It has been an action-packed few months in February and March. Including the start of the year's major awareness events with a combination and participation. Active IWD Expo I attended a face-to-face for International Women's Day for the first time. During the event, I was spreading the word about my awareness initiative "Plus Value Awareness". Attending different seminars and panellists including Women in the media, disability in the workplace and a special video presentation embracing women and dancing. Read by artlce on the highlights of attending this event. Find your Voice Workshop Attended a workshop to improve the know-how of video reels for social media. The workshop "Find your Voice", (hosted by musician and educator Nicole Justice) has enabled me and other attendees to develop video reels. To coincide with attending the workshop, I have trailed the development of a video reel including presenting on screen, filming and using editing software specifically for social media. My trail video reels for social media include presenting to the camera with sharing highlights and my experience of attending different events and workshops within a six day period. You can view this by selecting the link to the video reels on Instagram. Photography & Video Show I also attended the photography and video show discovering to embrace photography and video with special presentations on social media video trends. During the event, I met some inspiring people including Lattie Lovett-Dunn, Simone Stocks, and Gavin Howey with Chloe. Click here to view the highlights article Creative & Awareness As part of transforming my awareness website, two major developments were made. Redesigned and relaunching the awareness feature Unity Forward The recent developments Include revamping the feature Unity Forward the information and encouragement feature, originally developed during the pandemic. This includes new visual designs to present these features along with a new family of social media templates. Also a new family of visual art used for blog articles for supporting events. Visit the Plus Value Awareness to explore the "Unity Forward" feature Click on the project page on how this has been develope since 2020 New Neurodiversity mini-feature Also, a new special Neurodiversity index from the "Awareness focus" features making it easier for everyone to access customised projects and articles on Neurodiversity all year round. Visit this mini-feature via my awareness website Plus Value Awareness Specially created visual art for supporting awareness events In aupporting different events during march a family of visual art was developed with two was created for International Womens Day / Women's History Month, one was developed for International Day of Happiness and one was created for Neurodiversity Celebration Week Visit the project page illustrating awareness to see these and similar exampels Awareness March began a year of different awareness events happening in the same month. My awareness website presented online Special for the following events: International Women's Day, International Day of Happiness and Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Each online special contains new original articles for supporting each event, along with previous customised and recommended projects. Customised social media stories & post templates were made to support each event. Orginal awareness content for supporting events During this occasion, the online special for International Women's Day & Women's History Month was redesigned under the themed presentation "Equality+Value" You can access the developments during March by visiting the Events+ index of the plus value awareness website. Attending Awareness Events Dyslexia Show Just before Neurodiversity Celebration Week, I attended the annual Dyslexia Show the expo and conferences that showcase Dyslexia and Neurodiversity. University of Birmingham Workshop I took part in a special workshop at the University of Birmingham addressing how open spaces can be accommodating for a neurodiverse person, especially at education and places of work. The event was organised by the Neurodiversity Staff support group at the university. Naidex Also during the same week, I attended the accessibility and inclusion expo Naidex. As well as spreading awareness of my awareness initiative I have attended a variety of different seminars and panel discussions including a live interview with Broadcaster and campaigner Roman Kemp. To find out more about my experiences at Dyslexia Show, the workshop "In Spaces" and event Naidex by reading the blog of my highlights during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Find out on my interactions to the key gueusts and presenter when attending the mention event by vsiting a special blog article Scroll up this article page under Creative & active for the redesign of the Unity Forward feature and a new mini-feature on Neurodiversity In progress Further developments are happening behind the scenes. This includes the continuation of the process of transforming two awareness features into one integrated feature on information, customised projects and statistics. Visit the Plus Value Awareness webpage for details. Also, preparation to redesign the special feature "Difference Originals" including a new information project coming in April called Challenging Attitudes. Watch out for all my developments here on this website & updates by following me on social media Notice to editors
