This series of monologues showcases experiences of disabled people in love. sex and relationships.

The monologues are about the experience of being crips – whatever that means to the individual. They’re an invite into a flash of our reality.

The outfit choices of the actors confronts the audience with what our bodies look like, empowering us to control and invite who stares.

This film features integrated British Sign Language and Captioning.

Saturday 26th April 7.00pm

60mins

Age guidance: 18+ years

Pay-what-you-can tickets

This film was originally commissioned for an awards ceremony in 2020 but, following the sad death of co-founder of Face Front Jon French, we decided to bring it to a wider audience.

This short film explores his pioneering work in inclusive dance and theatre. It celebrates the important work of CanDoCo and Face Front Inclusive Theatre and acts as an archive for disability-led art. 

Since 1998, Face Front Inclusive Theatre has produced accessible and impactful theatre for schools, communities and theatres throughout London and beyond. 

Sunday 27th April

Film 1

FILM FESTIVAL: 11.00am - 12.30pm

Suitable for all ages

This film features Face Front’s InterACTion community theatre group.

This film isn’t your typical wedding reception – the bride and groom have mysteriously disappeared. Welcome to the wedding reception of Jake and Natalie!

Oh don’t you just love weddings, two people in love celebrating the rest of their lives, surrounded by friends and family. Mix in high emotion, cheesy music, cake and too much alcohol - What could possibly go wrong?

InterACTion community group develops exciting inclusive theatre based on lived experiences of our group members – aged 11 – 100! 

Since 1998, Face Front Inclusive Theatre has produced accessible and impactful theatre for schools, communities and theatres throughout London and beyond. 

Sunday 27th April

Film 2

FILM FESTIVAL: 11.00 - 12.30pm

Suitable for all ages

Frame Work is a short film featuring Corali's Youth Company, Kick Up. Inspired by Jon C. Archdeacon’s captivating photographs of our weekly Kick Up sessions, the film explores the dynamic interplay between movement and portraiture. Generously supported by the Jarrett family in memory of Joan Jarrett, and the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement, Frame Work delves into the transformative power of dance.

The film showcases movement sequences inspired by past photographic documentation of the dancers, swapping movement identities through portraiture and seeking structural lines within the architecture of the rehearsal space.

Frame Work offers a glimpse into the hidden world of the creative process, capturing moments of exploration and experimentation in the studio.

This film features music and movement with no written or spoken language.

Sunday 27th April

Film 3

FILM FESTIVAL: 11.00am - 12.30pm

Suitable for all ages

Call Us CRIPtic is a documentary about CRIPtic Arts’ 2021 Barbican Showcase, the artists, and the organisation made by the fantastic Fig Films.

CRIPtic Arts made this documentary in order to explore the context of the work they make. What does it mean to be disabled people, to be creating disability arts, and to be doing it at a major institution?

They wanted to understand what their artists wanted, needed, and thought – and wanted people to see the beauty and scope of their work.

The film that emerged from this objective highlights how much there is to be proud of as disabled artists – and how much there is for us to be celebrating. It showed us the diversity, value, and power of our community, and is a roadmap for the future.

Featuring Jamie Hale, Miss Jacqui, Oli Isaac, Alice Christina Corrigan, MC Geezer, Flawbored, Deaf Rave, and the wider cast of people who came together to develop our show, it is a time capsule of what it meant to be making the work we make, in that moment.

This film will contain subtitle captions

Sunday 27th April

Film 4

FILM FESTIVAL: 11.00am - 12.30pm

Suitable for all ages

For 15 years as a performer and choreographer, founder of Le Ballet Brut, Claire Durand-Drouhin has immersed herself in closed worlds such as prisons and psychiatric hospitals where she leads dance workshops with patients.

This film highlights the singularity of beings and the variations they provoke. It invites a range of dancers - disabled, marginalised or other - to embark on a quest of unexpected corploral meetings.

The stage becomes a place to create new families from people who were previously strangers.

This film features music and movement with no written or spoken language.

Sunday 27th April

Film 5

FILM FESTIVAL: 11.00am - 12.30pm

Suitable for all ages