BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10423@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250309T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250309T110000 DTSTAMP:20250227T154914Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/sefton-park-palm-house-ddfi40-pi mp-my-wheelchair-the-launch/ SUMMARY:Sefton Park Palm House: Sefton Park Palm House: DDFI40: Pimp My Whe elchair the Launch DESCRIPTION:Commissioned to create new work for DaDaFest International 40\, responding to the theme of ‘Rage’\, artists Faith Bebbington and Dr J anet Price launch ‘Pimp my Wheelchair’. Faith and Janet are ‘pimping up’ our prosthetics\, dressing up crutches\, wheelchairs\, hearing aids (and more) with sculptures inspired by plants that use defence mechanisms to express rage against attack. From the thorn that pricks\, to plants wi th leaves that close against touch\, the new sculptures celebrate their ch allenge to ableism in the world.\n\nA sculptural installation amongst the plants at Sefton Park Palm House\, featuring a series of new sculptures cr eated by Faith Bebbington in collaboration with Janet Price will be availa ble to view throughout the festival month. The plant inspired sculptures u tilise a range of mobility aids combined with 3D elements created with was te materials.\n\nWe invite you to join us for this special launch event to be the first to experience their work through a thought provoking process ion\, and get an insight to the story behind Pimp my Wheelchair hearing fr om the artists.\n\nAccess: BSL interpretation will be available. Accessib le parking will be available on the paved road leading directly to the pal m house. If you are a wheelchair user\, please book a seated ticked and in dicate this when you book. Please highlight any other access requirements when you book.\n\nCost: FREE but you must reserve a ticket for the 11am l aunch event via eventbrite.\n\n \;\n\nPrivacy Notice\n\nWhen you regis ter for this event\, please refer to The DaDa Privacy Notice to see how we use your personal data.\n\n \;\n\nAbout Faith Bebbington\n\nFaith's artistic practice initially stemmed from having cerebral palsy\, a disabi lity that made her curious about how people and animals move. Faith explor es this through figurative sculptures playing with balance\, the process o f falling\, and capturing sequences of movement whether human or animal. I n 2014 Faith's artistic perspective shifted radically after surviving ‘t erminal’ cancer! Faith stopped working with fibreglass resin as her main medium and focused on more sustainable\, environmentally friendly ways of working\, particularly re-using plastics by breaking the component parts down to then reconstruct them.\n\nFaith studied sculpture at Winchester Co llege of Art\, set up a Liverpool studio in 1993 and now works across the UK creating recycled public artworks and exhibiting sculpture. Faith's cli ents across the UK include Veolia\, ITV Wembley.\n\nDr Sandra Hiett descri bed Faith's approach saying “Faith's practice as an artist has embodied authentic and deep rooted commitment to celebrating her sense of self\, wi th sustainability\, disability\, gender and social justice at the heart of her practice. As an artist working with community groups\, schools and cu ltural organisations\, Faith gives voice to people who are often unheard.. .”\n\nAbout Dr Janet Price\n\nDr Janet Price is a disabled queer feminis t\, based in Liverpool\, UK with links to Taranaki\, New Zealand. Janet is an activist and writer\, who has a commitment to using art as a way of bu ilding intersectional connections and communities across disability\, gend er\, sexuality\, race &\; class.\n\nJanet’s love of art and commitmen t to activism led her to become a member of the board of DaDaFest until 20 23 where she built a strong commitment to and understanding of access in D isability Arts. Whilst there\, Janet also worked with previous Chief Exec Ruth Gould to organise a visit of UK Disability artists with a coalition o f disability artists/activists in India/South Asia.\n\nOver many years\, J anet has been interested in and worked with textiles\, creating fibre art pieces that relate to the depths of our natural world. Increasingly Janet draws upon the history and reworking of old textiles\, looking to their or igins in the wild and to colonial impacts upon fibre production\, drawn to fibre art that challenges the injustice of power and its intersectional u nwrapping.\n\nJanet sees art as a primary route towards community\, to new ways of understanding and experiencing the world. Disability\, race\, gen der/sexuality\, class and nature are at the centre of the disruption our p erspectives need\, and social justice is where we will find our answers.\n \n \;\n\nAbout DaDa \n\nDaDa is an award winning and pioneering disab ility arts organisation based in Liverpool with international reach and im pact. Founded in 1984\, we were one of the first disability-led arts organ isations in the UK and an integral part of the campaign for greater equali ty and access for disabled artists across the arts sector.\n\nAbout DDFI40 \n\nDaDaFest International returns 8th-31st March 2025 to celebrate DaDa's 40th Anniversary and this time we are coming with ‘RAGE: A Quiet Riot ’.\n\nDDFI40 will showcase work by disabled artists that captures all sh apes and sides of rage. From the internal quiet frustrations and righteous rage\, to overt injustice and activism\, DDFI40 will explore disability r ights\, disability arts\, access\, ableism and ‘Rage’ in an explosion of creativity. 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