November 2011

3 November

UKDHM EVENING SESSION

6pm
The New Continental
South Meadow Lane,
Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8JP 

Evening session with a presentation by Richard Rieser. National Executive Member Simon Jones and other county & local offiers will be there for an informal chat. 
Aiming to finish at 8.30/ 9pm
Book your place at office@lancashirenut.org.uk
Free Buffet

22 November 2011 

UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH 2011 LAUNCHES TODAY! HOORAY!

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Mander Hall, Hamilton House

1 Mabledon Place, London, WC1

Although there have been a number of exciting UKDHM related event running before this date - this is our official launch date to kick start the month. 

For some time now a number of disabled led organizations have felt the need to have a specific time in the year when the history of our struggle for equality and human rights can be focused on.

It will run from 22nd November to 22nd December 2011. This covers HIV/AIDS Day (1st December), International Day of People with Disabilities (3rd Dec.) and International Human Rights Day (8th December). It also follows on directly from Anti-Bullying Week (15th to 19th November) which is important as 2.5 times as much bullying is recorded towards disabled as compared to non-disabled young people( 70-80% of young disabled people claim to have been bullied in school and college). We split across the two months to allow for the Christmas shut down and to allow for four weeks in school term time.

http://ukdisabilityhistorymonth.com/launch-2011/

Or click here fore the UKDHM Launch Invite

22 November

DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH SCOTLAND - LAUNCH AND CELEBRATION:

5:30 - 7:30PM

Programme
Welcome - Rowena Arshad O.B.E , Head of Institute for Education
Introduction - George Lamb, Joint Co-ordinator, Disability History Month Scotland
Performance Poet - Jo McFarlane
Iain Hutchison - Disability History Association
Sasha Callaghan - UK Disability History Month Steering Group

22 November - 22December

PARTIA (promoting art in Aintree) POETRY PROJECT LAUNCH

9am-3pm 
Elective Care Centre, Discharge Lounge, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool

PARTIA will be holding a Poetry Project that will run between 22nd November and 22nd December, welcoming poetry submissions on the theme of disability. To launch the poetry project, we will be holding a poetry workshop on the 22nd November in our Elective Care Centre, Discharge Lounge, 9am-3pm wherby anyone can drop in and submit a poem with the help of us and our resources.

We are accepting submissions between 22nd November and the 16th December. 

The poems will then be displayed around the Hospital's display boards.

If anyone would like to email their submission to our Poetry Project, please email us your name, contact information and poem to PARTIA@aintree.nhs.uk

18 November

DUAL SCREEN INSTALLATION OF 'RESISTANCE' at BEDFORD UNIVERSITY
Exhibition continues from 22 Novemeber - 22 December 2011 

6pm
HUB at our Bedford Campus, 
Polhill Avenue, MK41 9EA

To mark Disability History Month, the University of Bedfordshire is hosting a dual-screen installation ‘Resistance: which way the future?’ by Liz Crow of Roaring Girl Productions.

The installation explores a neglected period of history and raises critical questions for today. Its starting point is the Nazi programme of mass-murder targeting disabled people and, crucially, disabled people’s resistance to it. But what does this history mean for all of us now, disabled or not?

How do we learn from it to shape a better future?

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22 November 2011

DISABILITY HISTORY @ FOCUS BIRMINGHAM

10am to 7.30pm
Focus Birmingham, 48 Woodville Road, Harborne,
Birmingham B17 9AT. 

Will feature displays, presentations, entertainment and discussion. Bob Williams-Findlay will make key note presentation around the difference between the personal history of people with impairment and the meaning of disability history.

This will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Birmingham Disability Resource Centre and Birmingham Race Action Partnership exploring Bob's theme.
Open invitation, free lunch and free admission.

