Our Marketing Associate and Chair of DaDa, Rob Martin, on the 40th anniversary of this important deaf and disability arts organisation.

2025 is an important year for an organisation close to Result.

This year, DaDa, the Liverpool-based arts organisation that celebrates and develops the work of deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists, will have been challenging attitudes and changing lives for 40 years.

We have a long history and ongoing relationship with DaDa.

Over many years, we have worked with them on several programmes, including mentoring workshops, training events for Young DaDa participants, coaching for emerging artists, and a support programme encouraging communication skills and how to value your own experience. 

Read more about our work with DaDa here.


DaDa Workshop: 2018

Result’s co-director Jane Cordell was the Chair of DaDa’s Board of Trustees, a position which I now hold, and our co-director Hormoz Ahmadzadeh also sits on that Board.  

It’s our work with DaDa that brought these roles about, and we’re proud that our relationship continues in a different way.

Marking their anniversary, March will see DaDaFest International 40, Rage - a Quiet Riot, taking over venues across the city with work from local, national and international artists. The festival was launched in November last year at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre, an event which was featured on BBC’s North West Tonight.



Rob Martin at the launch of Rage.

The launch event highlighted that, although the landscape for disabled, deaf and neurodiverse people has changed dramatically over the last 40 years, both socially and politically, the theme of rage is more pertinent than ever. DaDa says:

'After consulting with artists, DaDa heard loud and clear that our community feel that, while some progress has been made, too many decisions are still made without involving disabled people. This has left disabled artists and disabled communities raging that the gaps in society are widening and we are still so far from equity and representation at all levels in art, culture and heritage. Often neglected, ignored and discriminated against at the highest levels in the arts sector, community and government at a cultural level.'

Here at Result, we feel this ourselves on a personal and professional level. 78% of us are disabled or live with a long-term health condition, against a national average of 24%. 44% of us are neurodiverse, against a national average of around 15%. In fact, because of our desire to bring lived and living experience into all that we do, our team is as diverse as the clients we work with, something we recently wrote about here.

We, too, feel the rage and look forward to seeing how DaDa's 'quiet riot' deals with it during the festival throughout March.

Find out more about DaDa here.

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