This current coronavirus pandemic means that for many of us, disabled
people with social isolation, are restricted to virtual meetings.
As it means no eating together – here’s a new project in that we
would cook a dish with the friend in mind and share it here. The recipes
here are not expert cooking but shared with love.)
My friend, Frieda Van Der Poll,
used to help me in Coventry to do all sorts of things – one of which,
is to help me cook. She also supported me in access auditing and
organise projects for Connect Culture.
Now that I moved to London, we don’t have much of those opportunities
anymore. When we had a conversation lately, I discovered that she has
become a pescatarian and we (of course) discussed recipes!
So this dish is for Frieda, something we would definitely enjoy together. It is very simple.
This current coronavirus pandemic means that for many of us, disabled
people with social isolation, are restricted to virtual meetings.
As it means no eating together – here’s a new project in that we
would cook a dish with the friend in mind and share it here. The recipes
here are not expert cooking but shared with love.)
Rob (instagram @veggielad) is a vegan – he is also my friend Holly’s husband, and I was invited to their lovely wedding not so long ago. I feel guilty that the last time we ate together, there wasn’t a proper vegan dish on the restaurant menu. Hence I am offering this – in place of a proper meal which will have to wait till the pandemic and my social isolation ends. I thought this might be a good simple dish to share – with all ingredients that can be found in a store cupboard. This is such an easy dish that Naomi and I made it together while watching an episode of Chinese drama (explanation of the sound in the background.)
This current coronavirus pandemic means that for many of us, disabled people with social isolation, are restricted to virtual meetings.
As it means no eating together – here’s a new project in that we would cook a dish with the friend in mind and share it here. The recipes here are not expert cooking but shared with love.)
My friend, Bonnie Chiu, is from Hong Kong. We have worked on co production projects. We ‘ve also been to different events together and most importantly, I was invited to her wedding!
I was telling her about this project and she told me she’d like a Malaysian curry chicken! Now I think I can manage that. Not sure if Malaysian friends agree with me, but here goes.
Ingredients
cut up chicken portions (from 1 small chicken, I prefer free range corn fed chicken) Malaysian curry powder (found in Asian supermarkets and on Amazon) Coconut milk /cream – 10 cloves of garlic (depends on how garlicky you want it ot be) – stick of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped finely – at least 5/6 shallots 5 star anise 1 stick of cinnamon 5 pieces of tamarind soaked (or juice or paste) 4/5 tablespoons neutral oil
ingredients on a round plate: chicken pieces. chopped shallots, chopped garlic, chopped ginger, curry poweder in a packet (kari ayam, adabi brand), tin of coconut milk, with spices – cinnamon, tamarind, cloves, snar anise.
cooking method
First step
Prepare all the ingredients. James used a few kitchen utensils here – apart from a spatula, he easo used tongs and a spoon.
Heat up the wok or pan with vegetable oil. Best not to use olive oil which will be too strong tasting. fry the ginger, garlic and shallots gently. This is best ground together but I stepped away at the moment and forgot to tell the PA that step. Add the curry powder making sure it doesn’t get burnt by adding more oil if necessary.
second step
Add the chicken at this point. Keep stirring – this is where you need someone with a strongish wrist! Add more oil if it looks dry and also the water used to soaked the tamarind. After a few minutes, add the rest of the spices and the coconut milk. Give it a good stir.
third step
Leave the curry to simmer for at least 20 minutes. In the meantime, you can prepare whatever you want to accompany the dish. I had some rice prepared and some tomatoes and crispy fried onion flakes. Season to taste. When I have more fresh vegetables, I like it with a fresh salad and /or with cucumber.
Malaysian chicken curry with onion flakes and cherry tomatoes
Hope you like it, Bonnie.
By Eleanor, assisted by James.
Eleanor Lisney
Eleanor ‘s love for all types of
cuisine comes from being Malaysian born and bred. She started to cook
at university at Canterbury and learn about French cuisine when she was a
stay at home mum for more than 10 years in Strasbourg, France.
She finds cooking on her own more problematic and gets her PAs / friends to help her do the heavy work so she can do some cooking from her wheelchair.
