The interactive podcast of UCAN Productions, created by members and friends of UCAN.
An international listening community for and by visually impaired people all over the world.
In 2023, UCAN developed a relationship with the amazing Children’s Laureate of Wales for 2023-25, poet and writer Alex Wharton.
The Children’s Laureate Wales is a national ambassadorial role, created by Literature Wales, which aims to inspire and empower children and young people across Wales through literature.
Alex met a range of our amazing young people, and inspired and facilitated them in writing their own poems through a series of fun and creative workshops over the last 2 years.
At UCAN we love sound and recording, so we thought it would be ideal to use this opportunity to create the very first Audiobook of Poetry for blind and vision impaired young people, while sprinkling in some of our trademark sound wizardry!
So here it is - we want everyone to hear and share this collection of funny, inspiring, moving and creative spoken word poetry.
We are forever grateful to Alex Wharton, Literature Wales and to our funders Children in Need for making this possible.
CONTENTS
01 Alex Wharton - Introduction
02 Who Are We?
03 Friendship
04 A Limerick
05 Another Limerick
06 My Kind of Sunday
07 Lizard Poem
08 Ghost Poem
09 Sunday Strange Sounds
10 Where Am I?
11 The DFN Project
12 How Far Can You See?
31 Jul 2024
Then and Now - 07 - Education in Wales for the Blind
In 2024, UCAN were thrilled to receive a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for an exciting project - Then and Now: Exploring the Lives of Blind People in Wales.
This was an inter-generational project exploring the history of blind and partially sighted people, as well as the people and organisations who have been instrumental in improving the lives of blind people in Wales from the early 1800's to the present day.
The aim was to build a collection of recorded stories, plays, discussions and interviews documenting people's oral history and historical stories.
We present these to you here in a series of podcasts.
We do hope you enjoy!
We are very grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, and to players of the National Lottery, for making this project possible.
31 Jul 2024
Then and Now - 06 - Educating the Blind - a short play
In 2024, UCAN were thrilled to receive a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for an exciting project - Then and Now: Exploring the Lives of Blind People in Wales.
This was an inter-generational project exploring the history of blind and partially sighted people, as well as the people and organisations who have been instrumental in improving the lives of blind people in Wales from the early 1800's to the present day.
The aim was to build a collection of recorded stories, plays, discussions and interviews documenting people's oral history and historical stories.
We present these to you here in a series of podcasts.
We do hope you enjoy!
We are very grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, and to players of the National Lottery, for making this project possible.
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