{"id":2243,"date":"2019-03-29T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:51:51","slug":"autism-arts-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/03\/29\/autism-arts-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism Arts Festival 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/\">School of Arts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/\">Gulbenkian<\/a> are hosting the second biennial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/calendar\/?eid=37273&amp;view_by=day&amp;date=20190426&amp;category=&amp;tag=\">Autism Arts Festival <\/a>to be held on campus for Friday 26 April to Sunday 28 April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festival features a mix of performances, screenings and events. The festival will start on the Friday with a comedy double bill featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertwhitecomedy.com\/\">Robert White<\/a>, a <em>Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> 2018 finalist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/katefoxwriter.wordpress.com\/\">Kate Fox<\/a>, star of BBC Radio 4\u2019s <em>The Price of Happiness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/autismartsfestival.org\/project-type\/27th-april-saturday\/\">Saturday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/autismartsfestival.org\/project-type\/28th-april-sunday\/\">Sunday<\/a>, the festival will include a range of performances, screenings and events, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feeltheatre.co.uk\/sensory-circus\">Sensory Circus by FEEL Theatre<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/emma-selwyn-binariesbegone\/269120230470533\/\"> #BinariesBeGone by Emma Selwyn<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/derekparaviciniquartet.com\/derek-paravicini\/\">The Derek Paravicini Quartet<\/a> and an all-night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marvel.com\/avengers\">Avengers <\/a>movie marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will also include an exhibition in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/\">Studio 3 Gallery<\/a>, curated by the WEBworks collective, and a programme of literature events with speakers including <a href=\"http:\/\/katherine-may.co.uk\/\">Katherine May<\/a>, author of <em>The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club<\/em> and <em>The Electricity of Every Living Thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/may.html\">Dr Shaun May<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/drama.html\">Department of Drama and Theatre<\/a>, says: \u2018The festival aims to be both a celebration of autistic creativity and an attempt to develop the idea of a relaxed performance more fully to create an entire festival that\u2019s as accessible to neurodivergent people as possible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For more information and links to events bookings, please see the Festival\u2019s webpage here: <a href=\"https:\/\/autismartsfestival.org\/\">https:\/\/autismartsfestival.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Arts and Gulbenkian are hosting the second biennial Autism Arts Festival to be held on campus for Friday 26 April to Sunday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/03\/29\/autism-arts-festival-2019\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,168428,124,9111,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}