as a VI, hasn't everybody got better things to occupy them?
Not impressed! Like those fatuous questions some people ask concerning a
blind person's perception of colours . . . .
At 11:44 18/07/01 +0100, you wrote:
>But the arty films.........made by and including blind people, " a shaft of
>light in a sunless room" quote from Chris Baxter, nowhere in particular.
>Still what can we expect when we have the DRC 'informing people' about us so
>well?
>Cheesed
>Chris
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lindsay Parr [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:50 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Channel 4
>
>
>To quote The Guardian's Screen Grabs column (16/07), "Yup, tasteless doesn't
>even begin to cover it. So congratulations to 4 for so boldly disregarding
>all those fusty, chronically unimaginative ways of engaging with the blind
>(for instance, involving some real blind people in the programme".
>Lindsay P.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Baxter, Chris
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:30 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Channel 4
>
>
>Just been on the Channel 4 website, it seems like it's all downhill after
>tonight
>I quote:
>
>Blinded, a three-part series, tells the stories of patients undergoing
>treatment to save their sight - and in some cases their lives - at
>Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.
>
>Finally, in Celebrity Blind Man's Buff, Linda Robson, Sean Hughes and Gail
>Porter travel blindfold from Blackpool to London, with help and advice from
>those who train blind people to live independently.
>
>Sorry to point you all to this orgy of voyeurism, but I have enjoyed the
>short arty flims.... sigh
>
>Chris
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Baxter, Chris [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:35 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Channel 4
>
>
>Well I couldn't agree with you more Faye, Ailsa can be contacted on
>[log in to unmask] should anyone be interested in requesting DET in
>their institution, many of us here on the list have received training from
>Ailsa in the past. It may interest you to know that the film was made by a
>blind filmmaker also.... Rainer Haigh obviously, following Adrian's
>comments, not everyone's cup of tea but I felt it had something to say.
>
>Cheers
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Faye Langston [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:24 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Channel 4
>
>
>Last nights was called 'Blind Sensations', and a very good Disability
>Equality Trainer - Ailsa Fairley is acting in it and involved in its
>creation!
>
>(it doesn't hurt to advertise good trainers!)
>
>
>
>"Baxter, Chris" wrote:
>>
>> Dear all
>> Those of us left chained to desks that is, you might like to watch Channel
>4
>> at 7.55 pm tonight and tomorrow night to catch parts two and three of
>three
>> short programmes made by blind filmmakers and actors, last nights was the
>> first, can't remember what it's called but they are only three minutes
>long
>> 7.55 Channel 4
>>
>> Here's to the summer
>>
>> Chris
>
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