The Quiet Room: Berlin

Earlier in the year DASH were announced as recipients of Cultural Bridge Funding, allowing us to work internationally as an organisation for the first time.

"We are thrilled to receive Cultural Bridge funding for DASH and Berlinklusion’s collaborative, socially engaged project, 'The Quiet Room: Berlin'.

Led by Artist and DASH CEO/Artistic Director, Heather Peak, ‘The Quiet Room: Berlin’ will be the gathering and organisation of a meal for the partners and those within the Berlin Disabled, neurodivergent, and D/deaf visual arts community. Rooted in Disability Justice, DASH & Berlinklusion will co-curate a safe space for connection, joy, and critical thinking around present concerns. These include intersectional access barriers, rest practices, creative leadership, and Disabled and neurodivergent art and aesthetics.

"At a time when the marginalised communities we are part of and work with are facing numerous challenges - from economic hardship to alarming political shifts to the right, and the local repercussions of global conflict - it is hugely important to come together. International collaboration and friendship are central to our survival and resilience. We are delighted to have the opportunity to do this vital work."

Rachel Fleming-Mulford, Associate Director (Curatorial/International)​​​​​​​, DASH

About Berlinklusion
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Berlinklusion is a network for accessibility in art and culture. Led by Kate Brehme, Dirk Sorge, Jovana Komnenic and Kirstin Broussard, a mix of Disabled and non-Disabled artists and arts mediators, it seeks to positively change Berlin’s cultural landscape by promoting inclusion and improving accessibility for artists, cultural workers, participants and audiences with and without disabilities.

The founders each have more than 10 years of experience working with artists or cultural participants with disabilities in Germany and abroad. They have built a network of more than 200 contacts in the field of disability arts, people with disabilities or people without disabilities who work inclusively. They create inclusive arts projects and provide communities and arts organisations with advice on accessibility, some of whom include KW Institute for Contemporary Art, HKW, The Bauhaus Archive and documenta.

This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.
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