Podcast: disabled joy and empathy, ableism and attraction with bella milroy, steph niciu and laura yates

Part 1:

Artist Bella Milroy and writer Steph Niciu caught up with Laura Yates, one of our participation producers. They touch on the social model of disability, its power in giving disabled people agency and identity, taking charge of your own mental health, and holistic approaches to programming.

A full transcript of the podcast can be found here.

Part 2

Carrying on from their first conversation, Bella, Steph and Laura continue to talk about finding disabled joy through small rituals, challenging negative stereotypes around how disability is portrayed and how Soft Sanctuary centers disabled experiences through a universal concept of finding care and wellbeing.

A full transcript of the podcast can be found here

Everyone is welcome and everything is free

About

At The Library is a programme of artist-led workshops, projects, commissions and happenings in community libraries in Bootle, Crosby and Netherton. We believe that everyone has “gifts of the heart, the head and the hand” to offer to their community. Through artist-led activity, At The Library creates ways for people to share these gifts.

We aim to make a new civic and cultural role for Sefton’s libraries, offering new experiences, new meeting points, new reasons to gather and ways to spend time together. Everyone is welcome and everything is free.

Over the past three years, artists and library-users have co-created projects – a collaborative press archive, a Bootle tapestry, a new wallpaper, community-wide skill shares, podcasts, feasts and library-cooked lunches, and a green oasis in Bootle Library.

To take part in the At The Library you can speak to one of the librarians in any of our Libraries, see the current programme on this website, or click through to find us on facebook, twitter or Instagram. Volunteers are always welcome.

We have worked with artists including Ciara Phillips, Harun Morrison, Jenny Steele, Jayne Lawless, Sumuyya Khader, Sean Roy Parker, Fairland Collective, Frances Disley and Bella Milroy, alongside local historians, gardeners, community organisations and educators. You can read more about some of these projects here.

At The Library is curated and produced by Rule of Threes Arts in partnership with Sefton Libraries with funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Contact

Bootle Library
220 Stanley Road
Bootle
L20 3EN

0151 934 5781

Netherton Library

Glover’s Lane
Netherton
L30 3TL

0151 525 0607

Crosby Library
Crosby Road North
Waterloo
L22 0LQ

0151 257 6400

email us: hello@atthelibrary.co.uk
twitter @the_libraries
instagram @we.are.at.the.library
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Get Involved

Do you want to be part of the At The Library?

Contact us or pop in to Bootle, Crosby, or Netherton library to find out more. Everyone is welcome at our events and everything is free. You can come along and see what you think. You can play as big, or as small a role as you like.

If you know someone who you think might want to be part of the At The Library, bring them too. The more the merrier.

All of our projects are open for your feedback and ideas. Is there a story you want to tell, skill you need or want to share? This is your project and your library, feel free to shape it as much as you wish.

Thanks

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