Please find attached information about the 2009 Sheila McKechnie AwardsProgramme and the Social Inclusion Award specifically. The award provides bespoke support to new or emerging campaigners who want to become more effective. The application period is now open until Tuesday 30th June 2009. Application forms and further details about the Social Inclusion award areavailable on our website: http://www.sheilamckechnie.org.uk/showSubSub.php?id=91&page=3&last=117
As you will see from the attached press release, the Social Inclusion award is for campaigners aged 18 and over who are campaigning in this field. We would be grateful if you could help us to spread the word about the award amongst your various networks. Please also find attached a flyer promoting the awards. If you would like hardcopies of the flyer for distribution then please just let us know how many and we will send them on.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Talking About Favorites
Good meeting this week, Talking About Favorites:
a photo taken by Mum of a beach beauty; a bird-lure from Afganistan; a biography-in-progress of Dad.
Saturday, 11 April 2009
next meeting APRIL 14th at 2.30pm
SASH April 2009
Please read the dates and the happenings in the next SASH meetings or outings!
1. Next meeting
The next meeting is on 14th April, 2.30pm, at St Richards Community Centre, Egmont Road, Hove.
Bring along an usual, interesting or favourite object and tell us what it means to you. There are often interesting stories behind our favourite things - a family heirloom, a piece of jewellery, a special present etc. Lindsay, from Speakability Head Office, will lead this session.
Lindsay will also tell us about ‘Speak About Aphasia Month’ Campaign 2009 - a campaign to encourage coffee shops to provide handheld picture-based menus. Hear about this and see if SASH can join in.
2. Meeting in May
On Tuesday 12th May, we will meet in the café at the Wyevale Garden Centre at 3pm for a cup of tea and a cake after you’ve looked at the plants and all the things for the garden - and perhaps before you purchase those plants you picked!
PLEASE RING OR EMAIL JEANNETTE BY 6TH MAY AND LET HER KNOW WHETHER YOU CAN COME OR NOT. ADDRESS AND EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE END OF THIS LETTER.
3. Meeting in June
Roy is looking at the possibility of having the afternoon at the Bingo Hall in Kemp Town on Tuesday June 9th. Keep this date in your diary and we’ll let you know as soon as possible!
4 Decisions taken at the AGM
The last SASH meeting in March was the AGM. Jeannette, the chair of the group, and Liz, the volunteer and secretary, stood down. However, there where no takers to take on any positions so Jeannette is still doing some of the work for a while to keep SASH together and Liz is staying on as a ‘social secretary’. Is anyone able to help out, offering any of the jobs that have to be done - like taking over organising the tea and biscuits etc?
Melanie, the Speakability Chief Executive, attended the meeting and told us about the work Speakability is doing. She offered to find a new volunteer for SASH and will help SASH going.
5. If you need a taxi for the meeting in April and/or May please contact Jeannette by ringing 413759 or emailing jeannette@gould28.wanadoo.co.uk.
Please read the dates and the happenings in the next SASH meetings or outings!
1. Next meeting
The next meeting is on 14th April, 2.30pm, at St Richards Community Centre, Egmont Road, Hove.
Bring along an usual, interesting or favourite object and tell us what it means to you. There are often interesting stories behind our favourite things - a family heirloom, a piece of jewellery, a special present etc. Lindsay, from Speakability Head Office, will lead this session.
Lindsay will also tell us about ‘Speak About Aphasia Month’ Campaign 2009 - a campaign to encourage coffee shops to provide handheld picture-based menus. Hear about this and see if SASH can join in.
2. Meeting in May
On Tuesday 12th May, we will meet in the café at the Wyevale Garden Centre at 3pm for a cup of tea and a cake after you’ve looked at the plants and all the things for the garden - and perhaps before you purchase those plants you picked!
PLEASE RING OR EMAIL JEANNETTE BY 6TH MAY AND LET HER KNOW WHETHER YOU CAN COME OR NOT. ADDRESS AND EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE END OF THIS LETTER.
3. Meeting in June
Roy is looking at the possibility of having the afternoon at the Bingo Hall in Kemp Town on Tuesday June 9th. Keep this date in your diary and we’ll let you know as soon as possible!
4 Decisions taken at the AGM
The last SASH meeting in March was the AGM. Jeannette, the chair of the group, and Liz, the volunteer and secretary, stood down. However, there where no takers to take on any positions so Jeannette is still doing some of the work for a while to keep SASH together and Liz is staying on as a ‘social secretary’. Is anyone able to help out, offering any of the jobs that have to be done - like taking over organising the tea and biscuits etc?
