{"id":951,"date":"2014-07-08T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disabilityartsinternational.flywheelsites.com\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=951"},"modified":"2019-10-17T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:50:21","slug":"an-introduction-to-deaf-and-disabled-arts-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.disabilityartsinternational.org\/resources\/an-introduction-to-deaf-and-disabled-arts-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to Deaf and disabled arts in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TcNHqmkkoZ4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"wrapper\"><main id=\"content\" role=\"main\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"banding banding_0\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"video-page_container\">\n<div class=\"typography\">\n<div class=\"main-video__description\">Garry Robson (Fittings Multimedia Arts), Tony Heaton (Shape) and Jenny Sealey (Graeae Theatre Company) provide valuable insights into the context in which UK Deaf and disabled artists have emerged to become key international names.<\/div>\n<div class=\"typography\">\n<p>The film shows three different interviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Garry Robson is in a theatre and talking to camera on stage. His interview is intercut with footage from DaDaFest International and Graeae&#8217;s production of The Threepenny Opera<\/li>\n<li>Tony Heaton is in his office at Shape Arts and his interview is intercut with scenes of Caroline Bowditch in rehearsal and various artworks in situ<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Sealey is in her office at Graeae and her interview is intercut with scenes of Fingersmiths in rehearsal with speaking and signing actors, and various artworks and books at the Graeae studios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A film commissioned by the British Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"audio-description-container\">\n<div class=\"typography\">\n<h3>An introduction to Deaf and disabled arts in the UK transcript<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio-description__text\">\n<div class=\"typography\">\n<p>Garry Robson (Fittings Multimedia Arts), Tony Heaton (Shape) and Jenny Sealey (Graeae Theatre Company) provide valuable insights into the context in which UK Deaf and disabled artists have emerged to become key international names.<\/p>\n<p>One of a series of five short films, capturing the thoughts and experiences of key people from the arts sector and exploring the framework that is enabling UK disabled artists to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>A film commissioned by the British Council.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a transcript for the film. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilityartsinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/An-introduction-to-Deaf-and-disabled-arts-in-the-UK-complete-transcript.pdf\">You can also download the complete transcript for this film as a PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Garry Robson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One two three.<\/p>\n<p>Brrrrrrrrrr.<\/p>\n<p>Art is for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>[Sings] Mmmmmmmmmmmmm eeeeeeeeeeee iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026that taps the wellsprings of the human heart, and even what little there is doesn\u2019t work so well once it\u2019s been used a few times.<\/p>\n<p>Deaf and disability art in this country and globally it\u2019s been a kind of a niche market for many many years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Heaton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s probably important to remember that disability arts started in Britain and it was part of a struggle for civil rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny Sealey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in the sort of like early 80s, being in and around an emerging, developing concept that we, as Deaf and disabled people, we can create theatre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Heaton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disability wasn\u2019t about people\u2019s individual impairments but that it was all about the fact that you couldn\u2019t get on the train or you couldn\u2019t get on the bus, you couldn\u2019t get in the art gallery and you couldn\u2019t actually get into places of education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny Sealey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We started, developing performances for each other, and over a period of years really we started to get braver and much more confident that what we had to show was good.<\/p>\n<p>We stepped out into the more mainstream world and said, \u201cExcuse me, we\u2019ve got stories to tell\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Heaton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of disabled artists have taken a creative journey that has bypassed art colleges because for whatever reason the art colleges were not accessible to that artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garry Robson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a whole range of work coming up throughout the whole country and people bring different experiences to it, and the work is at a lot of different levels throughout the country \u2013 there\u2019s smaller works going on, more intimate works, more discreet works but they all bring value.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re all about developing people, developing people\u2019s confidence, their skills, and I guess saying to other people, \u201cLook, it can be done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny Sealey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graeae was set up because Nabil Shaban, disabled performer wanted to, well, be on stage, and all the audiences and the other directors went, \u2018\u201cSomeone like you cannot be on stage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So back in the 80s if you were marginalised, what you did then, politically, was you set up your own company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garry Robson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of Graeae was to change the way that disabled artists and performers are seen in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny Sealey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was in Tokyo, my phone went. \u201cDear Jenny, we are interested in interviewing you and Bradley Hemmings to be co-directors for the, Paralympic Opening Ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We got the job and it was absolutely extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garry Robson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DaDaFest has been going for a couple of decades really. It was a small scale community festival based around the Deaf and disabled community in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, they got money to do a much bigger programme, an international programme; the best of Deaf and disabled work worldwide, and it was a huge success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Heaton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are certainly moving towards a more inclusive way that we operate as a society, and I think people are understanding that it\u2019s not people\u2019s impairments that stop them doing things but it is the barriers to inclusion that need removing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny Sealey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand why every theatre in the whole of the country does not have one, two Deaf or disabled actors in, in every play and I think theatre should be fully accessible and really inclusive so in 2020 Graeae should close down.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll become something different.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll just become a theatre. 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