A review of three dance performances from this year’s HIjinx Unity Festival in Cardiff – a celebration of the best inclusive and disability from around the world     Bill and Bobby – Stopgap (UK) I have heard so many people say that Stopgap are are so good and professional. This show is set in […]

Razed Roof’s new show, which I saw at the Harlow Playhouse, is about the Lusitania, a big passenger boat that travelled from New York to Liverpool during the First World War It was carrying bombs without the passengers knowing. And was sunk by a German U boast with a huge loss of life. Razed Roof […]

Over recent weeks we have watched the campaign to make Finnish punk band PKN triumph at Eurovision. Every media outlet in their country backed them and they had 34000 mentions on twitter in a month. But they get voted off and the competition duly lacks any true diversity. A sad day for democracy and a […]

This is a bit of an odd one. We don’t really know why we need our own festival? We think some of our fabulous learning disabled bands and musicians should be getting seen by more people – at festivals like Lattitude, Reading and Glastonbury – we think we need to excite more people with our […]

Written by a support worker at Creative Minds Bristol on 14th October and given to us afterwards. What do you think the question at the end of the Creative Minds call for a revolution should have been? Tell us here! “You guys have the power now to do something with your knowledge and skills but […]

In Lyn Gardner’s blog about the Creative Minds SW conference she pointed out that artistic work gets better when it is properly evaluated and critiqued: “Without a level of consistency and quality, the work won’t get programmed and taken seriously, and it won’t gain consistency and quality unless it is programmed and talked and written […]

Big thanks to the South West steering committee for organising such a great day. Good to see and meet a lot of people doing a lot of groovy things. My head is still full of it, but also recovering from the amount of coffee it took me to drive from Brighton and back in a […]

We want to be seen as professional artists. We can learn from criticism. It helps us grow. We can listen and learn. Others have a lot to learn from us!

Does the idea of arts, performance and film by artists with learning disabilities being seen “free” by audiences, lower the expectations of audiences who see our work? There was talk at Creative Minds Bristol on 14th October 2014 that free events means that different audiences “discover” our work – like street performance meaning that passers […]

The Creative Minds South East committee are confused! Why is the work of learning disabled artists nearly always seen as part of an arts venue or galleries education programme,  outreach or community work or even more annoyingly – arts therapy? Any ideas? Thompson Hall from Action Space and Sarah Watson from Oska Bright explain a […]