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 [...]
What is the point of Unlimited? Of Art? Of anything? For Rachel Gadsden, art is about being alive – showing and sharing that with the world. And as she says… ‘Life is very valuable and it doesn’t go on forever’, so begins visual artist, Rachel Gadsden, in this 90 second exploration of the exhibition, Unlimited [...]
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 [...]
It’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.
Find out how a painting displayed in the MAA Cambridge pushed Rachel Gadsden to develop a golden project for the Cultural Olympiad. Rachel, an award winning artist travelled to South Africa to meet and collaborate with a group of artists, who like her, are kept alive by medication after chancing upon a painting that spoke [...]
We 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.
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, [...]
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 [...]
As 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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]