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Jam's youth group Explorer's Youth is working on a queer musical and needs to interview members of the LBTQIA+ community as part of the script writing process!

Would you be happy to share your experiences with the young people to help them write their play?
Are you a queer musician/theatre maker - get in touch, maybe there are other ways in which you can help out!

Here is the link to the call out: https://www.instagram.com/p/CiVgfYgLPyq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

To take part and with any questions DM @explorersyouth or email Jam at jam.explorers@yahoo.com

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We are going on a trip to the Lowry on Sunday the 25th September, 1.30 - 4.30pm!

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Are you a neurodivergent artist, poet, writer, activity-maker or creative? Submissions are now open for Changeling Annual - a publication for neurodivergent children and young people by neurodivergent adults!

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Submissions for Changeling are now open! You can submit your work via clicking this link to our form. Or send your work by email to emmy@changelingannual.com If you choose to submit your work via e…

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For our Champions Day Out in September, I have the following suggestions:

-        A trip to the Donkey Sanctuary open Saturday’s 10.00 – 12.00 and 13.00 – 15.00

-        A trip to the Picture This! exhibition at the Lowry – interactive: https://thelowry.com/whats-on/picture-this/

-        A trip to Treetop Golf they also have quiet sessions, with less background noise and no flashing lights, the next one is on Sunday 11th of September: https://adventuregolf.com/manchester/quiet-sessions

-        A trip to the People’s History Museum to see ‘Until it looks like this’ and the ‘Manchester Argonaut’: https://phm.org.uk/installations/the-manchester-argonaut/

https://phm.org.uk/exhibitions/until-it-looks-like-this/

-        Printworks Manchester also does autism friendly screenings on the last Sunday of every month (25th of September), with dimmed lights, lowered volume, no trailers, space to move and autism aware staff – but they only announce films 5 days in advance, so we would have to book on short notice

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We drew some birds! You can watch a recording of the workshop and still do all of the tutorials, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DaCs_PAWzL41RpzD8BwVXfn8-ylFB_2E/view?usp=sharing

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There's lots going on at the Science and Industry Museum...

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There's lots going on at the Science and Industry Museum...

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And all of these Summer workshops are free!

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Make, create and play this summer at the Science and Industry Museum.

Put your tinkering skills to the test with Textile City and enjoy hands-on activities in the historic 1830 Warehouse. Find out more about the textiles industry and how it has shaped our world. Get creative with fabric printing or try designing your own materials. Experiment with moving machines or build your own vehicle for transporting textiles.

Be inspired by the city and get involved in a brand-new immersive art project designed by artist Jenny Steele. Redesign Manchester's cityscape using foam blocks covered in textiles print inspired by Manchester's unique architecture, or try your hand at fabric weaving and contribute to a piece of collaborative art.

Join our Object Handling Volunteers on Tuesdays and Saturdays and discover more about items from our collection.

Make your way to the 1830 Warehouse through the Lower Yard, where you can discover more about our historic site with a new trail and more beautiful planting stories. Watch out for tigers as you spin, splash and whirl your way down the tracks.

Plus, play the best video games and consoles from the past five decades in , the ultimate hands-on gaming experience and see science brought to life in Experiment, our family friendly interactive gallery.

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Make, create and play this summer at the Science and Industry Museum. Put your tinkering skills to the test with Textile City and enjoy hands-on activities in the historic 1830 Warehouse. Find out more about the textiles industry and how it has shaped our world.

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When? 27th August 2022, 8.30 - 11pm
Where? Islington Mill (Salford)
What? Music, Drag Performance, Art, Fun

Can I submit my work? Email Kitty at hello@kittyaurora.co.uk with any work you would like to submit

Deadline: 21st of August

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“What does being queer mean to me?” - The Meteor

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A pop-up art exhibition being held in Salford’s Islington Mill on 27 August is open to entries from anyone who identifies as queer.

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Curator and Producer Bren O’Callaghan is looking for people to join his research into the creation of a new, contemporary, fairground carousel. Bren, supported by Art with Heart, is hosting 2 workshops at The Proud Place LGBT+ Community Centre, on Tuesday 26 th July. One session for over 65’s (11am – 1pm) and one for members of the LGBTQIA+ community (2pm – 4pm).

Full details of the opportunity are in the call out attached. Refreshments will be provided and we will pay a stipend of £20 to each participant for their time. We will also reimburse, and can arrange travel for participants.

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MIF have a Summer Social at Band on the Wall on 14th July 6:30-9:30pm https://mif.co.uk/whats-on/mif-social/

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Entry is completely free, you just need to register for a ticket and we'll put on a spread of snacks and nibbles, plus give you a drinks token on entry.

If you have access requirements or any questions about the event, please do get in touch with creativeengagement@mif.co.uk

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Entry is completely free, you just need to register for a ticket and we'll put on a spread of snacks and nibbles, plus give you a drinks token on entry. If you have access requirements or any questions about the event, please do get in touch with creativeengagement@mif.co.uk

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Starling has been working with a group of students from Manchester Met University and we would love to invite you to their end of project celebration.

During the event the students will run mini creative workshops for us, which they've been busy designing. Katie and Ellen had a preview the other day and said it was really fun.

Date/Time/Place: Wednesday 20th July, 1pm - 4pm, Manchester Met Campus, Oxford Road

Transport will be organised and paid for by Starling.

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Starling | 21 followers on LinkedIn. Championing neurodiversity in arts and community settings. Creative youth engagement. Training and consultancy.

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Not Your Circus Dog & Access All Areas

"So, just what is it that you fuckers want? The cracks, the scars? We are sick of being your circus dogs. Everything you think we can't do, we can."

Join the Not Your Circus Dog collective in an evening of shameless sexy punk crip cabaret. With luscious lip syncs, sweaty dances and verbatim stories, have your preconceptions rattled as we take you to the edge.

Welcome to our space. You are a guest, and we are not fucking sorry.

"This is the first time I have seen a piece by artists with learning disabilities that was utterly queer and uncompromising. Like The Divine David at his most provocative... I haven't been so affected by a performance for f**kin' years." Simon Casson, Producer,

These four performers are some of the bravest, boldest, most candid and risk-taking on the contemporary London theatre scene." Natasha Sutton Williams, Disability Arts Online

Supported by Arts Council England, The Hale and Access All Areas

About Not Your Circus Dog Collective

Not Your Circus Dog is a collective of learning disabled and neurodivergent performers who are unapologetic and perform shameless sexy, punk, crip cabaret. Learn more here.

ACCESS

If you have any access needs you want to discuss with us, please call the box office Monday to Friday between 10 - 10pm on 0161 274 0600.

Alternatively, you can email the box office on boxoffice@contactmcr.com, or get in touch via direct message on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram (@contactmcr on all three platforms).

Once you have been booked in a wheelchair seat once, you can book online from then onwards and do not have to call our box office team to facilitate your booking. Please do reach out if you have any questions about this process.

CONTACT MEMBERSHIP

Get access to a range of exclusive offers and juicy deals throughout the year with our Contact Membership!
Learn more here.

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Not Your Circus Dog: Not F**kin Sorry - Contact

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Not Your Circus Dog & Access All Areas "So, just what is it that you fuckers want? The cracks, the scars? We are sick of being your circus dogs. Everything you think we can't do, we can." Join the Not Your Circus Dog collective in an evening of shameless sexy punk crip cabaret.

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"Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok tells me this show might do that but don't worry we can just trauma bond"

Demi Nandhra is obsessed with trauma, childhood trauma, naming it, analysing it, healing from it, and getting-on-stage-to-perform-it. That last one might be a trauma response but you can decide that. Having entered her 30's Demi expected to be more whole, more healed, to not still feel like a child. Because trauma lives in the body and the body keeps the score, and we all know what that means. Disclaimer: Demi doesn't know what that means.

The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, 'therapise' culture and how TikTok can heal us all .

Commissioned by In Good Company, Cambridge Junction, Contact Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre, in association with Fierce Festival.

Co-commissioned by Derby Theatre, Attenborough Arts Centre and Nonsuch Studios.

Supported by Unlimited, Arts Depot, Jerwood 1:1 fund, Another Route, Belgrade Theatre, University of Worcester.

About Demi Nahndra

Demi Nandhra is a neurodivergent artist and writer based in Birmingham. She makes and curates both solo & collaborative performances, live art, theatre with a focus on Mental Health, Care & Trauma. Learn more here.

ACCESS

If you have any access needs you want to discuss with us, please call the box office Monday to Friday between 10 - 10pm on 0161 274 0600.

Alternatively, you can email the box office on boxoffice@contactmcr.com, or get in touch via direct message on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram (@contactmcr on all three platforms).

Once you have been booked in a wheelchair seat once, you can book online from then onwards and do not have to call our box office team to facilitate your booking. Please do reach out if you have any questions about this process.

CONTACT MEMBERSHIP

Get access to a range of exclusive offers and juicy deals throughout the year with our Contact Membership!
Learn more here.

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"Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok tells me this show might do that but don't worry we can just trauma bond" Demi Nandhra is obsessed with trauma, childhood trauma, naming it, analysing it, healing from it, and getting-on-stage-to-perform-it. That last one might be a trauma response but you can decide that.

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Drag and Gender Expression Workshop (online)

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Drag and Gender Expression Workshop (online)

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Rescheduled for August!

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Please, message or email Miriam with any questions!

E-mail: miriam.fluchter@gmail.com
Tel: 07835197617

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Jam and their Young Explorer's have been organising Pride events in Leigh, some of which are open to the public:

1. Summer sports picnic (not public but open to youth groups if they'd like to come as a group!) This is a big picnic at Pennington Flash with sports and games and food and birds! TBA - will be a Wednesday in the summer holidays

2. Everyone's Talking About Jamie Film Screening - this is where we are also showcasing our Gary animation! https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/leigh/leigh-film-factory/leigh-pride-2022-everyones-talking-about-jamie/e-jrgkzv

3. Explorers Youth Pride in Leigh - dry youth pride open to the public with a superhero theme (come dressed up!) https://allevents.in/leigh/fun-with-pride/200022766358852?ref=eventlist-cat

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28th June, 12.00 - 16.00

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Poll to find a time to view toolkit exhibition space

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Poll to find a time to view toolkit exhibition space

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Poll to find a design for the boardgame/cards of the Top Trumps set

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Poll to find a design for the boardgame/cards of the Top Trumps set

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Here is the online museum space we created in a workshop with Evie Seaton-Mooney.

Have a look around!

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Deadline: Monday 25th July.

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Have a look at the exhibitions from Event 1 and add your thoughts to this padlet

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A summary of the event, with links to the exhibitions and a feedback section.

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Suggestion: A bring your own snacks movie afternoon 

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Suggestion: A bring your own snacks movie afternoon 

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Just a friendly get together for example at 42nd Street. We can vote on movies, I'll bring a projector, you can each bring your own snacks

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Accessible Screenings

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Suggestion: Drag Workshops & Queer Events

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Suggestion: Drag Workshops & Queer Events

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🤬! Liverpool have offered to do some workshops online or in-person about Queer and Trans history, they could also do a Neuro-friendly drag event

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Suggestion: Trip to the People's History Museum

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Suggestion: Trip to the People's History Museum

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Also check out their 'Nothing About Us Without Us' Community Project

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About the project:

Behind the scenes, museum staff are working with disabled people to make the organisation and its public programme more accessible to everyone. This includes anyone who identifies as a disabled person, such as (but not exclusively) deaf, autistic, neurodiverse, and/or learning disabled people; people with first hand lived experience of mental illness, chronic illness and fatigue, survivors of mental distress, and/or mental health service users; movements, communities and individuals. As part of the Nothing About Us Without Us programme, PHM are working with disabled people to explore the museum's collection and look at how the history of disabled people has been documented, interpreted and communicated. This project is guided by a steering group of disabled people, some of whom represent disabled people's organisations alongside non-disabled allies.

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Powered By Reason - poweredbyreason.co.uk

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Nothing About Us Without Us - People's History Museum

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In 2022 People's History Museum (PHM) explores the history of disabled people's rights and activism through a co-curated programme of exhibitions and events. Visit PHM in Manchester UK, the national museum of democracy, telling the story of its development in Britain: past, present, and future.

