A festival which explores the intersections between disability, class, queerness, mental health and gender is returning to Cambridge Junction.
I'm Here, Where Are You? will be held from Tuesday, April 25 to Sunday, April 30, and includes performances, installations and workshops from artists with disabilities.
Highlights include It's a Motherf**ing Pleasure by Pleasance Associate Artists Flawbored, where a blind talent manager tries to make disability the next cultural cachet in a satire of the monetisation of identity politics.
In Brotherly, Other, Disorderly, Vijay Patel is accompanied on stage by his younger brother, where the two autistic brothers create a joyous, neurodivergent pop concert.
Cambridge's performance night for LGBTQ+ people and their allies, Club Urania, will be partnering with the festival for a special edition of the club night highlighting an all deaf and disabled line-up.
Vince Laws returns to the festival with his exhibition DWP Deaths Make Me Sick, exploring the devastating effect of benefit cuts and mental illness on an artist's creativity.
Artist Chloe Akasha and her Akasha Dance Company will also present two screenings of their autobiographical cinematic dance theatre piece Exoskeleton.
Workshops will be hosted across the region in the run-up to the festival. Director Rachel Bagshaw will lead a workshop in Cambridge on devising work from a personal standpoint.
Meanwhile Ipswich's resident theatre company of visually impaired people will collaborate with Rationale Method to explore audio description enhanced by beatbox sound effects.
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Producers Liz Counsell and Linda Rocco said: "We are delighted to be bringing the festival back to Cambridge Junction after three years away.
"We’re presenting some of our favourite performances and some of the UK’s most dynamic artists across the festival, which this year is bigger and bolder.
"We hope that artists, audiences, and other arts professionals see this as a big step forward in the UK arts scene and can relish the opportunities that holding a festival such as this can offer."
To book for individual events go to https://www.junction.co.uk/festivals/im-here-where-are-you.
Access assistants will be on hand during the festival, or to discuss requirements in advance email tickets@junction.co.uk or call 01223 511 511.
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