Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Billy Reads ambition to bring International Deaf Street Dance Project to UK
Profoundly Deaf dancer Billy Read travels the world on a mission to dance with Deaf companies and Deaf individuals. They all love street dance and they all believe the barriers to dance education for the Deaf and hard of hearing are the same everywhere. Together they feel the music, picking up signals from vibrations; volume penetrates the body, dance is visual.
Artists Nao Masuda percussion, Lisa Harker – Painter & Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq – Visual Artist all collaborate with flautist Ruth Montgomery at Arlington Arts Centre and involve pupils from Mary Hare School for the Deaf, where Ruth studied as a child. The first steps of an innovative sound and image project, conceived by Ruth Montgomery and funded by Arts Council England.
“It does sound absolutely fascinating”, Lucy Galliard Director of Learning and Engagement, CBSO (more…)
Rinkoo Barpaga is a deaf British Sign Language story teller. In 2012 he spent two weeks immersed in the American deaf story-telling and comedy scene, inspiring him to a new challenge; winning over deaf and hearing mixed audiences. In 2015 he received an Arts Council England Grant to take him back to America to seek his peers’ input on the new material. On returning to the UK, he created a story-telling performance, called,”Am I Funny”.
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Like Mirabai is a dance project by Billy Read and Giulia Marchetti Funded by Arts Council England
West Midlands based disability guru, Alan McLean interviews Deaf dancer Billy Read about his Arts Council funded collaboration with Italian dance artist, Giulia Marchetti who can see the drama in British Sign Language and has the skills to bind the language into dance. (more…)
Like Mirabai A dance project by Billy Read and Giulia Marchetti Funded by Arts Council England
West Midlands based disability guru, Alan McLean interviews Deaf dancer Billy Read about his Arts Council funded collaboration with Italian dance artist, Giulia Marchetti who can see the drama in British Sign Language and has the skills to bind the language into dance. (more…)
I went to Deaf explorers event for young deaf creatives attending school. Ten pupils from Braidwood school for the Deaf arrived in a mini bus at 9.30 am. They study GCSE Art and the teacher highlighted a couple of the pupils work on his iPad. They were striking portraits with the brush work sculpting faces into three dimensional images on paper. The purpose of the event was to reach young people like this and show them successful deaf artists at various stages in their career, and share with them the pathway to further training and freelance employment.
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Free art workshop, lead by Deaf artist: Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings
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Thank you to everyone who attended the Deaf explorer artist networking event at beaconsfield gallery. 27 people wow! Great stories about making art and funding by Christopher Sacre, Donna Williams and Rinkoo Barpaga, and a welcome update about Deaf explorer by Rubbena Aurangzeb- Tariq.
Deaf Explorer 