You have Total Permission…

Total Permission film poster - Sue Austin's underwater wheelchair between coral and with fish, text also reads push me.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 [...]
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Giving Total Permission to the National Media Museum in Bradford

Screen grab from the National Media Museum website of the Total Permission page.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 [...]
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Total Permission

screen grab of arts council england's case study page mentioning total permissionIt’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.
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Push Me Unlimited

A screen shot of the Watershed site featuring Push Me, the image is Sue Austin in her underwater wheelchairWe 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.
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Pushing Timo Baker

Timo BakerAs many of the PUSH ME team are far flung and busy on other projects, it’s  been impossible for us to all meet up in person, so I was delighted to hear from Timo Baker our composer from Subvertical – the man behind some of our beautiful PUSH ME short scores before I met him [...]
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Push Me Journeys – a different light

Rotolight ready to rollYesterday 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 [...]
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Look, look, look!

a painted head and torso - skeleton like, with blue outline and yellow 'ribs'. the face is cartoon like - big bulging eyes and an open mouth saying 'I'm scared'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 [...]
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Looking over Charles Hazelwood’s shoulder…

charles looking at a computer screen on which we can see Simon MckeownYesterday 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 [...]
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Push About

Claire Cunningham on Channel 4We 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 [...]
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Our first set of 90 second films now complete!

A screen shot of the Push Me Collection on The Space - showing 6 of our 12 'boxes', one for each artist.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!
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