Keith Mckenzie Keith is an awareness campaigner, a creative designer (Graphic design and digital art) and a salsa dancing participant With a background in Art & Design (including Graphic Design & Digital art) and a participant in music-related film documentaries, events & record label project King Of the Beats including filming and behind the scene preparations. Keith was educated at Hereford College of the Arts, the University of Northampton, Birmingham City University and Google's Digital Garage. Since 2000, he has developed over twenty years in providing awareness projects, campaigns and activities with the Awareness brand Plus Value Awareness along with Differences Originals. Also are involved with salsa classes in the local community as an assistant. Also have participated in major dancing conventions twice a year at Birmingham's NEC for Birmingham Latinmotion and London's ManboCity. In 2022, Keith become a featured community participant for Birmingham who became part of special projects and campaigns to promote a positive legacy beyond hosting the commonwealth games
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The online feature I developed back in 2020 which originally provided encouragement and information during the pandemic is now relaunched with a new look As part of transforming my awareness website "Plus Value Awareness", the "Unity Forward" feature is revamped with updated information with appropriate information and short messages beyond the pandemic The online feature will continue to include the elements: Morale & Accomplishment Consideration & Sense of Belonging Mindset and Allowances Well-being and stability The Unity Forward feature will also provide links to the information and helplines for those who might need it. This particular information is presented on the page “In-touch” As part of the changes, the overall look is completely redesigned with new style visual designs. This is presented with the removal of colour coding to distinguish each element. The information presented on this feature is to be updated and modified over a period of time. A new updated version of the "Unity Forward" insight document is to be developed and will be available to download after the new updated documents are complete. Visit the combined project page on the development of this project since 2020 Notice to editors:
Keith is an awareness campaigner, a creative designer (Graphic design and digital art) and a salsa dancing participant With a background in Art & Design (including Graphic Design & Digital art) and a participant in music-related film documentaries, events & record label project King Of the Beats including filming and behind the scene preparations. Keith was educated at Hereford College of the Arts, the University of Northampton, Birmingham City University and Google's Digital Garage. Since 2000, he has developed over twenty years in providing awareness projects, campaigns and activities with the Awareness brand Plus Value Awareness along with Differences Originals. Also am involved with salsa classes in the local community as an assistant. Also have participated in major dancing conventions at Birmingham's NEC including Motion City (created by Birmingham Latinmotion and London's ManboCity) during the summer and Latinmotion's NYE Fest during the New Year public holiday. In 2022, Keith became a featured community participant for Birmingham who became part of special projects and campaigns to promote a positive legacy beyond hosting the Commonwealth Games A quick summary of some of the developments which have occurred in January 2024 or progress towards or beyond the month JANUARY RECAP Awareness: Beyond understanding documents online Around five years after it was published the dancing inclusivity suggestions documents have been updated and is now openly available for everyone to view and download for the first time. These documents provided understanding and suggestions for dancers hidden differences become more inclusive and not a disadvantage. Originally the documents were exclusively for the dancing organisations Latinmotion (Birmingham based) and Mambo City (London based) and the autistic awareness audiences online via Anna Kennedy Online Visit the Embrace Dancing page for details and to view and download each document Dancing inclusivity projects featured My two dancing inclusivity developments including the online project "Inclusive to Dance" and the publications "Beyond Understanding" were featured in January on the official Latinmotion social media Creative: Awareness visual language As part of transforming my awareness initiative (Plus Value Awareness) a new family of visual presentation. This new visual design includes a creative language and is used to replace colour coding systems to identify specific difficulties and areas of hidden differences. See under in progress section of this article for details Creative: Interactive Touch point organiser Into the New Year's I have actively used an interactive touch point organiser which was designed and developed by myself when volunteered for Latinmotion's NYE Fest. Find out more by visiting the Creative pages Participation: Celebration surprise On New Year's Day, I made a special hosting surprise for Latinmotion's NYE Fest as the organisation behind the event has completed 30 years. Watch out for video extracts soon. IN PROGRESS Awareness & Creative: Transforming awareness features Over on my awareness website, I have started to transform two awareness features into one integrated feature. This affects the existing features Awareness Focus & Understanding Series. The changes incorporate a redesign and a new family of visual language designs (mentioned earlier in this article). Watch out for extracts on the new changes soon In the meantime visit the information webpages explaining the new changes over on the Plus Value Awareness website. Also visit the New Awareness Focus index on the Plus Value Awareness to see how the new style design presentation is implemented online. Watch out for all my developments here on this website & updates by following me on social media
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