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Arts, Disability & Disability Arts. Cabaret & Burlesque. Other stuff.


Arts, Disability & Disability Arts

www.Phocomedia.com ( my sibling web site for all merchandise and further details of my productions)

www.bbc.co.uk/ouch the BBC’s disability web site, with a monthly podcast co hosted by me and Liz Carr

Alan Martin http://www.mouseonthemove.co.uk/ Alan Martin is the only Inclusive Dance Workshop Leader using an electronic communication aid. He also offers training and presentations in a wide range of Disability Issues
Website of the multimedia artist Katherine Araniello (disabled woman).

Artsline http://www.artsline.org.uk/" Artsline offers a free telephone information service which is open to people of all ages with any kind of disability. Artsline can supply "what's on" details for all London's arts and entertainment venues and, from its extensive database, can provide detailed access information on hundreds of theatres, cinemas, tourist attractions, selected restaurants and comedy and music venues."

Creative Arts East http://www.creativeartseast.co.uk/ Create! is the Disability Arts Service for Norfolk. If you are looking for disability art and culture this is the place to be. Create is part of Creative Arts East, a fast-growing arts development agency which provides practical support to the arts community in Norfolk. For more info, email Ann Young onann@creativeartseast.co.uk

Disability Arts http://www.disabilityarts.com/ Colin Hambrook’s new e magazine dealing with all things related to Disability Arts.

 http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/ This is the UK's leading disability site, giving a whole range of useful information: articles, links, adverts and an archive.

 http://www.graeae.org/"Graeae is unique as the only full time professional theatre company of disabled people in the world!"

http://www.heartnsoul.co.uk/ "Heart'n'Soul is a dynamic arts organisation offering creative opportunities to people with learning disabilities."

IGODAP http://www.igodap.org/ The International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers.

Visible Theatre - www.visibletheatre.org  - Bringing the Anarchy of Life to the Discipline of the Stage

LDAF http://www.ldaf.net/ "The London Disability Arts Forum (LDAF) was founded in 1986 by a group of disabled people frustrated by the lack of provison for disability in the arts world... In all it does, LDAF seeks to strengthen and develop the image of disability arts and culture."

http://www.ndaf.org/ "The National Disability Arts Forum's mission is to create equality of opportunity for disabled people in all aspects of the arts. The Forum's strategies to create such opportunity are centred around promoting and supporting the development of Disability Arts from local to international levels and working with arts and other organisations in developing accessible arts environments."

 http://www.nwdaf.co.uk/ North West Disability Art Forum. I am proud to be one of their patrons

Outsiders http://www.outsiders.org.uk/ "Self help, friendship and love."

Max Zadow: disabled film maker, editor, director and artist: www.onteca.com  and  www.cultcargo.net

Oval House http://www.ovalhouse.com/ Cutting edge theatre, dance, education, and more! I am on the Board of this excellent cutting edge theatre.

Live Art London http://www.liveartlondon.demon.co.uk/ "The Live Art Development Agency is a new organisation offering a portfolio of services and resources for the support of Live Art in London...provides practical information and advice and offers opportunities for dialogue, debate, research and training."

http://www.kontejner.org  The Croatian art people in Zagreb, that give me great work

First Photo "The aim of this website is to offer editorial, corporate and art-buying clients a stimulating cross section of work of London based photojournalist Patrick Barth."

The Erotic Awards
http://www.sfc.org.uk/ Promoting reforms of Britains silly old sex laws....

 http://www.shockedandamazed.com/ An information site for those interested in all things to do with freakshows, circus performers, e.g. Grady Stiles, the "Lobster Boy" etc etc...it's where I got my best photos of the real Sealo the Sealboy.

Dan Jones: writer, artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. And floorer.
www.Upperparts.com

Wrong Bodies <http://www.wrongbodies.com/> "an onslaught against the culture of body beautiful" by a collection of artists from the disabled, queer, the "ugly", and others declared unacceptable by society... email: wrongbodies@hotmail.com

Dorrie Halliday http://www.dorriehalliday.com is a digital artist working with both traditional media and new technologies.  During her career she has experimented with her artistic skills and utilized a variety of technology and methods including: wearable sculpture, digital image manipulation, animation, installation, performance and professional film production techniques.  Dorrie Halliday is Dyslexic and has recently been diagnosed with MS, she has campaigned to help children with Dyslexia with her work in schools, in her art work and on the radio.  Dorrie is using her art to understand the new challenges that becoming physical disabled has brought to her and others and is working on a series of new films.

www.XavierLeret.com ( Site of Artistic director of KAOS Theatre Co, and film maker, writer, and more..)

