Outreach Workshops News Stories 2009
Carmarthenshire Transitions
We were asked by Carmarthenshire County Council to create a workshop day which would help them in finding out what young disabled people in the area want from their transitions service. The transitions service is a new initiative in Carmarthenshire set up to help create a smooth transition for young people from children's services to adult services. READ MORE..
Bang 2
Bang is an annual residential summer school for young people aged 11 - 15. It takes place over 2 weeks in August, with one week in English and one week in Welsh. Throughout the week the young people take part in workshops in drama, dance, music and writing, culminating in a sharing performance in the Glanfa area of the WMC at the end of the week. READ MORE..
Unity Festival 2009
From June 15th - 22nd we had our annual Unity Festival which went incredibly well. A massive thank you to everyone who came to performances and workshops, we hope you enjoyed it. For further information why not have a look at our report by following this link: READ MORE..
Purely Lovely
This was a really exciting project which both myself and Gaynor worked on. The concept was to create a "youth" Odyssey group by working with up to 6 students from each of the four schools, which included Woodlands Special School, meaning that this would be a mixed ability group of about 24. READ MORE..
Cardiff People First
This was a lovely project with 5 members of Cardiff Young People First. We had 12 sessions over 12 weeks. The sessions focused on bringing the group together as a team and creating a short forum theatre play on the subject of bullying. READ MORE..
ATEGI
ATEGI is an organization which provides support for learning disabled and disabled clients in supported housing and in the community. We were asked to work with members of their learning disabled steering group towards creating some scenes which would be about supporting people to make decisions.
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Oska Bright Film Festival
Back in early 2008 Sara Beer at Disability Arts Cymru had the idea to create a Welsh entry for the Oska Bright Film Festival. The Oska Bright Film Festival is based in Brighton and is run by and for people with learning disability. It showcases films made by learning disable film makers READ MORE..
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