On 2 July 2022, 31 Disabled artists disrupted 30 locations with surreal interventions, in recognition of the 102nd anniversary of the first DaDa International Exhibition.
Alongside the interventions Disability Arts Online were commissioned by DASH to produce a Zine, distributed at venues on the day, as well as the WAIWAV website.
Our member Sarah started Inclusivity Films in order to tell stories that raise awareness to social issues, stories that advocate for others, and stories that represent the disabled, neurodivergent & d/Deaf communities both on and off the screen.
A podcast investigating neurodiversity, employment and the creative industries. In this series producers Lorna Allan and Jhinuk Sarkar bring together a variety of creative experts to discuss neurodiversity and creativity.
Facilitated by Abby Nocon and hosted by Neuroqueer Creative. This course will be held in June 2026, and is an introduction to a variety of astrological practices that anyone, but particularly artists and writers, can use to reflect on their creative practice and find their way out of ruts and into flow.
Our member Ashok Mistry wrote this piece in 2020 for Unlimited.
“All of the artists [at the Reimagining Arts Commissioning event – hosted by Unlimited and Bagri Foundation] were first or second generation immigrants and this led me to consider my own experience of being a second generation child of migrants, effectively making me neither a native of the country of my birth or the country of my heritage. In effect, I am a ‘never-native’ and as deaf/disabled/neurodivergent artists we are all never natives to the systems, processes, and practices of the arts sector that encompass current ideas around commissioning. The ‘way things are done’ in commissions and the broader art scene has always felt foreign and informs much of my activism and writing.”
A socially engaged art project and DIY archive by Newcastle based artist Sarah Li who collaborated with a group of LGBTQ+ individuals based in the North-East of England to explore the layered meaning of “pleasure” within a Queer context. Together, they delved into how Queer pleasure could be documented, examining its ties to activism, the ways it was experienced, and the barriers that stood in the way.
The project worked towards building an archive that addressed gaps left by historical oppression, creating space for positive Queer experiences to be shared and accessed by researchers and the wider LGBTQIA+ community alike.
The resulting exhibition can be viewed and explored on the Helix Arts website linked below.
Sister Shack is a Black and Queer-led Activist and intersectional Feminist CIC whose work centres around social justice and community inclusion for marginalised people, based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
They focus on working with and promoting women and non-binary entrepreneurs, LGBTQIA+ communities, Global Majority communities, creatives, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and DJs. They highlight and discuss issues and experiences faced by those most marginalised and aim to provide safer spaces, information, support, guidance, and more.
The substack of our member Liza Liebling. In their own words:
“My name is Liza Liebling (LIE-za LEEB-ling), and I am ready to be Known.
I am a Visionary and a Voice.
I connect people, skills and ideas.
I connect to the Revolutionary Universe through disciplines of pleasure – art, perversion, joy.
I build webs of resilient care in fractal symphony.
I model compelling possibility.
I invoke change.
I am the sum of my ancestries of Resistance.
I am a vessel for our Reckoning.
I am built for this storm.”
“These words would love a chance to stretch their legs.” And they will.
This doctoral research project by our member Aby Watson, critically interrogates solo choreography and performance through a lens of the neurodiversity paradigm, and a lived experience of neurodivergence, specifically dyspraxia; a neurotype which affects memory, coordination, cognitive processing, and the execution of movements. Yet, through the process of a paradigm shift, this study widens its focus to consider neurodivergence more broadly. Deliberations of choreography itself also become expanded, to explore increasingly interdisciplinary modes of dance alongside alternate social relations and modes of spectatorship within the performance space.