DaDaFest Rookies Development Grants
DaDaFest is offering £1000 grants to emerging disabled artists aged 12 – 30 to develop your skills.
Access All Areas
DaDaFest holds its main festival every two years. Steph Niciu describes making sure everyone is able to enjoy it.
Mapping Monday at DaDaFest: Skin Deep
Join us for the launch of a new interactive trail of deaf and disabled people’s histories around Liverpool on Monday 21st November.
Stimulating the Senses: How Normansfield Hospital used performance
Anna Ellis finds memories of an enlightened approach at Normansfield Hospital, very different to many Victorian asylums.
Disability and the theatre: The Government Inspector
Gogol’s play is one of a series by a group of UK theatres which want to reframe how disability is staged. The project is called ‘Ramps on the Moon’.
Unsung: remembering Edward Rushton
Unsung is a play telling the story of Edward Rushton, founder of the Royal School for the Indignant Blind. It aims to make the story of this forgotten hero, who also opposed slavery, better known.
To Langdon Down Centre and Museum of Learning Disability
A visit to Langdon Down Centre and Museum of Learning Disability, where Francesca discovers a giant carnival figure created by one of the residents, James Henry Pullen.