25/02/2012
“If we survive this period of uncertainty we will emerge a stronger and more sustainable animal. Clearer about its objectives and more linked to wider networks. More confident about its USPs...
08/12/2011
“I have gained the courage to leave the safety of the organisations I had been working with and practice a more organic and flowing approach to my work.” “I have been able to take...
18/10/2011
Last year, Caroline Ward worked on an exciting film-making project, called Britain in a Day for the BBC. Britain in a Day gives the audience a starring role on both sides of the camera. In...
29/09/2011
“Recorded Messages of Love and Hate”, by Rachel Barnett, was part of the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival, and was staged on 20th October 2011 at The Leatherhead Theatre. It was a...
29/09/2011
Mental illness affects one in four of us – far more than you would think. The aim of this competition, ran by NHS Sussex Partnership Trust, is to challenge stigma towards mental ill-health. If...
29/09/2011
Brighton Mad Poets are looking for new members. Poets are welcome to attend their weekly meetings held on Monday afternoons (except holidays), 2pm to 4pm at the BMECP centre, 10a Fleet Street,...
08/09/2011
Sync South East may be in its final stage, but the impact it has had can clearly be seen - Just take a look at this press release about Gary Thomas who has been part of the individuals programme......
15/07/2011
Call For Submissions: Hatch: Fresh Sunday 16 October 201, 6pm - late 1 x £500 commission: New performance work by d/Deaf and disabled artists (Headline act) 8 x £250 commissions: New or...
22/06/2011
Do check out the Pitch! section on the website - we've just uploaded some great photos from the event taken by Dawn Langley, one of the Sync South East team...
21/06/2011
Last week, Sync South East delivered Pitch! at the Stables in Milton Keynes - an amazing smorgasbord of talent and activity - with over 100 people watching, showing, sharing and interacting. Don't...
02/06/2011
My Life My Choice and our "StingRadio" project (Oxfordshire's 1st Radio Station run by people with learning disabilities) will be appearing on ITV's Jubilee People's Millions on Tuesday 28th June...
02/06/2011
Do you know your skoogs from your Soundbeam? Can you use them effectively? Do you regularly deliver workshops for children and young people with disabilities? Would you like to know more about...
16/05/2011
Face is the opening exhibition at the Outside In: Community Gallery, featuring work from the Outside In archive selected and curated by Outside In 2009 award winner David Jones and the Outside In...
05/05/2011
South East Disabled and Deaf artists take centre stage in the build up to London 2012 Disabled and Deaf artists have been selected to present their work at a high profile showcase programme as part...
05/05/2011
A quick push for Sync SE member Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq who has been having a busy few weeks recently, with her show at the Sprout gallery, a show at Redlees, and even squeezing in time to create new...
13/04/2011
Anya has let us know about an exhibition that open shortly featuring her work and that of Jon Adams too, working in collaboration with richly diverse groups. Its part of a project called...
07/04/2011
20th, 21st, 22nd May Candid Arts Trust The Impact Art Fair profiles work from artists loosely described as ‘marginalised’ or ‘outsider’. With so many emerging talents...
07/04/2011
Gary Thomas has been selected for UPSTREAM, a major showcase of deaf & disabled artists in the South East. Work will be shown as part of the Brighton Festival, 24th - 26th May 2011. A development...
22/03/2011
Three opportunities you might want to find out more about: Exhibition at Kings Place, London; writing classes in Horsham; art classes in Brighton Exhibition at Kings Place, London (new Guardian...
21/03/2011
Disabled and Deaf artists have been selected to present their work at a high profile showcase programme as part of the Brighton Festival. Eleven artists have been chosen to represent some of the best...
14/03/2011
An exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our team for a year-long curator development programme based at Aspex as part of the Permeate Programme. We are looking for someone who...
14/02/2011
Anjali Dance Company is in the middle of an amazingly fertile creative period, with both their touring company and their youth dance company producing some of their best work and receiving plaudits...
08/02/2011
Sync South East Artist Charlie Stephens has had work selected for the Uninterpreted Exhibition - a group exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture where it’s left to the viewer to make...
04/02/2011
Impact Art Fair/2011 Anthology submissions Creative Future is excited to be delivering the UK's first ever Art Fair populated solely by talented yet marginalised practitioners. The Impact Art Fair...
02/02/2011
February 4th - March 31st Private View 6 - 8 pm February 17th Kaleidoscope [the watcher of beautiful form] concludes a twelve month programme at the Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery inspired by the...
