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Culture Access Showcase and Pop-Up Cafe
Culture Access Showcase: Pan-Disability Exhibition Launch
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
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)
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
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.
GDPIP video
The project is funded by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Partners are Greenwich University and Greenwich Disabled People Against Cuts.
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!
Joanna Abeyie in conversation about Diversity, accessibility and inclusion
with captions
the eventbrite announcement
Join us – join our workshops
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GREENWICH DISABLED PEOPLE’S INNOVATION PROJECT
A new FREE project designed and run by Disabled People for Disabled People in Greenwich.
Supporting people to improve wellbeing by:
Networking, making new friends and reconnecting with people.
Sharing information, skills and designing mini-projects.
Using experiences to influence positive change.
Interested? Want to know more?
https://bit.ly/greenwichcontactform
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Workshops and Mini-projects
Access and Barriers
Explore what good access means to you. How accessible are services and places near where you live? How could access be improved?
Cooking for wellbeing
How to make a variety of easy and delicious meals with or without support. Compile a ‘cookbook’ of meals that are healthy, affordable and easy to prepare.
Make your experiences count
Share good and bad experiences. What could have been done differently? Create a resource to promote ‘good practice’.
Accessible workshops will be held at The Bathway Theatre, SE18 6QX, with sessions being recorded for sharing online.
Greenwich Disabled People’s Innovation Project
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Video statements
Sajida Shah – https://youtu.be/uG-zQ2AV9Vg
Anne Novis – https://youtu.be/Oikn9qNH8b0
Sue Elsegood – https://youtu.be/eaR6TnGZwQ8
Carlo – https://youtu.be/3AX4_r3szJk
Andrew Evans – https://youtu.be/i3kA4DnxFng
Viv Cameron – https://youtu.be/x4shnLC_agY
Eleanor Lisney https://youtu.be/1SNmy5e4J1Y
Original press release
Greenwich Disabled People’s Innovation Project – a new project to increase disabled people’s influence, design resources and improve wellbeing.
Over the next 10 months, the Greenwich Disabled People’s Innovation Project will work with local disabled people in a series of FREE workshops and mini-projects to improve wellbeing by:
- Building new friendships and re-building connections lost during the pandemic,
- Sharing good / bad experiences and suggesting solutions,
- Learning new skills and developing projects using these skills,
- Identifying resources already available and designing new resources,
- Becoming expert representatives to influence matters important to local disabled people and their communities.
“I am excited about the project and how engagement in the workshops can be an empowerment experience and a tool for change in the community“
Anahita Harding, Culture Access co director
Workshops will be designed and run by local disabled people, for local disabled people and their supporters and will cover:
“Looking forward to being part of a co-creation process to find solutions to problems that matter #OpenThirdSpace“
David Hockham, Theatre Manager of the University of Greenwich’s Bathway Theatre
- Access in your area – good / bad examples and how to improve access.
- Making nutritious meals with or without support.
- Sharing your experiences to influence change.
“We are delighted to take part in this project to increase Disabled People’s wellbeing by building stronger networks to raise awareness, increase influence and ensure that Disabled Voices are heard.”
Jenny Hurst, Greenwich DPAC co founder
British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation and Personal Assistance (PA) support will be available (if required) during workshops.
The face-to-face workshops will also be made available to view online.
To register your interest and/or to receive information about the Greenwich Disabled People’s Innovation Project, please complete our online form
This project is funded by the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Peanut Butter Pudding (Vegan) for Auntie Helen
We don’t always get to see each other that often, but I enjoy that we keep in touch on social media. We have a shared love of animals, trees, making things, social justice, and of course vegan cooking.
board with a green knife
We’ve only got one planet, and we need to take better care of it. Very often, this also means taking better care of ourselves and each other too. Pollution, climate change, deforestation are human rights issues as well as environmental issues. The impacts of what we do have the power to create change, and it’s by sharing ideas and getting excited about them that we can learn to do better.
I will be attempting your moussaka recipe soon, with the appropriate number of cloves (not bulbs) of garlic. Your knitted mice will be watching to make sure I do it right.
This is what I’m making the next time you come down, whether by car or by boat.
Ingredients:
210g coconut cream
180g smooth peanut butter
20g icing sugar
20g golden syrup
25g dark chocolate
Method: Put a tin of coconut milk in the fridge upside down the night before you want to make this. This will separate it into a little coconut water and the coconut equivalent of clotted cream.
Scoop the top half of the tin of coconut milk into a bowl. Try not to eat it before it gets there. Save the other half of the tin to use in hot chocolate.
Add the peanut butter, icing sugar and golden syrup to the bowl.
Whisk until fluffy or the mixer (human or electric) starts to make noises. Pause, then whisk some more.
Spoon into serving dishes. Charity shops, when reopened, are a good place to hunt for pretty ones that cost about 20p.
Chop the chocolate into shards and sprinkle on the top. Put in the fridge to set slightly, or eat immediately.
Fleur enjoys experimenting with new recipes and cooking old favourites. Always assisted by someone who can take care of the chopping, lifting, and mixing, Fleur’s role in the kitchen is to create new flavour combinations, find ways of changing recipes to include what she has in the house or to work around her intolerances, and to lick the bowl.
Being Black and Disabled: intersections for Black History Month
We finally wrapped up on the last of our interview videos about the intercession of being Black and Disabled in our #BlackDisabledLivesMatter for Black History Project, funded by the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Look it up in our report/page.
Webinar recording is available on youtube
Interviews are also available on our youtube channel
Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Greenwich for funding
and thank you for the support of Woolwich Centre Library, Bathway Theatre, BME Volunteers and Greenwich DPAC
