Please see these free resources to support the emotional wellbeing of autistic people. You will find a pack of Neurodiversity Wellbeing Cards. You will also find an illustrated worksheet, available in English and Japanese. You can use these resources personally or with people you work with, as a prompt in wellbeing conversations. Please share with anybody who might benefit.

Campus Kalvskinnet, room U201, Department for Teacher Education, Sverres gate 12, NTNU or zoom.

9-9.30 Digital book launch of Theatre and Performing Arts, Disability Citizenship and Community Development - Perspectives from the Global South and North / Cappelen Damm Akademisk

Editors and authors: Vibeke Glørstad, Tone Pernille Østern, Tony McCaffrey, Kelvin Chikonzo, Nehemiah Chivandikwa, Nimal Wijesiri, Liisa Jaakonaho, Cletus Moyo, Nkululeko Sibanda, Courage Chipatiso, Inez Hussey, Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira, Andrea Pagnes, Alexandra Dunaeva, Ciane Fernandes, Daniela Musli, Gugulethu Ngwenya, Courage Chinokwetu, Hilde Guddingsmo, Terje Olsen, Elen Øyen, Lise Lien, Lene Christin Holum, Anne Ogundipe, Kaja Tvedten Jorem, Caroline Marie Sprott, Cont Mdladla Mhlanga, Fortune Ruzungunde, Josadaque Albuquerque da Silva Pires, Nara Salles, Sara Granath, Tine Skjold.

9.45-10.05 Foredrag av scenekunstner Bentine Borge: «Mine erfaringer og tanker om inkludering»

Bentine Borge driver med teater, dans og musikk på fulltid. Hun startet med teater og dans i syvårsalder og har erfaring fra flere teatergrupper, teater- og danseskoler. Hun har i tillegg erfaring som skuespiller foran kamera. Bentine har tatt pianotimer ved kulturskolen siden hun var 11 og holdt en rekke foredrag de siste 10 årene.

10.15-10.30 Presentation Saša Asentic: «Aesthetics of Access and Politics of Memory»

Saša Asentić, a choreographer and cultural worker from a working-class background in former Yugoslavia, has presented work internationally since 2007. Founder of Per.Art, he unites disabled and non-disabled artists to counter ableism in dance and culture. His practice emphasizes solidarity and resistance to cultural oppression and indoctrination.

10.40-10.55 Digital presentation by Tim Smith: «Neurodiversity and arts pedagogy»

Timothy Smith, Ph.D., MFA, (they/he) is an artist, educator, and university researcher in the Artist Pedagogy theme at the Research Institute at University of the Arts Helsinki. Their research focuses on critical disability and neurodiversity studies approaches to higher education in the arts, with a particular emphasis on analyzing and challenging ableism in university institutions.

The peer-reviewed edited book Theatre and Performing Arts, Disability Citizenship and Community Development – Perspectives from the Global South and North was published open access by Cappellen Damm Akademisk in 2024.

Editors: Vibeke Glørstad, Tone Pernille Østern, Tony McCaffrey, Kelvin Chikonzo, Nehemiah Chivandikwa

Authors: Vibeke Glørstad, Tone Pernille Østern, Tony McCaffrey, Kelvin Chikonzo, Nehemiah Chivandikwa, Liisa Jaakonaho, Cletus Moyo, Nkululeko Sibanda, Courage Chipatiso, Inez Hussey, Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira, Andrea Pagnes, Alexandra Dunaeva, Ciane Fernandes, Daniela Musli, Nimal Wijesiri, Gugulethu Ngwenya, Courage Chinokwetu , Hilde Guddingsmo, Terje Olsen, Elen Øyen, Lise Lien, Lene Christin Holum, Anne Ogundipe, Kaja Tvedten Jorem, Caroline Marie Sprott, Cont Mdladla Mhlanga, Fortune Ruzungunde, Josadaque Albuquerque da Silva Pires, Nara Salles, Sara Granath, Tine Skjold

Copyright (c) 2024 Cover: Illusion of Perfection - We Belong Together 1 (2021, 160 x 95 cm, Oil paint) Artist: Tafadzwa Gwetai (Zimbabwe) Courtesy of AKKA Project.

Film: Just Film.

Project webpage: An Architecture of Chronic Illness

• Paviljongsamtale: Å være i vann
• PhD fellow in Artistic Research (deadline 10 November 2024)

Project web page: Aesthetics of Access and Politics of Memory

Sign Language Interpreter Trust (SLIT) is a Bulawayo-based non-profit Deaf-led organisation specialising in Zimbabwean Sign Language services. SLIT provides interpreter training, certified ZSL courses, and counselling in sign language. Founded by Deaf and hearing professionals, it has trained dozens of interpreters and launched Deaf-awareness campaigns to improve inclusivity. Deaf artists and activists from SLIT and Deaf Arts National Culture Entertainment (D.A.N.C.E.), led by Tsungirirai Tsikira, co-founder of SLIT, creates civic platforms where Deaf youth and women co-develop original plays rooted in lived experience. Through workshops, dialogue circles, and public performances, participants challenge systemic exclusion in education, justice, and governance while advancing awareness of constitutional and disability rights. Collaborating with theatre practitioners such as Amakhosi, the project stages multilingual productions that engage communities and policymakers. Outputs include Deaf-led performances, ZSL training resources, interpretation training, video documentation, policy briefs, and contributions to international Deaf civic arts networks.

I am currently interested in exploring different styles of performance art in my work. Currently, in addition to my studies at the University of Malta, I am busy with the  Europe Beyond Access International Laboratory Cycle. These are three Laboratories “aimed at dance artists with disabilities from around Europe who are leading artistic programmes and have some experience of choreographing works, who want to develop their choreographic practice”. I attended the first workshop in Portugal in October 2025, and have the 2nd workshop in March 2026, followed by the last workshop in Barcelona in April 2026.