And today is International Day of Persons with Disability (not our choice of words, but we’re not arguing with the United Nations). As they say: Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, often face barriers to participation in all aspects of society. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical [...]
What does it take to create the setting in which to hear a story? See the concrete mass of the Southbank through Jenny Sealey’s eyes as she imagines The Garden unfurling at Unlimited. Experience a sense of intrigue and moments of exquisite beauty. Being part of the Cultural Olympiad is massive for Jenny and to [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
Today we start our pre-advent countdown – always keen to get in ahead of the game. We have 24 short films and we have 24 days until United Nations International Day of People with Disability. Makes sense then to profile one short film a day, each day up until 2nd Dec – and what about on [...]
How great to see two more PUSH ME – The Journey films uploaded by the The Space team yesterday. Join Sue Austin as she plunges into cold local waters in Dorset early this summer making a spectacle of herself to the delight of local audiences. And when you’ve dried off , move through the concrete [...]
Yesterday the PUSH ME team spent the day following Charles Hazelwood around the Southbank, getting his take on some of the Unlimited Commissions. Charles is an award winning conductor with a global presence. His own website explains his mission: The focus of his career is to share the power and passion of orchestral music with the widest [...]
Last night at 8.30pm GMT the world began to change. The London 2012 Paralympic Games opened, with a ceremony full of life, vitality, humour – and choc full of disabled performers and figureheads. As Jim White wrote in the Daily Telegraph: Opening ceremonies of the Paralympics have, in the past, been earnest, insipid affairs. Jokes were not [...]
It is with immense pride (and quite a bit of sweat) we can finally announce that all our 12 PUSH ME artists now have their first 90 second films in The Space!
We were delighted to catch up with Jenny Sealey this week and shoot her 2nd film for Push Me. The Garden’s writer Alex Bulmer has been busy reworking the script for The Garden (as Jenny works on the Opening Ceremony for the Paralympic Games) for its revival at The Southbank for the Unlimited Festival. Alex [...]
Today the news is full of the end of the Olympics, following the closing ceremony last night and the extinguishing of the olympic flame. But there is another way to look at it – it means its only 15 days now until the Opening of the summer Paralympics, with an opening ceremony co-directed by none [...]
Last week in Stockton, an eight metre high figure took to the streets as part of Stockton International River Festival when Prometheus Awakes was performed, presented by Graeae
and La Fura dels Baus
and co-commissioned by GDIF and SIRF, as part of the London 2012 Festival. Graeae of course, are part of PUSH ME with The Garden, [...]
“If we get the festival right, people will remember 2012 not just for amazing sport, but for unforgettable art as well.” So says London 2012 Festival Director Ruth Mackenzie in the hot-off-the-press official guide to the London 2012 Festival – and we agree, especially in relation to our artists!
Nearly there with our links to the essays about the Creative Case on Arts Council England’s website hosted by Disability Arts Online. This time we are pointing you to one in which Laurence Clark spearheads – You’ve got to Laugh, an essay on disability and humour.