Beyond the Visual - Joe Rizzo-Naudi, Black Cane Diary
Season 1, Episode 1442, Oct 27, 2022, 10:45 AM
Beyond the Visual, a symposium reflecting on what blindness brings to the experience of art within cultural organisations and beyond was held at Wellcome Collection on Friday and Saturday 21 and 22 October 2022.
Visually impaired and sighted Speakers at the symposium included artists, creative practitioners, disability activists, historians, researchers and scientists together to not only to talk about inclusion and access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people but also to talk about what blind and partially sighted people can bring to cultural experiences for all.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there for both days of the symposium catching up with some of the key people behind Beyond the Visual and some of the key speakers too.
In the fifth of Toby’s interviews from the symposium he chats with Joe Rizzo-Naudi a visually impaired, London-based writer specialising in fiction, creative non-fiction and theatre who has turned the traditional white Cane on it’s head in his Black Cane Diary.
When Joe was starting to accept his RP and having to use a white Cane he decided to turn the Cane black and started an Arts Council funded blog about his journeys with his black Cane on how he was perceived by people when out and about and turning these experiences through his writing in to Black Cane Diary.
Joe posts most of his writings on to his Twitter account and you can follow him on Twitter via the following link - https://twitter.com/joerizzonaudi?lang=en
For more about the Beyond the Visual Symposium and the network do visit the University of London research web pages via the following website -
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/stories
(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)
Visually impaired and sighted Speakers at the symposium included artists, creative practitioners, disability activists, historians, researchers and scientists together to not only to talk about inclusion and access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people but also to talk about what blind and partially sighted people can bring to cultural experiences for all.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there for both days of the symposium catching up with some of the key people behind Beyond the Visual and some of the key speakers too.
In the fifth of Toby’s interviews from the symposium he chats with Joe Rizzo-Naudi a visually impaired, London-based writer specialising in fiction, creative non-fiction and theatre who has turned the traditional white Cane on it’s head in his Black Cane Diary.
When Joe was starting to accept his RP and having to use a white Cane he decided to turn the Cane black and started an Arts Council funded blog about his journeys with his black Cane on how he was perceived by people when out and about and turning these experiences through his writing in to Black Cane Diary.
Joe posts most of his writings on to his Twitter account and you can follow him on Twitter via the following link - https://twitter.com/joerizzonaudi?lang=en
For more about the Beyond the Visual Symposium and the network do visit the University of London research web pages via the following website -
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/stories
(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)