Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is a disability-led and disability-focused arts festival championing the creativity, voices, and perspectives of disabled artists. Now entering its third year, the festival brings together theatre, dance, literature-based performance and visual arts, all delivered through relaxed engagement formats in Dublin and online that ensure accessibility for audiences across Ireland and beyond.

Disrupt is a boundary-pushing celebration of disability arts that challenges stereotypes. The festival actively dismantles barriers to artistic engagement, providing a shared space where artists and audiences with lived experience of disability can come together to reimagine what art and access can be. The unique festival is growing with care. Disrupt is a movement rooted in community and inclusion, focused on building a sustainable platform that amplifies disabled voices and reshapes narratives while celebrating the richness of disabled experience.

The festival’s hybrid events (in-person and online) open up the programme to wider disability communities, but also to carers and national arts audiences who may face economic or geographical barriers.

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland’s Festivals Investment Scheme and supported by Project Arts Centre, RTÉ Supporting the Arts and Europe Beyond Access. Disrupt Disability Arts Festival’s Embedded Access Training Programme is funded by Rethink Ireland’s Disability Participation and Awareness Fund 3.0 and supported by Safe To Create, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Dance Ireland.