This current coronavirus pandemic means that for many of us, disabled
people with social isolation, are restricted to virtual meetings.
As it means no eating together – here’s a new project in that we
would cook a dish with the friend in mind and share it here. The recipes
here are not expert cooking but shared with love.)
I asked Liz Carr what she fancied, she said something with rice (she saw an episode of Ready, Steady Cook and it was a rice dish and made her hungry) so rice it is to be.
As a disabled performance artist, it was a privilege to have participated in the second half of the festival in Greenwich Library. The festival was a great platform to showcase my art to the disabled community and for me to be exposed to other disabled artists, of whom I may not have met and experienced their work had it not been for the festival. – Sorena, performing artist
This festival was partly to celebrate Disability History Month ( Disability History Month runs from 22 November to 22 December every year ) and also the UN International Day of Disabled People (3rd December. The theme for this 2019 IDPD is ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’ ).
the audience performance in the evening
Norman Mine with hoover
‘I am a strong black woman’
Lucy Sheen at workshop
Dennis and Jacqui
evening performers
The evening performances were filmed
Miss Jacqui belting out a number
Naomi telling her story
The day started at the library with the exhibitions and information stalls, there is much footfall at Woolwich Centre Library on a Saturday afternoon with disabled and non disabled visitors.
The information stalls and exhibitions
setting up stall
from the Her Centre
Sue at an information stall
Exhibition ‘Disabled Women’s Digital Quilt’
Presentation : ‘Disabled Women’s Digital Quilt’
Exhibition: *Neurodiversions*
In *Neurodiversions* Annabel Crowley and Shura Joseph-Gruner present their creative responses to their day-to-day neurodiversions.
Exhibition : Digital Quiltof Disabled Women (pilot by Eleanor Lisney and Natasha Hirst and others) will be presented. This project was one of those joint shortlisted in the Royal Borough of Greenwich bid to be the borough of culture.
This pilot series of photos and videos was organised and co produced with the disabled women featured, by Natasha Hirst and Eleanor Lisney. They were all taken on the same one day at the Jetty cafe, Greenwich Peninsula. The photos were taken to highlight the lives, work and diversity of some disabled women in London, to be a pilot of a Digital Quilt of Disabled women.
This festival is partly to celebrate Disability History Month ( Disability History Month runs from 22 November to 22 December every year ) and also the UN International Day of Disabled People (3rd December. The theme for this 2019 IDPD is ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’).
Joanna is an award-winning, agenda-setting Diversity champion and recruiter, social campaigner, TV executive, broadcaster and journalist. As a campaigner for diversity within the publishing, TV, Radio, Digital and Creative Industries, Joanna is regularly at the centre of the diversity agenda, leading conversations around inclusion and representation.
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the Performers
Sorena Francis : Sorena is a performance artist, writer and activist. She engages in activities around disability rights and justice, and ways to shape and improve services for sick and disabled people. She’s is a Thrive London Champion, an initiative that seeks to improve the mental wellbeing of all Londoners.
Naomi Jacobs : Naomi will be telling a personal story of moments on the margins as an autistic person, reflecting on stories as tools for stepping more boldly into who we are, as activists and as people.
Norman Mine : Norman is a Neapolitan artist based in London who practices is exploring aspects of ordinary personal experiences and how the modern obsession of the self is merging into and shifting between narratives of both fiction and paranoia.
Erika Leadbeater : Erika is a multidisciplinary Artist, activist and ambassador of The Survivors Trust. Her work is a sensory celebration of feminist and social issues.
Miss Jacqui : Miss Jacqui is a poet, songwriter, artist and truthteller.
Richard Downes : Richared is a poet and writes for Disability Arts Online. “I always wanted to write. I practiced for years. I played guitar and sang. I took photographs. ”
Dennis Queen : Dennis is a grassroots activist and musician who has been performing in the disabled people’s movement since the turn of the century.
Chisato Minamimura : Chisato will be there with her Scored in Silence – Dance Documentary Film screening of excerpt from “Scored in Silence” (12 mins) followed by a Q&A from Chisato Minamimura and producer Amy Zamarripa Solis (8 mins)
This festival is partly to celebrate Disability History Month ( Disability History Month runs from 22 November to 22 December every year ) and also the UN International Day of Disabled People (3rd December. The theme for this 2019 IDPD is ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’ ).
