Join us on 26th March 10am-11am for this disability-led movement workshop facilitated by Australian artists Amy Claire Mills and Bedelia Lowrenčev.
This online workshop invites participants tomove and shake their bodies through sweat and play. This is not about fitness; it’s about liberation, using movement as a tool for self-expression, catharsis, and collective joy.
No experience necessary. Wheelchairs, mobility aids, and rest breaks are welcome.
Supported by Liverpool Biennial.
Access: BSL interpretation and closed captions will be available for this event.
Booking: Book via eventbrite.
Amy Claire Mills: Amy Claire Mills, is your most beloved textile artist, curator, and producer living and creating on Gadigal and Wangal Land in Sydney, Australia. A graduate of the University of NSW with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Amy is a neurodivergent and disabled artist whose work delves into themes of advocacy, identity, and resistance. Focused on disability culture, Amy explores its social and political dimensions as both an artist and subject. Her art serves as a form of protest, blending softness, tactility, empathy, and care with elements of dissent, disruption, and provocation.
Since graduating in 2016, Amy has worked with national and international institutions, festivals and galleries, such as the Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of NSW, Te Atamira, Firstdraft, and Outer Space, to curate and produce exhibitions and events. Her focus is on creative access and increasing representation for disabled artists across the arts and cultural sector.
Bedelia Lowrenčev: Bedelia (they/she) is a groovy disabled actor, dancer, singer, agitator, theatre maker, producer and Access Coordinator, living and working on Wategoro and Wangal Land. Bedelia frequently collaborates with their Deaf twin Jeremy, as facilitators and explorers of queerness, disability and deafness. Bedelia has a keen interest in communal care, story sovereignty, reciprocity and advocacy in their arts practice. In particular, challenging the western gaze on body, community and identity, and the reclamation of CALD queerness, and relation to land.
Most recently, Bedelia acted in the new short film 'With Love, Lottie' which screened at FrameShift at the Sydney Opera House, and will screen at the 2025 Mardi Gras Film Festival. Previously, Bedelia acted with Bus Stop Films in 'Screen Me', Assistant Produced Raghav Handa’s THE ASSEMBLY at Campbelltown Arts Centre, performed SOFT PLACES at the Sydney Biennale, Griffin Studio Resident, and was Access Coordinator at Performance Space for Liveworks, and Co-Program Coordinator: Access at Sydney Fringe Festival. Currently, Bedelia is cracking into their disabled musical spenanza with Wear It Purple, is lead creative in the Move Series at the Art Gallery of NSW, and is a Program Coordinator at Accessible Arts.
About DaDa :
DaDa is an award winning and pioneering disability arts organisation based in Liverpool with international reach and impact. Founded in 1984, we were one of the first disability-led arts organisations in the UK and an integral part of the campaign for greater equality and access for disabled artists across the arts sector.
About DDFI40:
DaDaFest International returns 8th-31st March 2025 to celebrate DaDa's 40th Anniversary and this time we are coming with ‘RAGE: A Quiet Riot’.
DDFI40 will showcase work by disabled artists that captures all shapes and sides of rage. From the internal quiet frustrations and righteous rage, to overt injustice and activism, DDFI40 will explore disability rights, disability arts, access, ableism and ‘Rage’ in an explosion of creativity.