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Culture Access Showcase and Pop-Up Cafe

Culture Access Showcase: Pan-Disability Exhibition Launch

Poster for Culture Access Showcase, Pan-Disability Exhibition Launch. Join us for the launch of the Culture Access Collective's Pan-Disability Showcase - an inclusive space celebrating creativity and accessibility. Date: Friday 14th March. Time 4-5pm. Location: Woolwich Centre Library, 35 Wellington Street, Woolwich SE18 6HQ. For BSL interpretation, please let us know by 7th March. RSVP & Inquiries: eleanor@cultureaccess.co.uk. We look forward to welcoming you! Culture Access logo, building an inclusive world, 3 cartoon figures within 2 blue rings. Photo from a previous session, with 6 attendees making artwork around a table

Join us for our upcoming exhibition launch on Friday 14th March 2025, from 4-5pm, at Woolwich Centre Library!

We look forward to welcoming you, whether you’ve been to any of our events before or are totally new.

Please direct RSVP & Inquiries to eleanor@cultureaccess.co.uk. If you need BSL interpretation, please let us know by 7th March.

Want to keep up to date with what’s going on? Follow the Culture Access Instagram page for the latest information!

Pop-Up Cafe Workshop

Poster for Pop-Up Cafe Workshop. Connecting Deaf and Disabled people/Londoners. BSL organised. Connect, eat, learn. February 15th 2025, 12 noon to 4pm. At GMV Community Centre, 2 Oswald Gardens, SE10 0SH. RSVP - eleanor@cultureaccess.co.uk, Room for 30. Culture Access logo, building an inclusive world, 3 cartoon figures within 2 blue rings. 5 photos of Deaf and Disabled people from different backgrounds, one eating colourful bowl of food, one doing the OK or good sign towards the camera, and 3 wheelchair users, one eating in their kitchen, one in a large event space, and one looking up at a colleague holding a laptop

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our pilot of the Pop-Up Cafe!

Hear from some of those who joined us below for our very first session, and be sure to join us for future sessions.

(The videos below all have auto captions or a transcript)

Sajida and Kamila express their views on the Pop-Up Cafe
Councillor Denise Scott-McDonald at the first Pop-Up Cafe
Clare Williams on what she’s looking forward to with Culture Access
Sue Elsegood on the Pop-Up Cafe

Transcript:

I think that’s a really brilliant idea for different people locally to have to get together, to get work, support each other, do some workshops. Basically, yeah, just to have that opportunity to connect is really brilliant so hopefully it all goes really well and I’ll be involved, so yeah.

Co productive Meetings at the Queer Circle

One of the meetings at the Queer Circle : celebrating Eid with the BSL interpreter

For the past year, we have been having our meetings at the Queer Circle, Greenwich Peninsula. We are very grateful to them for hosting us so kindly and warmly. We celebrated each others festivals – for some of us, we do not have family here to celebrate those holidays with us. We were funded by the Community Knowledge Fund, Young Foundation. Much gratitude to them for the learning experience to too. And to David Hockham from Greenwich University who accompanied us on the learning journey.

We exchanged stories and we also started on a piece of art work which will express our identities and impairments. We listened to each other – with some differences of opinion.

We look forward to finishing the piece of work that we co produced and are proud of. We are looking for a public space to display it! Its exciting.

Group of people, 3 men and 3 women, one with face mask around a table with colourful artwork
Group members working together on the piece of work, assembling what we started with individual canvases.

the co produced cookbook is out!

recipe booklets (blue and white with logos) and photos and text of contributors
the recipe booklets

Cooking with support

These are tips for accessible cooking/ cooking with support – tips from a workshop which resulted in this co created cookbook.

We published a cookbook from the shared recipes, adding some wonderful illustrations from Deborah Caulfield. We did a hard copy because we realised for many deaf and disabled and older people, they missed out on digital resources as they do not have access – for a variety of reasons. However, there are QR codes linked in the book for further information and resources.

This is funded by Greenwich Council so if you would like a copy and you are in #RBG send us an email at eleanor@cultureaccess.co.uk

Download the cookbook here.