For more details click here - http://www.spaghettigazetti.com/2011/11/birmingham-celebrates-uk-disability.html

21 November 2011

"Comedy, Story-telling and Amazing Life Experiences, a show for people with unusual abilities"

10:30am - 2:30pm
The Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge 

A Celebration of the Achievements of Disabled People
With
Laurence Clark, Comedian
Fran Williamson, Paralympian
Andy Lee
Ruth Brannan

website: http://www.cecf.co.uk/events/disabilityhistorymonth

Please click on the poster to the right for a large version

23 November 2011

A TALL STORY: UNRAVELLING THE GENETICS BEHIND CHARLES BYRNE
"THE IRISH GIANT"

1pm
Hunterian Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE 

Professor Márta Korbonits, Barts and the London School of Medicine

While his skeleton standing at nearly eight feet is unique among the museum collections, Charles Byrne had two cousins who were a similar height, suggesting his condition might have a genetic link. This discovery started a historical and scientific journey which led to identification of Byrne’s genetic abnormality and to the history of this unusual gene from ancient times until today. The study’s author Márta Korbonits discusses her work and will be joined by Brendan Holland who shares an ancestor with Charles Byrne and will provide his own perspective on this discovery.

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/events/a-tall-story-unravelling-the-genetics-behind-charles-byrne-2013-2018the-irish-giant2019

25 November

LAURENCE CLARK – HEALTH HAZARD

8pm
Cabaret at The Jack
410 Brockley Road  London SE4 2DH

Bemused by the furore over health reforms on both sides of the Atlantic, Laurence heads off with camera in hand to find out exactly how the Americans view our NHS. Punctuated with bizarre incidents and amazing characters, this is comedy at its best! Laurence's most recent comedy show about his one-man mission to help Obama sell the benefits of free healthcare to the American people wowed packed audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year.
Catch Laurence at The Jack prior to a national tour, gigs at Soho Theatre and an upcoming BBC documentary.

Book Tickets by clicking this link http://www.brockleyjack.co.uk/brockley_jack_studio_whats_on.html

26 November 2011

SCAPEGOAT: with KATHERINE QUARMBY

10:30 am - 13:30pm
TUC Congress House,
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS

'Scapegoat: how we are failing disabled people in Britain', was published by Portobello Press on 6 June. It is the first British investigation into disability targeted violence.

Katharine Quarmby is a writer, journalist and film-maker specialising in social affairs, education, foreign affairs and politics, with an investigative and campaigning edge.

The programme for the day is free and includes tea and coffee in the morning, and a buffet lunch/reception later on. There will be an introduction by the Chair of the event followed by Katherine Quarmby, Panel discussion and questions from the audience. 

26 November

PADAN UKDHM EVENT:

Drop-in 10 am - 4pm
PLYMOUTH GUILD,
ERNEST ENGLISH HOUSE, BUCKWELL STREET, PLYMOUTH PL1 2DA

UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH themed event
Celebrating our lives
Challenging disablism
Achieving Equality
Call in for a cup of coffee and chat, and to see displays, video, and hear speakers on themes of Plymouth and disability history. If you wish please bring your own photos, or tell us of your own experiences – on audiotape on the day or later.
Over the next year we would like to start gathering Plymouth people’s experience of ‘disability’ past and present on tape, in writing, in photos or on video so that we can do a bigger event that is Plymouth focused for Disability History Month in 2012.

Event flyer on this link

28 November 2011

OU UCU BRANCH MEETING:

12:30pm
Berrill Lecture Theatre, 
Berrill Building, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

As part of the UKDHM celebration, the OU UCU branch, the OU Equality and Diversity Team and the OU Disabled Staff Network are jointly sponsoring a meeting. The main speaker will be Richard Rieser, a long time campaigner on disability issues who is the Co-ordinator of UK Disability History Month. 
There will also be brief presentations on how the OU is advancing disability equality and on the role of the Disabled Staff Network.
All are welcome, whether disabled or not.
If you have particular access requirements please email Strategy-Equality@open.ac.uk with details so that we can support your needs. 
This event will be broadcast via live webcast on the Berrill Stadium website:http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1788&s=1
Email your questions in advance or during the event to: ucu@open.ac.uk

29 November 2011

DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH NEWHAM

10am - 2:30pm
Froud Centre, 1 Toronto Avenue (entrance Romford Road)
E12 5JF

Disability History Month Newham speakers for the day are:
Richard Rieser
Michelle Daley
Tara Flood
Ellen Goodey
Christine Dolyak
Sarifa Patel
INFOR AND REGISTER (free) call Sarifa 07723739221 

For more information - download this even programme flyer

29 November  - December 10

WALSALL CELEBRATES UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH

Click here for event details, locations and times.

