2001

2001 - 'Strength to Strength: Year of the Artist Exhibition' at Spike Island by art+power
2001 - Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company Wicked Bodies tour
2001, January - 'Vinyl Dreams' recording programme for disabled musicians - second project begins
2001, January - Archive Enabled by James Weir - 'a portable filing system addressing the relationship of Disability Arts to the rest of the world'
2001, 19 March - Mat Fraser performs Sealboy Freak, one-man show, at Bull Theatre, Barnet  
2001, 21 March - Mind The Gap present Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, at Bull Theatre, Barnet 
2001, 27-31 March - Heart n Soul Large, Albany Empire, Deptford 
2001, June - July - Signdance collective perform at the Ana Desetnica Festival
2001, June - July - Signdance collaborative perform at the Lent Festival Maribor Slovenia
2001, June - A True Voice Singing, new CD from Frank Bangay
2001, June - Don't Look Under the Bed, video installation by Juan Delgado, exploring Clause 28 and its effects on young people 
2001, 23 June - 'Deaf Eyes' exhibition, Queensland Multimedia Centre
2001, 30 June - Somers Town Blues Night, featuring Christina Dunhill and Frank Bangay
2001, July - Make It So, one day festival in Milton Keynes
2001, July - You're Really Cutting Me Up by Jenni Meredith, published by Colchester and Tendring Arts Project
2001, 2-20 July - 'Miles' Eyes' exhibition by photographer Miles Thomas, at The Ability Gallery
2001, 28 July - Survivors' Poetry, launch of Write on the Edge anthology, Somers Town Community Centre
2001, August - Candoco Dance Company, tenth anniversary double bill. I hastened through my death scene to catch your last act, choreographed by Javier de Frutos, and Sunbryne, choreographed by Doug Elkins
2001, August - Drake Music Project search for two groups of physically disabled people to join a project with the Science Museum and Sinfonia 21
2001, August - Edinburgh 2001 DEGENERATE International Festival of Disability Art
2001, 3 August - Disability Film Festival
2001, 11 August - Independence Festival
2001, 18 August - 'Echoes of the Spirit' exhibition of art by Japanese artists with learning disabilities. At Diorama until 18 August, at Project Ability, Glasgow, 30 August - 21 September, at Bolton Museum Art Gallery 15 December - 23 February
2001, September - Heart n Soul CD
2001, September - Spider's Web Storytellers: Story Circles at Jackson's Lane
2001, 13 September - Survivors' Open Mic at The Poetry Café
2001, 28-29 September - CandoCo Dance Company tenth anniversary bill, Stratford Circus
2001, October - Large, new show from Heart n Soul breaks new ground by exploring cast members' past experience of discrimination
2001, October - Jenny Sealey tells DAIL about Graeae Theatre Company's future plans, incuding The Changeling, Peeling, Display 4 (new writing initiative with Soho Theatre and writernet), Wild Lunch (new writing project with Paines Plough), Mud Men (open residency in two schools in Camden, led by ENO Baylis programme), and a summer school in 2002 with Mind the Gap
2001, October - Endorphin Angels collection of poems by Dennis Casling
2001, October - Take Up Thy Bed and Walk - Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls' by Lois Keith. Published by Women's Press
2001, 11 October - Survivors' Open Mic at the Poetry Cafe. Features I am the Walrus, written and performed by Nabil Shaban (24 October - 3 November at Oval House)
2001, 18 October - Adorn Equip exhibition, examining issues around the design of equipment and accessories for disabled people, at City Gallery Leicester. Includes work by Nicola Lane, produced during her A Year of the Artist residency, based on a group exploration of aesthetics in the production and use of prosthetics
2001, November - Shape projects 'Vinyl Producers' and 'Vinyl Dreams' are in their second year. Features Charles Swiet and The Escapists, Shalah Spence AKA Airbubble, Minika Green, and Greg Brooker and his band Kumo
2001, November - Mind Citizens theatre group present Breaking Through with Bryan Oliver, directed by Frances Rifkin
2001, November - WMDAF celebrate IDDP. Features Amy Mullin, Mat Fraser, Francis Rwama, Jacqui Christianni, Mario Marichi and the Italian Stallions, Jo Fraser Odin (storytelling), Bitter and Twisted, Angry Fish, and Sign Dance Collective
2001, November - Silver Leaves anthology by Gemma
2001 8-10 November - Graeae Theatre Company presents The Changeling at Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells
2001, 16-18 November - Sixth Deaf Film and TV Festival at Light House, Wolverhampton 
2001, 18 November, 9 and 16 December - LDAF course The Magic of Writing
2001 December - DaDaFest 2001 in Liverpool. 59 activities over 10 days, including Merseysign Deaf Theatre Company and DaDaLive (8 December), Nasty Girls, Julia-Ann Kerner, Merseyside Youth Deaf Dance Company, Fishbarrel Arts, with compere Julie McNamara
2001, December - London Arts launches Disability Action Plan
2001, December - 'Visualise', video project for young deaf artists run by Turtle Key Arts and the Serpentine Gallery
2001, December - January 2002 - 'Octagon Illusion' exhibition of work by artists on Shape London course 'In the Picture', providing training in professional practice for 8 visual artists 
2001, December - P4 Collection CD by The Escapists
2001, 1-8 December - DaDaFest celebration of disability and Deaf culture on Merseyside
2001, 6 December - InterAction IDDP event, Milton Keynes