Peer Support Session: Deaf m/others
Monday 17 November 6-8pm
Our online peer support meetings are run on the radical principle that you are welcomed in all of your roles - that you do not need to exclude any part of your identity to be there. We follow a simple peer-support talking circle structure, which we guide you through at the start of every meeting. The meetings are non-hierarchical and confidential. The facilitator acts as a guide to take you through it, but also shares as a fellow participant. You are encouraged to do whatever you need to do to best look after yourself, and anyone else in your care, while we are together. People always report coming away feeling connected, inspired, relieved, renewed. We hope you can join us.
We are running a series of peer support ’Specials’ but please note that ALL women and non-binary people are welcome at each session - you do not need to have a particular experience or identity in order to attend. If space is limited, then priority will be given to the particular identity named.
This peer support session will be particularly welcoming of Deaf and disabled m/others.
Image: Mika Rosenfeld
Deaf since the age of 7, Jenny Sealey has been the Artistic Director of Graeae since 1997. Since then, she has pioneered a new theatrical language and aesthetics of artistic access experimenting with bilingual British Sign Language (BSL) and English, pre-recorded BSL, creative captioning, and in ear/live audio description methods.
Credits for Graeae include: Romeo and Juliet (A co-production with Shakespeare North Playhouse in association with Theatre by the Lake, Self-Raising (in association with Soho Theatre and Theatr Iolo. Developed with The Incubator at The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath.), The Paradis Files an opera (commissioned by The Stables for IF: Milton Keynes, in partnership with BBC Concert Orchestra and Curve Theatre); Reasons To Be Cheerful a musical (2010 co-produced with New Wolsey and Theatre Royal Stratford East); Sarah Kane’s Blasted (in association with RADA); Kaite O’Reilly’s peeling, The House of Bernarda Alba (co-produced with Manchester Royal Exchange); Blood Wedding (co-produced with Dundee Rep and Derby Theatre); ‘The Threepenny Opera’ (co -directed with Peter Rowe, co-produced with New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Nottingham and Leeds Playhouses and Birmingham Rep). Plays for young people include Diary of an Action Man and Whiter than Snow both by Mike Kenny. Outdoor productions include Against the Tide, The Iron Man, The Garden, The Limbless Knight – A Tale of Rights Reignited and for the WW1 Centenary This Is Not For You with disabled veterans.
Radio adaptations for Radio 4, co-produced by Naked Productions and Graeae, include The Midwich Cuckoos, Amy Dorritt and Three Sisters Rewired (co-written with Polly Thomas).
Jenny has directed productions, run workshops and given presentations internationally in Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, Russia and across Europe.
Jenny co-directed the London 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony alongside Bradley Hemmings (GDIF).
In 2022 Jenny was made an OBE. She has been awarded the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award and is an honorary Doctor of Drama at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Middlesex University and a Fellow of the Central School of Speech and Drama and Rose Bruford College.
Pricing Structure
Free for M/others Who Make members
Free for Jenny’s workshop attendees
£10 for non-members
Please note, tickets are subject to a booking fee. The fee will vary depending upon the price of the ticket.
Related events
Workshop: Making a Manifesto for Deaf M/Others
Monday 3 November 6-8pm
Hosted by Jenny Sealey