About Disrupt

This March, Ireland’s new annual disability arts festival takes centre stage.

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is a vibrant celebration of disability art, curated by and for the disability community. 

 

Immerse yourself in a rich diversity of voices from the disability arts community. The festival line up includes theatre, dance, literature-based performance and visual arts, all delivered through a range of accessible engagement formats in relaxed spaces. 

This unique festival is designed to deepen understanding and appreciation for the richness of experiences and perspectives that define disability in Ireland. Disrupt Disability Arts Festival actively dismantles barriers to artistic engagement faced by both artists and audiences with lived experience of disability.

 

Guided by the principles of the social model of disability, Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is a disability-led and disability-focused event. It foregrounds quality artistic practices while challenging prevailing notions about disability. Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is a space for connection between the Irish disability community and wider society, opening dialogue and creating shared experiences.

 

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.

 

Join Disrupt Disability Arts Festival from 6-8 March 2025 at Project Arts Centre and online.

The online programme continue until 1 April. 

 

Come on a journey that goes beyond the ordinary, transcends boundaries and reshapes narratives around disability and the arts.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the festival please do not hesitate to get in touch:

[email protected]

A panel discussion On a stage, lit in hues of pink. Tara Carrol hosts the conversation. They are joined by Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, Kathy O'Leary, Mairéad Folan, and Them Fatale. Tara holds a mic. Them Fatale is dressed as a caricature of an old man. Photo by Simon Lazewski.
A figure wearing pink, is sitting at a desk which is covered in coloured paper, marker and magazine cuttings. They are making a zine. They have pale tattooed arms and wear a t-shirt with pink lettering. Photo by Simon Lazewski.
A table with plants, lights, a pink covering and DJ equipment is set up on the Disrupt stage. DJ Renn Miano plays a set. Renn has voluminous dark curls and is concentrated on their work. Renn wears a black lycra zip top. They are lit in pink, blue and green hues. Behind Renn is a pink curtain and a large styrofoam D, the disrupt logo. Photo by Simon Lazewski.
Performance artist Suzanne Walshe in action upon a stage. They are standing in blue lighting. They wear ceremonial dress, a ruffled black cloak, birdlike, with a tall headdress. Suzanne stands with a comically serious look on their face. Suzanne’s arms are spread, as if they are about to take flight. Photo by Leanne Sullivan.
A group photo of 13 members of the Disrupt festival team on stage. They are wearing pink festival t-shirts printed with the Disrupt Logo. The stage is heavily clad in pink tones, a light pink carpet and hot pink curtains. They are also joined on stage by a corgi service dog and a giant foam cutout of the Disrupt Logo in black. Some strip lighting is hanging overhead. Photo by Simon Lazewski.
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