Deaf artists put the world to rights - 12th July
The Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA) is an exciting new initiative that seeks to engage with, promote and challenge issues of equality, diversity and inclusion across the Arts. The Centre will act as a locus across the University (BCU) and City region in collaboration with our cultural partners to offer a critical and practical space for thinking and doing equality, diversity and inclusion in the Arts. The Centre will host a range of talks, public lectures, and workshops through conventional and unconventional formats.
Our friends and partner at SPARKS, Deaf Explorer will be hosting a thought-provoking discussion for CEDIA about equality where they will profile the stories of four deaf artists. The artists are central to Deaf Explorer's mission and forge radical approaches to the making of contemporary deaf culture. The artists work across art forms and bring their lived experience into their creative work in dance, theatre, dance and visual arts.
Chairing the discussion about intersectional identity and the relationship between culture and power will be Iranian artist Maral Maghanizadeh, M.A. Birmingham School of Jewellery.
Rinkoo Barpaga is an emerging theatre-maker who started out as a Stand-Up comedian. He is brave and uses performance to tackle taboo subjects & confront audiences with complex issues.
Billy Read is a Street Dancer with the expertise to involve deaf young people in the arts. Over lockdown, he posted dance tutorials online and streamed dance workshops to schools over the past six months, leading to an appearance of Blue Peter.
Rachael Veazey is passionate about changing the lives of deaf people, and supporting the arts to be fair by improving understanding about Deaf access. Alan McLean has a background in performance art, fine art and media, and believes art by deaf and disabled artists can create social change.
Joining Deaf Explorer: Phillip Freeman is a deaf community actor making comic work with InteGREAT theatre, an inclusive company that spotlights the deaf LGBT experience in Birmingham.
Ishtiaq Hussain is an expert at Visual Vernacular, European in origin. The art form is non-verbal visual theatre, which often describes universal experiences about life.
Deaf Explorer have been invited to take part in the launch week of CEDIA Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA)
The Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts is an exciting new initiative that seeks to engage with, promote and challenge issues of equality, diversity and inclusion across the Arts. The Centre will act as a locus across the University and City region in collaboration with our cultural partners to offer a critical and practical space for thinking and doing equality, diversity and inclusion in the Arts. The Centre will host a range of talks, public lectures, and workshops through conventional and unconventional formats.
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Other events include:
Media Lab - CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU!
The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity – Update
Imagination and Representation – working at the creative fringes
‘Zines Aren’t Dead’: DiY Approaches to Inclusion/Exclusion and Diversity
PROVOCATIONS: A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS