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"My grandmother said she would come and haunt me if I ever missed a vote for all the work that they had done to get girls and women the vote".
Brenda Oldfield is 89 and has voted in every election. She tells us why voting matters.
"My grandmother said she would come and haunt me if I ever missed a vote for all the work that they had done to get girls and women the vote".
Brenda Oldfield is 89 and has voted in every election. She tells us why voting matters.
If proof were needed that art offers something news can't, it's the repeat of #ArtofPersia at a time of deep trauma, offering a long view of the remarkable people of Iran. Ep 1 went out on BBC4 Mon, & here's the story behind it... (all eps on @BBCiPlayer) samiraahmed.blog/the-art-of-…
🪩 An intergenerational regional dance collaboration, which culminates with a performance on Saturday 2nd August at @dance_east’s Jerwood DanceHouse, has an age range of dancers of between 10 and 84!
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📷 Alice Underwood
DDFI40 ‘Rage – A Quiet Riot’ may have ended, but we continue to ‘rage’ online ✊
Some exhibitions that were created, curated or displayed in response to the theme of 'Rage' for #DDFI40 are still available to enjoy online.
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ALT Zoe Partington stands in front of a Neon sign reading 'Piss on Pity' in Red
ALT A procession of people move through Sefton Park Palm house. The person at the front is playing a drum. Behind them are people displaying various sculptures of disability aids pimped up with foliage and thorns
ALT Two women are facing away from us, one with curly and one with straight hair. They are looking at a board in an exhibition with a photo of a woman walking with a white stick and a guide dog
ALT Someone is looking at a large photo displayed on a gallery wall of someone shouting
Fell in love with this dress and the colour palette of the walls behind it. You can’t beat vintage. 👌🏽🫶🏽
ALT A woman’s 1969’s vintage shift dress, vibrant diagonal rainbow coloured fabric. Elegantly cinched in at the waist with a fabric matching belt. The walls behind the dress exhibit the colour palette, painted in bright green, orange and sky blue.
Our very own festival reporter, Felix, shares the success of the DDFI40 launch! 💥
Be sure to join us throughout the month to enjoy a huge selection of art! 🎨
A reminder that 90% of our programme is free to enjoy:
dadafest.co.uk/what-we-do/da…
Seeing this Brighton florist shop made my day. I realise I was starved of joyful, vibrant colour. Bring on the warmer weather and blue skies. 🙏🙏
ALT A vibrant display of many kinds of flowers outside a florist shop in Brighton (yellow daffodils and chrysanthemums, red and white tulips, orange gerbera and more). Each bunch is in green wrapping paper and placed in pale pink buckets on the pavement.
Our wonderful Felix headed to the 'Pimp My Wheelchair' launch at Sefton Park Palmhouse 🌿
Commissioned to create new work for #DDFI40, Faith and Janet are ‘pimping up’ our prosthetics, dressing up crutches, wheelchairs, hearing aids (and more!).
Forgive me for interrupting your #DogsatPollingStations feed - I’m ‘taking a break’ from the news cycle to have a baby! I’ll miss you all @Channel4News but I’ll be back soon with even more baggage 🧳