This month is Disability Pride month. Although many of us are not attending parades in our finery, that doesn’t mean we shouldn't celebrate!
It's worth checking if your local council is putting on an event or doing something in recognition, but if not, there are other ways to mark the occation!  

It's a great time to have conversations about disability and listen to those with different experiences and show solidarity. If you’re anything like me then you’ve chosen to celebrate by putting up some homemade bunting (that will probably stay there until next year) and you’re engaging more with disabled creators, influencers and feeling a little more empowered!

My favourite event this month so far has been the WAIWAV exhibition, which took place earlier in the month and involved over 30 artists with disabilities, in celebration of the 102 anniversary of the First Dada International Exhibition. Artists made surreal interventions at museums and galleries all over the UK in a variety of styles, creating vivid works and performances that considered what the surrealist Dada movement would have been like had it begun in 2020 during lockdown.
Poems were performed, origami was made, artists hid inide of their work, famous paintings were re-created featuring disabled subjects, fondant was used to fight austerity and much more – to see the full list of artists and their work please follow this link:  https://www.waiwav.org/

Whatever you choose to do, we want to wish everyone a very happy disability pride month!