Join resting up members Char and Jen to write and reflect on disability justice manifestos as tools for organising and creativity. Through a series of short readings and writing/art prompts, this session aims to inspire participants to demand and dream alternative futures through a crip lens.
Access
This event will include comfort breaks throughout its duration as well as live BSL interpretation upon request. This programme will be running on Crip Time. As a result, we endeavour to reschedule events should any of our contributors not feel well / experience a change in capacity in the lead up to and / or on the day of the event itself.
Tickets
In order to ensure this programme is accessible to all, we have implemented a three tiered ticketing system: Pay As You Feel, Standard tickets priced at £5.00 (plus eventbrite fee) as well as Solidarity Tickets priced at £10 (plus eventbrite fee).
If you would like to attend this event but cannot afford to purchase a paid ticket please get in touch with us directly at info@ortgallery.co.uk
About the Facilitators
Char Heather is a writer, researcher and workshop facilitator interested in crip narratives and narrative cripping. They are the founder and steward of the remote body, a project that hosts online workshops that centre chronically ill and disabled folk. Their work has been published in The Polyphony, Lassitude, Futch and others.
@charheather@theremotebody
Jennifer Brough is a queer, disabled slow writer and workshop facilitator based in Nottingham. She writes poetry and short stories exploring the body, pain, and horror using a magical, surrealist lens and has been published in Ache Magazine, Lassitude, SICK Magazine, and others. Jennifer founded resting up collective, an interdisciplinary group of sick creatives offering workshops and projects that centre disability as a creative tool.
@occultpain @restingupcollective_
About the Programme
Crip Resistance: Holding Space, Building Community, is a programme of events exploring disabled, sick, mad, and crip modes of resistance and remote community care. From February to April 2025, this interdisciplinary collaboration between Resting Up Collective and Ort Gallery will feature a series of online events including creative workshops, artist talks, live performances, and film screenings. The programme will include a print publication documenting and expanding on the programme's themes as well as a curated collection of books for the Birmingham Resistance Library.
For further queries re this event or wider programme please get in touch with us at the following email address: info@ortgallery.co.uk