Running from from the 30th of November until the 7th of December, York Disability Week is returning to our city for its eighth year.
The week long celebration is centered around the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities and offers residents access to a rich line-up of at least 40 in-person and online activities, most of which are free.
If you want to get active, check out Walking Football sessions, bowls, boccia, accessible cycling, climbing, music groups and much more. Alternatively you could take a trip round York City FC’s accessible stadium! Or get creative at popular youth centre, Door 84.
If you want to learn something new, try out sign-supported communication sessions, learn digital skills, hear new ways of providing audio description or enjoying reading, discover Easy Read, attend an arts workshop and delve into York Archives.
Find out how to save money and energy, about your rights as an unpaid carer, for assistance when accessing work and about dignity in employment. Drop in to learn about local activities for people with Parkinsons or to meet other disabled parents at a coffee morning. Come to a session uncovering innovative ways to bring alive the experiences of family carers or to join with others for a sled advocacy event.
Talks include a disabled photographer at the 2024 Paralympics, historical innovations influencing modern assistive devices, an author discussing her new book, the power of Disability Arts, the experiences of men disabled in WW1, and theology & disability.
There are exhibitions at York Hospital and York Explore, an international art prize event and a return of the hugely popular Poetry for All evening.
And after all that, you can go to a Mother Goose pantomime with onstage BSL interpreter and live captions.
By participating, you’ll be joining a movement to champion inclusion in York, extend your learning or simply have fun!
For electronic and printed programmes email disability@yorkhumanrights.org; call 01904 702060; or visit @YorkDisabilityWeek and www.yorkdisabilityweek.org
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