Name: D/deaf and Disabled Artists on Making Work Now
Location: Wellcome Collection

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Watch a conversation between climate activist Daze Aghaji and writer and podcaster Natasha Lipman as they reflect on their recent experiences of balancing personal wellbeing with supporting their communities. 

Natasha shares her own experience of chronic illness with others, while Daze advocates for climate justice, but they have been reflecting on similar questions: where does self-care end and community care begin? And how do you find a balance between the two? 

You’ll see Daze and Natasha in a prerecorded conversation lasting around 40 minutes, and you’ll be able to post comments in chat during the broadcast.  

For the last ten minutes of the event the speakers will join you live, to respond and share their final thoughts.   

This event will be hosted through the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans. After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions.  

You will be able to comment and ask questions live online using the chat function throughout the event. Your microphone and camera will be switched off for the whole session.  

Please note that the audio description is not an additional track; instead the host and speakers describe themselves and any key visual elements they refer to. The event will be live-captioned by Stagetext.   

Natasha Lipman is a chronic illness blogger and part-time journalist from London. On her blog, you can find her interviewing people who are doing amazing things in the disability space, exploring inclusive fashion and working with experts to create practical advice about living with chronic illness. You can also find her on Instagram and Twitter. 

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Natasha Lipman

natashalipman.com

Speaker

Daze Aghaji is a 20-year-old climate justice activist and student. She studies history and politics at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2019 she ran for election in the EU Parliamentary elections (being the youngest candidate to do so) and she has strong ties with Extinction Rebellion. The main areas of Daze’s activism are regenerative cultures, intersectionality, environment, youth political engagement and social-change funding. Daze has recently become a trustee at Blagrave Trust. 

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Daze Aghaji, Photo: Thomas S.G. Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Daze Aghaji

@Dazeaghaji on Twitter

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Supporting ourselves in changing times. Speaker Portrait. Daze Aghaji (left) and Natasha Lipman (Right)

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This event will have live speech-to-text transcription, which may be useful for people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing. For any assistance, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

Speech-to-text (online)

This event is audio described, which may be useful for people who are blind or partially sighted. For any assistance, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

Audio described (online)

Booking a ticket guarantees you entry to the online event. You will be given joining instructions in your confirmation email. If you have any access requests or requirements, for example a transcript of the event, email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

Guaranteed (online)

Listen to a conversation between climate activist Daze and writer/podcaster Natasha discussing how they balance personal wellbeing with supporting their communities.

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Supporting Ourselves in Changing Times

A series of conversations between people with different life experiences who have had to find ways to support themselves and their communities during a global pandemic.

Supporting Ourselves

Supporting Ourselves While Supporting Our Communities

14 to 19-year-olds

Join us for this discussion on young people’s approaches to mental health, wellbeing and self-care in the time of Covid-19. Facilitators Alain ‘Fusion’ Clapham and Grace Gatera will host a live discussion based on videos of youth mental health research and linked creative projects, which will be shown during the event. On the panel will also be five RawMinds ambassadors, to provide the perspective of young people.

This event will discuss the work of Wellcome's mental health priority area, which seeks to transform how we understand, fund, prevent and treat anxiety and depression in young people. You will also find out more about the Covid Living project from creative producer Tim Partridge, poet Koleka Putuma and illustrator Ivyy Chen, which explored how young people were coping with lockdown in April to June 2020. At the end of the event there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. 

This event will be hosted through the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans. After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions.  You will be able to comment and ask questions live online using the chat function throughout the event. Your microphone and camera will be switched off for the whole session.

Alain is an experienced educator, creative producer and a lead facilitator for YouTube. He empowers thousands of young people to better navigate the digital landscape – while also helping award-winning CEOs discover their own stories of transformation. Alain is founder of @BMTstories – an immersive live and online experience celebrating the ‘awesome everyday’ stories of black men and women. 

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Alain ‘Fusion’ Clapham

@BMTstories

Facilitator

Grace is a lived-experience mental health advocate living in Kigali, Rwanda. She works with Wellcome’s mental health priority area (MHPA) as a lived-experience expert adviser, and is also part of their strategic advisory board.

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Grace Gatera

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Young People, Mental Health and Recipes for Self-care - Alain 'Fusion' Clapham

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Join us for this discussion on young people’s approaches to mental health, wellbeing and self-care in the time of Covid-19.

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This series of events explores how young people have experienced Covid-19 and lockdown so far, putting their voices at the centre of the discussion.

What Does It Mean To Be Young, Now?

Young People, Mental Health and Recipes for Self-care

Join poet, writer and researcher Jamie Hale and four fellow disabled artists for this online conversation. 

They will reflect on their different experiences and practices, and ask what it means to be a D/deaf or disabled artist in a pandemic. 

The artists will talk for 45 minutes, and then there will be 15 minutes of questions and answers. 

You will be able to watch this event on Wellcome Collection’s YouTube channel, and submit questions in advance or during the event using Slido. Your microphone and camera will not be on. After booking a ticket you will receive an email with joining instructions. 

Live captions will be provided by Stagetext, and BSL interpretation will be delivered by Michelle Wood. 

A series of articles by Jamie Hale exploring ‘Art, activism and access’, and featuring some of the artists taking part in this event, is also available to read and listen to. 

Jamie is an artist, curator, and founder of disability arts showcase CRIPtic. They create poetry, comedy, scriptwriting and drama for page, stage and screen. They have written for publications including the Guardian and Magma, and have performed at venues including the Barbican and Southbank Centre. Their pandemic poetry pamphlet, ‘Shield’, is published in January 2021.

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Jamie Hale

@jamierhale on Twitter

Host

Amelia Cavallo is a blind theatre practitioner, academic and workshop facilitator who works as a multi-disciplinary performer, musical director, lecturer and consultant on access and audio description. They are a PhD candidate studying intersections of gender, disability and sexuality. Amelia co-founded Quiplash, a theatre company making space for Disabled people across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.

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Amelia Cavallo

Miss Jacqui is a poet and songwriter who performed at the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony, and at venues including the Southbank Centre. She knows a lot about working with the cards that you are dealt, and always tries to challenge societal perceptions, like what it means to be a Black woman with a disability.

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Miss Jacqui

Born in Essex in 1959, Keith Salmon studied Fine Art at Shrewsbury and Falmouth Schools of Art in the early 1980s. Registered as blind in 1999, he now works from his studio in Irvine, Scotland and exhibits his semi-abstract landscape paintings throughout the UK.

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Keith Salmon

Signkid is the UK’s first and only Deaf music producer, writer and performer, pioneering a unique aesthetic that integrates British Sign Language signing into a visual language for live hip-hop, rap and urban music. SignKid has performed at festivals including Deaf Rave, Wireless and Latitude, and has had extensive BBC coverage.

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Signkid

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This event is British Sign Language interpreted. A signer will be on screen describing the event. For any assistance, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

British Sign Language (online)

Join Jamie Hale and four fellow disabled artists for an online conversation reflecting on their different experiences and practices.

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