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DaDaFest is all the Rage for 2025


Liverpool’s DaDaFest returns next month with the 2025 event celebrating 40 years of the city-based disability and Deaf arts-led organisation.

The theme of this year’s international festival, which runs from March 8-31, is Rage: A Quiet Riot.

Events will take place at the arts organisation’s home at the Bluecoat as well as at other locations including the Open Eye Gallery, Metal at Edge Hill, FACT, the Unity Theatre and District in the Baltic Triangle, and also online.

The busy programme includes large-scale projection, performances, visual arts, workshops and talks, with 90 percent of the events free to attend or access.

Among those taking part in this special anniversary festival are artists Zoe Partington (chief executive of DaDa), Liz Crow, Zack Mennell, Chris Shapiro, Mark Allen, Faith Bebbington and Janet Price – who present Pimp my Wheelchair at Sefton Park Palm House, poet Amina Atiq, author Natalie Denny, and performers Tamm Reynolds and Dora Colquhoun.

Highlights include Cathy Mager’s Hand Ships Sail, described as ‘a poetic conversation in British Sign Language’ in which two Deaf women share their dreams for the future as they look out over the night sky. It will be beamed on to the side of the Cunard Building from 8-10pm on March 8.

There will also be a new exhibition titled Rage, Riot and Revolution at the Open Eye Gallery on Mann Island. Over four decades, disabled women in Liverpool and the Northwest have been powerful agents of change locally, nationally and internationally, reshaping their communities and the way society views disabled people.

Top: Cathy Mager's Hand Ships Sail.


Zoe Partington says: “The festival programme is diverse and exciting, and we’ve worked hard to keep most of the events free for people to access. But we know that many people believe in, and want to support, the work that we do, and so we want to remind people that we are a not-for-profit organisation and they can support us to keep creating opportunities for disabled artists to be present and to curate accessible experiences for everyone to enjoy.”

DaDa, founded in 1984, develops and presents disability and Deaf arts through high quality festivals, interventions and events, fed in to by a year-round programme of engagement work with developing and established artists, young disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people, their families and the wider community.

DaDaFest, which was launched in 2001, showcases the work of disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent artists.

DaDaFest International 40 runs from March 8-31. More details and tickets HERE


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