Jade French
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    • 2020
      • Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art
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      • Who Gets To Curate Exhibitions?
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown Blog
    • 2019
      • Book Chapter in Museum Activism
    • 2018
      • Positive You: a self-advocate’s arts-based approach for building self-esteem
      • PhD Thesis
    • 2017
      • LMJU Degree Show 2017
    • 2016
      • 11 Million Reasons to Dance
      • Bad Scouse
      • Fetishism or Empowerment? Outside In Reviewed
      • Art, Disability & Collaboration: A Discussion
      • From Studio to Biennale
      • Unfold: Ryoichi Kurokawa Reviewed
    • 2015
      • Introducing About Time, Leeds
      • Resource at Bluecoat
      • Group Therapy at FACT
      • At the Edinburgh Fringe
      • What's it Worth? The Value of the CDA
      • It's Art For The People, By The People
    • 2014
      • Zines: Independent Newspaper Article
      • Hidden Histories: There to Here Reviewed
      • DaDaFest: Working Lives
      • The Transformation of DaDaFest
      • Art of the Lived Experiment Reviewed
      • Unsung Hero. Liverpool's Most Radica Son
      • Disobedient Objects at the V&A
      • Al Noor Fragile Vision
      • Introducing Greenhorn Short Film Festival
    • 2010
      • Riot Grrrl & I
    • Zines
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown (2020)
      • How One Should Live (2019)
      • Engaging Disabled Audiences (2017): A (Remix) Zine
      • Art Gym: How It Feels When I'm Included (2016)
      • Diagrammatic Thinking: A Practice-Led Research Zine (2015)
  • Projects
    • Space Sapling (2020)
    • Positive You (2013-)
    • Facts, Not Fear (2018)
    • Hull City of Culture (2018)
    • The Hideout (2018)
    • My York Central (2018)
  • Residencies
    • Metal (2020)
    • Japan Art Brut World Forum (2020)
    • International Curator's Residency (2018)
    • São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
    • Slowly10 (2017)
  • Exhibitions
    • Six Speak (2020)
    • Recipe for a Good Life (2019)
    • 21 Stories, 21 Chromosomes (2019)
    • Potted History (2018)
    • Auto Agents (2016)
    • Ways of Knowing (2015)
    • The Dugout Festival (2013)
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  • Publications
    • 2020
      • Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art
      • Thresholds
      • The Incluseum
      • Who Gets To Curate Exhibitions?
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown Blog
    • 2019
      • Book Chapter in Museum Activism
    • 2018
      • Positive You: a self-advocate’s arts-based approach for building self-esteem
      • PhD Thesis
    • 2017
      • LMJU Degree Show 2017
    • 2016
      • 11 Million Reasons to Dance
      • Bad Scouse
      • Fetishism or Empowerment? Outside In Reviewed
      • Art, Disability & Collaboration: A Discussion
      • From Studio to Biennale
      • Unfold: Ryoichi Kurokawa Reviewed
    • 2015
      • Introducing About Time, Leeds
      • Resource at Bluecoat
      • Group Therapy at FACT
      • At the Edinburgh Fringe
      • What's it Worth? The Value of the CDA
      • It's Art For The People, By The People
    • 2014
      • Zines: Independent Newspaper Article
      • Hidden Histories: There to Here Reviewed
      • DaDaFest: Working Lives
      • The Transformation of DaDaFest
      • Art of the Lived Experiment Reviewed
      • Unsung Hero. Liverpool's Most Radica Son
      • Disobedient Objects at the V&A
      • Al Noor Fragile Vision
      • Introducing Greenhorn Short Film Festival
    • 2010
      • Riot Grrrl & I
    • Zines
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown (2020)
      • How One Should Live (2019)
      • Engaging Disabled Audiences (2017): A (Remix) Zine
      • Art Gym: How It Feels When I'm Included (2016)
      • Diagrammatic Thinking: A Practice-Led Research Zine (2015)
  • Projects
    • Space Sapling (2020)
    • Positive You (2013-)
    • Facts, Not Fear (2018)
    • Hull City of Culture (2018)
    • The Hideout (2018)
    • My York Central (2018)
  • Residencies
    • Metal (2020)
    • Japan Art Brut World Forum (2020)
    • International Curator's Residency (2018)
    • São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
    • Slowly10 (2017)
  • Exhibitions
    • Six Speak (2020)
    • Recipe for a Good Life (2019)
    • 21 Stories, 21 Chromosomes (2019)
    • Potted History (2018)
    • Auto Agents (2016)
    • Ways of Knowing (2015)
    • The Dugout Festival (2013)
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21 Stories, 21 Chromosomes [2019]
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​17th – 24th of March 2019 is World Down Syndrome Awareness Week. Every year for a week during March across the globe communities celebrate the achievements of people with Down’s syndrome, telling their stories and platforming their voices. It is also opportunity to challenge misconceptions about Down Syndrome and to call for society to be more inclusive.

