Festive Road has received £2000 thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
The funding boost from Postcode Community Trust will enable Festive Road to run a free one day Seminar, ‘Mobility for Disability: in Carnival and Outdoor Arts’, to be held at Festive Road’s creation space in Milton Keynes on March 23rd.
People with all disabilities will be welcomed to the very collaborative event, and Festive Road particularly wants to engage people with physical disabilities, not only with their own artistic activities, but with carnival and outdoor arts more generally.
The aims of the day will be to discover and uncover the inspirations, aspirations, challenges and boundaries to non-able bodied artists and performers, within the context of carnival and outdoor arts; and see how they, Festive Road, can create structures with disability needs in mind in the future.
There'll be opportunities for discussion and sharing ideas; demonstrations, including a puppetry and performance taster led by Puppeteer, Jo Munton; as well as bicycle-driven carnival design sessions led by Festive Road.
Tanja Erhart from the amazing Candoco Dance Company will also attend.
Jessica Rost, artistic director of Festive Road, said: “We are very excited about this collaboration and are looking forward to sharing our knowledge and learning from this experience. We are very grateful to the Postcode Community Trust for providing the key funding for this Project.”
Anyone interested in attending can register here or, for more information can email carnival@festiveroad.org.uk
