Power Not Pity Podcast

In a special disability history month episode, Access and Support Coordinator at DaDa, Denise Kennedy, takes us on a trip to Edinburgh Fringe. While travelling around the festival, Denise catches up with disabled artists and practitioners embedding access into their performances. Through their discussions you can gather ideas of how access can be planned into performance, hear about the experience...

DaDa and the Liverpool Philharmonic have been working with young musicians on a composition project; podcaster Tom Walker went along to the celebration event at the Philharmonic Music Room to talk to musicians, organisers, and facilitators about the project.   Power Not Pity is DaDa's regular podcast covering Disability art and culture. Find out more about DaDa at  dadafest.co.uk   Transcript will...

DaDa invited a group of disabled artists to enjoy a visitor of an exhibition by international artist  Amy Claire Mills at Bluecoat.   Amy Claire Mills is a Neurodivergent and Disabled artist whose work delves into themes of advocacy, identity, and resistance. Her work ‘Deep End’, that the group explored, is a multidisciplinary installation with sculptural body supports, inflatables, plush text scu...

In this episode, Tom Walker meets with artist and DaDa CEO Zoe Partington at The Williamson Art Gallery in the Wirral where one of her Neon Sculptures are on display as part of DaDaFest International 40. Zoe shares how the disability slogans that inspire her ‘Painting in Light’ series were brought about by disabled activists who have tirelessly campaigned over the 40 years of DaDa’s existence. Wil...

Power Not Pity visits ‘Pimp My Wheelchair’ at Sefton Park Palmhouse In this episode, Tom Walker talks to artists Faith Bebbington and Janet Price who presented their commissioned art ‘Pimp My Wheelchair’ as part of DaDaFest International 40. Janet explains to Tom “Pimp My Wheelchair was about brightening up prosthetics rather than them being dull and boring and as though they're things we should b...

Tom Walker visits the ‘Rage, Riot an Revolution’ opening exhibition for DaDaFest International 40 at Open Eye Gallery and catches up with photographer Jan Williams of the Caravan Gallery, along with some of the women featured in her portraits. Launching on 8th March 2025, International Women’s Day, the exhibition celebrates the achievements of female activists, artists, leaders and champions of di...

Tom Walker talks to the Everyman young writers and producers, who have been working with curator Gill Crawshaw to begin investigating DaDa’s archive, understanding the company’s 40-year history. ‘Disability Art’ is a powerful generator of change in art, culture and heritage, but disabled people’s history is often misrepresented and excluded from society. This project provides a snapshot of the imm...

Tom Walker discusses the launch of DaDaFest International 40 along with DaDa’s historic relationship with The Bluecoat, talking to Bryan Biggs who leads on cultural legacies at The Bluecoat and DaDa’s Executive Producer Rachel Rogers about the significant shift in creating space for disabled artists at the venue, and the DaDa @ Bluecoat Retrospective Exhibition.