Imagination is the most advanced human faculty — The imagination is that faculty which gives form to thought — … form capable of being uttered in shape or in sound, or in any mode upon which the senses can lay hold. …

Personal essay about needing, finding and freeing space — “Ideas, representations or values which do not succeed in making their mark on space, and thus generating (or producing) an appropriate morphology, will lose all pith and become mere signs, resolve themselves into abstract descriptions, or mutate into fantasies.” — Henri Lefebvre. (1974/91). The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing…

Words, Not Walls — DYSPLA Founder, Lennie Varvarides speaks on why poetry is urgently needed in areas of high deprivation Before you begin reading this post, let me say that I am not an Education Specialist — but I am an expert on how society and schools fail people with Learning Differences through the work I do at DYSPLA. I identify as Working Class and my 7-year-old child attends a…

LIKE WHO? …I hear you ask…, well, like; Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. B. …

A monthly British round-up of events for or by Neurodivergent people and a case for the existence of the Neurodivergent Aesthetic (NDA). — DYSPLA is an experimental multi-media art studio developing ‘Neurodivergent Storymakers’ through subversive means. We are predominantly working in, Moving-Image, VR, AR, Photography, and Poetry. DYSPLA is a celebration of creative difference, in the form of gritty, raw complicated, explorative, and esoteric artmaking.

A monthly British round-up of all things made by DYSPLA and friends in the neurodivergent community — Examples of some well-known neurodivergent ​creatives include the likes of; Pablo Picasso, Agatha Christie, Steve McQueen, Quentin Tarantino, Antony Gormley, and Steven Spielberg. While the names above have neurodivergence in common, they are also unrelatable and the community needs contemporary role models.

A monthly British round-up of events, workshops and creative opportunities for or by Neurodivergent people. — DYSPLA is a London-based arts organisation specialising in developing Neurodivergent Storymakers. The purpose of our monthly newsletter is to share the work of our wonderful Neurodivergent Creative community and to spread positive awareness about disability and difference. This post contains information about, Theatre, VR Films, Art Exhibitions, Poetry Performances, Writing Workshops, Film Festival Screening and Free Online Events, all by Neurodivergent Creatives.

Inky Exorcisms: Prose Poem Prompt — White-covered hills erect with masculine pilferage ‘low-currency’ feeling losing its relevance once said out loud impotent words limp in memory useless consciousness in adolescent clothes, the truth is nothing but death slaying moments in its black wake mourning all the spent opportunities to live out horror or laughter or despair. All favored over joy…