It’s been a week since I worked with the fabulous voice artist and describer, Willie Elliott to hone and record the 30 minute audio description (AD) for our PUSH ME documentary Total Permission in Bristol. Ironically when we first sat down to script the piece, there seemed to be more space than ever to fill [...]
We’re delighted to hear this week that The Space will now continue for a further six months. As part of this, the team will be looking more closely at people’s engagement with the pilot platform and the PUSH ME team will also be looking at the impact of our commission on those involved. Tony Ageh, [...]
Fantastic to see PUSH ME’s Claire Cunningham and Caroline Bowditch alongside Marc Brew featured in this great blog by Kelly Apter at the scotsman.com. Shows such as Ménage à Trois not only give the younger generation of disabled dancers something to aim for, they play a crucial role in helping audiences to see beyond the [...]
How great to see two more PUSH ME – The Journey films uploaded by the The Space team yesterday. Join Sue Austin as she plunges into cold local waters in Dorset early this summer making a spectacle of herself to the delight of local audiences. And when you’ve dried off , move through the concrete [...]
We were delighted to hear in The Guardian earlier this week that The Space and our PUSH ME films will now have an afterlife beyond the original designate 31st October deadline for the pilot project. We are currently negotiating how this will effect how and in what way we are able to show our PUSH [...]
So we left the Unlimited Festival at the Southbank with over 24 hours of footage shot, totalling one terrabyte of media – that’s the equivilient of all the X-ray films in a large technological hospital or 50,000 trees made into paper and printed! (Thanks James Huggins, for the comparisons). How does all that – plus all [...]
PUSH ME has been sighted at a handful of events in the last month and it’s been very exciting to guage people’s reactions to the first 12 short films in the PUSH ME Collection and to see what people make of them under the radar. At DigitalBrighton on the 4th September we were able to [...]
As many of the PUSH ME team are far flung and busy on other projects, it’s been impossible for us to all meet up in person, so I was delighted to hear from Timo Baker our composer from Subvertical – the man behind some of our beautiful PUSH ME short scores before I met him [...]
Yesterday we were delighted to see our 2nd set of PUSH ME films grow in The Space to four. Bobby Baker, Laurence Clark and Sue Austin join Rachel Gadsden in Push Me Collection – The Journey. With another eight to be uploaded by The Space, we thought it would be timely to share with you [...]
Another sun kissed day of Unlimited treats as more of the Festival unravels and our PUSH ME artists put the best of their produce on show. Graeae and Strange Fruit are busy ensuring The Garden’s all set to bloom outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Bobby is cooking up her daily well being mix in her Mad [...]
We were delighted to see Rachel Gadsden’s second 90 second film up in The Space following the success of her body mapping workshop yesterday in the Clore Ballroom as part of the Unlimited Festival workshop programme.
Great to be down at the Southbank and see so many of our PUSH ME artists sharing there work with wider audiences – and also with each other. Although we on the team know the artists and their work well – it’s easy to forget that they don’t know each other. It’s brilliant for PUSH [...]
We have spent much of the weekend bumping into our Push Me artists out there promoting their work and in repose, soaking up the atmosphere of this extraordinary week for disabled people everywhere. The Southbank is awash with people enjoying not only the rich feast that the Unlimited Festival has brought to the capital but the [...]
Time to tell you more about our team – this time, it’s the turn of Jo Verrent the other half of the curation team as our Push artists and the Unlimited Festival wows The Metro. We caught up with Jo this morning on the cusp of staging Unlimited Voices, a series of talks and debates that she’s [...]
We’ve all been told how digital technologies are bringing audiences closer to the arts; are supporting new business models, networks and forms of creativity; and are offering artists new and exciting ways to connect with their audiences, but what about disabled creatives? Is Digital working for them too? Chaired by Push Me co curator, Sarah [...]