Crip* Coffee Meetup: Collective Rest
Tramway Upper Gallery
Following on from our first hybrid Crip* Coffee Morning in August, TWR are pleased to invite our disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent members and members with chronic illness or health conditions to Crip* Coffee Morning 2: a private, informal in-person meetup at Tramway on Tuesday 24 October.
With each session, different members may propose a starting point for a conversation. On Tuesday 24 October, Laura Fisher offers up their installation FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) while the work is installed in Tramway Upper Gallery for Take Me Somewhere festival.
Laura “Ableism is exhausting- let's rest! Come along and hang out in the installation at Tramway and be in relaxed conversation and companionship with each other. We will chat, eat snacks, I can chat about the project if people are interested, and then I’ll invite us to engage in a collective act of resting (this might be reclining/drawing/moving/sleeping/reading/going home/ chatting- whatever rest means to you). Hope to see you there!”
The meetup is a chance for members to spend some ‘slow time’ alongside one another in crip* solidarity; sharing experiences, challenges; spoons and joy!
*Many self-identifying disabled people, particularly in arts and activism, have reclaimed ‘Crip’ as a term of solidarity, community, and resistance to able-ism; conveying shared understanding, celebration and appreciation of what it is to live in the world as a disabled person. This is the intention with which we use it here.
The installation and Tramway building will be closed to the public during this event. Read more about the installation & access here. You are invited to bring your own book, headphones, hot water bottle, materials to draw, knit or anything else that would support your rest.
ARRIVING
Please enter via Tramway Stage Door (entrance on Pollockshaws Road) and sign in at Stage Door. The main entrance to Tramway will be closed. If you need assistance, please call TWR office on 0141 423 3864. We will gather in the installation in the Tramway Upper Gallery, outside the Tramway Office.
Image by Emily Nicholl