Solidarity Of Hope

Through visual art, performance, and a sound scape, Solidarity of Hope – I see you is a multi-disciplinary live art, sound, and digital performance that places professional disabled artists centre stage to express the challenges and hopes of the moment. Underpinning the performance will be the notion that disabled and vulnerable individuals “do not wish to be erased” and are now connecting, as an empowering force, to share their stories of physical and psychological survival. Through the many challenges they encounter, the performance will ultimately celebrate the abundant strengths that members of the collective draw upon to survive and retain their sense of hope.

Solidarity of Hope Collective formed in 2022 to unite Dutch, Welsh and UK creatives.

The performance will be followed by an In-conversation event to be chaired by Sara Beer, Senior Arts Officer, Disability Arts Cymru, where you will have the opportunity to meet the artists:

Samantha Dinsdale-Brown, Rachel Gadsden, Emily-Jane Hillman, Grietje Margreet Killian, Miek Knook, Jill Powell, Tina R, Helen Roeten, Jordan Sallis, Linda & Bethany Sutton, Margo van Strijp, Rach Wellbeing, Elly Wright.

Solidarity of Hope – I See You performance has been created in collaboration with Freddie Meyers - Composer and Digital Producer and Emily Earl – Violinist.

We would like to thank our funders Arts Council Wales and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom, Unity Festival for commissioning the performance, and Disability Arts Cymru, and the Living Museum, Alkmaar, for their wonderful support throughout the conception and development of Solidarity of Hope Collective and this premier performance.