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 [...]
When Ruth Mackenzie, Director, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, announced the final commissions in the Unlimited programme she said: ‘Unlimited is about commissioning world-class artists to create brilliant work which will change perceptions of the work of disabled and deaf artists.’ And she was absolutely right. Unlimited is quite simply the largest commissioning fund for disabled [...]