Check out the Arts and Disability Website

www.artsanddisability.com, the first all-Ireland website to provide information, resources and facts about disability, is already providing to be an essential tool for parents, families, advice workers, arts bodies and the wider community. For further information please visit the Arts Council website

• Posted:25 Jul 2008 at 09:55 am

Live Webcast! National Forum on Disability Issues on Disaboom.com July 26

Sign On and Tune In!

The National Forum on Disability Issues, a non-partisan forum on national disability policy, will be held on July 26, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. The forum will commemorate the 18th anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and address the issues most important to the disability community in the current electoral cycle.

For those unable to attend in person, the forum will be broadcast live and in its entirety by Disaboom.com - the world’s largest web community for individuals with disabilities. To view the forum, visit www.disaboom.com/AAPDSignUp.aspx Read an article about the Forum.

• Posted:17 Jul 2008 at 04:01 pm

Pieter Hugos Photography Featured in Arles Photo Festival

Pieter Hugo’s work is currently on show in Arles annual photography festival that runs from the 8th July to the 14th September . Hugo has previously looked at difference through his body of work ‘looking aside’ described below.

Looking Aside

‘In this series, Hugo looks directly at people whose appearance makes us look aside. In doing so, he forces us to confront ourselves and our preconceptions and prejudices, and question why we are so awkward when we encounter people who are unusual in some way, whether for reasons of albinism, blindness or a skin disorder. In these frontal portraits, we see what we usually choose to look at from the corners of our eyes’ (cited on www.michaelstevenson.com).

• Posted:16 Jul 2008 at 02:01 pm

Heavyload: Check out the Movie and the Band

Heavyload are Brighton’s answer to The Ramones. A punk outfit subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band. But they’re also uniquely, made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities.

• Posted:15 Jul 2008 at 04:32 pm

Business Leaders

Leading figures from the business world joined Caroline Casey,CEO of Kanchi to officially re-launch the award winning social enterprise,pictured L-R are Brian Goggin Group CEO Bank of Ireland,Cathriona Hallahan,MD Microsoft EOC,Mike Hemingway Global Managing Director at Ogilvy&Mather Worldwide,Gar Holohan,CEO of Aura Holohan Leisure Group and Senator Feargal Quinn.

• Posted:02 Jul 2008 at 03:21 pm

Britain’s Missing Top Model

Check out BBC3 every Tuesday night at 9.00pm for a new series that sets out to discover whether the world is ready for a disabled model.

• Posted:01 Jul 2008 at 05:41 pm

Kanchi Attends Recruitment Fair for Employers and Graduates with Disabilities

The WAM (Willing Able Mentoring) Programme for 2008 / 2009 was offically launched today at this recruitment fair. For more information log onto the WAM website.

• Posted:01 Jul 2008 at 05:37 pm

Changes of Legal Definition of Disability in the USA

An amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enforced on Wednesday 25th 2008. The amendment refers to a major change in the definition of the term “disabled” within the Act which has massive implications for both people with disabilities and employers of people with disabilities in the USA. For further information check out adarestoration.blogspot.com/

• Posted:01 Jul 2008 at 05:30 pm