#PurpleLightUp Campaign – Monday 3rd December The Purple Light Up campaign is an initiative introduced by Purple Space to raise awareness and celebrate the economic contribution of disabled employees. In support of this initiative the University will be turning the…
Bristol Disability Equality Forum Disability History Month event Saturday 24th November 12.00-4pm, 2018
12.00 Registration 12.15 Welcome and Introduction to the day 12.30 Raquel Messenguer 12. 35 Beth Richards 1.05 Electric Storm Ensemble 1.35 Break for people to buy a drink or food in the café. There will also be a playlist of…
22nd November Oxford Brookes 7.00. Screening For Once in My Life
For Once in My Life For Once In My Life is a documentary about a unique band of singers and musicians, and their journey to show the world the greatness—and killer soundtrack—within each of them. The band members have a…
3rd December Leeds Beckett University 12.45
Join us for a chat about how music impacts those with disabilities, and the representation of disability in film and media. About this Event Find us just down from Gaia Cafe, near Portland Shop – it will be signposted! Leeds…
Launch Event on 19th November: A great Success
Launch UKDHM running order John McDonnell addressing the launch Tinuke Jonah singing ‘If You Leave’ Kiri Tunks President National Education Union George McKay Professor of Media Studies University of East Anglia speaking about Punk,Rock and Disability Punk Rock and Disability,…
My Sight Notts Choir singing their favourite songs in the presence of the Lord Mayor and Sheriff of Nottingham Monday 26 November 2018, 11.45am – 1.30pm Nottingham Council House Ballroom.
My Sight Nottinghamshire (Formerly NRSB) is celebrating something. November 19 at 2:51 PM · We’d really love it if you could join our visually impaired choir at a free event to celebrate the launch of Disability History Month on Monday…
Posters for UKDHM 2018-4
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Johnnie Ray 1927-1990. Hearing Impaired Pop Singer, 1950s
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what would become rock and…
My Song the award winning drama about deaf identity and sign language
MY SONG the award winning drama about deaf identity and sign language 2011 Focusing on Signed Song About a girl who is a dancer going deaf starinf Deaf Actress Lara Steward
Mandy Harvey American Deaf Singer Songwriter
Mandy Harvey Jazz singer Mandy Harvey always had a hearing problem. In her youth, she’d had infections that affected her hearing, but only to the point that she had to sit at the front of the class in order to…