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Speaker 1: Now step Out Disability Services in Catherine. They've partnered with

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Speaker 1: the local Arts and Culture Center on a project that

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Speaker 1: explores people's thoughts and feelings about disability now the interactive

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Speaker 1: art work Well, it aims to get the community involved

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Speaker 1: by sharing their insights as well as their experiences with

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Speaker 1: disability through quotes, poems or sketches and joining us on

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Speaker 1: the line to tell us a bit more. Is Step

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Speaker 1: Out Disability Services Community Access Coordinator Gareth True Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Gareth, morning, Gertie. How are you going.

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Speaker 1: You're really good? This sounds like a wonderful initiative. Gareth.

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Speaker 1: Can you paint a bit of a picture for us

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Speaker 1: of this art project for our listeners? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: The piece is inspired by the projects by Yoko Ono,

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Speaker 2: which are members of the public to reflect on and

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Speaker 2: celebrate their mother's maternal love that they experienced your in childhood.

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Speaker 2: And I thought that exhibition then thought that it would

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Speaker 2: be a really great fit for a topicbout disability, because

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Speaker 2: I know that disability can be tricky to talk about. People.

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Speaker 2: Can you feel a bit afraid of thinking the wrong thing,

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Speaker 2: or saying the wrong thing, or asking the wrong sort

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Speaker 2: of questions? So, yeah, I guess I wanted to create

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Speaker 2: a space where people could explore and express their feelings

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Speaker 2: about disability without judgment.

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Speaker 1: It's a really nice thing to do, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you're right, I think sometimes people are a bit worried

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Speaker 1: that they're going to say the wrong thing or do

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Speaker 1: the wrong thing. What has been some of the insight

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Speaker 1: that you've sort of gained so far?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've had a lot of really different and

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Speaker 2: really interesting responses. So one of them was a lady

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Speaker 2: pointed out that that prefix this has a lot of

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Speaker 2: negative connotations, like you know, disgusting or dishonest, and that

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Speaker 2: maybe you know, we should think about another and another

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Speaker 2: phrase or word to describe disability. Yep, somebody else sort

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Speaker 2: of wrote something around reflecting on the journey of acquiring

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Speaker 2: a disability, So you know, initially maybe the loss and

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Speaker 2: the trauma and the grief of having a disability and

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Speaker 2: then sort of moving moving through to a state of

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Speaker 2: acceptance and just sort of moving through the world that way,

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Speaker 2: I guess, And then I guess from a personal perspective.

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Speaker 2: I also participated in the project, and I've got a

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Speaker 2: neurological condition, and thankfully that plays a pretty small part

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Speaker 2: of my life, but it doesn't affect me too much.

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Speaker 2: But so I guess my reflection, to be honest, was

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Speaker 2: that it was a bit boring for me personally, like it, yeah,

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Speaker 2: just another aspect I suppose of life. So yeah, really

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Speaker 2: really varied input from the community, which was great.

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Speaker 1: And why was it something that you sort of, you know,

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Speaker 1: you really wanted to do.

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think it because a couple of reasons.

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Speaker 2: I guess so because disability can can be tricky to

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Speaker 2: talk about, so I wanted to get people that opportunity.

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Speaker 2: And also, you know, in cash and we have a

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Speaker 2: really amazing community and it is really accessible for people

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Speaker 2: with disability, and I think maybe that's not something that

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Speaker 2: maybe even the town recognizes, but also I don't know

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Speaker 2: if that's more broadly known across the territory. So sort

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Speaker 2: of wanted to celebrate and recognize that as well because

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Speaker 2: we've got a really amazing community here.

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Speaker 1: Has there been quite a big response to the projects

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Speaker 1: so far.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there has been, which is terrific. We've had schools

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Speaker 2: come and get engaged, We've had members of the general

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Speaker 2: public come in, and we also had the opportunity for

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Speaker 2: people to participate online and I think we got someone

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Speaker 2: from Germany cool debating and letting us know their their

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Speaker 2: thoughts on disability. So that was Yeah, that was really cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. I love this. So is it only

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Speaker 1: are the only people that are in Catherine are able

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Speaker 1: to sort of access it, aren't they? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So we've been posting some responses on our on our

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Speaker 2: social media with the hashtag direct Perspectives. But yeah, mostly

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Speaker 2: it is people who can physically go into the Art

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Speaker 2: Center who get to check out what responses have been Gareth, how.

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Speaker 1: Can people if I mean, if they are thinking to themselves,

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Speaker 1: do you know what this sounds great? I'd love to

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Speaker 1: come and check it out. Or I'd love to see more.

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Speaker 1: Can they jump on Facebook or what's the best way

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Speaker 1: for them to sort of find out a bit more?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so our Facebook page is step Out Disability Services,

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Speaker 2: so they could jump on there and have a poe

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Speaker 2: true and see some posts the art Center gotting money

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Speaker 2: with resuts and Culture Center. They're also on Facebook as

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Speaker 2: girag for sure, so Gyra double s and they will

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Speaker 2: also have some you know, some pictures of posts and

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Speaker 2: check it out and then definitely there's some stuff on

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Speaker 2: Facebook there that they could look at.

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Speaker 1: Well, Gareth, I reckon it's a lovely thing to do.

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Speaker 1: I think it's it sounds like such a nice project

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Speaker 1: and like an all inclusive project as well for everybody

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Speaker 1: to be involved in, which I think just sounds marvelous.

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Speaker 1: So good on you, and I'm sure it's has everybody

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Speaker 1: finished contributing now or is there still sort of time

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Speaker 1: to contribute as well as come and take a look

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Speaker 2: Oh, they've got just till Friday if they wanted to contribute,

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Speaker 2: not to come and check it out. But it's yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've had such an enormous response and the wall is

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Speaker 2: pretty full, to be honest of responses, which is great

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Speaker 2: and lovely to have that level of engagement that is

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Speaker 2: really nice.

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Speaker 1: Well, Gareth, it's lovely to speak with you this morning

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Speaker 1: from step Out Disability Services, the community Access coordinator. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,