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Disrupt Disability Arts Festival 2026

5 - 7 March 2026

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival taking place from 5 – 7 March 2026, 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.

Thursday 5 March

Uncouth and Let Go_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

Discover: Disrupt Opening Event

5 March, 7:45pm

€17/10 | Cube

Bookable online streaming and free companion tickets available

A curated opening event featuring the premiere of ‘Uncouth’ by Moss Russell, a screening of ‘Let Go’ by Louise Bruton and the launch of exhibitions by Mimi Seery, Brendan Lonergan and Elena Horgan. 

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Friday 6 March

Webinar Sector Event_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

Our Place, Cross-Sector Discussion

6 March, 10:30am

Free but ticketed, booking required.

This is an online event.

Our Place and Carlow Arts Festival present a morning of discussion, reflection and imagining with leading voices working in and across the arts and intellectual disability sector.

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Max Whelan – Unveiled_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

‘Unveiled’ by Max Whelan

6 March, 5pm

€17/10 | Cube

Bookable touch tour, online streaming and free companion tickets available

Based on his own experiences as a non-speaker, Max Whelan’s brilliant, searing debut play brims with humour and heart. ‘Unveiled’ is unapologetically political, challenging assumptions and demanding a new approach to communication and education. 

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Amoroso_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

‘Amoroso’ by Teatr Klucz

6 March, 7pm

€17/10 | Space Upstairs

Bookable free companion tickets available

Following ‘Tranquillo’ and’Intermezzo’, two award-winning and critically acclaimed productions, Teatr Klucz returns to stage with ‘Amoroso’, a sincere and intimate show in which artists tell a tale of love, in its various forms. They do it endlessly, with devotion and without remorse. To the end. Without end.

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The Arc of a Heart Shaped Curve_ PAC Event_Disrupt_2026

‘The Arc of A Heart Shaped Curve’ by Sighile Hennessy and Cindy Cummings

6 March, 8:30pm

€17/10 | Cube

Bookable online streaming and free companion tickets available

The Arc of a Heart Shaped Curve is a new dance piece performed by Sighile Hennessy and Cindy Cummings. Directed by Steve Batts, with live music by Dave Boyd, the work moves with a patient rhythm that takes a path into the deep connection of friendship. Allow your body clock to be set to slow and let the honest meeting of two hearts draw you in.

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Saturday 7 March

Disrupt ISL Basics_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

Dis-Cussion: Learn ISL basics with Disrupt

7 March, 3pm

Free to attend, no booking required

Project Foyer

Join the Disrupt team for an afternoon learning some basics of Irish Sign Language.

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Soso Irish Workshop_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

Fócloir Faoi Mhíchumas / Disability Dictionary with SoSo Ní Cheallaigh and Billí Mills

7 March, 4pm

Free to attend, no booking required

Project Foyer

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.

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Chisato Minamimura – mark of a woman_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

‘Mark of a Woman’ by Chisato Minamimura

7 March, 7:15pm

€17/10 | Cube

Bookable touch tour and free companion tickets available

Mark of A Woman is a performance project by Chisato Minamimura, celebrating and exploring personal histories and authentic accounts of the undertold relationships between women and tattooing cultures.

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ISL SarahJane_PAC Event_Disrupt 2026

Disrupt Closing Party: ISL Disco with Sarah-Jane O’Regan

7 March, 9pm

€17/10 | Space Upstairs

Bookable online streaming and free companion tickets available

The party of the year has arrived. Disrupt are delighted to present music and Irish Sign Language icon Sarah-Jane O’Regan.

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Group Group Support Credits

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.

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Dates

5 - 7 March 2026

Tickets

€17/10

Free companion tickets available for all in-person events.

Free, bookable touch tours available for some events.

Bookable online streaming tickets available for some events.

Warnings

All events at the festival will deal with topics of Disability, Access and Ableism. 

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