Sync
Sync South East was a leadership development programme designed to support and develop Deaf and disabled people and disability arts organisations and projects in the South East of England. The project ran from 2009 - 2011.
Two programmes ran, one for individuals and one for organisations.
Sync South East was managed by Jo Verrent of Ada Inc in association with Sarah Pickthall of Cusp Inc who took the coaching design lead for both programmes.
Associates on the programme were Dawn Langley of Alchemy and Hannah Reynolds of HannahReynoldAssociates.
This site gives you a chance to find out more about the programmes and the artists and organisations involved.
Two extensive evaluation reports were compiled that looked at the process and outcomes of both programmes in detail.
The results of both were very positive and we've posted a summary of the findings on the blog. You can get a copy of the reports by contacting joverrent@adainc.org
Photos on the site are a mixture of our own images (taken by the Sync team), images sent in by organisations and individuals themselves and commissioned images by Mandy Legg.
No Handbags creates visually striking performance based experiences that are emotionally engaging and blur the boundary between performer and audience.
The company of performers with learning disabilities aims to challenge traditional perceptions of theatre and facilitate the artistic expression of non conventional artists.
The Freewheelers Theatre Company brings disabled and non-disabled actors and supporters, production teams and the local community together.
We use theatre and dance, wheelchair and voicebox technology, multimedia, animations, puppets and shadows to create innovative work.
Outside In is trying to create a level playing field where access to the art world is possible for all who create. Our aim is not to turn people into ‘artists’, but to challenge the art world to embrace and make itself accessible to a wider range of individuals and ways of making.
The main vehicles for Outside In are an open art competition, a dedicated website with an extensive online gallery that enables artists who find it difficult to access the art world to have their work shown on an international platform and Step Up, a training and professional development programme.
I am a practising artist working in a wide variety of media, but especially sculpture. For the last sixteen years I have worked in the community running/facilitating workshops. I co-founded 'Artscape' an arts related group based in Petersfield for adults in the early stages of recovery from long and enduring mental health issues. I'm also involved with many other projects including 'Outside In', 'Metal Monkeys' and 'Creative Response'
My work is Dance Theatre/ Signdance/ Music and I am interested in the search for truth & truthful expression in performance. I am also interested in the development of disabled/ Deaf dancers' performance vocabulary.
Dyslexic Visual Artist and Composer who 'plays' with the transformation of the 'ordinary' and concepts of the 'hidden' and what is 'normal'. All his work is autobiographical working within 'science and arts' and dysmonumentalist public arts.
I write shoot and edit films. I perform with Orpheus and The Freewheelers. I write songs. I also run Top Wheel...
Signdance Collective is an international dance theatre company based in South East England, led by Deaf and physically disabled artists. Through experimentation, performance and education work it heads the development of a pioneering art form - signdance theatre.
My work has spanned a host of different areas within Deaf and disability arts, from performer, development officer, producer, arts council officer and initiator, with the past few years working on projects that focused on the professional development of deaf and disabled people within the arts. Lately, I’ve stepped towards investigating my own creativity, returning to ‘source’ as it were. In a way this is tender, I’m venturing into unchartered territory, approaching forms of expression that are new for me.
Joel is a painter he prefers to work in oils on canvas but as he isn't always able to go to his studio to work he has mastered watercolours (being more practical), but in a perfect world he would choose to paint in oils on large canvases.
Hi my name is Charlie and I am interested in art, especially painting. I go to Project Art Works in Hastings, and with them develop my work as an artist.
I'm an arts person. I work as the Director of Dada-South and I'm interested in people's different experiences of disability and creativity.
I'm a digital publisher and journalist energised by opportunities to build sustainable relationships and lasting partnerships that help people and organisations find creative, cultural voices online.
Creative Future bridges the gap between the community arts and the professional arts sectors in the South East. We provide talented marginalised* artists and writers the chance to reintegrate through their own talents by providing training, support, exhibiting and publishing opportunities, selling & promoting their work at the highest levels. We raise the profile of individual artists/writers and the organisations they access, whilst challenging public stereotypes of marginalised people.
(Marginalised: *Those with mental health problems, learning difficulties, homeless people, substance misusers, offenders & ex-offenders.)
My installations and paintings explore how we collect our feelings and thoughts within ourselves and how we learn to contain them within our own personal space and cultural boundaries. The artworks created autonomously express ideas of how one reflects with emotions, cultures, disability and identity.
I was born deaf. I am a freelance dancer, teacher, actor and choreographer. I like to incorporate sign-language with dance movements, together they form a unique style of dance that I call Signdance.
I am a visual artist and disability equality training consultant. I am committed to personal and professional development and the transformational, revolutional efforts this requires.
I’m a Creature Effects Artist who works within the film & television industry.
I am currently the Head of Learning at Pallant House Gallery and have been employed at the Gallery for eight years, initially as an Outreach Officer. I am an artist and trained as such at Bath Academy of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. In my late twenties I had a period of clinical depression that had a profound effect on my life.
Dada-South supports Deaf and disabled artists providing innovative opportunities for engagement, experimentation and development. Dada-South invests in the creativity of disabled and Deaf people, enabling their practice to grow and achieve a dynamic profile and reputation for excellence.
Akila is also an experienced practitioner - employed and freelance in the arts, cultural and diversity sector combined. Her passion is to empower artists and practitioners that do not neatly fit in a convential way.
I am a registered archivist and work on access and learning programmes using archive material. I wish to explore further how heritage can be used to support an individual’s growth and empowerment. I am currently working on several projects which use film and drama to convey past stories, which, conversely, also uses historical stories as inspiration for the arts.
Rachel Gadsden is a British contemporary visual artist who uses figurative narrative art processes to explore notions of what it is to be human. During 2007 and 2008 Rachel was the first Historic Royal Palaces artist in residence at Hampton Court Palace and Rachel is currently also the first artist to be commissioned to work with Parliamentary Outreach for the Breaking Barriers National Exhibition and Project.
