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 [...]
It was easy at Southbank last week to get whipped up in a frenzy about all the fantastic performances taking place – but there was a huge amount of visual arts throughout the festival too, including work by PUSH ME artists Bobby Baker, Caroline Bowditch, Rachel Gadsden, Simon Mckeown and Sue Austin. In fact there [...]
Continuing our series of posts on various collaborators, this time our attention turns to Gail Sneddon – who has been working alongside Claire Cunningham for her piece Menage a Trois. Gail’s website states that she ‘makes performative work that brings an immersive and sensorial experience to the audience through the orchestration and design of different [...]
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 [...]
This blog was first published on Disability Arts Online. With their permission we are reprinting it here: In my commissioning role of gathering responses to Unlimited @ Southbank the performance that DAO writers have been most enthusiastic about seeing in their communications with me, has been Claire Cunningham’s ‘Ménage à Trois’. Watching the audio-described version [...]
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 [...]
Another sun kissed day of Unlimited treats as more of the Festival unravels and our PUSH ME artists put the best of their produce on show. Graeae and Strange Fruit are busy ensuring The Garden’s all set to bloom outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Bobby is cooking up her daily well being mix in her Mad [...]
Not many people get to stand on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall and have a camera on a crane fly at and past them – placing them in the centre of London’s iconic landmarks. Yesterday Jez Colborne had this experience as we filmed him for the PUSH ME documentary, winding his siren [...]
We were delighted to see Rachel Gadsden’s second 90 second film up in The Space following the success of her body mapping workshop yesterday in the Clore Ballroom as part of the Unlimited Festival workshop programme.
Great to be down at the Southbank and see so many of our PUSH ME artists sharing there work with wider audiences – and also with each other. Although we on the team know the artists and their work well – it’s easy to forget that they don’t know each other. It’s brilliant for PUSH [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’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 [...]