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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.

Disabled & Proud Festival: A celebration of our culture, community and solidarity

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’ ).

  • seated audience in a semi circle, 3 in wheelchairs
    the audience performance in the evening
  • Man with hoover in front of the audience
    Norman Mine with hoover
  • Black woman with red cap with a sign 'I ama strong black women'
    ‘I am a strong black woman’
  • East Asian woman seated, hands up in air
    Lucy Sheen at workshop
  • 2 wheelchair users, one white with long green hair, the other a black woman. they are both smiling.
    Dennis and Jacqui
  • part of the evening performers, 2 wheelchair users with guitars
    evening performers
  • audience with camera man
    The evening performances were filmed
  • black woman, wheelchair user, with microphonewith
    Miss Jacqui belting out a number
  • white woman, wheelchair user, with a microphone
    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
  • library lobby in the morning as stalls were set up
    setting up stall
  • 2 women of colour sitting at a stall smiling
    from the Her Centre
  • wheelchair woman at an information stall
    Sue at an information stall
  • Flipboard with sign 'Disabled Women's Digital Quilt'
    Exhibition ‘Disabled Women’s Digital Quilt’
  • wheelchair user watching presentation
    Presentation : ‘Disabled Women’s Digital Quilt’
  • discussion and 2 people watching a presentation
    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.
Workshops

Workshops lead by Lucy Sheen and Annabel Crowley (drama ), Mx Dennis Queen and Miss Jacqui(music) and Richard Hering and Eleanor Lisney(smartphone video).

Some of the videos are here (captions to follow)

Short abstract of Lucy Sheen’s with Annabel Crowley’s workshop on drama making
Short abstract of Richard Herring’s and Eleanor Lisney’s workshop on smartphone videoing
Performance with workshop participants in the evening
see for the workshop video/version https://youtu.be/9hPfhHeUvzA

More to come soon!

Exhibitions at the Disabled&Proud Festival

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.

standing South East Asian woman is colourful jumber and a squatting man of mixed heritage putting pictures up on a black board.
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 standing white woman showing photos on a camera to East Asian woman with cap in a wheelchair. She is wearing a red scarf.
Photo of Natasha (with camera) and Eleanor (in wheelchair) by Emma
photos(top to bottom) of Christiane, (white woman smiling with short hair, glasses and a black top), Ciara (white woman with long hair pink top and purple waistcoat), Natasha, (white smailing woman with purple short sleeve top), Joanna, (light skinned smiling black with long brown tinged hair, woman )Emma (smiling white butch woman with glasses and patterned short), Sarifa (smiling Asian Muslim woman in white, head covered) and Eleanor (East Asian woman, smiling with glasses, cap and red scarf, hand on wheelchair controls.)
photos (top to bottom) of Christiane, Ciara, Natasha, Joanna, Emma, Sarifa and Eleanor