Workshop | Reframing Rejection with Nicola Warner

Embrace the power of perseverance, harness your passion for creating art and flourish through rejection as a disabled artist.

Drawing on performance studies, psychology, real-world examples and lived experience, the aim of this workshop is to delve into the art of rejection for disabled creatives.

The first half of the session will be spent exploring some theory around rejection, why the standard advice and self help re rejection does not necessarily apply to disabled people and a series of writing exercises examining our relationships to rejection.

After a comfort break, in the second half we will focus on building a personalised rejection framework which will be followed by a brief Q&A with Nicola.

After this workshop you should be able to:

• Discuss the theory and psychology behind rejection
• Explore your relationship to rejection as a disabled artist
• Create a personalised rejection strategy going forwards

About Nicola
Nicola Warner is a musician and emerging writer/performer from Hertfordshire.

She is a CRIPtic Arts Associate Artist under the mentorship of Jamie Hale where she is developing an ambitious new piece for actor, tenor and orchestra Eurydice, as well as working on her pilot TV script Swings Both Ways. She has recently written her debut libretto with composer Zhenyan Li for Second Movement Opera’s ‘Rough for Opera’ with guidance from theatre maker Finn Beames. Her poetry has been published in TYPE!, t’ART, FLARE and broadcast on BBC Upload. She was invited to participate in Hidden Tracks at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival 2024 and was shortlisted to a small group of writers.

Nicola read Music at the University of Manchester where she studied cello with Simon Turner and orchestral conducting with Mark Heron. As postgraduate Leverhulme Trust scholar, she studied cello under the tutelage of Joely Koos at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance before her studies and career were interrupted by ill health.

Nicola has been generously supported by multiple charities over the course of her artistic career including: National Youth Arts Trust, Benslow Music Instrument Loan Scheme, Hitchin Youth Trust, Friends of Hertfordshire County Youth Music Groups and Rands Educational Foundation.

Access Information

• Auto-captions
• Self Descriptions
• BSL Interpretation
• Comfort Breaks

About CRIPtic Arts

CRIPtic Arts exists to ignite disabled excellence across the arts. We provide active disabled leadership which advances world-class arts work with disabled creatives. From high-quality community activities to showcasing breakthrough performers; we’re blazing a revolution in accessibility.