{"id":14356,"date":"2017-10-22T00:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14356"},"modified":"2017-10-21T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T11:47:54","slug":"watch-the-world-premiere-for-together2017-the-disability-arts-festival-at-newham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/watch-the-world-premiere-for-together2017-the-disability-arts-festival-at-newham","title":{"rendered":"Watch the world premi\u00e8re for Together!2017, the disability arts festival, at Newham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The disability arts festival Together!2017 is all set to start on 23 October (Monday), with a world premi\u00e8re performance. The disability history month festival will run until 15 December, in Stratford and East Ham.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">A solo performance by Lauren Payne, a member of the Anjali Dance Company, will portray a woman&#8217;s hidden strength and purity. The festival features other disabled performers and highlights include a pop-up poetry cafe at Stratford Circus arts centre, with pantomime and also a visual poetry exhibition.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The festival is organised by the social enterprise Together!. It was formed to create a cultural legacy for Paralympic in 2012. the community interest company also arranges free arts activities for disabled people, in a year-round programme. The company is working to make an international centre of excellence for disability arts out of east London. The 8-week arts festival showcases alongside a film festival, workshops, dance performances and theatre, across various venues.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">All are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhamrecorder.co.uk\/festivals\/world-premiere-set-for-newham-disability-arts-festival-together-2017-1-5244856\">free events<\/a>, unless specified, open to everyone. The festival line-up includes the festival opening event on 17 November, with a poetry exhibition at East Ham public library, from 6pm to 8pm. The Pop-up Poetry Cafe and performances is on 18 &amp; 19 November, at Docklands Maritime Festival, at 1:00pm and 3:00pm. Alien street art is on 25 November, at Gallions Reach Shopping Park.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Together! Music club&#8217;s performance and exhibition is on 1 December, at Vicarage Lane community centre, from 7pm to 9pm. A para-carnival parade on 2 December goes through Stratford. Blue Sky Actors&#8217; The Jingle Book pantomime at Stratford Circus is at 4pm and 7pm. A Filmmaking Workshop for disabled film-makers runs on 7 &amp; 8 December, from 11am to 7pm. The end of festival party is on 15 December, at Vicarage Lane community centre, from 7pm to 9pm with has performances and a reading by Together!2017 writer-in-residence, Penny Pepper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disability arts festival Together!2017 is all set to start on 23 October (Monday), with a world premi\u00e8re performance. The disability history month festival will run until 15 December, in Stratford and East Ham. A solo performance by Lauren Payne, a member of the Anjali Dance Company, will portray a woman&#8217;s hidden strength and purity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14358,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions\/14358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}