After our project finished for theIntercession of being Disabled and Black for Black History Month, we are now in the Disability History Month with the Intersection of being Disabled and being People of Colour.
We are working /collaborating with Sisters of Frida, a Disabled Women’s Collective, supported by Woolwich Centre Library. Due to the lockdown constraints, all the interviews are held over zoom.
We think its also good for the International day of Disabled people on the 3rd December. And to beyond those dates really to continue the voices of Disabled people of colour.
Thanks to the Isla Foundation, we have an edited version of the interviews. Gratitude also to Sabrina Qureshi who put it together for us.
with captions and description of video
Shura Davey
Sarifa Patel
James Lee
Fazilet Hadi
Nila Gopal
Eleanor Lisney
Aminder Virdee
Lucy Sheen
with thanks from support from the Woolwich Centre Library and in collaboration with Sisters of Frida.
As a disabled performance artist, it was a privilege to have participated in the second half of the festival in Greenwich Library. The festival was a great platform to showcase my art to the disabled community and for me to be exposed to other disabled artists, of whom I may not have met and experienced their work had it not been for the festival. – Sorena, performing artist
This festival was partly to celebrate Disability History Month ( Disability History Month runs from 22 November to 22 December every year ) and also the UN International Day of Disabled People (3rd December. The theme for this 2019 IDPD is ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’ ).
the audience performance in the evening
Norman Mine with hoover
‘I am a strong black woman’
Lucy Sheen at workshop
Dennis and Jacqui
evening performers
The evening performances were filmed
Miss Jacqui belting out a number
Naomi telling her story
The day started at the library with the exhibitions and information stalls, there is much footfall at Woolwich Centre Library on a Saturday afternoon with disabled and non disabled visitors.
The information stalls and exhibitions
setting up stall
from the Her Centre
Sue at an information stall
Exhibition ‘Disabled Women’s Digital Quilt’
Presentation : ‘Disabled Women’s Digital Quilt’
Exhibition: *Neurodiversions*
In *Neurodiversions* Annabel Crowley and Shura Joseph-Gruner present their creative responses to their day-to-day neurodiversions.
Exhibition : Digital Quiltof Disabled Women (pilot by Eleanor Lisney and Natasha Hirst and others) will be presented. This project was one of those joint shortlisted in the Royal Borough of Greenwich bid to be the borough of culture.
This pilot series of photos and videos was organised and co produced with the disabled women featured, by Natasha Hirst and Eleanor Lisney. They were all taken on the same one day at the Jetty cafe, Greenwich Peninsula. The photos were taken to highlight the lives, work and diversity of some disabled women in London, to be a pilot of a Digital Quilt of Disabled women.
