?Your Body Your Risk??, a new book published by Dance UK, is aimed at young dancers, providing them with information about healthy eating, promoting a positive body image, warning signs of eating disorders requiring specialist advice, and workplace health and safety regulations that are relevant to dancers. Contact Helen Laws t: 020 7228 4994 e: helen@danceuk.org
Jacksons Lane, the only London venue actively commissioning Disability Arts practice, has been awarded £25,000 per year for three years by the Association of London Government to further develop its disability and access programme, and produce its bi-annual Disability Arts Conference and Season on an annual basis. Contact Patricia Place t: 020 8340 5226
East Midlands Arts is to support the development of mentoring relationships between arts practitioners in the region by providing funding for a series of one-to- one developmental meetings between pairs of participants. The new scheme will be open to practitioners living and working in the region who are at a transitional stage in their career and feel that their development will benefit from the scheme, either as a mentor or mentee. Contact Angela Barron at Arts Training Central t: 0116 242 5202
British Dance Edition 2002, a four-day platform celebrating the best of British dance and promoting it to international and national promoters and the wider dance community, is to take place in Birmingham from January 30 to February 2. DanceXchange will host the event in its new building within the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre, which will reopen on November 13, following its refurbishment. Contact Emma Southworth t: 0121 689 3170 e: bde@dancexchange.org.uk _
Bath Festivals Trust, which runs Bath Literature Festival, Bath International Music Festival and a year-round Education & Community programme, is seeking nominations for membership of its Board of Directors. Applications are particularly welcome from those with a professional knowledge of jazz and world music, and contemporary visual art; those involved in arts education and community work; and those involved in a range of arts management disciplines. Contact Julie Whittingham t: 01225 462231 e: info@bathfestivals.org.uk _
As part of its 25th birthday celebrations, the Royal National Theatre has commissioned 25 playwrights to contribute a scene to ?The Chain Play?. The authors, including Stephen Sondheim, Patrick Marber and Zinnie Harris, will each write one scene and then hand the play on to the next participant, who can take it in any direction they see fit. The developing work will appear on the theatre?s website throughout October and will be performed at the South Bank on October 26. w: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ nt25/chainplay