Crucial Conversations for Disabled Artists - The Progress We've Made

We're delighted to announce that multi-award-winning writer and director Cheryl Martin will also be a provocateur at our first online Crucial Conversation reflecting on the progress we've made as a community of artists and activists. 

Cheryl has recently taken up her tenure as Artistic Director of Red Ladder Theatre Company. Alongside her work writing and directing award-winning theatre productions, Cheryl has also fulfilled a variety of roles including supporting writers and practitioners at Contact Theatre, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, and Oldham Coliseum. Cheryl has also worked with Community Arts Northwest on a series of community plays, devised with, and starring mostly women refugees and asylum seekers.

In 2015 she co-founded LGBTQ+ Global-Majority performance arts company Black Gold Arts, a celebration in choreography, writing, directing and cabaret, which was part of the Eurovision cultural festival. Black Gold Arts recently won the Best Event category at the Manchester Culture Awards for its free outdoor arts festival at The Whitworth in 2022.

In addition to being an Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre assessor and judge, Cheryl was also Co-Artistic Director of Manchester’s grassroots Global-Majority-led publisher and writer development company Commonword and is Co-Director of Manchester Pride’s Candlelight Vigil.

​The Progress We've Made feels rebellious & radical, given the current social and cultural backdrop, but we're going to revel in our successes, and come away refreshed with ingredients for our personal manifestos of hope.

​Booking for Crucial Conversations - The Progress We've Made
Crucial Conversations are disabled only spaces - please do not book a space if you are not a disabled person. 
​Disabled artists can book for this event on Eventbrite here. Crucial Conversations - Disabled Artists: The Progress We've Made Tickets, Mon 8 Apr 2024 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

Access 
Please book as soon as possible if you have access requirements and do tell us what you need in your booking form on Eventbrite. Thank you. 

You can find out more about other Crucial Conversations and provocateurs on our website here. ​Knowledge Action Change - LITTLE COG