All this month Dada are (not so) quietly rioting and raging in Liverpool, celebrating 40 years of the disability and Deaf arts festival - creating art, challenging attitudes, and changing lives.
On Monday, I’m looking forward to being included in their Ignite programme for artists, joining the rest of the team who worked on the project which ran last year: Imagining Future Healthcare - led by Professor Bethan Evans of Liverpool University.
If you missed the project last year there are some wonderful pieces of work that evolved from a series of workshops with people with energy limiting conditions on their website here.
I wrote Can You Hear Me Sing? which I recently presented for the Fairytales and Disability Symposium - all the sessions from which are now online here - and Freedom Is Rest, a collaborative comic book created with the illustrator Julian Gray. Both of these pieces of work can be found on the project site and connect with fantasy futures connecting with the natural world - of birdsong in woodlands and gentle rest on the seabed.
Monday’s event is a roundtable discussion and reflection on the work and process of a research project, entirely led and facilitated by people living with energy-limiting conditions. Moving Mountains contributor, Khairani Barokka, is also taking part, along with the artists Julian Gray, Mish Green, and Khizra Ahmed and the project lead, Bethan Evans. Tickets are free and access is online.
