Every day Israel’s assault on Gaza continues, more innocent Palestinians will be brutally killed.

So long as our government rejects a ceasefire, it is complicit in this slaughter.

I have tabled this amendment to the King's Speech, calling on the government to back a ceasefire:

We will be marching for a ceasefire on Saturday, not in competition with Remembrance weekend, but as part and parcel of it.

We are remembering all those who have been killed in war, and we are trying to prevent more human life from being destroyed.

My book Drawing to Learn Anything shows you how to use non-skilled #drawing across the curriculum to:
#Learn key vocabulary,
Decode complex text when #reading
To improve #memory & retrieval
Improve #maths skills
Draw using different conventions
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Two weeks ago, we marched in London for a ceasefire.

Last week, we marched for a ceasefire.

Today, we marched for a ceasefire.

This massacre has to end — we need a ceasefire, now.

An entire culture, history and people are disappearing under the rubble – buried by the moral cowardice of our political leaders.

Artists whose work we will never know.

Teachers whose lessons we will never learn.

Children whose laughter we will never hear.

We must…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Erin Pritchard Dr Erin Pritchard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ccds.hope.ac.uk Liverpool Hope University has been appointed to the journal’s most senior group of Executive Editors for Disability & Society. Please join us in very warm welcome to Erin hope.ac.uk/si/dr-erin-pri…

Up early, as it’s an inset morning with art teachers from Meridian Trust for me. Looking at how to improve engagement of boys with our subject. Looking 4wd to sharing my experiences and strategies. NEATEN AccessArt Gomersal Primary Art InSEA

Meet #iJADE2023 Conference Speakers

We are thrilled that Art Historian and NSEAD Patron Dr Janina Ramirez (Prof Janina Ramirez) will be delivering an online keynote on Friday 24 November

🔗 Find out more and book your place:

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iJADE 2023 new offer for £50 tickets: nsead.cmail19.com/t/y-e-xntltl-d…
Offer expires 02.11.2023!

tc.columbia.edu/miaeh2023/ NSEAD @NSEAD_Sophie Please can you share this with your networks?
How can we foster and amplify the long-marginalized histories that have the potential for transforming the field of art education?

Join @amandalynch_art for the Quality Dis/Abled seminar which will explore how quality within art practice is judged.
Speakers include: Mike Layward, Claire Penketh, Tate Modern & Britain, Paula Orrell & Christopher

📅 - 24 Oct
🗺️ - Online
💷 - Free

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International Disability Studies, Art, & Education network Inaugural virtual forum on Saturday, September 30, 2023, 12:00-2:00PM EST. idsae.net/upcoming-events
Please register for the zoom link. There is no cost to register and participate.
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Excellent spoof on the Ed Sec by ⁦Hugo Rifkind⁩ in@thetimes⁩ today. Sadly all too true,even once a fortnight may be too optimistic with fewer and fewer art teachers. And don’t get me started on craft in schools! ⁦Nick Trench⁩⁦NSEAD⁩ ⁦Heritage Crafts⁩

Please help save the Arts in all phases of education. My art teacher saved me, handed me a metaphorical life-line & encouraged me as an artist. I studied arts & education, have 3 degrees inc. MA & PhD, now a Professor. EVERY young person should have the opportunity to choose ❤️🌈

Fresh from the printers!

From the perspective of a guide dog and with the insight of two disability scholars, LETTERS WITH SMOKIE explores human-animal relationships, disability as disruption, and whether blindness might be “befriended.”

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Medical Humanities & Disability Studies: In/Disciplines is published later this month. No book I've written was as challenging or took as much out of me, but I'm very proud of how it turned out. You can read a preview here: bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/64dce0b…
#MedicalHumanities #Disability

Is there any practical way out of the climate crisis? Join us for ‘Pricing the Priceless: creativity, paradox and a new vision of finance to meet the global climate crisis’ with Paula_DiPerna
6-7pm 5 Oct IRL
RSA South West CCCI Research in EnvHums at Bath Spa Bath Spa University
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The arts transform lives

Such an inspiring meeting discussing ecological imagination with amazing colleagues in the room! 💚🌳🌈