Shape

Shape

Artist

Shape is a disability-led arts organisation, currently celebrating its 40th anniversary. Shape is founded on the principle that all disabled people should have the opportunity to participate fully in arts and culture, and works with the vision of an inspiring and inclusive arts sector that is accessible to all. In order

Hijinx Theatre

Artist

Hijinx are a professional theatre company, based at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, which tours small scale theatre throughout the UK, Europe and Internationally. Their casts always include actors who have learning disabilities. The ability of these effortlessly talented performers is at the heart of every show they produce, creating

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Meet Hijinx: the Welsh company exporting their academy model internationally

Opinion
September 20, 2018

Hijinx is a Welsh theatre company who always include learning disabled actors in their productions, run a number of ‘Hijinx Academies’ which develop learning-disabled talent and host the biennial Hijinx Unity Festival. Joe Turnbull speaks to Chief Executive Clare Williams about the company’s international work, including plans to export its academy

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The vexed question of disability-specific festivals

Opinion
July 5, 2018

What are the pros and cons of festivals that exclusively feature disabled artists? As we head into festival season, Bella Todd considers the relative merits of disability-specific arts festivals, from the perspective of international artists, programmers and funders. Redo Ait Chitt & Jeroen van der Linden at DanceAble #2. Photograph: