University Of Atypical

Happy Valentine's Day to all our followers, artists and supporters - we love you every day and not just on this day of manufactured displays of affection...but here's a cheesy love image anyway 😍🥰

Image Description: A yellow cartoon loveheart made from cheese on a grey background that says "cheesy" love underneath.

Have you popped in to see our latest exhibition yet? If not, take relief from the grey outside with the vibrant colours of Mary Cody's String inside Atypical Gallery. We are open from 11am to 4pm all week.
Photo Credit: Simon Mills
Image Description: Image one is of the flyer for the String exhibition at University of Atypical. Image 2 is a detail shot of one of the acrylic and wool canvases in the String exhibition. This piece features blue, red, yellow and brown shades of wool and paint.

Great photos from yesterday's Art & Biscuits session at Cullingtree Meadows made possible with support from Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) Disruption Award and Arts Council of Northern Ireland - we had a ball, thanks for having us ☺️

This is an excellent piece looking at the unfortunately careless and patronising way disability is so often depicted on stage and screen, and asking whether we would be comfortable with such damaging stereotypes were it any other minority group being depicted? https://www.theguardian.com/…/i-dont-th ink-ive-ever-been-so…

Please join us on Wednesday the 27th of February 2019 to discuss PIP with PPR (Participation & Practice Of Rights).
PPR will be on hand to offer advice and information to anyone needing support and guidance when it comes to the PIP application and assessment process. Seán Brady from PPR will present information from Right to Work: Right to Welfare, a campaign led by sick, disabled and unemployed activists which uses a human rights based approach to secure social security.
T...he team will be available to answer your questions in a welcoming and friendly environment.
We will run two sessions to try and accommodate as many people as possible, one in the morning from 11am to 1pm and one in the evening from 6pm to 8pm.
If you require BSL or any other access requirements please contact Paula - paula@universityofatypical.org at least a week in advance.
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Please join us on Wednesday the 27th of February 2019 to discuss PIP with PPR (Participation & Practice Of Rights).
PPR will be on hand to offer advice and information to anyone needing support and guidance when it comes to the PIP application and assessment process. Seán Brady from PPR will present information from Right to Work: Right to Welfare, a campaign led by sick, disabled and unemployed activists which uses a human rights based approach to secure social security.
T...he team will be available to answer your questions in a welcoming and friendly environment.
We will run two sessions to try and accommodate as many people as possible, one in the morning from 11am to 1pm and one in the evening from 6pm to 8pm.
If you require BSL or any other access requirements please contact Paula - paula@universityofatypical.org at least a week in advance.
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It's Late Night Art tonight! Be sure to stop in to Atypical Gallery to see the beautiful and bold work of KCAT Arts Centre's Mary Cody. We will be open from 5pm to 8pm with wine, tea, and nibbles.
Share the love with our neighbours PSsquared tonight too as they open 'The Question of Feeling At Home', featuring the work of artists from Black Box's Moonbase group, and Dublin's Double Take Studios. ❤️

So glad to host last Friday’s social group with Kids In Control and Action Ability Belfast at University of Atypical. #YesWeAreIn

Hello, we're on the hunt for a bathroom weighing scales! If anyone can help by popping in to the gallery with one on Thursday or Friday this week it would be a huge help, we'll only need it for 10 or 15 mins! Thanks 😄