27/01/2011
The National Lottery Awards 2011 Deadline for entries: 5pm Friday 18 February. The National Lottery Awards are an annual search to find the UK's favourite Lottery-funded projects. Lottery players...
27/01/2011
Choreographed by Aya Kobayashi and part of Resolution! 2011 at The Place: 17 Duke’s Road, London WC1H 9PY Thursday February 17: 8pm £6 - £17: Tickets & Info 020 7121 1100...
27/01/2011
The deadline for submissions for the Shepway Sport Art project is next Monday, 31st January. They are offering up to £1,000 for projects that involve a combination of arts and sporting/leisure...
20/01/2011
We are very excited to announce Rubbena's latest solo exhibition funded by Arts Council England Unheard Until Marriage. This is an installation presenting the chnages a woman experiences through a...
06/01/2011
Quick update - please note that the guidelines for the uScreen Production & Workshop fund have been amended and projects can now apply for up to £5000 (up from £3000). The guidelines...
09/12/2010
Just had this in from Monika-Akila and she wants to spread the word: Sync that people!!! I got my dream job! Its part-time (leaving me time for my artistic practice), for a Visual arts initiative -...
09/12/2010
‘Look About’ is an artistic and creatively driven, multi layered project, led by artist and Lead Geologist Jon Adams (oh, and Sync SE individual!). Look About will weave science and art,...
08/12/2010
Caroline Cardus has been announced as the recipient of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary 2010 -11. Caroline’s work explores the themes of language and identity, and the juxtaposition of...
08/12/2010
Deaf Men Dancing, formed by Mark Smith, on Sync South East, is going to perform at The Robin Howard Dance Theatre at The Place, London as Resolution Festival 2011 on Saturday 22nd January. Tickets...
09/11/2010
Chas de Swiet is leaving ACE Arts Council to concentrate on a Producer role with Greenwich and Docklands Festival. The post for his replacement has now been advertised on the Arts Council website...
04/11/2010
We have pleasure in announcing an exciting Freewheelers Film Night. It will be held at The Nomad Theatre, Bishopsmead Parade, East Horsley, KT24 6RT, at 7.30pm on Wednesday 15th December (bar open...
22/10/2010
Sync SE ran a fundraising session the other week - after this, we're combing the news for sources of funds you may have missed... If you are small and community based, how about Grassroots Grants?...
21/10/2010
Link to an article focusing on Rachel Gadsen and her work
http://littlelondonobservationist.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/london-art-spot-rachel-gadsden/
18/10/2010
CAPITALISING ON HUGE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION ACHIEVING MAXIMUM GOVERNMENT SUPPORT, NATIONALLY AND LOCALLY MAXIMISING IMPACT OF CITIES OF CULTURE SPARKING NEW PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN CULTURE...
08/10/2010
No Handbag are hosting another Flickr club event at The Fire Station in Windsor on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th October (at 8pm and 1pm respectively). The show lasts for 1 hour 30 mins with dancing...
05/10/2010
Wandsworth Borough Council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced organisations to tender for four contracts delivering disability arts within the Borough:- Contract 1 – The creation...
13/09/2010
Great new online resource for sorting out which online resources can help you and which just hinder. Called From Apps to Zen: 26+ Ideas for Building a Business with Balance it is ready to download...
13/09/2010
The deadline for the next uScreen Community Fund will be on 23rd September. The uScreen fund is open to festival and community events, workshops as well as production bursaries and international...
21/08/2010
Sports Dance Winning Conversations is a Film Project with Signdance Collective and Ability Media running from September 6 -19 2010 (not including the 12th) Join Signdance Collective with Ability...
21/08/2010
Monika-Akila Richards joins Patience Agbabi and others on the 8th November 2010 in a Brighton showcase at KOMEDIA with some of the best emerging and vibrant black writers in the UK today. Monika...
21/08/2010
Rachel Gadsden has just entered the British Airways Great Britons competition, to win the opportunity to go to South Africa to artistically collaborate with the Bambanani Women's Group in Khayelitsha...
04/08/2010
Deaf actor David Bower is to take the lead in a film written and produced by students at a Welsh university. Little Voices, is the story of an isolated deaf man struggling to cope with the loss of...
03/08/2010
Dada South has announced today a further call to South East Artists and Creatives to express their interest in being considered for a programme of high profile showcase opportunities to take place in...
20/07/2010
Disabled or Deaf Freelance Adviser required for three Accentuate projects managed by Arts Council England: Sync SE, Go Public, Up-Stream We are seeking to appoint a disabled or Deaf freelance...
