Blog - Neurodiversity
Disability Activism in Lockdown
October 11, 2021 - by Will ReynoldsActivism within the disabled community is becoming more and more important, considering the political state of the world at the moment. Activism as a whole has taken a more central role in society generally since the BLM Movement. But like all the equality movements in the world right now should ...
What does the world of the Dragon Cello look like?
September 18, 2021 - by Jo-anne CoxDirector Kate Lovell describes creating films for Define Your Journey’s digital journey through a dragon-eye lens Trudging through long grass with my youngest daughter strapped to my front, I emerge from an archway of tree branches into open fields and across the expanse, I see it, standing proud: the enigmatic relic ...
government to ban laughing
September 9, 2021 - by gobscurecouldnt they pick on someone their own size, say the taliban?
dissident badges for all
August 14, 2021 - by gobscurethanks Futures Venture radical Independent Arts fund and Edinburgh Printmakers for supporting us in disrupting Edinburgh International Art Festival dissident power rangers (all disabled & all feisty as fuck), misguided tours (make yr own demo), receipt book art & dissident badges for all, & way more - heres some visuals ...
Practice in a Digital World
August 2, 2021 - by Tanya Raabe-WebberBack in January I was awarded an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant to develop and adapt my work as an artist and collaborator during the pandemic and beyond. This project draws particular attention to the pandemics impact on the limited mobility of Disabled People in these extraordinary times!‘Practice ...
I (still) Dream of Resting Spaces
July 22, 2021 - by Raquel MeseguerI’ve lived with chronic pain for 14 years, and that means I need to lie down (a lot). For a while my world got really small. And so in 2016 I began to play with lying down in public so I could be out in the world more: I ...
Rotterdam
July 20, 2021 - by David KeenHello folks. And with the ‘Covid’-related things we’re all having to go through, right now, isn’t it all about finding productive outlets, despite..? Myself, I like to take problems they’re talking about, on the news, & adapting a pop song to raise approaches they might be thinking about instead… Such as... ‘Rotting Goods...’ ...
Crippen talks with Jo Verrent about the emergence of some new groups
June 28, 2021 - by CrippenI’ve recently been working with Jo Verrent, a producer at Unlimited, an arts commissioning programme that enables new work by disabled artists to reach both UK and international audiences.
Disability Arts Online ·
Did you know that calls to address the scandal of learning disabled people and those with Autism inappropriately locked up in long-stay institutions date back more than 70 years when it was estimated then that there were over 50,000 people living in these so called long-stay hospitals.
An exciting new project, RIP:STARS which is run and controlled by young disabled people, has issued its findings on the quality of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and whether they meet disabled children and young people’s rights.
Crippen revisits the continuing abuse of disabled people in institutions
June 25, 2021 - by Crippen
Crippen hears about an exciting project run and controlled by young disabled people
May 12, 2021 - by Crippen