The Words of Tongue or Pen: A Celebration of rallying cries from the Disability Rights Movement
5th July 2018 Venue: Black Box
... To celebrate 25 years of the Arts & Disability Forum, now known as University of Atypical, we have collaborated with UsFolk design and illustration agency and Ben Crothers, curator of the Naughton Gallery, to put together a typographical homage to the best known protest slogans and rallying cries from the last four decades of the Disability Rights movement. A testament to the power and importance of the spoken and written word in activism and social movements, this exhibition pays tribute to what has gone before while acting as a reminder that the fight for disability rights still continues. We hope that this exhibition will act as a catalyst for a new wave of protest cries to remind the world that the Disability Rights movement is not dead yet.
Send us your ideas via twitter @uniatypical or facebook and Instagram @universityofatypical #NotDeadYet
The artists: Thomas Bannon Beautifully Flawed and Fabulous Fiona McDonnell By Us For Us Conor Barbour Closed For Repair Ronan Lunney Disability Rights Are Civil Rights Alice Kearney Don’t Pat My Head Conor McClure May Contain Nuts William Woods Not Dead Yet Martina Scott Nothing About Us Without Us Jacky Sheridan Piss On Pity
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ROBIN PRICE 08/06/2018 to 20/07/2018
The photographs shown in this exhibition visually represent the degree of air-borne particulate pollution in various cities across the globe.... Particulates can be both anthropogenic and biogenic in nature; the result either of man-made pollution from industry, traffic or construction, or of naturally occurring phenomena such as sea spray, or dust arising from fine soils in dry climates. The threat to human health from this type of air pollution arises from particulate matter small enough (> 2.5 microns) to slip past the natural filters of the human respiratory system. Such irritants contribute to the cause of certain cancers, lung, and heart diseases. It can be difficult to comprehend the destructive effects of matter so small that it is invisible to the naked human eye, so with the intention to highlight the problematic through means other than dry statistics, Robin Price invented the Pollution Painter. Through a sensor worn on the artist’s wrist the pollution painter measures the amount of these small, invisible particles in the air and translates it into LED flickers, which are recorded through long exposure photography. The artist frames a shot, opens the camera shutter for between 15 and 30 seconds and then walks very slowly across the area being photographed carrying the pollution painter with him. On entering the frame, he presses the trigger on the wrist sensor and the LED lights on the painter begin to twinkle. The higher the count of particles in the air around the artist, the greater the quantity of LED flickers emanating from the pollution painter. The
photographs in this exhibition are the result of this quite scientific process, the illuminated threads of air pollution magnified beneath the lens of an unconventional microscope. The final photographs show alternately dense and speckled bands of light so luminescent that they could be the careful artistry of a manufactured visual installation, rather than the highlighted presence of toxic pollution.
The locations and images in this exhibition were selected and taken in collaboration with environmental scientists, journalists and local drivers. The artist would like to thank the following for their support and contribution to the project:
Prof Francis Pope, Dr Ajit Singh, Dr Salim Alam, Dr William Avis (University of Birmingham) Rae Howells (former editor Port Talbot Magnet) Armando Retama, Casandra Sepúlveda, Dr Beatriz Cardenas (Sedema) Prof Michael Gatari, (University of Nairobi), Stephen Koana (driver) Thapa Singh (guide), Dr. Camilla Alexander-White (Royal Society of Chemists) Dr Chris Malley (University of York) Stefanie Holzworth, Judith Owigar (UN Habitat), Benjamin Jamuhuri (driver)
Photo Credit: Simon Mills
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Thanks to Colette from we will thrive for shining a spotlight on theatre-makers in Scotland who are taking the time and care to make beautiful and challenging work that plays to Deaf as well as mainstream audiences. It would be great to see theatre producers and programmers across the UK and Ireland creating more work with integrated access for all audiences. Theatre NI https://wewillthrive.co.uk/…/national-t heatre-of-scotland-r…

JANE McCORMICK: NOT HALF RIGHT 12/11/2018 to 21/12/2018 Photo Credit: Simon Mills

A reminder that this celebration of the life of Professor Elaine Thomas is today, at 1pm at Atypical Gallery.

A reminder of this new, not-to-be-missed solo show by fabulously talented Atypical artist Sinead O'Donnell. The launch tonight is at 7pm at Millennium Court in Portadown and, for those of you in Belfast, there’s a free bus doing a pick-up and drop off at the Golden Thread (leaves Belfast at 6.45pm). If you’re reading this you’re welcome! With a performance art practice that takes her around the globe, Sinead is a key figure in NI’s arts & Disability/Disability Arts scene. She is a past recipient of iDA and Unlimited funding and her work’s status has been acknowledged by the Arts Council’s prestigious Major International Artist award.

Maurice Hobson: Faces Caught In Time: A posthumous snapshot of the life and work of Maurice Hobson
Launch: Thursday August 2nd 5.30pm to 8pm Exhibition dates: August 3rd to August 31st
... Photo Credit: Simon Mills
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We have an awesome line up of events for International Women's Day 2019! You might like to do something too!!

