Join Soso Ní Cheallaigh and Billí Mills for a relaxed ciorcal comhrá (‘Irish conversation circle’) exploring disability through the Irish language. This relaxed and collaborative session will introduce existing tearmaí related to disability while providing space for participants to co-create new terms from their own creativity and experiences.
Beginner-friendly, stimming-encouraged, and all welcome!
This is a free, drop-in event and open to all.
Meeting as practitioners with their beloved Rogue Encounters, Soso & Billí are a creative duo of disabled artists who use movement, performance, and their native Irish language to connect and empower communities. Growing up in Gaeltacht areas, language has been central to their identities and artistic work. Their practice explores how the Irish language can express the lived experience of disability, while challenging how language defines and limits us. They aim to co-create new, inclusive terminology that reflects contemporary perspectives, sparking dialogue and building understanding through creative, accessible experiences.
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 Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Dance Ireland.
7 March
4pm
Free to attend, no booking required
Project Foyer
90 minutes
All events at the festival will deal with topics of Disability, Access and Ableism.
Irish Sign language, Audio Description, NaviLens, Sensory Tool Kit, Relaxed Performance, ‘Know Before You Go’ Document, Safer Air & Health Measures
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