Disability Arts Online launches debut publication from The Onyx Collective
Are you interested in intersectionality and cultural activism? Celebrate the launch of Disability Arts Online’s Onyx Collective and their first publication with an artists’ panel, performances, films screenings and networking / drinks. The Onyx Publication is a collection of writing, visual art and multimedia work created and commissioned by The Onyx Collective, a group of seven artists who share the lived experience of disability and racism.
Join online via a livestream from Autograph London on 26 July, 6-8.30pm. Book your free tickets here.
Primary is a project partner, and the programme team contributed to the project development.
The dance of the cane cutters by Ashok Mistry, image courtesy of the artist
About this event
On 26 July 2022 Disability Arts Online (DAO) will host the launch of the first Onyx Publication at a live hybrid event at Autograph London and online, 6-8.30pm. With an extremely limited number of in person spaces available, we'd very much like you to join us at Autograph on the evening book now to avoid disappointment.
The Onyx Publication is a collection of writing, visual art and multimedia work created and commissioned by The Onyx Collective, a group of seven artists who share the lived experience of disability and racism.
The artists are: whatsthebigmistry, Ashokkumar Mistry, Miss Jacqui, Alexandrina Hemsley, Kuli Kohli, Ngozi Ugochukwu and Omikemi. Nila Gupta, the eighth artist in the original collective, sadly passed away in 2021. Dolly Sen and Debs Williams also contributed to the initial development of Onyx before stepping aside due to other commitments.
About Onyx
The Onyx project puts disabled artists and creatives with lived experience of racism in the driving seat - it was conceived by Disability Arts Online and The Onyx Collective founding members in 2020. Onyx consists of three strands of activity - The Onyx Collective, Mentoring and Artist Presentations.
Through the project, the Collective has been nurtured and resourced to create and commission new work for the first Onyx Publication; instigate its own programmes of creative activity; and be a critical friend to DAO and critique the wider sector.
The Onyx Collective said:
“We come together as listeners, visual artists, community organisers, performance makers, dancers, healers, poets, writers and daydreamers, offering our own unique relationship to living with (dis)ability, long-term health conditions and/or illness. We aim to create and preserve spaces where our voices, ideas and practices are centred, to build community, collaborate, create and constantly dis-cover what ‘the work’ is. And to honour and add to the growing lineage of Black, Asian, intersectional UK (dis)ability makers/artists.”