Dear all
We are working with Disability Arts Online to develop better coverage of
disabled artists and the disability arts movement on Wikipedia, and are
looking for a trainer (or preferably trainers!) who would be prepared to
deliver these sessions and are available on at least one of the following
dates:
Thursday 3 December 2015
Thursday 4 February 2016
Thursday 3 March 2016
All sessions will be 11am - 4pm and are to be held at Goldsmith's
University in London.
Participants are being recruited by DAO and will all be disabled writers,
who are keen to develop their own research and editing skills as well to
improve Wikipedia coverage of disabled artists and the disability arts
movement. The idea is that it will be the same cohort of writers who
attends all three sessions but of course there may be some drop off, and
some additional participants at later sessions. As DAO has had a very high
level of interest in the sessions from their community, we are ideally
looking for two trainers for each session, but the urgent priority is to
find at least one volunteer for the session in December. There will be an
appropriate level of support from DAO including British Sign Language
interpreters, and experts on the disability arts movement, so trainers
don't need to be knowledgable about this field.
Richard Nevill is going to be working on this project so please let he and
I know if you are potentially interested/available. Volunteer expenses will
be covered.
Many thanks
Lucy
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