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North West Disability Arts Forum - Facilitates, promotes and celebrates the active participation of Disabled and Deaf people in all aspects of the Arts, Culture and creative industries. Based in Liverpool.
Northern Disability Arts Forum (NorDAF) - Listings, databases of practicing disabled artists, a gallery, funding information and grant guidelines.
Project A - Glasgow Centre for Developmental Arts and Trongate Studios. Artist led workshop programme for disabled people and studio space for people with mental health problems
Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts - Arts Centre at Leicester University. Focused on people with disabilities and members of the public who have previously found access to arts and arts education difficult.
Xposure Festival - Xposure is an annual month long, London based arts festival profiling some of the best British and International performance and visual arts by disabled and deaf artists
National Disability Arts Forum - Disability arts news, contacts, services, links and access symbols artwork..
European Year of Disabled People 2003 - Calendar of arts events.
Ants In Yer Pants - Community artists and filmmakers who use all art mediums as a positive vehicle to facilitate change and enrich peoples lives.
Art and Power - A group of disabled people in Bristol using art to change wrong ideas and attitudes. Project details, history of the movement and an invitation to participate.
Articulate - Cutting edge arts projects inspired by, involving and relating to disabled people. Addresses issues of social exclusion and supports disabled people in raising and realising their aspirations through the arts.
The Living Paintings Trust - Registered charity that offers a free service for visually impaired people, their families, carers and schools. They produce specialist touch and sound packs that explain a wide variety of pictures. Information on packs and library service.
BBC - North Face, The Egg and Urban Myth - Three short films from the BBC's disability season. Film details, including actors and storylines.
Carousel - Brighton and Hove based charity for creative arts by and with people with learning difficulties and disabilities. Mission, projects, clubbing nights and links.
Welcome to Artsline - Disability access information service with an emphasis on arts and entertainment. Provides training to front of house staff, transport for disabled youngsters to attend events and campaigns on issues.
Artsline Online - Information and advice service for disabled people on arts and entertainment in the London area.
Shape - Creates access to the arts for disabled and older people. London based but serving the UK. Pages on deaf arts and discount tickets with volunteer drivers. Free tickets for volunteers.
Adorn, Equip - Examines issues around the design of equipment and accessories used by disabled people. Online version of the touring exhibition, produced by Ju Gosling during an artist's residency at Oriel 31.
Art Through Touch - London based organisation providing access to a range of art activites for people who are blind and visually impaired. Events including gallery visits where one is allowed to touch items, projects and issues.
Create - Disability arts service in Norwich. History, events, newsletter, courses, projects and an invitation to send in a themed work.
Cross Border Arts - Arts Development Organisation in Cambridgeshire working in particular with disadvantaged and disabled people. News, projects, network and equipment available.
Dash Disability Arts in Shropshire - Gallery, artists' profiles, news, events and an invitation to get involved.
The Edward Lear Foundation - Disability arts think tank. Emphasises it is not led by the policy-making of arts funding bodies and is independent. Research and project details plus goodwill messages.
Equata - Organisation of disabled people which promotes equality and access within the arts, primarily in the South West of England.
Above and Beyond - International disability arts festival and conference in Cheltenham, September 2003. Programme, press information and artists.
Enable Artist - Online gallery space for artists affected by multiple sclerosis.
Fased in the Arts - Organisation for freelance and self employed disabled people in the arts in the East Midlands. Database of artists with examples of work and membership details.
First Movement - Experimental arts organisation developing projects which reflect the experiences, choices and abilities of learning disabled people. Derbyshire.
Full Circle Arts - Disability arts development agency in the North West. Projects, access, advocacy, training and a database of artists.
Good Gallery Guide - Guide to art galleries that are addressing the issues of equal access to the arts. Each venue is visited and reported on by a disabled person.
Stalking Histories - Independent disability arts project exploring lost or hidden stories from disability history and culture. History of projects, gallery, online meeting space and offer to help find funding.
Arts Disability Wales - Works throughout Wales to promote equal opportunities in the arts for disabled people, providing training, information and advice.
Salamanda Tandem - Collective, multi-media events shaped around the distinctive abilities of the people who participate. Dance, theatre, sculpture, workshops, performances and projects. Nottingham.
Disabled Photographers' Society - Voluntary group shows membership subscriptions, services offered to members, news, pictures, competitions and contact details.
Tish Holmes - Tips for other disabled artists and a gallery of work.
Simon's Diary - Diary pages and gallery from disabled artist Simon Smith. Simon writes from both a personal and social perspective, including comments about his experience as a person with a disability.
London Disability Arts Forum - Promotes the work of disabled artists in London, UK, and beyond.
Society of Disabled Artists, Frome - Local branch of the national organisation. Watercolour paintings, tips, exhibitions and meetings.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Arts In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Arts Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Arts "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Arts Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Arts A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Arts "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Arts Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Arts Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Arts The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Arts Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Arts "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Arts "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Arts My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Arts It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Arts I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Arts "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Arts You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Arts Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Arts
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