Documentary filmmaker, Mamaponya Motsai has contacted me to ask if I’ll share this request. Mamaponya is looking for people with dwarfism to share what is like living with this disability. Details are below. I’m a film student at UCL and we have been tasked to do a film about an issue we think is of importance. I …
UNION – The Northern School of Creativity and Activism – Leeds
Over the weekend of 11-12th January 2019, 20 creatives, artists and activists from the North of England met at a converted chapel for the commencement of UNION – The Northern School of Creativity and Activism. UNION is a sector-based coaching programme for emerging community artists and social activists across the North of England. The aim of …
Happy New Year 2019
Wishing you all the best for 2019 and beyond. Thanks for all the support in 2018 and here’s to a fantastic year ahead in this crazy world we live in. Steph x
Hello Little Lady – A Year in Review 2018
There’s a plethora of the best of 2018 coming through the Facebook feed and I thought it only right honour the blog and write about the achievements of the year. I was also talking to acquaintances when one commented that I had had a great year and stopping to think for a moment, I realised, …
You’re Just Little – The Powerful Impact of the Participants’ Photographs
You’re Just Little is a photographic exhibition that revealed the challenges, obstacles and societal assumptions people with Dwarfism face on a daily basis and ran between 4th – 14th October 2018 at Spectrum Cultural Hub. How participation started The initial proposal for the exhibition was to show my photography and challenge the gallery space by …
You’re Just Little – Exhibition Tour
The video is a silent tour around the You’re Just Little exhibition at Spectrum Cultural Hub from October 2018. It starts by looking at the promotional postcard with the exhibition’s details on, moving around the corner to take a look at the participant’s photos. Continuing onto the wall description about the exhibition taking in the …
Documentary Call-Out: Firecracker Films and Stacey Dooley
Press Release TV production company Firecracker Films are producing a new documentary and I’d be really interested to speak with any dwarf households that are interested in finding out more… In this immersive six-part documentary series Award-winning journalist and documentary maker Stacey Dooley will explore a cross-section of society by spending 72 hours in the …
You’re Just Little – Arty Parti
What a great way to start Dwarfism Awareness Month! On Monday 1st October, I joined presenter, Jay Sykes, and Kathryn Barnett, Spectrum Cultral Hub’s Studio Director, to chat about the ‘You’re Just Little’ photographic exhibition on Arty Parti, Spark FM’s participatory arts programme. We talked about what has influenced the exhibition, plans for the future …
Disabled Artists – Applications for funding from UnLimited now open
Unlimited funds artists to create exceptional artworks – and we really want to reach out as many people as possible who might be interested in applying. Please share this opportunity widely with your networks using #UnlimitedCommissions. The next round of applications is now open for disabled artists and companies creating disability-led work based in …
Your Chance to Participate in the You’re Just Little exhibition
One of the aspects that is incredibly important to me as part of the ‘You’re Just Little’ exhibition is having a participatory element. My world of dwarfism is not unique to just me, there are many of us out there seeing and interacting with the world and I’d love to share that. Let’s show the world …