Melanie, the Speakability Chief Executive, attended the meeting and told us about the work Speakability is doing. She offered to find a new volunteer for SASH and will help SASH going.
5. If you need a taxi for the meeting in April and/or May please contact Jeannette by ringing 413759 or emailing jeannette@gould28.wanadoo.co.uk.
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
APHASIADISIAC event festival
les ballets C de la B
Aphasiadisiac
corn exchange MAY 6th /7th 8pm
Choreographed by Ted Stoffer
Aphasia - the inability to express or understand thought in spoken or written words.Aphrodisiac - arousing the mood of sexual excitement. - the tongue-tied inarticulacy of love.
Aphasiadisiac..
Devised by choreographer and brilliant former Rambert dancer Ted Stoffer, les ballets C de la B's second Festival performance lifts the lid on the politics and private languages of love. Its impetus is our inability to express its complex and contradictory emotions. Using words, movement, music and physical props Stoffer's quintet of dancers and performers explores this universal experience to a live soundscape composed and performed by the cast itself. In a series of compelling vignettes, they encounter love's less exalted tropes - the illusions, the misconceptions, the denials, the disappointments - yet also the jubilation of true romance.Aphasiadisiac is the slap in the face of love - the stupid, ironic, dangerous things that make it an unfathomable fairytale for grown-ups.
Aphasiadisiac
corn exchange MAY 6th /7th 8pm
Choreographed by Ted Stoffer
Aphasia - the inability to express or understand thought in spoken or written words.Aphrodisiac - arousing the mood of sexual excitement. - the tongue-tied inarticulacy of love.
Aphasiadisiac..
Devised by choreographer and brilliant former Rambert dancer Ted Stoffer, les ballets C de la B's second Festival performance lifts the lid on the politics and private languages of love. Its impetus is our inability to express its complex and contradictory emotions. Using words, movement, music and physical props Stoffer's quintet of dancers and performers explores this universal experience to a live soundscape composed and performed by the cast itself. In a series of compelling vignettes, they encounter love's less exalted tropes - the illusions, the misconceptions, the denials, the disappointments - yet also the jubilation of true romance.Aphasiadisiac is the slap in the face of love - the stupid, ironic, dangerous things that make it an unfathomable fairytale for grown-ups.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Bad Science with Ben Goldacre
Bad Science with Ben Goldacre
I went to this on Saturday 28th Feb -- very good
Ben Goldacre is a writer, broadcaster and medical doctor from the UK who writes the hard hitting 'Bad Science' column for The Guardian newspaper. This talk exposed the claims of scaremongering journalists, highlight quack health products, get behind the facade of pseudoscientific cosmetics adverts, and laid bare the evil of multinational pharmaceutical corporations, as well as focusing on wider themes such as the medicalisation of everyday life and the psychology of irrational beliefs.
It also promoted his book -- when I got it to sign it, he wrote "pass this on someone who really needs it" or , in fact, "give this book to someone who disagrees with you."
I went to this on Saturday 28th Feb -- very good
Ben Goldacre is a writer, broadcaster and medical doctor from the UK who writes the hard hitting 'Bad Science' column for The Guardian newspaper. This talk exposed the claims of scaremongering journalists, highlight quack health products, get behind the facade of pseudoscientific cosmetics adverts, and laid bare the evil of multinational pharmaceutical corporations, as well as focusing on wider themes such as the medicalisation of everyday life and the psychology of irrational beliefs.
It also promoted his book -- when I got it to sign it, he wrote "pass this on someone who really needs it" or , in fact, "give this book to someone who disagrees with you."
AGM Tues March 10th @ 2.30pm
The next meeting is the Annual General Meeting.
It is held on Tuesday March 10th at 2.30pm and it will meet at St Richards Community Centre, Egmont Road, Hove.
AGENDA
1. Reports: Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
2. Election of committee.
BREAK FOR TEA
3. Future ideas and offers to help the group grow and make more interesting.
Please come to this very important meeting.
If you needs transport please ring Jeannette on 01273 413759 and she will book you a taxi. ALSO, please let her know if you are unable to attend this meeting
It is held on Tuesday March 10th at 2.30pm and it will meet at St Richards Community Centre, Egmont Road, Hove.
AGENDA
1. Reports: Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
2. Election of committee.
BREAK FOR TEA
3. Future ideas and offers to help the group grow and make more interesting.
Please come to this very important meeting.
If you needs transport please ring Jeannette on 01273 413759 and she will book you a taxi. ALSO, please let her know if you are unable to attend this meeting
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