Paul Sapin: producer/director with xray spex ‘will change the way you look at the world’ www.sapinxray.com

 http://www.gertruderock.com/ gertrude are an all female 5 piece who work as a collective and specialise in hard edged soundscapes.

www.leroymoore.com
The man who invented Krip Hop and puts the compilations LP’s together (Volume two on its way). A poet, creator of Sins Invalid, and much more. Lives in Oakland, land of the Black Panthers, and is one of the naked gimp models from our session in 2007. A black disabled man with a large brain and a big mouth.

Heavy Load are a Brighton based punk band made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities, they are also the inventors of the infamous Stay Up Late campaign.
www.heavyload.org
www.stayuplate.org
www.myspace.com/heavyloaduk

www.maggiedogfilms.piczo.com
Website of some independent film making weirdos who really shouldn’t be allowed near film. And they’re disabled too, ugh.
Maggie Dog Films Ltd Tel: (44) 01633 255719

DAO (Disability Arts Online) is a unique online project reflecting on
the lives of disabled people, from the unique viewpoint afforded by the
Arts. http://www.disabilityarts.org

Kevin Donellon, Thalidomider, political analyst
www.kevindonnellon.com

 

 

Cabaret & Burlesque:

Julie Atlas Muz: www.julieatlasmuz.com
Miss Exotic World and Miss Coney Island 2006. This is the woman who put politics back into Burlesque for me, a post feminist icon, witty subversive, intelligent, she is on her own when it comes to the subversion and homage conjoinment of this genre. A great artist, choreographer, actor, collaborator of Live Art, and much more....

The Whoopeeclub http://www.whoopeeclub.com/ The Burlesqueteers who introduced me to it all, Lara and Tamara.

BurlyQ http://www.burlyq.com/ A great troupe of burlesqueers. Their recent BurlyQ Revue was phenomenal, watch out for it’s return!

Lily Dumont: www.myspace.com/lilydumont  "Actor, writer and award winning burlesque artist (winner of Erotic Award for best performance artist 2006 )

Gwendoline Lamour http://www.gwendolinelamour.com/ Erotic burlesque performer.

The Teasemaids: www.teasemaids.co.uk  A great troupe of dedicated and intelligent girls, teasing and pleasing.

Diva hollywood  http://www.myspace.com/divahollywood .... Who knows? Her past is shrouded in clouds of mystery all we know is that she keeps appearing in different personas all through history and now she is back as performer/ burlesque dancer

Dirty Martini
www.myspace.com/dirtymartiniburlesque
This woman is simply the best in her field, there ain’t no one like Dirty Martini, icon of International burlesque striptease, the best tassler ever, and much much more.

Tigger!
www.myspace.com/tiggernyc

gendersurrender
James Tigger! Ferguson is an actor/dancer/stripper/librarian who has performed in New York and abroad for 20 years. In 2006 he was honored to win the 1st ever Mr. Exotic World title (Best Boylesque) at The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.

The Wau Wau Sisters
www.wauwausisters.com

wauwau
No show is complete without The Wau Wau Sisters, New York City's bravest and bawdiest burlesque duo and the act that the New York Times calls 'irreverent, sacrilegious, lascivious, foul-mouthed, and uninhibited!'

 

Other Stuff:

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected
animals. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the purple box "fund food for animals" for free. This doesn't cost you a thing.
Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.
Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.
The address is: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
Please click and do it NOW.

NEMESIS : by-passing the lie-machine   www.nemesisawake.com

I am proud to be a patron of this organisation:  Europeans for Medical Progress Trust - protecting human health by promoting human-specific medical research.  www.curedisease.net

Animal Aid: name speaks for itself, and animals: www.animalaid.co.uk “The 21st century will be the century of ethics, or it will not be at all” (Andre Menache)

Dynamic Self Defence was founded by a group of dedicated instructors who had a common goal of taking the best martial art and self defence techniques and combining them into a comprehensive self-development program."

CHARLIE'S THAI SILK LTD : if you want top quality silk from Thailand, this is the place to go.... http://www.charliesthaisilk.co.uk/
PO BOX 53919, LONDON   SW15 3YJ

www.coneyisland.com Dick Z.Zigun’s website for the Coney Island Sideshow. Freaks, geeks, girls, hot dogs, rides and beer. Vital freak show and carnival showbiz history in the museum, and much much more!

 


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