Audiences love Laurence – funny, witty, on the edge. But he does’t want you to find him inspiring. Raise your expectations and watch this to find out why. Comedians should ask awkward questions and challenge the status quo – so says stand up Laurence Clark, and he’s out there tackling a big one – the [...]
What is the point of Unlimited? Of Art? Of anything? For Rachel Gadsden, art is about being alive – showing and sharing that with the world. And as she says… ‘Life is very valuable and it doesn’t go on forever’, so begins visual artist, Rachel Gadsden, in this 90 second exploration of the exhibition, Unlimited [...]
Our PUSH ME documentary is coming to Bradford! Yup – you don’t have to sit and watch it on your little computer screen – you can watch it in full beautiful enormous loveliness at the National Media Museum in Bradford on the 3rd December – as part of International Day of People with Disability. It’s [...]
An underwater wheelchair? The thought of it is impossible, the watching of it, mesmerising, the impact, extraordinary. Find out what lies beneath… ‘Creating the Spectacle!’ is a groundbreaking series of performances by artist Sue Austin in her self-propelled underwater wheelchair. Filmed in Portland, Dorset with breathtaking footage from Egypt’s Red Sea, Sue‘s film transforms the way [...]
It’s all kicking off today – Total Permission, our 30 minute documentary on the Unlimited Projects is up in The Space – AND the documentary and the PUSH ME project are one of Arts Council England’s new case studies celebrating 18 years of lottery funding and showcasing just what lottery cash can do.
Jez is a singer, songwriter and performer who seems in constant ‘stretch’ – always travelling, pushing himself and taking on new roles. For Unlimited he went further than ever before – challenging his fears and the expectations of others. Love it. Jez Colborne is a composer, musician and performer with Williams syndrome. As a child [...]
Find out how a painting displayed in the MAA Cambridge pushed Rachel Gadsden to develop a golden project for the Cultural Olympiad. Rachel, an award winning artist travelled to South Africa to meet and collaborate with a group of artists, who like her, are kept alive by medication after chancing upon a painting that spoke [...]
Comedian Laurence Clark defies the usual tags of who can do what and why and takes our thinking for a swing in The Space in his first PUSH ME short. They said he was an inspiration when he started to do stand-up, when he got married and when he became father, but Laurence has never [...]
What’s happening inside the belly of 3 Mills Studios? A brilliant choreographer putting her movement on the dancers. Go check out The Space and see 90 seconds of an epic production finding its feet. Leaving Limbo Landing is an ambitious new outdoor production by Caroline Bowditch performed in air, in water and on land exploring [...]
A non-stop whirl of feverpitched acrobatics, cycling and hula-hoops to infuse your Thursday thinking. Let Stumble danceCircus play for 90 seconds in the Space. Stumble danceCircus presents Box of Frogs – a circus show with a difference. Five acrobats and two musicians play with the audience’s expectations of mental ill-health and performance, against a backdrop [...]
Take a few moments out this morning to see a few private dance movements in the making. Janice Parker takes us behind the world of Private Dancer to discover dance as it is rarely seen. Here you don’t have the security of hiding in an audience of masses. Here you watch performances one on one. [...]
We aren’t the only ones counting down – Watershed, the executive producers of PUSH ME are also on a roll, showing one PUSH ME short a day too until 2nd Dec and then hosting the cinema premiere of the documentary Total Permission at their base in Bristol.
Our top tip for Tuesday – a dash to the kitchen for a perky wellness brew! Spare 90 seconds to take tea with artist Bobby Baker and find out why her latest performance, Mad Gyms and Kitchens, reaches the audiences her other work hasn’t been able to reach. In the making, Bobby Baker’s first 90 [...]
Monday morning – another day, another 90 second wonder, and what could start your day better than Simon Mckeown and the consideration of beauty in all forms? For digital artist Simon McKeown, the movement of disabled people is something to be celebrated, promoting diversity and difference. Motion Disabled: Unlimited invites you to find the beauty, [...]
Did you catch this one too? Amazing physical theatre skills, amazing ariel skills – all in all an amazing piece. Suspended high in the air on ropes, Ramesh Meyyappan talks about his latest production, Skewered Snails – the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional family powerfully told through his extensive and imaginative physicality, and that [...]