UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH
For UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) IN 2021, The Higgins Bedford with the support of SHARE Museums East,displayed artworks and films that documented the personal experiences of people living with disabilities through the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.
In March 2020, at the start of the Covid19 Pandemic, The Higgins Bedford asked the local community to share personal experiences of lockdown and its impact on their lives. Gaps were noticed in the communities who had offered material for the archive and The Higgins Bedford looked to find ways to be more inclusive of under-represented groups.
The Higgins Bedford worked with individuals and community groups representing those living with disabilities. Caroline Coster, who was impacted by Covid 19 and then sepsis; Living It Up, an organisation that supports adults with learning disabilities and Access Bedford, who support the local D/deaf community.
ANDY BURROWS
Here's a little film about Andy's new album 'FallTogether Again. The album - incredibly Burrows' tenth long player, between past solo albumsand has recordings with Razorlight, We Are Scientists, Smith & Burrows, plus his BAFTA-nominated soundtrack for The Snowman and the Snowdog - will be preceded by the sIngle As Good As Gone and accompanied by a quartet of UK dates including a show at London's Dingwalls on 30th October.
Brilliantly, unashamedly melodic, Fall Together Again is the kind of record where the earworms patiently queue up to present themselves one after the other; where songs open out into soaring choruses that soon give way to brighter and ever bolder hooks. It's a record imbued with the spirit of early McCartney solo albums and unroot-down daydream soul. It's shot through with the kind of sudappled soft rock that used to radiate from American FM radios in the mid-'70s.
RECRUITMENT
SHOWCASE YOUR EMPLOYER BRAND TAILOR YOUR CAREER EXPERIENCE TO EVERY CANDIDATE WITH DYNAMIC, PERSONALISED CONTENT AND JOB RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING
Surviving to Thriving was a unique partnership project between UpRising, British Red Cross and the Refugee Council. The project supported refugees and asylum seekers aged 16 to 25 in Birmingham and the East of Englandwho don't have parents or guardians in the UK.
It provided life skills, advice, mental health support and leadership opportunities to help them rebuild their lives and thrive in the UK. UpRising's support focused on helping young people to use film to explore their experiences, challenges, fears and dreams.
The young people took up the roles of actor, script-writer, director, and film-maker to represent the perceptions and challenges they face as unaccompanied refugee and asylumseeking children in the UK. The programmes empowered the young people to unlock their leadership potential and understand how they can affect real change through social action.
Many of the participants returned to volunteer on multiple Find Your Power programmes, increasing their skills development even further.