Disrupt is a boundary-pushing celebration of disability arts that challenges stereotypes. The festival actively dismantles barriers to artistic engagement, providing a shared space where artists and audiences with lived experience of disability can come together to reimagine what art and access can be. The unique festival is growing with care. Disrupt is a movement rooted in community and inclusion, focused on building a sustainable platform that amplifies disabled voices and reshapes narratives while celebrating the richness of disabled experience.
The festival’s hybrid events (in-person and online) open up the programme to wider disability communities, but also to carers and national arts audiences who may face economic or geographical barriers.
Join Disrupt Disability Arts Festival from 5 – 7 March 2026 at Project Arts Centre.
You can also enjoy Disrupt from the comfort of your own home. An online ticket gives you access to the live stream at the time of the event, with on-demand viewing available until 7 April 2026.
Extended Festival: Embedded Access Training Programme
Disrupt is running an extended programme of workshops to upskill access personnel, artists and arts workers in creative embedded access skillsets including Creative Captioning and Visual Vernacular, A suite of workshops in partnership with Rethink Ireland, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Dance Ireland.
Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland’s Festivals Investment Scheme and supported by Project Arts Centre, RTÉ Supporting the Arts and Europe Beyond Access. Disrupt Disability Arts Festival’s Embedded Access Training Programme is funded by Rethink Ireland’s Disability Participation and Awareness Fund 3.0 and supported by Safe To Create, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Dance Ireland.
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