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Manchester – 10 Feb-3 Mar 2012 – Resistance on Tour

lizcrow — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:13:42 +0000

Resistance on Tour to Manchester
Friday 10 February – Saturday 3 March 2012

Zion Arts Centre
335 Stretford Road, Hulme M15 5ZA
0161 226 1912 / info@zionarts.com
Open Mon-Friday 10am-9pm
Sat 9am-5pm

Events and talks (free entry) include:

Fri 10 Feb 10.00am-5.00pm: The Resistance Symposium in association with Manchester Metropolitan University (see below)

Sat 11 Feb 11.30am-1.30pm: Meet the Artist – Liz Crow talks about the making of Resistance
BSL interpreter present

From Mon 20 Feb: Workshops with Full Circle Arts – - details to be confirmed

Thu 1 Mar: Schools Outreach Project – a creative writing workshop in association with Manchester Metropolitan University – details to be confirmed

Manchester – Fri 10 Feb – The Resistance Symposium

lizcrow — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:15:17 +0000

The Resistance Symposium, in association with Manchester Metropolitan University

Zion Arts Centre
335 Stretford Road, Hulme M15 5ZA

Registration from 10am, presentations from 11am
Free entry and open to all

The Resistance symposium sets out to explore contemporary critical and cultural representations of disability from both an academic perspective and from the perspective of practising artists and arts organisations. The symposium will include presentations by Liz Crow, Professor Dan Goodley and Dr Lucy Burke of the Critical Disability Studies network at Manchester Metropolitan University and a roundtable discussion involving Liz Crow and Chris Hammond of Full Circle Arts.

Session One: Critical and Cultural Disability Studies Today
11.00am: Presentation by Professor Dan Goodley, MMU
12.00pm: Presentation by Dr Lucy Burke, MMU, ‘Disability is Ordinary’
1.00pm: Lunch and an opportunity to view the exhibition
2.00pm: Presentation by Liz Crow: The Making of Resistance, including the historical background and the core messages for the disabled people’s movement today
3.00pm: Coffee
3.30pm: Disability Arts Today Roundtable Discussion
4.45pm: Close

5.00pm Resistance launch event

For more information on access enquiries, contact Zion Arts Centre box office 0161 226 1912 / info@zionarts.com / zionarts.com/
For more information about the symposium programme or to book an interpreter, contact Lucy Burke L.Burke@mmu.ac.uk

Manchester – Sat 11 Feb – Meet the Artist

lizcrow — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:19:20 +0000

11.30am-1.30pm: Meet the Artist

Artist Liz Crow talks about the experience of making Resistance, the history behind it and her controversial appearance on the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth as part of Antony Gomley’s ‘One & Other’ project. Talk with Q&A.

Zion Arts Centre
335 Stretford Road, Hulme M15 5ZA

Free entry and open to all
Recommended age 11+. Entry free.

For more information on access enquiries contact Zion Arts Centre box office 0161 226 1912 / info@zionarts.com / zionarts.com/

For Holocaust Memorial Day

lizcrow — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:03:20 +0000

Talks about the disability holocaust and what it means for us all today.

200+ at Telling Our Stories

lizcrow — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:53:14 +0000

The audience at Telling Our Stories was so big that people were queuing to get in! Running alongside Resistance at Bristol MShed, Telling Our Stories was a day of film, performance, talks and more to celebrate UK Disability History Month.

Theft of equipment

lizcrow — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:58:35 +0000

“Gloucester Cathedral is saddened to report that the video installation Resistance: which way the future? by Liz Crow has been forced to close due to the theft of equipment. We apologise for the disappointment to visitors wishing to view the installation.”

In the spirit of resistance, we reopen at the University of Bedford on Friday 22 November.

We’re in Ink Pellet magazine

lizcrow — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:58:51 +0000

Resistance featured in July’s Ink Pellet magazine: ‘History as art’

Just published: ‘The ‘why’ of it’

lizcrow — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:11:25 +0000

Resistance on the plinth: the ‘why’ of it
Article by Liz Crow just out in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
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Disability Studies Conference keynote webcast

lizcrow — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:39:09 +0000

View Liz Crow’s keynote speech Resistance: transforming the future from 2010 International Disability Studies Conference at Lancaster University. Click on ‘Keynote speakers’.

Download transcript

Three continents, One week!

lizcrow — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:58:16 +0000

RGP screens five productions on three continents – Europe, Asia and North America – all in the same week!