Crucial Conversations - Disabled Artists: The Progress We've Made

Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Little Cog's commitment to supportive Sp@ce for disabled artists to check in and talk about important matters affecting us

Welcome to Little Cog's latest Sp@ce conversations for disabled artists building on our previous Crucial Conversations series, the results of which we shared on our website and distributed to colleagues in mainstream arts. <a href="https://www.littlecog.co.uk/crucial-conversation-series.html" title="https://www.littlecog.co.uk/crucial-conversation-series.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Crucial Conversation Series - LITTLE COG</a> Disabled artists from all communities are encouraged to attend to ensure intersectionality is at the forefront of our communities and our campaigns.Crucial Conversations - Disabled Artists: The Progress We've Made 8 Apr 2024. 6.00-7.30pm BSTIt’s so important when we feel overwhelmed by a negative environment to reflect and take stock of just how far we’ve come, how much change has been achieved over the last 50 years and perhaps acknowledge some community and personal pivotal moments of change. There are amazing people in our lineage, amazing people (including you) working today and much groundbreaking and pioneering activity. We’re all making history all of the time. If the pressure of that feels too much, make sure to have a cuppa on standby. So let's revel in the rebellion and enjoy each other's company. Vici Wreford-Sinnott will be your host and our guest speakers are eminent artist Caroline Cardus and award-winning writer and director Cheryl Martin. It feels rebellious and radical, but we're going to revel in our successes, individual, personal, and communal. In spite of everything, we are amazing and all the change that has happened for disabled people is because of our community's dogged determination. So if you're fed up of the overwhelming negativity we experience, this is a space to remind ourselves of our strength and power. What hope can we take from this going forward? How do we sustain ourselves? It's important to reflect in this way to gather strength and remind us of our value, especially to each other but also to the wider cultural landscape, to create personal manifestos of hope to move us forward. About Caroline Cardus Caroline Cardus created her ground breaking protest art piece The Way Ahead, provocatively launching it on 1st October 2004 when new anti-discrimination legislation was introduced in the UK. Since then, the exhibition has been continual demand as a Disability Art protest piece. It is now part of the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA). Caroline has been artist in residence at BALTIC in Gateshead as recipient of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, and more recently has worked with Tate Modern, the Wellcome Foundation and was part of 30 disabled artists taking part in a nationwide DaDa intervention in galleries called We Are Invisible, We Are Visible (#WAIWAV) funded by DASH Arts. Her intervention, FED UP, was shown at Milton Keynes Gallery. She is a member of the IN/Visible Disabled Women's Arts Collective and also works as a creative producer, advocate and mentor for other artists. You can find our more about Caroline here <a href="https://www.carolinecardusartist.com/bio" title="https://www.carolinecardusartist.com/bio" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bio — carolinecardusartist.com</a> About Cheryl MartinCheryl Martin is a multi-award-winning artist, director, writer and speaker, and has recently taken up her tenure as Artistic Director of Red Ladder Theatre Company. Alongside her work writing and directing award-winning theatre productions, Cheryl has also fulfilled a variety of roles including supporting writers and practitioners at Contact Theatre, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, and Oldham Coliseum. Cheryl has also worked with Community Arts Northwest on a series of community plays, devised with, and starring mostly women refugees and asylum seekers. In 2015 she co-founded LGBTQ+ Global-Majority performance arts company Black Gold Arts, a celebration in choreography, writing, directing and cabaret, which was part of the Eurovision cultural festival. Black Gold Arts recently won the Best Event category at the Manchester Culture Awards for its free outdoor arts festival at The Whitworth in 2022.In addition to being an Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre assessor and judge, Cheryl was also Co-Artistic Director of Manchester’s grassroots Global-Majority-led publisher and writer development company Commonword and is Co-Director of Manchester Pride’s Candlelight Vigil. Access - please complete your access requirements when booking. Also, let us know if there are subjects you'd like us to avoid in conversation. Please attend on the basis on which these discussions are offered - they are a check-in point for important conversations, they are a space for everyone to have a voice (although it's also fine to attend and just listen in if your access means taking part wouldn't work for you) and they are relatively fleeting, so we'll protect each other by not delving too deeply into distressing experiences. We have solidarity with everyone but are not able to offer ongoing support in a two-hour discussion. We have a mutual responsibility for the care of everyone attending.Cancellation - we understand that circumstances change. If you are no longer able to attend please let us know to free up your place for another disabled artist.UK based disabled artists are our target attendees for these conversations due to our funding. NB there are three crucial conversations in this series. You can attend whichever you please.Friday 15 March – 2.00pm-3.30pm - Collective Voices/Personal LabourFriday 22 March – 2.00pm-3.30pm - The Current Arts Environment​Monday 8 April – 6.00pm-7.30pm - The Progress We've Made<a href="https://www.littlecog.co.uk/crucial-conversations.html" title="https://www.littlecog.co.uk/crucial-conversations.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Information here</a> You can find out more about us at www.littlecog.co.uk

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