Bounce Festival 2023: Experi-Mental
Performance
A night of exciting new work-in-progress from neurodivergent & disabled artists Nathan-Elout Armstrong, Simon Jay and Mari Crawford, hosted by Alice McCullough.
Please, note this event is 18+ and BYO.
This event is part of Bounce Festival 2023 organised by University of Atypical for Arts and Disability. University of Atypical's main funder is The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland made possible by Lottery Players.
Bounce Festival 2023 is also funded by Belfast City Council.
Alice McCullough:
Alice has had quite a year since her last performance at Bounce. Major Artist Awardee, Poet in Residence at Disability Rights California and fresh from studying at the Gaulier school in Paris, she can’t wait to introduce you to some of the talented people she has met on her travels this year.
Nathan-Elout Armstrong:
Nathan is a 34 year old pastry taster from Blackpool. He's also a flaming homosexual, and a wheelchair user who likes to play "dodge the dog poo" while out on long walks as a way to make Cerebral Palsy fun! He's an award winning slam poet, and has a Master's Degree in Modern Poetry from Queen's University Belfast.
words.on.wheels (Instagram)
Simon Jay:
Autistic JoyTake a trip through each of the five senses from an autistic point of view with this immersive performance. Simon is an autistic writer and performer who lives in Edinburgh with his husband and their dog Floyd. https://linktr.ee/simonjay
Mari Crawford:
Mari Crawford (like calamari) is an artist based in NYC. Mari's one woman show Bipolar Badass premiered at the 2023 Asheville Fringe Festival and has recently received the University of Atypical Bounce Emerging Artist award winner at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
Mari is an alumna of the New York State Summer School for the Arts School of Theatre, the British American Drama Academy, and Bard College where she was awarded the Donald Parker Prize for Theater & Performance. She is a singer-songwriter and plays violin, guitar, and piano. Mari also works as a Social Media Manager.
https://www.maricrawford.com/
