Name: WORD! Special - International Day of People with Disabilities
Start: 2024-11-28T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-28T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Attenborough Arts Centre

WORD! Special - International Day of People with Disabilities
Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
4-6pm - FREE Workshop
7-9pm - Show
Tix £4/£7 - https://attenborougharts.com/whats-on/word-international-day-of-disabled-persons/
on the phone 0116 2522455 - or in person!
Join us for our last sparkly WORD! of the year - marking this year's International Day of People with Disabilities, co-curated with WORD!’s, Teagan Buckley - and featuring talented 'Some-Antics Slam Championship 2023' winner - Ellie Spirrett...!
Ellie is a poet and writer from Leeds, who started performing in the Leicester poetry scene. She writes about ableism and chronic illness, friendship and the loneliness epidemic. She was a Roundhouse poetry slam finalist in 2023 and a member of the Roundhouse poetry collective, and was the 2023 Some-Antics championship slam winner.
Teagan Buckley (BA, MA) is a poet and artist from Leicester, England. She is influenced by studies in Film and her experience of disability as someone with cerebral palsy. A fan of cartoons, coffee and music, she is interested in the under-served complexities of intersections of gender and disability - Disability and LGBTQIA activism.
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Sign up for the open mic, and/or book a workshop place on the same day (4pm-6pm) email [email protected]