We have all but finalised dates for the music and visual arts workshops. We have decided not to use Fife college as a venue in favour of the Fife Youth Café in Cupar Fife. We just need to go and visit the café to make sure it is suitable for the music workshop. I will be putting together some promotional material for these workshops next week.
We are currently promoting the Trash to Treasure workshop being held on August 2nd at Furniture Plus in Dunfirmline.
Before I had the heart attack I had meetings with two representative from two universities here in Scotland regarding the next stage of Unique Dyslexic Get Creative. Both have expressed an interest in taking my ideas forward. With one University we are going to apply for a social innovation voucher through the Scottish government for some funding to take it forward. The other has proposed looking for European funding. I am very excited about both possibilities. Still it is still very early days with this idea.
I have a question to all of you out there regarding social media. What bugs you about social media as a dyslexic or neuro diverse person. What would you like to see or have access to that would make your social media experience better and more accessible?
Today I am going to pick up the first batch of Unique Dyslexic Get Creative t shirts. Very excited about this.
Finally a couple of requests:
Is there anyone out there who would like help us with running our Facebook pages. Basically to act as admins and get involved with out social media I would like to try and attract more people to both pages, to get us more likes and to generally support the work we do.
Secondly is there anyone out there who has experience of running / managing web sites. I am looking for a volunteer to help us with the Unique Dyslexic web site. Preferably any one with experience of running a web site. The Unique site was developed by Toolkit. Toolkit have offered free web master training which you might be able to access.
Unique Dyslexic Get Creative is a new Dyslexia
Pathways CiC project.
Dyslexia Pathways CiC: Being
dyslexia positive
The objective of Unique Dyslexic Get Creative
is to support, promote and celebrate the creative talents of dyslexic
individuals across the full range of creative spectrum.
We invite anyone who is dyslexic, or thinks
they are dyslexic, to join the project and share their creative ideas here
including:
actors, animators, sculptures, artists,
comedians, chefs, dancers, dreamers, engineers, entrepreneurs, games designers,
improvisers, information technology geeks, inventors, film makers, musicians,
photographers, poets, song writers, story tellers, out of the box thinkers,
writers and visionaries.
You do not have to be diagnosed as dyslexic
and we welcome dyspraxic, dyscalculic, AD(H)D and Aspergers individuals etc to
share their creative talents on our facebook pages and on our Unique Dyslexic
Get Creative internet site. We welcome anyone from any other neuro-diverse
communities to join in and get involved with the Unique Dyslexic Get Creative
Unique
Dyslexic Get Creative is running 4 creative focussed workshops across Fife in
2014. These workshops are free and travel expenses and lunch will be provided.
Each workshop will run for around 6 hours and will include short dyslexia
awareness presentation on the social model of dyslexia and being dyslexia positive.
These workshops are open to anyone who is dyslexic, think they are dyslexic is
interested in finding out more about being creative from beginner to expert.
Indeed we
have already run one very successful workshop on fused glass art in March this
year. Other workshops will focus on recording and making music, visual art and
furniture revamping.
Please find
attached promotional leaflet on the furniture revamping workshop.
Free
dyslexia screening will be available for people over the age of 16 attending
the workshops.
Research indicates around 10% of the UK
population are dyslexic. As a result many dyslexics feel isolated and there is
no real tangible dyslexic community. The Unique Dyslexic project seeks to
redress this by bringing them together in these workshops and through our
social media where they can develop their creative talents and share
experiences of being dyslexic, form friendships and a peer support group.
Dyslexia Pathways CIC and Unique Dyslexic Get
Creative actively support and promote the social model of dyslexia and
disability.
People
taking part in this project can share their work either on the Unique Dyslexic
Get Creative Facebook group page or dedicated website. If you would
like to find out more about the Unique Dyslexic Project, you are cordially
invited to join the Unique Dyslexic Facebook group page at the address below:
Or our
Facebook page at:
Here is a link to our Unique Dyslexic Get Creative website:
http://www.uniquedyslexic.com/
However, you do not have to attend any of the workshops to get your work showcased on our Facebook page and web site.
For more
information:
E mail:
steve.mccue@uniquedyslexic.com Tel:
0159 756 187
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