This Year’s 2018 Disability History Month will focus on Disability and Music.
22nd November through to 22nd December
The organisation wants to explore the links between the experience of disablement in a world where the barriers people with impairments face can be overwhelming. Stating also that the creative impulse and urge for self expression and the need to connect to fellow human beings often ‘trumps’ the oppression disabled people have faced, do face and will face in the future.
Dame Evelyn Glennie
Over the next few months they will be developing resources on their website and a broadsheet for the public and students in schools and colleges. These will focus on composers, musicians, singers and performers from Beethoven to Evelyn Glennie, Stevie Wonder to Gurrunul Yunupingu.
Ray Charles
They will also include Johnnie La Vern Baker, Connie Boswell, Lili Boulanger, Sudha Channdran, Ray Charles, Vic Chesnutt, Judy Collins, Johnnie Cresendo, Ian Curtis and Delius.
UKDHM will showcase how people with every type and degree of impairment can creatively express themselves through music.
Ian Drury
Ian Drury, Gabriela Lena Frank, Landini, Claire Lewis, Joni Mitchell, Moondog, Mozart and Paganini.
UKHMD will interpret the music, lyrics, librettos and performance against social model thinking, hoping to encourage solidarity and support for disabled people’s ongoing struggle for equality.
Django Rheinhart
Derek Paravicini, Izhak Perlman, Hikari Oe, Ravel, Django Rheinhart, Laurie Rubin, Mik Scarlet, Schuman and George Shearing.
UKDHM 2018 will launch on Monday 19th November with the month running from then to 22nd December.
Neil Young
Smetana, Tom Wiggins, Hank Williams, Neil Young and many more.
Want to be involved? You can start organising and planning and share them so UKDHM can publicise on their website. For more information contact the co-ordinator on:
0208 359 2855 or rlrieser@gmail.com
For more information about UKDHM CLICK HERE
For biographies of the above artists CLICK HERE