Arts for Social Change
Arts Disability Network is a community for disabled and chronically ill artists. The Network offers a community for similarly minded artists - as well as access to free support with growing an arts career, accessing funding, and navigating an often inaccessible sector through regular online workshops and training and a resource library. This is alongside community building and peer support, room to meet, share experiences, and build creative collaborations. This year we have launched our Artist of the Month programme - designed to celebrate and share the amazing art that our members have created with a wider audience..
There are multiple ways that you can interact with ADN, through social media, our newsletter and Basecamp - the online system that we use for our network. You can find our social media links below, but if you would like access to our Basecamp, or our newsletter you can do so by filling in this form: Click here.
Instagram www.instagram.com/artsdisabilitynetwork
Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/artsdisabilitynet.bsky.social
Threads www.threads.com/@artsdisabilitynetwork
The team is made up of 3 people, all of whom are disabled and/or chronically ill. We all work part time on the project, and will reply to any communication as quickly as we can, but please be mindful of our working pattern when waiting to hear from us.
Myra’s normal working hours are - Monday morning (9.30- 1pm) and Friday morning (9.30- 1pm)
Myra Stuart is a programme manager and somatic practitioner. She co-runs Intercultural Root’s Arts Disability Network with a small team and curates their workshops and events. She has previous experience as a project manager and producer across charities, NGOs and arts organisations including previously working as an Engagement Producer for Something To Aim For. In her somatic work (trained in Bodylistening with Brighton School of Psychotherapy) she uses her practice to tend to her chronic illness and supports many disabled clients her work is adaptive and responsive. She rejects perfectionism and wellness rhetoric whilst knowing from her own experience that the deep inner knowing that somatics opens up can be for everyone.
Meg’s normal working hours are - Monday morning (9.30- 1pm) and Wednesday morning (9.30- 1pm)
Meg Fozzard is a South London based disabled freelance producer and journalist. Her career as a producer began back in 2018 when she studied Creative Producing for Digital Platforms at the National Film and Television School. There, she learnt how to produce for AR, VR, podcasts, smart home devices and social media.
She graduated in February 2019 and became disabled in April 2019, drastically altering her career.
She is currently on her own VR project called Cripping Up, as an XR Specialist and Disability Advisor for the Intercultural Roots project Extending Nature and as the Community Comms Coordinator for Arts Disability Network.
Joel is a Disabled, Queer, neurodivergent, artist, activist and access worker/coordinator. Their passion for supporting disabled artists, and art has stemmed from their own experiences being disabled and working in inaccessible fields. Joel specialises in creative access for fields where disabled people are massively underrepresented - like their work making aerial arts and circus accessible.
Joel’s role in ADN is to support Meg, so will typically work the same hours as her. Occasionally Joel will reply to messages on Meg’s behalf and please make sure to copy them into any emails to Meg
Arts Disability Network benefits from a steering group comprised of:
Flo O’Mahoney - artistic director theatre Zooco - https://www.wearezooco.co.uk/
Candy DeRoy - ADHD coach https://www.candyderoy.com
Laura Trevail - ADN member, artist and contact strategist - https://www.lhtrevail.com/
Wendy Van Der Haagen-Boyd - IR COO - finance and admin
Alex Boyd - Founder & IR CEO
Krisztina Ferencz - founder of ADN, performer dance company
Nu McAdam - Artist, ADN initial team member
Myra Stuart - ADN initial member and ADN programme manager https://www.instagram.com/myra.stuart
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The project is led by disabled artists, under the umbrella of Intercultural Roots. ADN was started thanks to an online consultation and we are keen to continue to develop the network to support the needs of the community. So please get in touch We’re informed by an online consultation and keen to continue to develop according to the needs of the community, so please get in touch with Meg@interculturalroots.org or Contact Us if you have suggestions, questions or ideas XXX
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