Autistic Arts Festival in Kent, UK, 2017

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https://www.facebook.com/autismartsfestival/

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https://autismartsfestival.org

29th and 30th April 2017, the biggest by and for autistic people arts festival of images, environments, writing and live performance is taking place in Kent University. My Guerilla Aspies show will be staged together with Cian Binchy's. With other autistic performers and artists of all sorts of mediums. There is even a stand up comedy night.

Yes, it is autism friendly.

Even if you cannot make it, media will record its happening. Hopefully it will become a yearly event.

Autistic artists and stage performers will be coming together to represent us positively. We are a race and a kind and this will help to establish our community and culture. Please publicise it as much as you can. It's significance in history will amplify that we are not a perversion of some abstract concept of the normal that everyone acknowledges but just cannot exactly define.

Thanks for posting this, I live close to the area and knew nothing about it but will definitely try to attend a few things.

I am only about 20 miles away from the location, so I hope to be in attendance. But social occasions do tend to faze me somewhat, so it wouldn't be the biggest surprise if I failed to turn up.

Urgh, Kent? It could at least be in London so everybody could get to it. I'd have to travel into London, and back out again. Count me out.

I would be interested in this if it was in London or just outside it but I'm afraid it's a bit too far away for me. If it does well, perhaps it could be held closer to the capital in the future.

I agree about the location but sadly it is Kent University organising and hosting it all? They only have limited resources and do have a case for localising it in their own space?

By all means make complaints and comments to them via the website? I would have loved it to be dead centre of town too. Hopefully next year the money would be present to organise that. If it gets to be big enough. For which it needs support this year.

Thanks.

Great idea,i wish i had something like this nearby,where i reside.

I like the location lol It's £10 petrol, if it was in London it'd be £80 train, £20 tube, £40 for lunch, £2.50 if I want a drink of coke

Best wishes to all involved.

Bump for the weekend.

I hope the event is a glowing success. Maybe one of you who has a car could arrange to give a lift to others who are in the London-ish area?

Not too long back from this, I only got to see Paul's Guerilla Aspies (your apostrophe game needs some work ) and also the comedy night. I found the Guerilla Aspies talk (performance?) quite interesting but I'd advise you lower the volume during the audible bits as with a few of those instances it was impossible to hear what you were saying over the audio. Also the person that Rainman was based on was not autistic (bit of a bugbear of mine when people claim he was). Another bugbear of mine is that when people try to posthumously diagnose people with Autism they are always "brilliant" people, so maybe you could show some balance and add Hitler to your list of possible people with AS

The comedy bit was better than I thought it would be to be honest, mainly due to Dom Biswas who I thought was really good. I LOL'd numerous times and found his material to be quite intelligent. Really didn't like Jay Islaam's set though, the comedian who didn't turn up was funnier. The start was ok but I found it really quite painful toward the end.