Walsall is hosting all kinds of events to celebrate UK Disability History Month! Please use our link ukdisabilityhistorymonth.com/walsall-2011 to find out more information

For more information and to discuss any access requirements please contact Kim Fuller from Walsall Council Creative Development Team on 01922 653114/email fullerk@walsall.gov.uk
‘Walsall Celebrates UK Disability History Month’ is sponsored by the Independent Living Centre and supported by Walsall Council.

Now - January 2012

RE-FRAMING DISABILITY - Portraits from from the Royal Collegeof Physicians

To arrange a viewing of the exhibition, please contact Barbara Lloyd, School Manager,
0116 252 3962 / bl5@le.ac.uk
School of Museum Studies
University of Leicester, 19 University Road, LE1 7RF

‘If we’re going to get looked at anyway, we might as well get paid for it.’ These are the words of Sophie Partridge, a disabled focus group participant discussing the representation ofof a new exhibition currently showing at the School of MuseumStudies, University of Leicester. disabled people, as part

Re-framing disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians features 28 historical portraits of disabled people held within the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) collections, set next to the images and voices of disabled people discussing the portraits and their identities today.

29 November  - December 10

WALSALL CELEBRATE UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH

Click here for event details, locations and times.

Walsall is hosting all kinds of events to celebrate UK Disability History Month! Please use our link ukdisabilityhistorymonth.com/walsall-2011 to find out more information

For more information and to discuss any access requirements please contact Kim Fuller from Walsall Council Creative Development Team on 01922 653114/email fullerk@walsall.gov.uk
‘Walsall Celebrates UK Disability History Month’ is sponsored by the Independent Living Centre and supported by Walsall Council.

1 December 2011

HELPING THE WOUNDED: DISABILITY AND THE MILITARY
 

7pm
Hunterian Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE 

As wards fill up with injured servicemen and women requiring long-term help along the road to recovery and newspapers highlight stories of the problems faced by the wounded - we discuss the nature of modern war injuries, the recovery processes for those wounded and injured on operational duty and what the future holds for the new generation of disabled ex-servicemen and women. Colonel David Richmond, the most senior serviceman to be wounded in Afghanistan to date, Army orthopaedic surgeon Major Arul Ramasamy and former Royal Navy Captain Stevan Jackson of The Royal British Legion which supports the recovery of the wounded and provides welfare support to veterans, will talk about their experiences and answer questions. Richard Hollingham will chair the discussion.

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/events/helping-the-wounded-disability-and-the-military

1 December 2011 - 2 December 2011

DEFYING DEFINITIONS SYMPOSIUM:
DISABILITY ARTS IN THE MAINSTREAM GALLERIES

Arena Theatre
Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1SE

DASH (Disability Arts in Shropshire), in partnership with The New Art Gallery Walsall, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Oriel Davies Gallery Mid-Wales present

Defying Definitions will be an interactive and fun day exploring the processes and outcomes of Outside IN, the pilot phase of the wider visual arts programme.

The Symposium day will offer significant insights into access to future Disability Arts opportunities both for practitioners and audiences.  This is an event for gallery curators and staff, arts organisations and anyone with an interest in learning how to place disability arts in mainstream galleries.

http://www.arena.wlv.ac.uk/dash-defying-definitions-in-the-mainstrean-symposium.htm

1 December 2011

DISNET EVENT at DEFRA

Day Event
The Atrium, Nobel House, Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR

Richard Rieser will be speak, more details of the event tbc 

3 December 2011

DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH - SCOTLAND

10am - 16:30pm
Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh
Old Moray House, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ

