Sync has now selected for the Sync Intensives programme. Due to an exceptional level of applications, the programme has been expanded from 12 to 15, including the individuals taking up the CLP/ACE Leading in London placement with Whitechapel Gallery and the London 2012 Unlimited placement.
Each person will each gain one to one coaching support and the group will meet together on a series of development days and through online networking.
From April, members of Sync Intensives will be creating new case studies and articles for the website, focusing on their particular takes on leadership and disability.
Sync has recently added new articles and case studies on: Is there a disabled leadership style? (an exploration of do disabled people lead differently?), Rules of the game (what is our approach to rules? Can we rewrite our own rule book?) and How to agree to disagree (how to disagree more constructively) and Simon Mckeown (creator of Motion Disabled), Tom Mauger (lead singer of Babyhead) and Rita Marcalo, who recently gained international exposure with her 24 hour dance piece ‘Involuntary Dances’ where she attempted to allow others to witness her own epileptic seizure.
The 15 people who will be taking up places on the Sync Intensives programme this year are a truly diverse group. As with Sync 20, the group includes individual artist practioners, and those working within disability specific and mainstream arts and cultural organisations.
From within arts organisations, participants include Laura Cream, Programme Manager at Shape, Rachel Bagshaw, Training and Learning Projects Manager at Graeae and Sue Williams, Senior Strategy Officer, Diversity (Disability) Arts Council England.
Within other sectors there is Rachael Wallach, Service Development Officer, Library and Information Service within the London Borough of Lewisham, Patricia Collins, museum curator and Faye Stewart,
There are also two film makers – Liz Crow, recently spotted wearing a Nazi uniform on top of the fourth Plinth in Trafaglar Square as part of Gormley’s One & Other project, and Caglar Kimyoncu, film maker and collaborator with Filmpro.
To find out more about who is in Sync Intensives, please see the Sync website (www.syncleadership.co.uk)
