#ADiffWayToThink Since July 2019 we been running a sector facing social media campaign using the hashtag #ADiffWayToThink, where we share relevant reports, news items and good practice in the last week of every month which covers many subjects such as; ‘Understanding the Social Model of Disability’, ‘Questions we are afraid to ask’, T’he Aesthetics of Access’ …
The 3 Creative R&D’s As Part of our A Different Way programme we have developed new shows for different age ranges . Following the ideology of ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, the aims was to create work with, not for, young Disabled people. This meant there was no artists locking themselves in a room before …
The #ADiffWay Symposium Let’s get beyond the basics of access & inclusion. Let’s talk about true representation. Let’s tell important stories. Let’s make our TYA programming relevant. Let’s make theatre that resonates. The #ADiffWay Symposium was for arts organisations both large and small, appealing to programmers, commissioners, learning & outreach teams, general managers, chief execs …
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A Different Way Overview Today, 29th April 2020, was the day of the A Different Way Symposium in Leicester. It was the culmination of 12 months of work, It now on hold but to mark today we wanted to share with you what we have been up to and celebrate all the partners, artists, participants and …
Like most since late February we’d been keeping a careful eye on the news and official recommendations, but it wasn’t until we took a moment and started to listen to our community that we truly understood. We spoke with our artist, partners and creative teams, and by mid-March came to the conclusion that postponing our …
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I am sure this will not come as a surprise, but we have had to make the difficult decision to postpone the A Different Way: Symposium which was scheduled for the 29th April. We realise that this will be disappointing news, however we aim to reschedule the event in Autumn 2020. We have been keeping a careful eye on …
Performer Call Out for “Special” A Different Way is a project led by Daryl Beeton Productions, with core partners Half Moon Theatre, Spark Arts for Children, New Wolsey Theatre and Mimbre with supporting partners Graeae Theatre Company, Attenborough Arts Centre and TYA UK, to support the growth of inclusive theatre for young audiences. A Different Way …
Last month we started the R&D on our new show for 3 - 6 year olds called ‘An Unseen World’. As always we start from a point of participatory activities with an age appropriate group of children and young people, on this occasion we were working with 2 reception classes from Globe Primary School in …
As part of our A Different Way #ADiffWay programme, we have just completed the first stages of research and development (R&D) for Look Mum, No Hands! Look Mum, No Hands! is a show for 8-12 year olds that explores ‘risk’ and ‘independence’. It’s a story of two friends discovering how each other’s boundaries as they …
We have lots of work taking place at the moment as part of A Different Way - a ‘show and tell’ project connecting Theatre for Young Audiences with Disabled audiences and artists. Our work on the “Special” R&D continues with one of our partners, The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. We’ve been working with one …
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