk and disabled sports-people, please take note - we particularly need your help. Pogo sticks, trampolines, space hoppers ... or simply doing a big JUMP for joy! Send your ideas and pics of any kind by email to chris@adf.ie and leo@adf.ie .
A small fee will be available for the right PR shot. For other photos we’ll use them on our web site and on Facebook and Twitter. If you email them to us we’ll send you a form to fill in to give us permission to use the photo.
Meanwhile we’ll be at the NI Disability exhibition in Lisburn on 25th and 26th May - with a photo stand for disabled people to have bouncy photos taken! If the photo opportunity doesn’t appeal to you, we’ll also have information about opportunities for disabled people in Northern Ireland to get involved in music, theatre, drama, visual arts, dance, etc.
To find out more about the ADF’s work, to find out about other chances to be involved in the arts - or even if you just want to say hello! – show up at Lisburn Leisureplex on 25th or 26th May. Visitors will get a chance to enter a competition to win tickets for our Blind Gurl and the Crips performance. This event will be at Waterfront Hall on Sunday 27th May and will include songs about and by Ian Dury.
This is a grant scheme for individual deaf or disabled artists, managed by the Arts & Disability Forum on behalf of the two Arts Councils of this island.
For more information, contact details and downloadable application forms . . . → Read More: ADAI Grants
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Piece Work Update 
Free as a Bird! Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy, Chris Ledger, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts and Disability Forum and Arts Minister Caral Ni Chuilin with just some of 2,000 origami cranes that were made to celebrate World Peace Day (Sept 21).
Pic By John Murphy / Aurora PA
Members of the ADF held a workshop in Stormont to teach MLAs how to make the cranes. Many others were made by visitors to the exhibition and ADF friends and members.
Artist Stacia Blake with one of her beautiful birds.
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