Partnerships and Commissions
Full Circle Arts maintain strong links and work in Partnership with other Disability Arts organisations, funding bodies, Local Authorities and practitioners both nationally and internationally which means we are in a strong position to offer advice and support to anyone interested in Disability Arts or the art of Disabled People.
We work in partnership with art venues and organisations in audience development, inclusive projects and equal opportunites in employment and programming.
People we have worked with include:
Arts Council England, Mind's Eye, Connexions, Northern Video, Artisticus, Nwdaf, Prism Arts and The Brewery Arts Centre just to name a few
In this section you will find information relating to work we have been commissioned or worked in partnership. Click the links below to go to a specific piece of work or scroll down the page.
Cultural Leadership Partnership Funding for Disabled Arts Leaders
Blank Media and Full Circle Arts
ADJUSTMENTS
European Year of Disabled PeopleFull Circle Arts was involved in the Passing Down project, through consultations and workshops.
We had nine participants who attended creative writing sessions. We were also involved with the launch at the end of March 09 where some of our participants read the poetry they produced during the workshops.
About The Project
Passing Down was a project which explored how identity is shaped by the stories which are passed down and the things we are told about ourselves and our family, and how this relates to a contemporary understanding of genetics.
The project involved talking to scientists and to community members around Manchester and running creative writing workshops. There was then pieces of word based visual art produced. This project is supported by Arts Council North West (Lottery)
For more info: http://genesandstories.blogspot.com/
Please download an example of creative writing produced by one of the participants, Esther Frank:
Esther Frank's poem- Microsoft Word, 27kB
Cultural Leadership Partnership Funding for Disabled Arts Leaders
A consortium of five disabled artists, leaders and managers has been awarded GBP60,000 funding from Cultural Leadership Partnership to form a network. Liz Crow, Chris Hammond, Moya Harris, Sarah Scott and Michele Taylor have pooled their extensive expertise together to create DALI (Disability Arts Leadership Intelligence) Hub - which will research and deliver leadership development through Action Learning Sets, downloadable toolkits, seminars, and other methods including an online development blog.
Full Circle Arts - for whom Chris Hammond is Chief Executive -led on the bid and take responsibility as lead organisation, the other members (including Moya Harris who is coordinating the project) all being successful freelancers committed to professional development for disabled people in the arts and the full inclusion of disabled people in all aspects of the arts particularly in leadership roles.
Speaking on behalf of DALI, Chris says, "This is work we have all long recognised the need for, capacity building in the arts for disabled professionals is a huge and currently critical issue. For us it also develops Full Circle Arts' long established high quality work in one to one personal 'Professional Development Planning' and 'Mentoring' and will provide a clear and seamless progression route for all those talented and inspiring disabled people who can offer their skills to the arts sector in England. This funding from CLP allows 5 disabled women to develop creative ways of addressing professional development through fully inclusive processes that all arts organisations can share in and learn from. Equally exciting is the fact that during the process we can address our own learning and development, exploring Action Learning and it's adaptability in terms of inclusion and relevance to our sector. I believe this funding will mean we can move from a focus on access, difference, ghettos and "special courses" to equality and inclusion in those centres of excellence for learning and creative development that others in the arts sector take for granted".
To learn more about DALI Hub, contact:
mailto:chris@fullcirclearts.co.uk telephone 0161 872 0326 or mailto:moyajh@supanet.com Please mark your email 'DALI'.
Note: Full Circle Arts received GBP60,000 from the Cultural Leadership Programme, which is a joint programme between Arts Council England, Creative & Cultural Skills and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
DALI (Disability Action Learning Initiative) Update
DALI (Disability Action Learning Initiative) has just completed a year-long research project in leadership issues relating to disabled people in the arts and cultural sectors. Funded through the Cultural Leadership Programme, part of DALI’s ‘legacy’ is a website which we hope will be of benefit to any disabled people working as or aspiring to be leaders in the arts. It has toolkits and case studies. There have also been two events to date: High Time, in London January 2008 which involved over 60 disabled people working in leadership roles within the arts and cultural sectors and ‘Entrepreneurs in Conversation; with Philip Patston in Exeter, April 2008. Further events are planned and the site will be updated regularly.
Blank Media - She's Lost Control
Part of Chorlton Arts Festival '08
Full Circle Arts worked with Blank Media to produce an exhibition as part of the Chorlton Arts Festival.
