All of our events and activities take place online via Zoom and YouTube and are FREE. All events are led by Disabled artists, and our live events have English captions and British Sign Language interpretation. Events are recorded, and the recordings are later made available on this page to extend accessibility. You can find recordings and exhibition links from past events below.
Upcoming Events & Activities
Tammy Reynolds. © Holly Revell
Thursday 19 February 7-8pm: Cripping the Queer Legacy – Tammy Reynolds on Katherine Araniello. Tammy Reynolds presents a new filmed performance for LGBT+ History Month responding to the late Katherine Araniello’s live art performance ‘Pity’. Followed by a Q&A with the audience. In association with Regard, the UK’s LGBTQI+ Disabled People’s Organisation (established 1989). Further information and free tickets here.
March 2026: Reflecting Ourselves: an exhibition of self-portraits for International Women’s Month. All self-identified Disabled women are invited to submit one digital image of a self-portrait. We guarantee inclusion subject to our Safer Spaces policy. Find out more with entry details here.
Thursday 12 March 2026 7-8pm: Reflecting Ourselves Exhibition tour and celebration with the artists. More details to follow soon.
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Recorded Friday 6 February 2026 3-4pm: Self-portrait workshop with Nancy Willis. Nancy Willis is a London-based artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. Nancy will present and discuss a selection of her self-portraits, followed by a Q&A session.
Recorded on Friday 30 January 2026 3-4pm: Self-portrait workshop with Ju Gosling aka ju90. As part of the Reflecting Ourselves self-portrait exhibition for International Women’s Month (see below), Ju presents and discusses the digital self-portraits she has taken from 1997 onwards, followed by a Q&A session with Alison Marchant.
Holocaust Memorial Day. Each year on 27 January we commemorate the 250,000 Disabled people who were murdered by the Nazis and explore the continuing legacy of eugenics today. Here we present a new piece of writing from author and poet Penny Pepper on the 2026 HMD theme of Bridging Generations: The Dark Door Opening.
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 December: Together! 2025 Disability Film Festival You can still view the programmes and see recordings of the live events, Film-making by and alongside people with learning difficulties and Documenting Activism.
Recorded Wednesday 3 December 2-3pm: All the small things: a film and discussion for International Day of Disabled People. Act Up! Newham are excited to be invited onto the local radio show to talk about the impact of disability benefit cuts, but many small barriers get in their way. Will Act Up! make it to the radio show? This new film highlights all of the small things that make Disabled people’s lives harder, leading to big problems.
The 2025 Kitchen Carnival celebrates the Trinidadian ‘Ole Mas’ character of the Burrokeet. Founded in 2021, the Kitchen Carnival enables Disabled people to take part in Carnival activities from our own homes, creating our own costumes and filmed performances and bringing them together in one ‘parade’. To find out more and explore the activities and previous performances, see www.kitchencarnival.org
Recorded Monday 4 August 7-8pm: Roots and Routes with Sahera Khan and Rokhsana Fiaz, celebrating South Asian Heritage Month. Deaf poet, actor and filmmaker Sahera Khan presents Sign Poems on the Month’s theme and is in conversation with Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz. Introduced by Together! 2012 CIC’s Vice Chair Jaspal Dhani.
Together! 2025 Open Exhibition for Disability Pride Month (July 2025). The Together! Open Exhibition is a vibrant and colourful exhibition that brings together self-selected works by amateur, community, semi-professional and professional Disabled artists who have a past or present link to the London Borough of Newham and/or to Together! 2012 CIC.
Recorded on Thursday 26 June from 7-8pm: Rooted in Pride. Claire Beerjeraz introduces an exclusive online preview of her new show ‘Rooted’ for LGBT+ Pride Month and talks to our Artistic Director Ju Gosling. Claire is no stranger to the phrase “go back home”, but where are they supposed to go? An African island they’ve visited only once? Their unrecognisable childhood home, based in an increasingly gentrified neighborhood? Their local gay bar, almost entirely populated by white cis men? It would be really helpful for our future funding if you could fill in our very short survey after watching: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z8DVNS6
Recorded on Thursday 13 March 2025 from 7-8pm: Accelerate! A Cabaret for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. A powerful and dynamic celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with bold storytelling and thought-provoking spoken word. Ju Gosling introduces Britny Virginia, Claire Beerjeraz, Alina Burwitz and Ashleigh Owen. Click here to watch on YouTube. It would be really helpful for our future funding if you could fill in our very short survey after watching: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R7R9TQK
Recorded on Thursday 20 February 2025 from 7-8pm: Now & Then. An evening of Spoken Word for LGBT+ History Month, celebrating the 2025 theme of Activism and Social Change. Featuring Evan Gwen, Bee Jones, Hardeep Singh, Becky Downing and Jay Farley, introduced by Marcella Rick. In association with Regard, the national LGBTQI+ Disabled People’s Organisation. Click here to watch on YouTube. It would be really helpful for our future funding if you could fill in our very short survey after watching: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZV2MMYH
27 January 2025 Holocaust Memorial Day. Click here to view our exhibit for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s ’80 Candles for 80 Years’ exhibition, commemorating 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and to listen to our podcast with Dr Ju Gosling and Mx Dennis Queen.
See our Archives for event recordings from previous years including last year’s programme.