Fireside Tour on Disabled Joy
In 2024, Well Adapt toured around the UK to answer the question: What is disabled joy and how do we get more of it? Well Adapt founder Georgia Bondy met up with entrepreneur Nikki Adebiyi, co-founder of Quiplash Amelia Lander-Cavallo, artist Christopher Samuel, dancer Little Peaches, and Paralympian Carly Tait in a series of captivating fireside chats on […]
Collective Imagination Afternoon on Disabled Joy
Collective Imagination Afternoon on Disabled Joy was an online half-day event that took place on 2nd March 2024. It was a collaborative collective imagination event prompted by a series of talks by disabled speakers which culminated in a group imagining of how we can cultivate disabled joy. Collective Imagination is a method of group ideation and […]
Pole Dance on Disabled Joy
Disabled Joy was brought to the Pole the Other One Podcast Launch party in the form of an experimental pole dance. The event took place on 12th March 2024 at Signature Brew, Haggerston E8. Performer George Lou Bon explored disabled joy through music and poetry re-composed for dance while experimenting with playful and gentle ways […]
Pole Dance on Disabled Joy Transcript
Hey, look, I know you were a bit confused the other day when I said that I’m happier now as a disabled person than I ever was when I was relatively not disabled. And I get why. I know to a lot of people disability is kind of like the worst thing that could happen […]
Art Film on Disabled Joy
Our work on disabled joy began in a 2021 artist commission from the Raze Collective for our founder to explore the concept of disabled joy. The work culminated in a piece of art film and music which was celebrated as a finalist in the 2021 Sony Talent League, and would go on to inspire further […]
Art Film on Disabled Joy Transcript
(Speaker A) How do I explain the multitudes that is disabled joy. Disabled joy. Disabled joy. Disabled joy. (Speaker A) You. (Speaker B) Disabled joy to me is a practice. (Speaker C) Is a way of thinking, a way. (Speaker B) Of living that says joy. (Speaker C) Joy is not the inflexibility of wanting. (Speaker B) […]