This week's IL newsletter - Silent Buttons campaign; Pension age PIP; Wilcare Signature range and more... Shape @deafarchitecturefront @signstrokes @chrislaing_ #PIP #DWP DPAC Disability Rights UK Wilcare Group #RiserRecliner #SpecialistSeating preview.mailerlite.com/o6d1d2w4g6

🎭 Looking for your next cultural fix? Explore what's happening near you: disabilityarts.online/whats-on/ 📢 Hosting an event? Get it seen by a wider audience — list it for FREE on our website: disabilityarts.online/my-account/my-…

Help points should assist all disabled people, but they're letting D/deaf people down. @Shapearts has released a powerful video about inaccessible infrastructure and the barriers it creates. 🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=OPkrUb… 🔊 AD version: shapearts.org.uk/Blog/silent-bu…

Cuts to ‘Access to Work’ threaten the entire creative sector. These cuts are an existential threat to disabled creatives, the disability arts sector, and all disabled people in work in general. Read our full statement 👇 instagram.com/p/DKHvvr8RyNX/ instagram.com/p/DKHvvr8RyNX/

✊Statement from DaDa Regarding Access to Work We stand with those within our community who are concerned about the impact of these changes on their work and practice. Read our full statement over on our blog: dadafest.co.uk/article/statem…

We want to use our platform as disabled people in public eye to promote the tireless work already happening. So we've created a list of ALL protests against benefits cuts taking place across the country and online #TakingThePIP takingthepip.co.uk/protests-you-c…

Are you involved in creating or presenting creative work? We want to hear from you 📣 Tell us what you think about the challenges and opportunities for innovation and R&D in the creative and cultural sector by 25 June 📅👇 bit.ly/4kXe0HR The Audience Agency

There's a really useful resource list for disabled writers on Shape website, including their top pick of resources from The Literary Consultancy shapearts.org.uk/news/disabled-…

🚨 New episode alert! 🚨 To mark the launch of our newly updated resource - How to put on an accessible exhibition - Shape's Creative Producer Elinor Hayesand Assistant Producer Emily Roderick sat down to chat through the ways you might plan a show with accessibility in mind.

📢 Midlands-based artist @jasonwilshermil will be working with National Coal Mining Museum on a project inspired by the museum’s historic collection of coal mining union banners. Read more about it here 👇 buff.ly/i3yIE48 #ACEsupported thanks to @Lottogoodcauses Arts Council England, North

Great interview with Shape's Chair Tony Heaton 👇

New #ArtOpps now live on ArtRabbit for you to browse, share, and apply! 🏆 Award by Art Labs 👩‍🎨 Job at Art Not Shame 🏛️ Residency at Throwing Shapes 💼 Commission by NOW Art, Neon Dance 📊Professional Development with The Crit Collective, I LIKE NETWORKING 🖼️ Exhibition

Visual Art: Seen-Unseen Seen-Unseen is an art project led by artist Clare McLaughlin for and with people who have a visual impairment on Friday 18 July at 3.30pm. buff.ly/7gO7AVJ

Deadline extended : the deadline for third year of the support hub with Arts & Health Hub has been extended until Sunday 13 July at 5pm for applications. 👉🏻 4 opportunities available for artists working around health and wellbeing 👉🏻 more info here: artsandhealthhub.org/opportunities

✨FULL LINE UP ANNOUNCED✨ #LibertyLDN, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan's flagship festival celebrating D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists, lands in Wandsworth this autumn💫 🗓️ 24-29 Sept 🎟️All tickets are FREE! welcometowandsworth.com/liberty-festiv… #WelcomeToWandsworth

Liberty Festival 2025 lands this autumn with an unmissable week of disabled-led art, music, theatre & joy ✨ 🗓️ 24-29 Sept 📍 Battersea Arts Centre, Clapham Grand, Tara Theatre, The Bedford, World Heartbeat, Wandsworth Civic Suite, Battersea Park 🎟️ All events FREE!

📣 Apply now for our hybrid residency programme delivered in partnership with Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 📣 Back for its fourth year, #Emergent offers a £5k bursary and 3 month hybrid residency opportunity to a disabled artist in the first 5 years of their career Full info and apply:

New #ArtOpps now live on ArtRabbit for you to browse, share, and apply! 👩‍🎨 Job at Meadow Arts Gajah Gallery 💰 Grant at Art Outreach Singapore 📊Professional Development at The Place, Aspex Portsmouth 🏛️ Residency at Artown NOW, Shape 💼 Commission by Adur & Worthing Councils

This funding went to 2,683 organisations across the country received investment including The RSC, Norfolk Museums, @BookTrust, Culture in Common, and Shape, to name a few 🎸🎭