Time to tell you more about our team – this time, it’s the turn of Jo Verrent the other half of the curation team as our Push artists and the Unlimited Festival wows The Metro. We caught up with Jo this morning on the cusp of staging Unlimited Voices, a series of talks and debates that she’s [...]
We’ve all been told how digital technologies are bringing audiences closer to the arts; are supporting new business models, networks and forms of creativity; and are offering artists new and exciting ways to connect with their audiences, but what about disabled creatives? Is Digital working for them too? Chaired by Push Me co curator, Sarah [...]
Our last Push Me blog on Rachel Gadsden focused on her rehearsals for the premiere performances of Alchemy (UGA) on the 5th September as part of Unlimited Festival. But what many people don’t know is that Rachel is also rehearsing Starting Line, a live outdoor piece using film, visual art and performance that celebrates Stoke [...]
Catching up with Caroline Bowditch last week after her altogether more urban showcase as part of Merchant City Festival in Glasgow, I asked her how Leaving Limbo Landing had faired in such a different setting in contrast to the Big Dance performances in lush waterlogged London Fields. There is something very beautiful about wet footprints [...]
Maybe you know all about Push Me and are an avid follower of us on The Space, Twitter , Facebook and here on our own blog at pushmeplease – but maybe you’re not and want to know more about what Push Me is and what its aiming to do. Well, a new short film (and at [...]
We never need much of an excuse to clock in with artist Bobby Baker for a catch up chat and this morning, we did just that. (If you haven’t had a peek at Bobby’s first 90 second Push Me film, fresh on The Space, then catch it now.) Since our Push Me filming of Mad [...]
We are still asking ourselves how Caroline Bowditch on the morning of the premiere of her new and most ambitious work to date in the face of the torrential rain forecast managed to be so utterly composed at our early morning Push Me shoot. Her composition Leaving Limbo Landing last Saturday 7th July, supported by [...]
“The Space is a new and exciting way to experience the arts at a time when there is a wealth of arts activity during the Cultural Olympiad. Push Me profiles our Unlimited projects for Deaf and disabled artists and provides an excellent opportunity for people all over the world to see the fantastic range of [...]
It was a real pleasure to be in the room as part of the press launch for the Unlimited Festival today with 3 of our Push Me for 90 second films. The Push Me team have been busy filming, editing and blogging over the last few months and our artists have been eagerly awaiting for [...]
The Push Me team got so much more than tea and sympathy with artist Bobby Baker in Sheffield yesterday, we got bourbons and custard creams, the sort of biscuits that are part of the fabric of our daily lives and a whole lot more besides. The 2 performances of Mad Gyms and Kitchens were shown [...]
Last Wednesday 27th June, Sue Austin made a spectacle of herself in the best way possible at Creating the Spectacle 1 – ‘The Mouth of the Fleet Lagoon’ in Portland, Dorset, as part of her Unlimited Commission for Festival 2012. Designed as ‘an experience’ rather than a performance , the hundred or so local people [...]
He’s so funny that Laurence Clark and his Inspired show last night at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff as part of the fabulous Hijinx Unity Festival programme took his unique combination of wry sardonic humour to the parts that other comedians fail to reach. Not only that, there were several threads of narrative within this very [...]
Just over 24 hours to go until Sue Austin becomes a delicious drop in the ocean in her first public London Festival 2012 performance, Creating the Spectacle! Part 1: The Mouth of the Fleet Lagoon. The performance with local school children and a lucky handful of stewards will start at 12 noon in Portland, Dorset [...]
With the Diamond Jubilee pretty much wrapped up and the Push Me team away from the editing suite with our first films now completed in subtitled and audio described versions, it’s been interesting to dip into the media coverage of the Queen’s four day celebrations with some of this accessible thinking on our minds. Much [...]
I love The Space. I’m a real advocate. I just wish I could access more of it. So at the end of of the formal panel session on The Space at FutureEverything it was time for questions, so I stuck up my hand to ask about accessibility – a key element for PUSH ME [...]