NEVERODDOREVEN: Dyslexia and the Arts
Launch Event: Wednesday 28 March 2007 5.30 - 7.30pm
The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery

Serpentine Gallery Projects build dynamic relationships between art, artists and people. Projects and events vary in scale, duration and location. They challenge expectations of where art can be encountered and by whom. The Serpentine Gallery has worked with Dyslexia Action on NEVERODDOREVEN, an art and research project with Dyslexia Action.

Abigail Reynolds working with a group of people with dyslexia has created a pack of playing cards.
Michaela Ross has worked with primary schools in Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Southwark on an online learning resource designed by åbäke.

Dyslexia is a hidden learning difficulty that affects mainly reading and spelling. Characterised by difficulty in processing the way words look and sound, and by weaknesses in short-term memory, it affects ten per cent of the population.

NEVERODDOREVEN Playing Cards are available from the Gallery Lobby Desk. Price £5.

Conference Playful Experiments: Dyslexia and the Arts
Wednesday 28 March 2007, 11am - 5pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut 50 Princes Gate Exhibition Road London SW7 2PH
To mark the launch of NEVERODDOREVEN, this conference brings together leading artists, film-makers and specialists to consider innovative solutions that can be turned into advantages.
Speakers include:
Spartacus Chetwynd, artist based in London.
Sophie Fiennes, film-maker based in London.
Ken Follett, author and the president of Dyslexia Action.
Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor in Cognitive Development at University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Julia Peyton-Jones, Director of the Serpentine Gallery and Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes.
Dr John Rack, Head of Assessment Services and Evaluation, Dyslexia Action.
Richard Wentworth, artist, curator and director of The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.

image: NEVERODDOREVEN Playing Cards
fronts showing four of the five suits