Sustaining the momentum

The aim of the Greenwich Disabled People’s Innovation Project (GDPIP) was to built a group of deaf and disabled people in the area where we can meet ‘out of the isolation’ of the pandemic.

We made an effort to connect with different disabled people and organisations – some of whom responded and joined our workshops. but we knew the funding would run out and we would like to sustain the momentum.

We were lucky enough to secure some funding from the Young Foundation and the Queer Circle at the Design District were kind enough to provide us with a venue.

Follow us here to know how we are getting on, we will be giving more details soon!

some people around a table, 3 women, 5 men. one with a face mask, one signing. There is food and water on the table.

3rd #GDPIP workshop Bathway Theatre, Woolwich

Figure images in flyer - top right, woman with purple head dress doing sign language, woman in red wheelchair with megaphone and hand raised, bottom left, person with bun, sunglasses with white cane.
The third workshop 3rd Dec, lunch at noon, starts at 1pm – 4pm at Bathway Theatre, Woolwich. Let us know if you want to join us at hello@cultureaccess.co.uk

Share your experiences, your experience matters! What could have been done differently? Share good and bad experiences! This workshop was postponed to Jan 28th 2013, lunch at 12 noon

Speakers, lead by Kirsten Hearn, Leader, facilitator, coach, trainer, consultant, and non-executive director at national and regional level from a public service, community action, equality and creative arts background.

And Jenny Hurst, Personal Budget coordinator, Greenwich Disabled People Against Cuts co founder and Disability equality trainer.

see Photos at Flickr

see first workshop : Accessibility and Barrier

second workshop at Cooking with Support

Workshop 2: Cooking with support

Greenwich Disabled People’s Innovation Project Workshop 2: Cooking with support. Saturday, 3rd December 2022 | 1-4pm @ the Bathway Theatre, SE18 6QX


[Behind the title is an image of a standing person holding hands with a wheelchair user]
Join us to explore and discover together how to cook food with help (tips on access, etc.) & co-produce a cook book written BY disabled people FOR disabled people.
Using a microwave & an airfyer on-site (both more economically and use less energy) we will be incorporating this workshop with a diverse range of recipes including vegan & gluten free options.
Facilitated by Eleanor Lisney – Eleanor has been working on accessible cooking for many years – since she was a student.
Limited spaces! [Beside is an image of a visually impaired person cooking on a pan.] So please Sign up by email: hello@cultureaccess.co.uk
£60 honourarium for participation & co-production. 
[Bottom right: logos of Culture Access, Greenwich Disabled People Against Cuts (GDPAC), University of Greenwich and funded by Royal Borough of Greenwich]

see our Recipes page from our participants (Recipe booklet to come later)

see first workshop : Accessibility and Barrier

see third workshop: Share Your Experiences

First GDPIP workshop: Accessibility & Barriers

Photos from the first workshop

Greenwich Disabled Peoples’ Innovation Project #GDPIP
Workshop #1: Accessibility and Barriers
WHERE: Bathway Theatre, Bathway, London, SE18 6QX
WHEN: 17th September 2022, 12PM – 4PM

We Want To Hear From You!
• What are your views on the support currently provided?• What are your experiences?
• How can we better support Greenwich residents?

There will be a light lunch provided at noon and the event will be recorded for people who are not able to be there. Please let us know if you do not wish to be recorded.

Limited Places – £60 token for time and co-production.
Speakers:
• Christiane Link is the founder and director of Ortegalink Ltd., an inclusion and accessibility consultancy. 
• Anahita Harding is a wheelchair user who has been campaigning for Transport for All on local transport issues. She is also one of the Culture Access directors.
• Members of Greenwich DPAC will also be there to work alongside.
Facilitator:
• Fides Dagongdong (she/they) is a non-binary, queer and disabled Decolonisation Academic, Content Creator & Facilitator and Human Rights Activist.
If you wish to be included or would like local issues to be included, please contact: hello@cultureaccess.co.uk and/or greenwichdpac@gmail.com

See our Consultation Response to the Transport Strategy Draft of the Royal Borough of Greenwich as a result from the workshop.

For photos see Flickr

see second workshop Cooking With Support

see our Recipes page from our participants (Recipe booklet to come later)

see third workshop: Share Your Experiences