Working Parts

http://www.vimeo.com/15371601
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.

Andrew Muir says “I want a write a play that is fresh and original and one that tackles deafness in a non patronising, theatrical way as oppose to a running commentary. I want to research thoroughly the area in and around Birmingham and listen to the stories of the people that I meet. Is there any one particular story or event that you know about/have heard about/were involved with that you would like to see onstage?”

Andrew Muir says “I want a write a play that is fresh and original and one that tackles deafness in a non patronising, theatrical way as oppose to a running commentary. I want to research thoroughly the area in and around Birmingham and listen to the stories of the people that I meet. Is there any one particular story or event that you know about/have heard about/were involved with that you would like to see onstage?”
Here are the questions he posed…
1. Who was you first kiss with? Can you remember that moment?
2. Life as a teenager – describe what that was like for you. Were you going out dancing, courting, drinking, smoking, what was going on in your life as a teenager? Were you in a gang? What fashion did you follow?
3. What did you want to be when you were growing up? A famous star, sportsman, astronaut – anything you can think of.
4. Has there been a moment in your life that had you not been deaf the outcome may well have been different?

http://www.vimeo.com/12639850Sandwell Visual Impairment group are putting on a day for it’s members about Audio Description and theatre. This follows the successful Audio Description event for Corner Shop at Wolverhampton’s Mander Centre in October 2010. The Audio Description day is at the Public in West Bromwich on Tuesday the 29 June. The three big theatres, who have audio description equipment – The Rep, The Hippodrome and The Grand will be demonstrating audio description equipment and informing visually impaired people about their access.
The Corner Shop project is about uncovering stories, behind the changing face of the corner shop over the past 60-years.

The Final Open Sesame about “unlocking the mysteries of the internet, and starting a new community by disabled people” was at Cap Centre in Smethwick.  Here are some comments reflecting a debate about using the networking site, and who would use the networking site.
http://www.vimeo.com/10604041
http://www.vimeo.com/10604099
and Paul Bowley like many other disabled people at Open sesame where inspired to get involved in the arts as way of involving others, in the themes and issues of their group.
http://www.vimeo.com/10604150