During the 18th to the 24th of March, Catalyst Science Discovery Centre hosted a pop-up display 21 Stories, 21 Chromosomes curated by Leah Jones supported by Jade French. Leah Jones, born on Mersey Road where Catalyst is located, is a self-advocate that runs her own company ‘Positive You’.

​Leah says: 


As a person with Down Syndrome, throughout my life I have become a part of a wonderful community of people with Down Syndrome. Down Syndrome is a genetic condition from birth where there is a third copy of chromosome 21 in a person’s DNA. With this in mind, I have asked 21 local people who have Down Syndrome to share their success stories. When you look out from Catalyst’s beautiful Observatory Gallery with panoramic views over Halton, be inspired by their stories and remember – it’s only an extra chromosome!
​© Jade French 2022
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Research
    • Profile
    • Irregular Art Schools
  • Publications
    • 2020
      • Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art
      • Thresholds
      • The Incluseum
      • Who Gets To Curate Exhibitions?
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown Blog
    • 2019
      • Book Chapter in Museum Activism
    • 2018
      • Positive You: a self-advocate’s arts-based approach for building self-esteem
      • PhD Thesis
    • 2017
      • LMJU Degree Show 2017
    • 2016
      • 11 Million Reasons to Dance
      • Bad Scouse
      • Fetishism or Empowerment? Outside In Reviewed
      • Art, Disability & Collaboration: A Discussion
      • From Studio to Biennale
      • Unfold: Ryoichi Kurokawa Reviewed
    • 2015
      • Introducing About Time, Leeds
      • Resource at Bluecoat
      • Group Therapy at FACT
      • At the Edinburgh Fringe
      • What's it Worth? The Value of the CDA
      • It's Art For The People, By The People
    • 2014
      • Zines: Independent Newspaper Article
      • Hidden Histories: There to Here Reviewed
      • DaDaFest: Working Lives
      • The Transformation of DaDaFest
      • Art of the Lived Experiment Reviewed
      • Unsung Hero. Liverpool's Most Radica Son
      • Disobedient Objects at the V&A
      • Al Noor Fragile Vision
      • Introducing Greenhorn Short Film Festival
    • 2010
      • Riot Grrrl & I
    • Zines
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown (2020)
      • How One Should Live (2019)
      • Engaging Disabled Audiences (2017): A (Remix) Zine
      • Art Gym: How It Feels When I'm Included (2016)
      • Diagrammatic Thinking: A Practice-Led Research Zine (2015)
  • Projects
    • Space Sapling (2020)
    • Positive You (2013-)
    • Facts, Not Fear (2018)
    • Hull City of Culture (2018)
    • The Hideout (2018)
    • My York Central (2018)
  • Residencies
    • Metal (2020)
    • Japan Art Brut World Forum (2020)
    • International Curator's Residency (2018)
    • São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
    • Slowly10 (2017)
  • Exhibitions
    • Six Speak (2020)
    • Recipe for a Good Life (2019)
    • 21 Stories, 21 Chromosomes (2019)
    • Potted History (2018)
    • Auto Agents (2016)
    • Ways of Knowing (2015)
    • The Dugout Festival (2013)
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