20/07/2010
Arts Council England is delighted to issue the call for artists for the decibel Performing Arts Showcase 2011. The application process is now open for decibel Performing Arts Showcase 2011....
12/07/2010
Inormation is now out about the Liberty Festival that is happening in London on the 4th Sept in Trafalgar Square. It is sponsored by the GLA, and Mayor Boris Johnson has particularly requested a link...
12/07/2010
Expression of Interest Call for Up-Stream – a South East Disabled and Deaf Artist Showcase 2011 Artists and creatives are invited to express their interest in being considered for a programme...
12/07/2010
Mark Smith, a Sync South east individual is the choreographer and Artistic Director of Deaf Men Dancing which has its first showcase on 13th August 2010. On 2nd – 12th August six professionally...
12/07/2010
Being Me Being is a project run by Sarah Scott, one of our Sync South East individuals. Fusing disability and yoga with the visual arts, its an exciting exploration - do you want to be part of the...
04/07/2010
It's not all bad news when some of you can't make a Sync session. Mike Fryer has been given a wonderful opportunity on 7 July when he will be showing his latest painting at a reception at the House...
15/06/2010
Liz Porter, one of our Sync South East individuals, is currently working as Assistant Producer for Improbable and wants to spread the word about three shows coming up this July: Lifegame at...
15/06/2010
THREE disabled artists have been awarded £55,000 by art agencies Dada-South and Artpoint to take their work into the public realm. The awards were made as part of the Go Public initiative which...
19/05/2010
Sign up now at http://www.dada-south.org.uk for a free monthly bulletin edited by Colin Hambrook. Dada-News will bring you essential information about disability-related arts events, publications,...
18/05/2010
The Creative Landscapes Project Seeks Deaf or Disabled Artist for participatory arts residency A Deaf or disabled artist is being sought to lead a participatory residency from July to September in...
08/04/2010
Arts & Business are supporting a number of the Sync South East organisations through bursaries, and they also gave us a few free tickets to the national Subsidy Junkies? event in London. It was a...
17/03/2010
Jon Pratty, manager at DAO (one of our organisations) and also on the individuals programme in his own right has just had this piece featured on the Arts Council website:...
08/03/2010
Sunday 14th March, Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, 5pm The Sign Dance Collective is an international dance music theatre company led by deaf and physically disabled dance theatre artists working...
08/03/2010
Fri 19th March - The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury, 7.00pm For its third annual gala performance Anjali Dance Company presents a celebration of dance by people with learning disabilities showcasing work...
08/03/2010
Sun 21st March - Brighton Seafront 10.30-5.30pm Join Creative Future's event for the Adult Learning Festival. Come to one of the three starting points (Terraces Bar & Grill, Kissing Statue, The...
08/03/2010
Creative Landscapes Project Seeks Deaf or Disabled Artist for Community Based Residency A Deaf or disabled artist is being sought to lead a participatory residency from May to September in Gosport,...
25/02/2010
The London 2012 Open Weekend team would like to invite key organisations (arts, sport, culture, environment, education) to a workshop on Open Weekend and how they can get involved. Where: Turner Sims...
23/02/2010
Kent’s Cultural Offer: Photographic Commission Kent Arts Development Unit is seeking a freelance photographer to capture a series of promotional images of Kent’s cultural offer. Aims Kent...
22/02/2010
At the Expo we had groups looking at three different aspects of inclusion: how do we genuinely include disabled people in what we do and how we do it, how do we map the opportunities available and...
18/02/2010
The Sync South East Expo was great on 9th Feb at Farnham Maltings - we had some excellent feedback and really enjoyed ourselves networking, nibbling and finding out more about partnerships,...
04/01/2010
2010 is starting with a bang - there are loads of opportunities out there for disabled and deaf people wanting to stretch their leadership muscle. Want to get some experience at the Young Vic?...
14/12/2009
Creative Campus Initiative, in association with Dada-South and Create, Compete, Collaborate launch university based residencies Disabled and Deaf Artist Residencies - DEADLINE 11th Jan 2010 In...
08/12/2009
Our View is a steering group that will sit at the heart of Accentuate, the 2012 Legacy project for the South East of England. Led by Screen South, Accentuate is inspired by the Paralympic movement...
07/12/2009
the last week or so has been a real week of celebrations - and all of this before the festive season really kicks off too! Firstly, Disability Arts Online has won its first national accolade. The...
