Realm of The Rebels

The Blue Space is sensory zone inspired by the colour blue and water-based themes for gentle, fun and enriching play.  Jameisha Prescod is a multidisciplinary artist from London exploring disability, history, culture and identity. By combining visual art mediums like artists’ moving image, documentary photography and digital art with poetry and essay writing, their work reimagines how disabled stories and history can be archived in more experimental ways. 

Play-Trail is an interactive experience tapping into the ‘rebel’ of Realm of the Rebels. Are you ready to take on the trail to explore what it means to be a Rebel Player?  Mod are a collective of Playful Activists who use games and playable experiences to modify our world. Playful activism is a specific type of creative activism that invites audiences as participants to play, sparks moments of activation and connection towards social change. Mod was born out of the innovative practice of interactive theatre-makers Coney Mod and are rooted in care, curiosity, compassion and creativity. 

Let’s Get Tangled is a sensory web for playing alongside one another and feeling each other’s movements. It invites joyful chaos, individual exploration and shared encounters as well as offering a place to pause and rest.  

Artist Xan Dye, interweaves research, performance and facilitation.  From finding ways to make space for stimming, looping and rhythmic sensory-led movement, Xan’s practice has developed into an improvised technique that reclaims space for unconventional ways of being and unsettles boundaries.  Xan is collaborating with Shane Waltener, an artist exploring the connection of movement and materials.  Website: https://www.xandye.com/; https://www.instagram.com/xan_dye/ 

The Monument to Disabled Joy is a living, ever-changing sculpture made collectively by you, the participants on the day.  Join us for a playful, evolving experience using every-day objects, sounds, textures, movement and your own body to build a living monument that celebrates disabled lives.  You are welcome to bring something to add to it that makes you happy.  Rest, play, be silly, be still, be you. Dolly Sen is a Disabled artist and maker of unruly monuments and moments who uses humour, surrealism and participatory arts to create enough beauty to save our souls. She uses creativity as both armour and instrument of social change.  www.dollysen.com; insta: @dollysen70 

Playful Folds
Join artist Zoe Thompson for a relaxed, drop-in zine-making workshop to make your own pocket-book zine. Using fun collage and drawing materials, you’re invited to express what play means to you!  Zoe is a London-based zine-maker and facilitator, bringing the joy of zine-making to brands and people through workshops, content and editorial design. She champions the power of zine culture as a radical tool of expression and designs workshops centred around collective making and embodied play. @zoethezinester; @sweetthangzine; https://www.zoethompsoncreative.com/ 

Room Zooms 
Make the digital world analogue from a cardboard Zoom Room; send messages by postie, create art, invent new ways of communicating or simply watch the rest of the world go by.  Max Alexander is an artist, playworker and inclusive play advocate. As ‘Play Radical' Max creates and co-creates spaces for play, exploration and connection with a focus on neurodivergent joy and ways of relating. Max's work connects DIY cultures and junk playgrounds to find the fun and beauty in reusing, re-mixing and re-imagining, often discarded, materials. The work only becomes complete when it is played with. 

Oona’s Bar
Have you ever wanted to invent your own Mocktail? Oona’s Bar is the perfect place to create and share your own adventurous drink recipes or to hang out with new friends and take in the atmosphere. The idea for the bar came from young artist Oona Dooks as a way of sharing her love of a Virgin Mojito. We’re excited to share a tasty tipple or two. 

Horizontal Gaming
Join the radical Global Majority Disabled AF Oracle, Sulaiman R. Khan, سلیمان راشد خان for a fungally sporulating horizontal play activity, rooted in rest, access intimacy, and Revolutionary LOVE®. Multiple award-winning Disabled AF: Founder, Writer, and Thinker. The radical Global Majority Disabled AF Oracle. Founder and Chief Radical Officer at ThisAbility® Limited, and Founder of Revolutionary LOVE®. Sought-after speaker and writer. Radical existence and energies from their first heartbeat, until their last heartbeat, they design enthralling, loving ecosystems from the sacred outer fringes. Sulaiman’s life goals are to design interdependent ecosystems of care that centre access intimacy, and to commit daily acts of Revolutionary LOVE® to create radical systemic change and lead to collective liberation. Instagram. LinkedIn.

Robyn Rocket will be adding an improvisatory musical twist to the day.  Robyn is a disabled female queer musician and visual artist, who puts on Inclusive conscious gigs “Robyn’’s Rocket” and plays space trumpet.

Amber Anderson will be capturing the day’s rebellious play through interactive live illustration.