Posted inInterviews
Talking with Damien Coyle
Damien and I sit in the CastleCourt Foodhall which moments before was a performance space, for an informal and friendly conversation about University of Atypical, Bounce Festival and its future.…
Posted inReviews
Ruth McGinley – Transience
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Stepping into the back of the Crescent Arts Centre, you are transported via a glittering mirrorball to an old-fashioned cabaret bar, a million miles from…
Posted inReviews
Open Arts – Flashmob
★ ★ ★ ★ Belfast’s Castlecourt Shopping Centre was not prepared for this unique public intervention. With dancers from Luminous Soul moving to Open Art’s A cappella choir belting out…
Posted inArt Exhibition Reviews
Larry MacAree – Still Livin’
★ ★ ★ ★ The moment you enter the exhibition, you feel you are entering a private space. There is something so intimate about Larry’s work, you feel like you…
Posted infeature
Launching the 10th Bounce Arts Festival
There is something altogether more honest, warmhearted and open when an arts festival is run by disabled creatives for disabled acts. Whether it is built into the very bricks and…
Posted inInterviews Preview
Backstage with Don’t. Make. Tea.
If you make your way down the labyrinthine (yet accessible) corridors of The Traverse, you arrive in, what seems like, the bowels of the earth. It is down here that…
What I Want To Talk About by Pete Wharmby
★ ★ ★ ★ For anyone in our community who follows the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag, you will likely be aware of former teacher Pete Wharmby’s brilliant posts about the autistic experience.…
Posted inReviews Television
Then Barbara Met Alan
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Originally shown on the BBC in march, and now released on Netflix, this biography of the Disability Right’s Movement in the UK, is excellently shown…
Posted inReviews Television
John & Joe Bishop: Life After Deaf
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Life After Deaf focuses on comedian and Doctor Who actor John Bishop and his son Joe, who, at 15, unexpectedly lost his hearing to a…
Posted inReviews
Jake Donaldson: Neurotica
★★★ Partially sighted (‘or partially blind depending on how you look at it’) stand-up Jake Donaldson reclaims his disability in the opening moments of his show. It can often be…