Category: Community News

  • Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Picture this…film festival

    Listen to this post: High fives all around! I’ve managed to alert you to an upcoming film festival in plenty of time to both attend it and even submit your film to the 2015 competition! I know I will be submitting a short to this one. The Picture this…film festival is part of the Calgary SCOPE…

  • An Injury For Life by Liam O’Brien on RTÉ

    Listen to this post: If there’s one thing I consume more than documentary movies, it’s radio documentaries. My visual system sometimes gets overloaded, or I get distracted from listening while I’m looking at a movie. So radio documentaries are the perfect thing to keep me constantly learning about other people, situations, societies and cultures. Just today,…

  • Plain Jane the Shockumentary about Jane Hash

    Listen to this post: Jane Hash. There’s a name you shouldn’t ever forget. She’s amazing, and her name is so useful. For example, who else can name their blog and podcast “Hash It Out With Jane” and be figurative and literal at the same time? Here, check out the blog, with links to the podcast and much…

  • Dolly Sen asks “What is madness?” at Portugal Prints

    Listen to this post: I found a fabulous video online for a workshop called Portugal Prints. They are a charitable organization in London. Here’s what they say on their website at www.portugalprints.org.uk: “We support people recovering from mental illness by offering them the chance to use their creativity in a commercial art and design studio as a…

  • Gimplecapped and other normal things

    Listen to this post: PC language. Sigh. For those of you who haven’t yet asked me, I do not like PC language. Even the term bothers me because it has “correct” in it. We’re talking about people and communities, cultures and histories, oppression and identity. Please don’t say there is any one way to be,…