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Suggestion: Trip to Manchester Art Gallery

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Suggestion: Trip to Manchester Art Gallery

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Manchester Art Gallery offers a space called "Room to Breathe" which they have offered to book exclusively for our group if we want to go
They also have mindful events coming up, which I will add to the calendar
They also provide noise cancelling headphones at the info desk

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Room to Breathe | Manchester Art Gallery

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The noise and overstimulation of the modern world gets too much for many of us. Room to Breathe is a dedicated space to help you experience art in a more mindful way. You can see a variety of works from our collection and listen to original audio guides to help you to explore the art […]

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A live reading of Vampire Hunter Jess - a story about a young autistic lesbian - by Author Emmy Clarke. Free, but booking required. Location: Sale Library. Date: Friday, 17th May.

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Please note, this event takes place at Sale Library EVENT INFORMATION
Stories of Care presents

Vampire Hunter Jess is a funny and heart-warming story for children that follows 10-year-old Jess, an autistic girl who is determined to find proof that her neighbour is a vampire.

Told through a mix of prose and unanswered text messages, this story has light LGBTQ+ themes, and also explores grief, friendship, and found family.

Written and read by Emmy Clarke, Vampire Hunter Jess is one of eleven brand-new original tales featured in Stories Of Care's upcoming children's anthology, 'Tales of the Brave, the Bold and the Beautiful'.

Stories of Care is a Manchester-based writing co-operative, founded by Sophie Willan, who work exclusively with exceptional new writers, from diverse backgrounds, whose voices need to be heard and whose stories need to be told.
LOCATION
Maximum 6 tickets per booking.
RUNNING TIMES
Sale Library
MEDIA
45 mins

Twitter: @PrideTrafford

#VampireHunterJess #prideintrafford

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VAMPIRE HUNTER JESS: READ BY AUTHOR EMMY CLARKE

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Please note, this event takes place at Sale Library EVENT INFORMATION Stories of Care presents Vampire Hunter Jess is a funny and heart-warming story for children that follows 10-year-old Jess, an autistic girl who is determined to find proof that her neighbour is a vampire.

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Draft Version of the Top Trump Cards created by the Starling flock.

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Draft Version of the Top Trump Cards created by the Starling flock.

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Fill out this poll:  https://q0hh1i9k006.typeform.com/to/W8sGbvJS

to help us plan events that everyone enjoys!

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With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place.

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Share them here. Feel free to post any ideas for events - places to go, new skills to try as a group, online workshop ideas... - under this tab.

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This is our social group for the ND Champions

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Here are some of the characters that were created in the toolkit sessions. They are based on neurodivergent experience. We hope to develop these characters into an interactive game (maybe like Top Trumps!) so that people can understand what it's like to be neurodivergent and become more neurodiversity friendly.

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Ronnie by Emmy

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Amelia 2.0 by Amelia

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Comet by Ellie

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Asphalt by Ethan

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Got any good resources on Neurodiversity? 

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Got any good resources on Neurodiversity? 

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Share them here. Feel free to post any resources you want to share with the group - talks, videos, newspaper articles, instagram pages... - under this tab.

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Free Training for Starling Staff and Volunteers

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Free Training for Starling Staff and Volunteers

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Training for all professionals wanting to become more neuro-inclusive.

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The Neurodiversity Champions are a group of volunteers that give up their time to help Starling (www.starlingcio.org.uk) to make spaces and places in Greater Manchester more neurodiversity friendly.

The Champions usually have some personal experience of neurodivergence e.g. they might have a diagnosis or they might identify as having a brain that works differently.

At the moment, the Champions are helping Starling and Ali Wilson (www.everybrain.co.uk) build a toolkit to share the lived experience of neurodivergent young people.

How we approached this was by working with our champions and young people to create characters with lived experience of neurodivergence (you can see some examples in the 'toolkit' tab).

As a champion you can also take part in training (take a look under the 'training' tab) and attend neurodiversity friendly social events (keep an eye on the social events calendar).

We will update this board with information about upcoming opportunities. If you have any questions you can get in touch with Katie: katie@starlingcio.org.uk