30th Nov 2019 Saturday at Woolwich Centre Library.
Exhibitions
In *Neurodiversions* Annabel Crowley and Shura Joseph-Gruner present their creative responses to their day-to-day neurodiversions.
Annabel and Shura putting some of their pictures up at Woolwich Centre Library
“everyday wandering; going off topic; (de-)stimming; trying to enjoy the ride” In this joint exhibition, Annabel Crowley and Shura Joseph-Gruner present their creative responses to their day-to-day neurodiversions. Ask Annabel or Shura if you would like a talking tour of the works! Includes: photography, video and print. Bios: Annabel Crowley is an artist and MA researcher into cultures of neurodivergence at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL). She has worked in and around disability since 2008, currently as an access and inclusion specialist (+ visiting lecturer) at UAL and a co-director of Culture Access. Shura Joseph-Gruner is an artist and teacher whose practice includes photography and curation. He works between the Brit School and UAL, helping to facilitate the creative practices of disabled students from Key Stage 4 to postgraduate studies.
Exhibition : Digital Quiltof Disabled Women (pilot by Eleanor Lisney and Natasha Hirst and others) will be presented. This project is one of those joint shortlisted in the Royal Borough of Greenwich bid to be the borough of culture.
This pilot series of photos and videos was organised and co produced with the disabled women featured, by Natasha Hirst and Eleanor Lisney. They were all taken on the same one day at the Jetty cafe, Greenwich Peninsula.
The photos were taken to highlight the lives, work and diversity of some disabled women in London, to be a pilot of a Digital Quilt of Disabled women.
Videos will be shown at the library.
Photo of Natasha (with camera) and Eleanor (in wheelchair) by Emma
photos (top to bottom) of Christiane, Ciara, Natasha, Joanna, Emma, Sarifa and Eleanor
Scored in SIlence – Dance Documentary Film screening of excerpt from “Scored in Silence” (12 mins) followed by a Q&A from Chisato Minamimura and producer Amy Zamarripa Solis (8 mins). There will be sound, music, sign mime and voiceover in the film, as well as a live BSL interpreter.
“Scored
in Silence” is Chisato’s new solo digital artwork that unpacks the
untold tales of deaf hibakusha – survivors of the A-Bombs that fell in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and their experiences at the time and
afterwards. 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings and it is also the year that Tokyo will also host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“Scored in Silence” was developed alongside partners VibraFusionLab in Ontario, Canada and showcased at Brighton Digital Festival and Manchester Science Festival in 2018. It was selected for the British Council Edinburgh Fringe Festival Showcase in August 2019. It will be part of Disabled & Proud Festival evening performances 6-8pm. Woolwich Centre Library 35 Wellington Street, Woolwich SE18 6HQ
Chisato Minamimura is a dance artist and art presenter born in Japan, now based in London. She has created, promoted, performed & taught dance across 20 countries, including 3 years (2003-6) as a company member of internationally-renowned CandoCo Dance. She was involved in Aerial Performances with Graeae Theatre Company, London Paralympic Opening Ceremony 2012 and Rio 2016 Paralympic Cultural Olympiad. She approaches choreography from her unique perspectives as a Deaf artist, creating what she calls ‘visual sound/ music’.
Exhibition *Neurodiversions* Annabel Crowley and Shura Joseph-Gruner present their creative responses to their day-to-day neurodiversions.
Exhibition : Digital Quilt of Disabled Women (work in progress by Eleanor Lisney and Natasha Hirst and others) will be presented.
There will also be stalls (let us know if you would like one by emailing: eleanor (at) cultureaccess.co.uk) and display of books to celebrate Disability History Month
Evening Perfomances will be compered by Joanna Abeyie with Disabled artists such as Miss Jacqui(spoken word artist), Dennis Queen(musician and singer), Janine Booth(Poet, author and activist), Sorena Francis and more to be announced. Contact us (eleanor (at) cultureaccess.co.uk) if you would like to perform. There will be BSL interpreters.