Join us for an informal gathering in memory of Prof Elaine Thomas CBE (1950-2019) Former Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Ulster
Following the sudden death earlier this month of the artist and lecturer Elaine Thomas, friends, past students and teaching colleagues are invited to an informal get-together in her memory. All Welcome.
... Date: Saturday 2nd February 2019 Time: 1pm – 3pm Venue: University of Atypical, 109-113 Royal Avenue, BELFAST, BT1 1FF
This is a relaxed gathering of friends, past students and teaching colleagues from Elaine’s time in Belfast. It’s in Elaine’s memory – but not a solemn affair – just an opportunity for people to see each other again, maybe after decades, and enjoy memories of an exceptional tutor and person. There will be a book to record memories of Elaine. Please think of an anecdote to write or add a message of sympathy for her family. Afterwards, it will be sent on to Elaine’s sister, Annette. Recognising each other after many years may not be easy but should be enjoyable.
Please RSVP to Damien Coyle and Vivien Burnside at: st.comgall@gmail.com
Including your name and when you were a student or colleague of Elaine.
Elaine joined the Ulster Polytechnic in 1973 as a Fine Art Lecturer and became Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design and Professor of Fine Art at the University of Ulster in 1990.
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gobscure
25.1.18 to 9.3.18
Launch and performance 25.1.18 6pm to 9pm
... The Arts & Disability Forum is pleased to present still alone in her voices / screwloose, a haunting and at times darkly funny exhibition of visual poetry, film and sculptural pieces by Newcastle-based self-taught artist, performer and writer gobscure. Born from gobscure’s experiences of psychosis, still alone in her voices is a moving and provocative look, in gobscure’s own words, at how “we too are constantly being erased & having to write ourselves back in”. Comprised of large white wooden boards covered in layers of charcoal writing, the work is weighty yet fragile - covered in languages you can see but cannot read. screwloose, a collection of sculptural pieces, short films and visual-poems, responds to the increasing chaos of the international political system and asks the question: are we mad or are we made?,
reimagines an Ireland with a frictionless border, and asks if Donald Trump is still playing with his marbles or if he has lost them like the rest of us? The exhibition launches on January 25th at 6pm, with a performance of gobscure’s acclaimed show with added nuts at 7pm. with added nuts is part of gobscure’s long-term journey to reclaim the languages of lunacy. Reflecting on lived experiences of mental distress connected with our disabling by politics, attitude and narrative, this is a show that finds beauty beneath those wounding words of sanism. gobscure ultimately asks who ‘owns’ our story, inviting the audience to reclaim language and build mad solidarities at a time of so much warring against us all. gobscure will also facilitate a creative workshop at the Arts & Disability Forum on Saturday 27th January from 11am to 4pm. With places for 8 participants, gobscure asks only that you bring yourself and a willingness to join in a creative journey that could lead anywhere. To book please contact paula@adf.ie
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thats very nice it gives a more more motivation for disabilitys freind iam from nepal iam a artist i am doing lots of work with disadilitiys iam the artist

V UNIQUE SIMPLY THE BEST LIKE GEORGE. G.B 4 LIFE. 5 *****

Great organization , fantastic events. I enjoyed Bounce the past two years.

Fantastic organisation, great opportunities for disabled artists. The staff are awesome too.

Happy Valentine's Day to all our followers, artists and supporters - we love you every day and not just on this day of manufactured displays of affection...but here's a cheesy love image anyway 😍🥰

Image Description: A yellow cartoon loveheart made from cheese on a grey background that says "cheesy" love underneath.

thats very nice it gives a more more motivation for disabilitys freind iam from nepal iam a artist i am doing lots of work with disadilitiys iam the artist

V UNIQUE SIMPLY THE BEST LIKE GEORGE. G.B 4 LIFE. 5 *****

Great organization , fantastic events. I enjoyed Bounce the past two years.

Fantastic organisation, great opportunities for disabled artists. The staff are awesome too.

Happy Valentine's Day to all our followers, artists and supporters - we love you every day and not just on this day of manufactured displays of affection...but here's a cheesy love image anyway 😍🥰

Image Description: A yellow cartoon loveheart made from cheese on a grey background that says "cheesy" love underneath.

thats very nice it gives a more more motivation for disabilitys freind iam from nepal iam a artist i am doing lots of work with disadilitiys iam the artist

V UNIQUE SIMPLY THE BEST LIKE GEORGE. G.B 4 LIFE. 5 *****

Great organization , fantastic events. I enjoyed Bounce the past two years.

Fantastic organisation, great opportunities for disabled artists. The staff are awesome too.