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Paracarnival CIC
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PARACARNIVAL
Since 2010, Paracarnival is a large exceptionally diverse community of fellow artists, performers & friends whose highly inclusive user led programme of creative, therapeutic and educational workshops, legendary carnival performances & far reaching community projects engages and unites people of all backgrounds, ages, abilities and especially vulnerabilities.
The origins of our project goes back to the creation of Paracarnival in 2010.
We met with our late patron; founder and former director of London Disability Arts Forum; wheelchair user Sian Vasey OBE; with the aim of bringing a core message of fairness; equality and inclusion to thousands of carnival goers at the Thames Festival. From there we have expended the range of our services as well as the diversity of our members.
Our programmes take place in an atmosphere of friendship, trust and everyday equality and provide free, accessible opportunities for people to shape and engage in a diverse range of social, creative skills and pathways. Building a strong cohesive society by encouraging and supporting independence and personal resilience and enabling people to engage meaningfully in mainstream culture and society.
KEY ELEMENTS
One of the key elements in the structure of our programme is practical inter ability exchange and co facilitation in which people of varying degrees of ability, vulnerability and disadvantage are able to work together as equals.
Intersectionality is key to our work
Intersectionality is key to our work, by interweaving identities we build positive relations between different groups and communities. Our programme promotes understanding and cooperation, providing clear opportunities for multicultural, interfaith, inter-generational and especially multi-ability exchange bringing young and old together, able & vulnerable and people of all backgrounds together in a spirit of friendship & common endeavour.
