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Welcome to the latest edition of the DAO bulletin. This is a free service promoting details of the most recent events and jobs / opportunities within the disability arts field. For more events and jobs / opportunities, please go directly to the listings pages on the DAO website Don't forget that as well as receiving the bulletin, you can also follow us on Facebook at http://tinyurl.com/kkks5e and Twitter at http://twitter.com/disabilityarts Best wishes, Colin Hambrook (DAO Editor) If you would like to add details of your events, opportunities or jobs, please post your listings via the online form

National events listings:

Shared Experience Theatre Company present Speechless
27/09/2011 - 28/09/2011 Co-produced by Shared Experience and Sherman Cymru, Speechless tells the extraordinary story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons. At the Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts, Poole, Dorset

Public Bodies, Hidden Histories: Disability on Display

28/09/2011 Panel discussion and opportunity to see the accompanying Re-Framing Disability

exhibition, currently on display at Shape.

A Clockwork Orange: Captioned and Audio Described Performances

30/09/2011 - 01/10/2011 A new adaptation with words by Ed DuRant and music by Fred Carl Anthony Burgess' cult novel A Clockwork Orange is re-imagined on the eve of its 50th anniversary. At Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London E15

Compagnie Animotion present The War of the Buttons

02/10/2011 A family show perfect for audiences, both Deaf and hearing. A tale of squabbles, scufflesand buttons! At Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire

Bruiser Theatre Company present Cooking With Elvis

07/10/2011 Sex, Food and The King what more could you ask for? Audio Described performance at the Island Arts Centre , The Island , Lisburn Co. Antrim N.Ireland

National jobs listings:

Personal Assistant required for 29 year old male
Location: Tower Hamlets, London | Closing date: 30 September 2011 Remuneration: 46 hours per month @ 8.02 Personal Assistant required for 29 year old male wheelchair-user, who is interested in Architecture, Art and Sports.

Trustee Board Members

Location: Farnham, Surrey | Closing date: 1 October 2011 Remuneration: Voluntary role StopGAP Dance Company are seeking Trustees to join the companys Board of Directors.

Finance and Governance Manager

Location: Rich Mix, 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA | Closing date: 12 October 2011 Remuneration: 35,000-37,000 pro-rata, 21 hours/three days per week engage wishes to recruit a Finance and Governance Manager to take a lead role in the management of engages finances, provide support for engages Board of Trustees and fulfil the role of Company Secretary.

Oska Bright Creative Producer

Location: Brighton | Closing date: 28 November 2011 Remuneration: 28,000 pro rata Are you inspired by the work of learning disabled film makers and artists? Do you have

experience of supporting learning disabled people to lead their own projects? Can you support film makers and digital artists with a learning disability to develop thei

National opportunity and workshop listings:

Sign up to our Signature accredited BSL courses today

22/09/2011 - 12/07/2012 Read on to find out what makes Shape's British Sign Language courses different from everyone else's...

Shape: Ambition workshops

13/09/2011 - 11/10/2011 Ambition is a series of four workshops that aim to identify areas that may need to change in order for participants to achieve their goals and help develop effective strategies for goal setting, time management and dealing with change.

'Strictly Collaborative Youth Theatre Company seek new members

12/09/2011 - 12/03/2012 Strictly Collaborative are currently looking for a small number of young people aged 1325 both disabled and non-disabled, to join the core company for their latest project at The Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth

ANNOUNCING BCS FIRST DISABILITY MEDIA FESTIVAL AND A SHORT FILM COMMISSION CONTEST!
25/08/2011 - 01/10/2011 Commission for Filmmakers with a Disability in Vancouver for Kickstart Disability Arts &

Culture's first Disability Media Festival

Theatre Interpreting course for BSL Interpreters

04/08/2011 - 09/10/2011 A 12 day part time training course August October 2011 for BSL Interpreters seeking to interpret live theatrical performances for Deaf BSL users

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