Conference Chair – Penny Gower, President of the Further Education Lecturers Association/Educational Institute of Scotland
Conference Programme
10.00   Registration
10.30   Chair’s Introduction, Housekeeping and Outline of the Day
10.40   Welcome Address – Mae Shaw,MorayHouseSchoolof,   UniversityofEdinburgh10.50   Key Note Speaker – Sasha Callaghan, University and College Union Past President andUKDisability History Month Steering Group
11.30   Workshops – Session 1
13.00   Lunch
14.00   Workshops – Session 2
15.30   Comfort Break
15.40   Questions and Panel Discussion
16.20   Slideshow – Disabled People Who Have Changed Society
16.25   Evaluation
16.30   Close

http://disabilityhistorymonthscotland.org/

3 December 2011

REAL - A BRAND NEW DISABLED PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATION in TOWER HAMLETS

11am - 3pm
The Tramshed, Digby Street, Bethnal Green E2 OLP

REAL information day and party - it's FREE!
Please come along to our free launch party and information day on Saturday 3 December and help us celebrate.
Join us to chat about the services and support you need, plus share food and entertainment to celebrate International Day of Disabled People.
There will be information stalls, history talks, children’s activities, poetry, performances and music.
We really hope you can come.
You can get more information by calling 020 8980 2200 or by sending an email to hello@realonline.org.uk
Website : http://www.realonline.org.uk/about-2/real-party/

5 December 2011

HELEN KELLER - A FILM SCREENING

5pm
Public and Commercial Services Union
160 Falcon Road, London SW11 2LN

The first event on 5 Decmber will be a screening of the full length film ‘The Real Helen Kellar’. The film screening will be accompanied by a lead discussion by Ann Pugh who co produced the film with Liz Crow.

Both events are free. Doors open from 5:30 pm for refreshments, with a 6pm start, ending at approximately 8:30 pm.

Contact Lorna Campbell for more information: equality@pcs.org.uk

OR view this film 'The Real Helen Keller' at 
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2920/The-Real-Helen-Keller

6 December 2011

In association with UK Disability History Month (22^nd Nov – 22^nd Dec), Richard Reiser (http://www.worldofinclusion.com/) is coming to The University of Northampton to give a lecture to staff and students on Tuesday 6th December 2011 4 - 6pm Room B4 (Brampton).  Richard will talk about disability, special educational needs and bring an international focus to the discussion.    To date, we have had a good response from staff and students; in particular the BALT students.  The room will cater for 90 people, so do come along and encourage others to attend too. 

Venue:  University of Northampton, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN2 7AL

Directions: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/info/20347/getting-here/209/how-to-find-us/3

7 December 2011

Coventry University Day  at Coventry University

Speakers from the University and also Pete Millington

Free!

7 December 2011

DISCUSSION ON MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE:

5:30pm - 8:30pm
Public and Commercial Services Union
160 Falcon Road, London SW11 2LN 

The second event on 7 December will focus on mental health in the workplace. Leading the discussion will be Richard Reiser from World of Inclusion.

Both events are free. Doors open from 5:30 pm for refreshments, with a 6pm start, ending at approximately 8:30 pm.
Contact Lorna Campbell for more information: equality@pcs.org.uk

8 December

HACKNEY DISABILITY BACK UP FORUM

4:30 – 7:30
Venue tbc.

Richard Rieser, and others, will be speaking at this UK Disability History Month themed Christmas Party!

More details to come...

11 December 

'ON OUR SHOULDERS'

2pm - 5pm
Hackney, London 

Micheline invites some of the contirbuters of her book 'Dear Parents...' to an event in Hackney. The book is about people's lives growing up as disabled people, and how they would have wanted to be treated by their partents.

This event will be useful to PARENTS NEW TO THE INCLUSION MOVEMENT, as well as people and parents already involved in this area. 