Full Circle Arts wishes to thank everyone that attended and looks forward to working with Blank Media in the future.
One of Full Circle Art's Source:artists, Kathryn McQueen, took part in the exhibition, you can find out more about Kathryn McQueen and see further examples of her work by visiting her artist pages in our artists section. To find out more information about Blank Media visit: http://blankmediacollective.org
ADJUSTMENTSAdjustments was a series of exhibitions, partnerships and critical debates to creatively address transitional thinking on disability equality and inclusion.
Arts Council England funded a series of exhibitions to enable artists and curators to creatively address disability equality issues at cutting-edge small-scale contemporary art venues (Gasworks, Cell Project Space, Store, Space Studios). The exhibitions profiled artists in a productive and critical context and challenged public perceptions of what constitutes cultural diversity and contemporary visual culture. The exhibitions were followed by a series of debates and discussions at galleries during autumn and at Tate Modern in the first week of December 06.
The debates highlighted issues that were emerging for both artists and curators, covering topics such as the contextualization of an artists work, cultural diversity, quality, exposure, inclusion and difference within the layers that exist between the commercial and non-commercial arts world.
Adjustments has begun to change the way we all talk about disability in relation to creativity and visual arts practice and examined how we can use artistic practice as a beacon to promote disability equality.
Adjustments addressed professional development and curatorial practice around this area, building on learning gained during disability access activity undertaken in relation to recent capital building developments at each venue, and moved the debate onto one of diversity, equality and inclusion.
The series of exhibitions, partnerships and debates coincided with the launch of Arts Council England's Disability Equality Scheme and provided an opportunity to demonstrate a creative approach to the issues surrounding the promotion of disability equality as part of the new Disability Equality Duty, which came into place in December 2006.
Adjustments directly explores priorities and issues raised in Arts Council England's new visual arts strategy Turning Point.
Adjustments was co-ordinated by Full Circle Arts and funded by Arts Council England.
The exhibitions as part of adjustments were:
Cell Project Space - Ben Cove "Practical mechanics"
258 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA
Space - Juan delGado "Suspended Reverie" (ten minutes)
129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH
Gasworks - Katherine Araniello & Aaron Williamson; "The Disabled Avant-Garde Today!"
Store - Ryan Gander 'Is this guilt in you too? (Cinema Verso)'
Presented by STORE, hosted by Whitechapel's East Wing, adjacent to Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
The final Debate of the series took place at:
TATE MODERN, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Take a look at the Adjustment project report:
European Year of Disabled People
The EYPD commission was an Arts Council England initiative to support European Year of Disabled People.
Road shows were designed to help individual Disabled artists apply for funding through the new Grants for the Arts scheme. These took place all round the country and specifically targeted Disabled artists.
We created an online database where people could search for an event or project taking place in their area during EYDP. This had thousands of hits and grew month by month.
Throughout the EYDP period we asked for material which would be suitable for inclusion on a legacy DVD. We certainly had a good response. Over 52 hours of video, dozens of photographs, brochures, programmes and computer discs. We wish to thank all of you who sent some material in to be included on the DVD. We tried where possible to include an excerpt from everything where the media quality was high enough.
The final DVD was launched at Sadlers Wells in London on Thursday 14th October 2004. The DVD is fully subtitled and carries full audio description. There are 17 video extracts and 9 stills galleries. If you want a copy of the DVD (free of charge) then contact your regional Arts Council England office.
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Seventeen – In collaboration with Arts Council England North West, NWDAF and Prism Arts
In November 2003, seventeen artists from across the North West of England were awarded bursaries through a Disabled Artist Bursary Scheme organised by Arts Council England, Full Circle Arts, North West Disability Arts Forum and Prism Arts. Each artist showed their new work at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal. Visual arts, video and installation pieces were shown in March 2004. The showcase launch took place on 17 March when several live performances were staged alongside the opportunity to view the visual work. Full Circle Arts filmed the event and interviewed various artists. Arts Council England then commissioned us to produce a DVD of the evening. For some of the artists this was just one of many exhibitions or performances they take part in, for some it was the beginning of their professional career.
The Seventeen DVD was distributed at the Arts Council England Art05 event in Liverpool. To ensure the DVD was accessible to all it has subtitles and audio description.
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