And we are very excited and delighted to be mentioned in The Space’s New Year’s message as they remind people about the PUSH ME documentary Total Permission – and also include Sue Austin’s short film and the whole of the Collection as part of their collection of highlights.
It’s a week since we screened Total Permission – our 30 minute feature to a full house at Watershed in Bristol. People packed the cinema keen to see the fruits of our labours in what turned out to be a very apt celebration for International Day of Disabled Persons. So many different perspectives and positions [...]
We are very pleased to see Total Permission featured as one of the recent highlights in The Space. It has been great to see our documentary looking so poised and floaty on the front page of The Space for over a week now. A breathtaking feature. We are delighted to be screening Total Permission @Watershed [...]
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 [...]
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’re delighted to hear this week that The Space will now continue for a further six months. As part of this, the team will be looking more closely at people’s engagement with the pilot platform and the PUSH ME team will also be looking at the impact of our commission on those involved. Tony Ageh, [...]
Fantastic to see PUSH ME’s Claire Cunningham and Caroline Bowditch alongside Marc Brew featured in this great blog by Kelly Apter at the scotsman.com. Shows such as Ménage à Trois not only give the younger generation of disabled dancers something to aim for, they play a crucial role in helping audiences to see beyond the [...]
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 [...]
A few days back I spent a morning perfecting another new skill – burning some of the PUSH ME short films onto dvds. I’ve never been involved in that side of production before and now have a new found respect for anyone who hands me a dvd – I now know how long it might [...]
We were delighted to hear in The Guardian earlier this week that The Space and our PUSH ME films will now have an afterlife beyond the original designate 31st October deadline for the pilot project. We are currently negotiating how this will effect how and in what way we are able to show our PUSH [...]
PUSH ME has been sighted at a handful of events in the last month and it’s been very exciting to guage people’s reactions to the first 12 short films in the PUSH ME Collection and to see what people make of them under the radar. At DigitalBrighton on the 4th September we were able to [...]
Yesterday we were delighted to see our 2nd set of PUSH ME films grow in The Space to four. Bobby Baker, Laurence Clark and Sue Austin join Rachel Gadsden in Push Me Collection – The Journey. With another eight to be uploaded by The Space, we thought it would be timely to share with you [...]
Very little could pull the PUSH ME team away from the final packed hours of the Unlimited Festival at The Southbank but nothing was going to keep us from catching the final gig of Laurence’s Clark’s star spangled summer tour of Inspired across the river at a well known house of comedy – The Bloomsbury [...]
We have spent much of the weekend bumping into our Push Me artists out there promoting their work and in repose, soaking up the atmosphere of this extraordinary week for disabled people everywhere. The Southbank is awash with people enjoying not only the rich feast that the Unlimited Festival has brought to the capital but the [...]