Through this grant, Cork Midsummer Festival will continue our partnership with Suisha Arts collective of theatre-makers with learning or intellectual disabilities, who have undertaken a participatory devising process with neurodivergent writer Jody O’Neill and director Al Bellamy. The process has been augmented by a critical friendship with Birds of Paradise, a world-renowned disability-led theatre company.
Through support of the production of the group's new play, a new, innovative and publicly shared model of embedded access & inclusion for disability-centred art will be developed. As well as supporting the professionalisation of theatre artists with intellectual and learning disabilities, the model developed and piloted by this project as a result of the Movement for Good grant will have broad impact on disability-led art and access.
