The Funky Flamingo Club is a disability club and arts groups with a regular night club held at The Junction (Cambridge, UK) and other towns and venues in the UK. The club for disabled people is organised and run by disabled adults and young people from Cambridgeshire and beyond. We also run the first internet disability TV station by and for people with disabilties.
For more info on Funky Flamingo click on About Us.
Latest News
New venue & training for 16-19 year olds. 'The Scene' is a new evening session on Mondays taking place at the Newton Q youth wing of the Meadows Community Centre in Cambridge. The sessions are disability focused but open to all between 16 & 19 years old. Training in how to run a venue and put on gigs is free. Anyone who is a musician or budding photographer, sound or lighting person is welcome. If you want to publicise the group on facebook and Myspace, design posters or book bands or even play in a band then get in touch with us funky@inspire.org.uk
FFTV National Youth Disability Film Awards - 2009 awards were held at the Cambridge Picturehouse last December. Highlights of the event plus all the winning entrieswill be available to watch soon on the Awards 2009 Winners channel.
Sponsored Walk - Success - The sponsored walk took place on Sunday16th August with around 40 people takingthe 10km march to Byron's Pool from TheMill Pond. As money is till coming in wedon't yet know how much we've raised butwe'll let you know as soon as we do. If you still have money to collect please bring it in to the Funky office in Milton as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who walked and sponsored.
FFTV Members Training - Members of the FFTV crew went training recently to learn more about making films. Read Technical Assistant Chris Fuller's review here.
British Sign Language -FFTV is also on the lookout for a BSL signer to make our films available to the deaf. While we already run subtitles on some programmes this would be an invaluable resource.
Click on the Funky Flamingo TV logo if you want to find out more about FFTV.