Working Parts

Dudley Deaf Club are promoting Comedian John Smith with the help of Black Country Touring. Eighty Five tickets are sold, so the evening promises to have a great atmosphere. Its on Tuesday 9 th November 2010, doors open at 7 for an 8 o’clock start. Tickets are £5 in advance and £7 on the door. It’s at Queens Cross Centre, Wellington Road, Dudley. For further info about date click here. Have a look at John smiths new sketches on You tube Or watch a video about the deaf comedian John Smith on his act and what inspired him to take up stand-up comedy. John Smith’s Visual Comedy on the Guardian’s website.

Catch the No Limits show at the bonded warehouse, Stourbridge on Friday October 1st. They have made Syd Rivers play “Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Aquilla Diamond” their own, mixing improvisations with scripted scenes. Working Parts supported No Limits in 2009 to gain funding from Awards for All for a year long drama project. Have a look at their Facebook fanpage to catch their latest video’s and get a sense of  what to expect, it will be far from elementary! Working Parts are currently supporting the young people who were involved in the drama group to plan for next year.

Potent! Personal! Political! Poetic! All the things we could have been is a no holds barred expose of the arduous journey into adulthood and life choices for Disabled People. Using poetry, song and spoken word  this performance will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will certainly make you question who makes the directions in your life. With BSL interpretation.
Wednesday 10th November 1pm & 7.30pm
Matinee Tickets £1 Evening Tickets £5
Box Office Telephone: 01902 321321
Minicom: 01902 321327
Fax: 01902 322599
E-mail: arena@wlv.ac.uk
Website: www.arenatheatre.info
Robin Surgeoners website

In Walsall, “Play on Signs Theatre” is a drama group for deaf and hearing adults aged 18 and over. they are looking for new members. They create their own plays for performances, taught by deaf and hearing drama leaders, commmunication support is provided so everyone can access this group regardless of sign language ability. Read the rest of this entry →

Working Parts were contacted by a Psychologist who is trying to establish a drama group in Sandwell.  We are going to meet the group and find out what they want to do, we can offer a range of  taster workshops, Song writing, using masks, stand up comedy. We hope to involve artists with experience of mental health, like Sean Burn who is an artist working at New Art Gallery Walsall.They also want help evaluating the benefit of using the performing arts and creativity, as well as planning a series of drama workshops.Working Parts hope to support this project because it seeks a community outcomes, like workshops at the public, run by members of the group.

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Working Parts met Sara Gorman at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Sara described how she has set up her own business called “Access all areas now” which offers training for people who want to know more about providing services for learning disabled people.  Sara is a writer as well and you can read her stories on her blog, titled “Sara Revealed”   We aim to provide Sara with a professional writer who can support her scriptwriting about the lives of learning disabled people. Following our meeting Sara applied to do the Superheroes “Artist Training at Penn Hall School in November. Working Part hope to provide networking opportunities for artists based in the Black Country.

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Sean Burn was inspiring, A question from the audience to Sean Burn went like this, “I write poetry, I paint how do I get to be doing what your doing now”  Following this, Working Parts sat down with the person who posed the question and met a group of artists all involved in painting and creative writing, they are based in Sandwell.

If you have met artists and people from Working Parts, please would you join the website, its really important to Working Parts, as it shows our network and enables you to use it, - Its a quick process. The following slides guide you.

On the left hand side of the website are the words: ”To start connecting please log in first. You can also create an account.” After this a window appears and asks you to provide a user name which can be the title of your group, and then a password, then write a bit about your group in the profile, following this you receive an email, click on this to confirm membership, then log into the website.

Working Parts are visiting Learning Disability Advocacy groups in Wolverhampton and Walsall in October. The aim is to ask people what they want to achieve on specific subjects, like housing, bullying, awareness, service provision and find out if the arts and a creative process of involvement could help. We are visiting Our Talk at Oxley Day Centre, Our Time at Stowheath Day Centre, this is with the help of Vicky Gunn from Voluntary Services, Vicky attended “Open Sesame” in May. In Walsall we are meeting a group set up by Caldmore Housing.  Do you know any advocacy groups in the Black Country?