19/11/2009
SDC has won the dance award at the New AMI Awards (www.amiawards.org) - congratulations! The following is taken from AMI's website: Described by critics internationally as bold and wonderful,...
17/11/2009
Sync South East individual Rachel Gadsden has been short listed for the International DaDaAwards in the Arts Award category for her artistic achievements during the last year and specifically for her...
10/11/2009
Staff Benda Bilili were just fab on the 11th November - for those of us who came, we gyrated in our seats and out of them, much to the horror of the stewards. Staff Benda Bilili are from the...
22/10/2009
As you may have heard, Unlimited, the UK's largest ever arts and disability programme, has been launched by London 2012 as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Arts Council England are running an advice...
16/10/2009
Or rather, are you a community or charitable organisation that is looking to extend your work with a laptop and a year's free broadband? If so, you could apply for a BT Community Connections award...
08/10/2009
This autumn's Animated magazine, produced by the Foundation for Community Dance, has an article entitled 'Mark of Excellence' and the Mark it refers to is none other than Mark Barber (on the...
03/10/2009
Guest blog by Gary Thomas, one of the individuals in Sync South East (and we are all rooting for you Gary - Go, Gary, Go!): It's 12 days before I go to Los Angeles to attend the Creative...
02/10/2009
Dada-South and Artpoint are launching an exciting new opportunity for disabled and Deaf artists in the South East. This opportunity is open to artists at all stages in their career. As part of the...
02/10/2009
Its always good to get feedback and to find out if things are having an affect. At the last individuals session we asked people to fill in speech bubbles about what they felt about the programme,...
25/09/2009
Jon Pratty is one of Sync South East's individuals and also, through DAO, involved with one of our organisations too. His blog for the Guardian focuses on decibel, the diversity performing arts...
24/09/2009
Do you have the skills to support musicians with a learning disability to produce a regular radio show and market their music to a new audience? If so, Carousel might have the job for you! Carousel,...
21/09/2009
This autumn Pallant House Gallery plays host to an exhibition of works by the Portsmouth-based Outsider artist, Jon Adams, to coincide with the major exhibition of outsider art at the Gallery,...
21/09/2009
Ever phoned out and got stuck with one of the those call centres? You know the ones, where you get passed round and round and no one seems able to help? They are the focus of the Freewheelers Theatre...
09/09/2009
Arts Council England have just started their recruitment for the national artistic assessment scheme. If you are interested in applying, information and an application form is on the Arts Council...
03/09/2009
If you can get to The Theatre at Chipping Norton on Thursday Sept 24th you will be in for a real treat - an evening of work from Anjali with all the pieces imagined, choreographed and performed by...
03/09/2009
News for all artists working or interested in working on art for the public realm. Figure Ground (which is a group run by Katy Beinart, Jo Thomas, and Jon Adams who is part of Sync SE), has developed...
13/08/2009
I bet that not many of us have been as far afield as Sync South East's Rachel Gadsden. As part of the celebrations for the Olympic Open Weekend on the 24th-26th July, Rachel was in deepest Ethiopia...
05/08/2009
Just had some news from Common Purpose about their campaign to increase the numbers and diversity of people involved in public life across the UK - About Time.. They have a brand new website,...
20/07/2009
We've been asked to let people know about an upcoming Permeate Advice Session. ACE would like to invite interested people to a Grants for the Arts advice session, taking place 31 July from 11:00 -...
16/07/2009
We are pairing up with Arts & Business in the South East to maximise the impact we can have. They want to offer a small number of bursaries for some of our organisations, which will mean free...
15/07/2009
Last week it really felt like Sync South East had started, with three introductory events in a week - two for the individuals programme and one for the organisations (you can find out more about what...
08/07/2009
If you work with young people in the region, then you might be interested in Reaching for Gold. Reaching for Gold is a new competition to encourage innovation and creativity in young people (14-19...
26/06/2009
We are collecting in the 'Syncscapes' from organisations this week ready for the introductions day on the 8th July. What's a Synscape? Well, its a way of giving us, and the other organisations...
09/06/2009
We want to maximise the impact of Sync South East. To do this, we need to work in partnership with other regional and national partners interested in disability, diversity, leadership and the...
09/06/2009
30 disabled people working in the arts sector and 11 disability arts organisations and projects have been selected to take part in Sync South East. The individuals include visual and conceptional...
20/05/2009
After much debate and discussion, the decisions about which individuals and which organisations and projects to take into Sync South East have been made. We are just waiting to hear back from...