Event is by invitation only, so please get in contact with Micheline if you would like to come:
E-mail her on :  mich@michathome.wanadoo.co.uk
Or leave her a voicemail message on : 02086822735 

Click here for more details and for the event invitation

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JANUARY 2012

Saturday 14th January 2012

TELLING OUR STORIES AND RESISTANCE: DISABILITY ARTS AT M SHED FOR UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH

  10.45am - 5pm

M Shed  Princes Wharf, Bristol BS1 4RN   mshed.org

Come and watch disabled theatre makers explore The Tempest, enjoy poetry written in British Sign Language, find out how performers with learning difficulties amused Henry VIII and much, much more. What do we know about disabled people's history and what can we learn from it? Come and meet the artists and find out what it's all about.

In a unique collaboration to support UK Disability History Month, Bristol based deaf and disabled artists, writers, film and theatre makers are hosting a day of activities to explore disabled people's often forgotten history and to celebrate disability arts and culture. Telling Our Stories will take place alongside Liz Crow's international award winning exhibition Resistance: which way the future? Showing at M Shed 5^th January to 5^th February 2012.
 
Resistance: which way the future? Takes as its starting point the Nazi programme of mass murder which targeted disabled people and became the blueprint for the larger holocaust. What turned doctors and nurses into killers? What stopped ordinary people from speaking out? And what does this history mean for all of us today?
 

Drop in or come for the day! Everyone welcome, bring your friends!
British Sign Language interpreters will be present throughout

Telling Our Stories and Resistance

10:45am	Welcome and introduction to UK Disability History Month from Richard Rieser. Richard is the national coordinator of UK Disability History Month and works internationally promoting Disability Equality and Inclusive Education.
11.00am	Screenings, a selection of comic short films Stubborn and Spite from Lou Birks (disabled actors Mat Fraser and Stuart Penn fight over a Blue Badge parking space) Disabled Avant Garde two 'art' films by Aaron Williamson and Katherine Araniello Deaf Person's Guide to the Sound Sensitive James Banks and David Ellington Directors’ Q & A with Lou Birks and James Banks/David Ellington, VS1 Productions
11:30 am	Mike Mantin introduces his work on the history of The Bristol Guild of the Poor Brave Things  (The Guild Heritage Building, Old Market)
12 noon	Firebird Theatre will present selected poetry from their 'Nine Lessons of Caliban', a piece of performance poetry devised from the actors’ reflections on the treatment of Caliban in Shakespeare's Tempest. The full work will be at Bristol Old Vic in March 2012.
12.45pm	All the King's Fools In 2011 All the King's Fools presented two series of promenade performances at Hampton Court Palace, based on historical research into the lives of people with learning difficulties who performed as 'natural fools' in Henry VIII's court. Director Peet Cooper and All the King's Fools actors will introduce a short film from the project, present a part of their performance and discuss this ground breaking work. All the King's Fools will be accompanied by musician Sarah Moody.
1:30pm	Break for refreshments. (drinks available in room throughout the day and M Shed has cafe on ground floor)
2.00pm	Resistance - special showing of Resistance with Red Notes Choir
2.55pm	Richard Rieser  'What can we learn from history and what we can do with that knowledge?'
3 :30pm	Donna Williams BSL poetry
3:50pm	Screenings – Deaf film makers Bristol based deaf film maker David Ellington introduces 3 films from deaf film makers: The End, Otherside and 5 Needles.
5.00pm	Closing remarks from Richard Rieser

Artists First drawings and paintings will be exhibited and screened throughout the day

 Resistance  www.roaring-girl.com

 What can we all learn from history and which way the future?

  “This is an episode of history that is virtually hidden, yet the values that underpinned it still echo through disabled people’s lives today. We can’t change history, but we can learn how to influence the future. The events of the holocaust came to an end because ordinary people resisted. I want audiences to feel inspired to get involved, be effective and find the courage to be a part of change.” Resistance Director Liz Crow

Images courtesy of Artists First and Firebird Theatre/Graham Burke

Telling Our Stories is supported by All the King's Fools, Artists First, Firebird Theatre, Misfits Theatre

Redweather, Roaring Girl Productions, and VS1 Productions

Link: http://mshed.org/whats-on/events/resistance-exhibition-event-telling-our-stories/