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Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Category: Development
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TALK // Kevaughn Laing // Warren Murray // Fabric // Hippodrome // 5th February 2024 Talk Is a dance piece in R&D by Kevaughn Laing and Warren Murray performed at Fabric in the hippodrome. Two men. Dancers. Artists. Raised in the same area. The only difference is that one of them is deaf. The piece…
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Matty Gurney and the Creative team worked with consultant Herbert Klien, expert in Deaf Mental health patient experience . The sessions with Herbert Klien gave a history of Mental health services over the past thirty years, with specific focus on deaf patient experience, including common behaviours. Herbert also described how the medical treatment had changed…
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In August 2021, Maral was invited to have a two week residency at Level Centre to explore Tale of Tresses, alongside developing her artistic practice. Week One was a virtual residency and Maral spent the week exploring a new series of jewellery, developing the jewellery and artistic polemic developed during her MA studies at…
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Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings My 2019 R & D project R&D worked with experts to find practical solutions to making a large-scale Zoetrope that would display my fabric design, It involved a collaboration with Oud musician Rihab Bazar, who composed and played the music, and Ruth Montgomery, who gave musical interpretation to what I was trying to…
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Maral Mamaghanizedeth’s research and development project, funded by Arts Council England, 2018 – 2020. Maral uses British Sign Language to communicate, so this report has been translated from BSL into written English. My work explores barriers I encounter everyday; being Deaf, female and a refugee. Arriving in the UK in 2016 without written English or…
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The Arts Council England grant “Developing your creative practice” DYCP made a big impact. I could go out & meet people & tell them that I had a degree in photography & an Arts Council Funded grant to research photographing people that represented my community in Manchester. My DYCP proposal was ambitious because I would…
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Finn wants to be a pioneer in haptic art. Finn will explore “Beauty is in the hand of the beholder?” and develop prototype’s for the making of a human sized fish tank. The Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL) are the TECH partner eager to find out more, with Finn’s guidance After briefing, DMLL staff research…
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The Deaf voice leads the story in Rinkoo Barpaga’s script for Bubble & Butch. For a week of R&D at Derby Theatre rehearsal studios Stephen Collins plays Bubble. Rinkoo Barpaga wanted to give acting opportunities to Deaf actors based in West Midlands. Troy was played by Leigh Blake, and lives in Derby. Leigh was part…
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Box opening Maral Mamaghani bone chine over ear jewellery Composer and sound designer Chris Bartholemew gets to work on designing a sound scape when wearing Maral Mamaghani bone chine over ear jewellery. If you want to be alive…read my lips Testing work August/September 2019
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Visual Artist Maral and Designer Maker Chris Wight found common ground at their first meeting in March 2019. Chris Wight produces astonishingly beautiful work in a variety of ways – specialising in Bone China, he is always seeking to push this very traditional material in new directions. Deaf Artist Maral Mamaghani wants to make decorative…