Sibikwa Arts Center-Phyllis
Presented to coincide with this year’s Paralympic Games, the Global Disability Innovation Hub’s UK aid funded AT2030 programme is proud to support a collaboration between leading UK and South African Deaf and disabled artists that looks to imagine what the future might hold for disabled people in a world on the brink of immense challenges as a result of climate change.
‘Synergy’ will be presented at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Saturday 7 September as part of the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, thanks to support from the UK aid funded AT2030 programme, led by the Global Disability Innovation Hub.
Recognising that disabled people are often at the coal face of hard times, this new production imagines what the future might hold for disabled people globally. The production is being created with a UK ensemble collaborating with an extraordinary South African dance artist, Lethabo Shai – who also featured in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
Support from the Global Disability Innovation Hub’s AT2030 programme is also enabling a reciprocal programme of work to take place in South Africa with the Lucky Dance Theatre who will be presenting an inclusive dance programme designed to spotlight the diverse experiences of vulnerable and marginalised groups including women, disabled people, and the LGBTI community. Their project aims to celebrate community courage and resilience in South Africa, and to explore the access, structures of support needed for people to be able to freely shape and express their identity and live without fear.