On Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo (Co-founder of Quiplash)

Join us as we unpack for an intimate conversation with on Disabled Joy. Hosted by , founder of healthcare and wellbeing start-up, Well Adapt.

Disabled Joy is a series of talks on finding the joys and pleasures in disability. Born out of a solo-artist commission from the Raze Collective, the project has since developed beyond artist Georgia Bondy’s studio, and taken many forms. However, the core question remains the same: what is disabled joy?

Amelia Lander-Cavallo

Amelia Lander-Cavallo has 20 years of experience as an actor, singer, musician, drag king, circus aerialist, burlesque performer and podcast host.

They also have pioneered research in integrated audio description, developing their own methodology of this form that they call “Queer AD”. Amelia has written multiple texts on performance and AD including the book Integrated Access In Live Performance (2022).

In drag, Amelia takes on the persona of Tito Bone, your average blind nonbinary bisexual drag king. Tito’s goal is to entertain the masses through comedy, political satire, IAD and song expressed through the most manly soprano vocals you will ever hear.

Amelia co-founded Quiplash with their wxfe Al Lander-Cavallo, Quiplash is a queer, disability led company making work that platforms queer disabled artists, with integrated audio description (IAD) at the core of the creative process.

Quiplash also trains and consults, and supports independent artists, small companies and organisations to make accessible and inclusive art for queer and disabled people

Amelia's recent work includes Press Play Turn On (Audible) Trans Filth and Joy (Trans Creative and Milk Presents), Unsightly Drag And Friends (Mighty Hoopla 2024) and Queer Fest (Dortmund, Germany).

Georgia Bondy

Georgia Bondy is a performer and content creator who proactively shares perspectives and strategies around disability. She has a range of experience under her belt: a Master in Science degree in Brain, Behaviour & Cognition and Chemistry, as well as three years in a science education tech startup.

The brainchild of these passions is Georgia’s business, Well Adapt. It’s an online platform that provides mental health and physical exercise courses, created for and by disabled people.

As a disabled person, Georgia has personal experience with the lack of online resources for mental health or fitness that are accessible and relevant. While experiencing deterioration from chronic fatigue, she was recommended physical exercise but nobody could tell her what to do without it causing debilitating flare-ups.

Well Adapt’s courses use pre-existing wellbeing techniques like mindfulness, meditation and pilates. However, they will leverage the experience of disabled people like Georgia to make them more accessible and disability focused.

“Despite the fact that 16 percent of the global population is disabled, most online resources for mental health or fitness lack even basic accessibility features like closed captions or sign language. I have created Well Adapt to change this,” Georgia says.

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Complimentary Ticket for Assistant ✔

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Service Animals Welcome ✔

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Please do not attend the event if you have tested positive for COVID-19 or suspect that you may have COVID-19. You will be welcome to attend via Zoom if this is the case.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Circle, The Circle, Sheffield, United Kingdom