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 — 🙏🏼 CHOSEN FOR FURTHER DISTRIBUTION The mural displayed on the facade of DYSPLA founder Lennie Varvarides and Kazimir Bielecki's home was created by local Neurodivergent artist Shay Press. It is the first mural of its kind to be funded by Arts Council England in the Turkey Street Ward of the borough of Enfield, an area of high deprivation with little or no cultural activity. DYSPLA is an award-winning disability lead London-based arts organization, focusing on developing and producing the work of artists who identify as Neurodivergent.

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…

LIKE WHO? …I hear you ask…, well, like; Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. B. Yeats, Jules Verne, John Irving, Richard Ford, George Bernard Shaw, Octavia Butler, Sally Gardner, Walter Disney, Jeanne Betancourt, Patricia Polacco, Lynda La Plante, Victor Villasenor, Robert Benton, Steve Mcqueen, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg…

A monthly round-up of opportunities and events for or by Neurodivergent people — This short post contains a mix of in-person & online events, workshops, paid work, and articles. The purpose of these monthly newsletters is to share the work of our wonderful Neurodivergent Creative community and to spread positive awareness about disability and difference. If you read this and find it useful…

Celebrating art by disabled and neurodivergent makers — Chosen for further distribution — Thank you DYSPLA curated a selection of six digital artworks in the form of immersive technologies such as Film, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), for the Mixed Reality Hub at Deptford Lounge which was part of the Mayor of London’s Liberty Festival 2022…

A monthly round-up of opportunities and events for/by Neurodivergent people — This short post contains a mix of upcoming events and details on the artists you’ll be able to see at this year’s Liberty Festival. DYSPLA_Chat, for Neurodivergent creatives Free monthly online gatherings of like-minded Neurodivergent Creatives, hosted via Zoom on the first Sunday of the month. Date: 3 July 2022 Time: 10am GMT (12 noon…