In partnership with Metro GAD and the Prokofiev Fund, Tramshed is launching a 3-year disability arts festival for the Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG) and the broader community.

This festival was conceived by a disability-led steering committee, made up of Metro GAD board members and Tramshed participants, who were tasked with determining how to utilize the funding donated by the Prokofiev Fund. The committee decided to create a festival celebrating disability arts.

Festival Vision:

1) Our vision is to create a bold disability arts festival that amplifies radical voices, challenges stereotypes, and rejects patronising narratives, celebrating the fierce creativity and diverse experiences of disabled people without compromise or conformity. 

2) To ignite the creativity and amplify the voices of disabled young people and adults through artistic performances, participatory productions, workshops, disabled artists collectives. 

3) To empower disabled voices through a leadership steering board that fosters bold collaboration with Metro Gad, ensuring disabled perspectives drive the vision. 

4) To disrupt conventions and bring disability arts to the wider RBG public. 

5) To create dynamic job opportunities and artistic roles for disabled artists, enabling skills development and empowering both artists and participants to thrive creatively and professionally.

The Opening of the Festival:

In 2024, N'abled launched with a bold and thought-provoking dance-theatre piece titled I'm Possible, Not Possible, featuring an all-disabled cast and created by Moxie Brawl. The community cast collaborated with Director Sarah and the Moxie team to devise the production over several weeks. An exciting start for the festival and setting the stage for the future. 

"This show blew my mind!" — Audience member, IPNI 2024.