A Big THANK YOU to OPSOC!
/A MASSIVE thank you to the students of Cardiff University School of Optometry and Visions OPSOC for writing to Santa to make sure all our Maggie’s Club Members got an early Christmas present.
Enjoy our Christmas video
Equality in Earls Barton
/The UCAN i2i Training Team delivers Creative Equality Training for the Community Trade Union, National Executive Committee at their training offices in Earls Barton. Development Director Jane Latham said “It was a real privilege to be able to present to the NEC, it was a fascinating day and a wonderfully diverse group of participants.”
A Remarkable Experience
/In late September the UCAN Team visited the amazing social enterprise, Dialogue in the Dark in Hamburg.
http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/
Bernie Latham, Artistic Director said ‘It was an astonishing experience and one I will never forget, I particularly enjoyed Dialog in Silence which has really helped me inform some of my most recent work’
Dinos Aristidou said I found the experience of both Dialogue in the Dark and Dialogue in Silence very powerful and well structured and conceived, taking the participant through different stages of awareness and understanding”
City of the Unexpected
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To complete a very exciting and busy week, our long time member and superb pianist Rachel Starritt took part in the amazing Roald Dahl City of the Unexpected celebrations. Rachel performed with Ali, a Cardiff Poet, and a wonderful time was had by all.
Very excited to announce the launch of our new training initiative.
/i2i Creative Training Solutions by UCAN Productions.
The first workshops were held on 13th of September 2016 and delivered at the University Hospital of Wales for fourth year Junior Doctors. These series of interactive workshops were developed and delivered by ‘UCAN Productions’, and Nicola Crews, MBE, a Training consultant. The workshop included exploring the emotional and practical aspects of living with visually impairment and run by visually impaired tutors from UCAN Productions. The tutors’ experiences of visual impairment formed the basis of the lesson, as students wore spectacles simulating different forms of visual impairment and attempted to perform routine tasks such as pouring a glass of water.
The tutors described the students as enthusiastic and respectfu,l in a session where they were allowed to ask any questions, ranging from, “ As you have a degenerative eye condition, how do you cope with the prospect that you may go blind “, to “ What do you see when you dream? “
Jane Latham, Development Director from UCAN Productions said, “ Our i2i training team are delighted to have been offered the opportunity to contribute to this year’s Ophthalmology teaching. It was a very beneficial experience for all those involved “
