After we had done our NHS play on our experiences of NHS care, we are now planning two plays. 'OUR EXPERIENCES ON BEING VICTIMS OF CRIME AND BULLYING; 'OUR EXPERIENCES IN DISCRIMINATION WITH TRYING TO GET EMPLOYMENT'. Like the NHS play, we will be telling you our negatives stories in the play but hopeful bring them into positives. When the play is finished, us as a group Our Shout will be letting you all know the positives we want to make things better for us to be equal with you in this society, not only to improve the lives of people with disabilities but how non - disabled people are towards people with disabilities. Our Shout are hoping to perform our NHS play again in front of the student nurses at Walsall University, GPs and children at mainstream and special schools.
Hi everyone, I hope you will be glad to know that the Employment play was very successful. If any of you turned up, I hope you enjoyed it. I understand if all, some or even none of you couldn't make it. Those of you who may have not read about me telling you about the play, it was at the Lighthouse in Wolverhampton on Friday 20th June 2008, I wrote it myself. The time of the show was on at 10.00am - 3.00pm. We didn't do drama all day, other people who work with disabilities as well us Our Shout did some speeches and other things too to try and raise more awareness to help and encourage people to accept people with disabilities to be in employment. We were very disappointed that not many employers turned up and many people who work in disability employments services. We will have work harder to see that people with disabilities get equal rights to non - disabled workers and employers. If you or if you know someone who can be any support to us on the subject of employing people with disabilities, please contact Mencap or me. sarajgorman@googlemail.com you could even email me about subject on my email address on Face book sarajgorman@gmail.com http://www.mencap.org.uk/
The purpose of this play is to tell you the positives and negatives experiences that people with disabilities have to face with employment and the support we want to have positive futures for ourselves and others like us. I will be asking Our Shout if it will be alright for me to put on their stories on my website besides my own, as soon as I can get all the group together. Nine times out of ten we all seem to be doing difference jobs at times. Hopefully you should find out soon on this website whether I can put Our Shout's stories on this website or not. I hope to get someone to support me to put the DVD of the Employment play and my interview about the play.
The good news was that the people who saw the play were very impressed with us. We would like to find out how many work placements and employers accept people with disabilities and how many don't in Wolverhampton. What is the future going to do bring? How many non - disabled people do we need to educate to accept us to be equal to all human beings? Please email me or and get in touch with Mencap if you know the answers to those questions! Thank you.
Our Shout are hoping to do our own website as soon as when we get time to do so, we will try our best because we have so many other things to do. Please do accept the things that either take ages to do or some things we don't get around to doing at all. We will be doing the Employment play over B'ham on Tuesday 8th July 2008, I can't remember where they said but I will keep you posted on the response we get.
We are hoping to write a comedy play for us to do on the radio, if that's going to happen I will let you know what station. Like I said please be re with us, as we do so much work or many cases so much work we want to do. I will let you know about as soon as we find out myself,, we have only just started taking about it. We have so much research things to do first, if all works with fitting it in with the other things we. Well I say Our shout but there's also another group joins in with the drama called the Discovers or the Discovering group, I can't remember play which. I think two people in that group took part in the Employment play.
We have Drama classes every Tuesday 7pm - 9pm at the Wolverhampton Art Centre so if anyone with a disability wants to join us, your welcome. The only thing is that the Discovering is full, you have to put your name on a waiting list for that or may be you could join Our Shout if you want. I'm trying to get on the Discovers as but as I said we're full up at the moment, we'll be lucky get a place. I still go their to get a taste of drama though with Our Shout.
If your interested please ring Anne Humphrey - Jones 01902 - 824301 to see if we have a place for you or not.
We had told our directer Ricky that we want to do a Horror play, which isn't based around disabilities issues for a change. We have done plenty of research on ghosts, haunted places and etc. It will be at the Wolverhampton Art Centre. We are are very sorry we didn't let you know in plenty of time, tickets are sold out but If I can get someone to put the DVD of the play on this website after we have performed, I will do.
Tuesday 8th July 2008, Our Shout did their employment play in B'ham a place called Black Country District in Solihull. Our play kicked very successfully anyway. People enjoyed it and told us that we gave good reasons behind the play. They agreed that society needs to do more about employment for people with disabilities. I think there were some employers who employ people with disabilities, there was a guy who runs a scheme called Links For Work.
