Colin Hambrook considers how the cultural landscape has changed for disabled people since the first Unlimited festival in 2012.
A lot has happened in the last ten years. As this year marks the tenth anniversary of the first Unlimited festival in 2012, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on some of the changes that have taken place in that time both positive and negative. The Cultural Olympiad offered Disability Arts a chance for wider recognition from the arts sector as well as more visibility generally.
A lot of Disability Arts that happened in the 20 years previous had been about disabled artists having a conversation with our communities, gaining freedom from the constraints of institutions: from the day centres, hospitals and care institutions that had denied us self-determination and made us invisible from society.
2012 was a moment when disabled people largely asserted that we weren’t going back into those institutions – at least, not without a fight...Keep reading on Disability Arts Online.
A lot has happened in the last ten years. As this year marks the tenth anniversary of the first Unlimited festival in 2012, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on some of the changes that have taken place in that time both positive and negative. The Cultural Olympiad offered Disability Arts a chance for wider recognition from the arts sector as well as more visibility generally.
A lot of Disability Arts that happened in the 20 years previous had been about disabled artists having a conversation with our communities, gaining freedom from the constraints of institutions: from the day centres, hospitals and care institutions that had denied us self-determination and made us invisible from society.
2012 was a moment when disabled people largely asserted that we weren’t going back into those institutions – at least, not without a fight...Keep reading on Disability Arts Online.