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Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Category: Artists
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“Love how you add humour into sad story” “Rinkoo told his story with an engaging mix of humour, characterisation and first-person narrative. Really Effective, Really Enjoyable.” “It is visual – flowed from one story to the next. You had a theme running through that linked your experiences” – Audience feedback On the 5th December Rinkoo…
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Since leaving home in Birmingham, Rinkoo Barpaga has moved around England a lot, determined to find somewhere to settle. Along the way, he has encountered both racism and discrimination, and as a result he has been constantly asking himself the question, “where do I belong?” A British born, Rinkoo discovered at the age of…
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In September 2018, Dance Artist Mark Smith collaborated with a creative team of six dancers, and audio describer Willie Elliot, composer Michael England and designer Ryan Laight. Watch this video by Ben Marks that demonstrates the fantastic innovative work that Mark Smith and his team of collaborators are doing with the inspiring Alan Turing. It’s…
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On Wednesday, 26 September Billy Read, Ariel Fung & Chris Fonseca presented Sign criminal Royal Derby school for Deaf Braidwood school BID services youth group An audience of Deaf and hearing people in Birmingham at Signing Tree, Ladywood The activity was funded by Arts Council England Find out what people thought of the outcome of…
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Hut 8 LOVE LETTER week of R & D Turing’s Letter is about the relationship between Alan Turing and Christopher Morcom. Sadly he died of illness. Mark Smith discovered letters using poetry to express his love for Christopher. It is so beautiful what he wrote. This is the other side of Alan Turing. Mark wants…
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Tolu Sholanke starts his Developing Your Creative Practice, an Arts Council Funded photography project – titled Wa Jeun – Come & Eat. Today he met his mentors Rinkoo Barpaga and Emma Case. Emma is currently doing a photography project at Anfield Football Club called Reds – have a look at twitter @EmmaCase Tolu supports Manchester…
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Rinkoo Barpaga is part of Birmingham REP’s Foundry. Rinkoo is exploring with actors Stephen Collins and Vimal Korpal motifs and stories that parallel the Colonisation of Deaf people by hearing people in 1880 and the Colonisation of Indian people by the British Raj. The research has started in Leicester, and there will be a week of R & D during Indian Summer at Attenborough…
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Deaf Explorer are delighted that Mark Smith’s application to Arts Council England to R & D Hut 8 has been successful ! My research inspired by code breaker & father of Computer Science Alan Turing. He is focus point & middle for four different ideas. I want to explore the artistic side of Alan Turing. Firstly,…
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Aims of the R & D: Rinkoo Barpaga will tell the story of Bubble and Butch and reveal the vulnerability of young deaf people. The bullying and discrimination stops when Bubble is asked to look after a mean looking dog called Butch. The dog is a metaphor for Bubbles access, acting like a superhero at…
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Billy Read & Ariel Fung, received an Unlimited international research and development commission in 2017. Over the summer months they have worked at mac with a team of creatives to explore a new dance show, merging sign language and street dance called, “Somebody’s Watching Me“. It is a show that aims to appeal to…
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