JW was asked to deliver a 5 minute presentation for Friday 16th February at the Ordinary Arts Festival Seminar. The seminar speakers were all asked to focus their presentation on addressing 2 questions:
Here’s a transcription JW’s presentation ; ‘Hi I’m Jane Williams, Director of The Turning Tides Project. We aim to make equal access to music, the arts and life a reality for people with ‘learning disability’ or ‘autism’ labels. We only have 2 rules:
I was struggling with preparing this presentation . When I asked myself why I found I had 2 issues :
Then it occurred to me, I just needed to be who am and demonstrate what The Turning Tides Project is. A 5 minute presentation might not be long but 3 1/2 minutes is the perfect length for a hit song. So here’s ours. It’s called ‘Who are the Experts?' and we wrote it for you - enjoy and do feel free to join in.' Is an approach to inclusion organisational progress? Or a statement of a fall-back position to exclude? Who invented our indicators and outcome jargon? Did disabled young people write our rules? Who are the experts? Self-appointed inclusion experts Our reaching out makes us hard to reach Equal access makes us all redundant That’s the position we need to preach Who are the experts? Who are the experts? Hugo, instrumental break Who are the experts? Who are the experts? The detail that matters is not our detail Is anyone really hard to reach If it was fun, cool and useful it wouldn’t be me Standing here making this speech Who are the experts? Who are the experts? Who are the experts? Once we’ve recorded it, you’ll be able to download ‘Who are The Experts’ and hear some of the other original music of The Tuning Tides Project at: https://soundcloud.com/tttp-1 |
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