It’s neurodiversity celebration week! A helpful person let me know this last week and I found a whole programme of wonderful events happening in celebration of this.
This morning I attended a brilliant session on “Neurodivergent & LGBTQIA+; the Double Rainbow Intersection,” where I learnt a lot and heard from a range of wonderful speakers.
Incase you want to attend any of the remaining events, head to the website below:
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/events – I hope this link will work if you haven’t already made a log in, but just incase it doesn’t:
Head to the main website where you can log in and get access to a whole lot of wonderful resources, and all the online events happening for the rest of this week: https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/
These events are, I think, all free, and the event I attended was brilliant.
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On celebrations – the LGBTQIA+ community choir that I lead, GLOW, is meeting to sing this Saturday! And all voices are welcome. Info is below if you’d like to join us.
To help prepare for our Saturday sing and to mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week for GLOW choir, I’ve put together a list of celebratory online resources to do with neurodiversity, some of which we will have printed versions of at GLOW on Sat.
Peruse at your leisure, and feel free to let us know if you think we’ve missed out something great or shared something that’s not quite right.
GLOW choir is back! This Sat 23rd March at St Luke’s. Book your places here https://bit.ly/GLOWBOOKING or find the booking pages via GLOW choir website https://getbrightonsinging.com/glow-choir/
We’ll sing Revolution – a song written for GLOW, filled with uplifting quotes from queer elders and activists including Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Harvey Milk and James Baldwin, as well as new lyrics written especially for GLOW by Hannah-Rose with help from the wonderful Chris! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCTLMq3548w
We’ll also sing Kate Thomas’s ‘Be Yourself’. An affirming, relaxing, chill and soothing celebration of places where you can “come on in, and be yourself, there’s a place for you here” and the metaphorical fireplace of singing together in a circle! If time we may also sing a round based on Emily Dickinson’s (1830-1886) words about hope.
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This week is neurodiversity celebration week. Hooray! So we will have some celebratory resources out at the session, for you to peruse, read in the break, photograph your fave bits, etc.
Here’s a list of some online celebratory resources to do with neurodiversity. Peruse at your leisure, and feel free to let us know if you think we’ve missed out something great or shared something that’s not quite right.
– Colourful Illustrated Book about ADHD, by people with ADHD, for people with ADHD, provided by the organisers of neurodiversity celebration week: https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/_files/ugd/46eb70_7f4490d934f54d58be348008f1bd9ce1.pdf
– Events Schedule for online neurodiversity celebration week events, this week. https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/events?utm_campaign=NCW%202024&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=82576213&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9aD96RdBTn90–pCpM5Usdi88eoKjNPunZndFfEmZ9LDSOqDlWMrqBYHN2PwV63VkO06exjPGie6maGPSXCYZlNeAjBH0CmbdU7TWEl4HcngW5L8c&utm_content=82576213&utm_source=hs_automation
– Famous artists with Dyslexia, short article: https://www.succeedwithdyslexia.org/blog/the-famous-artists-you-didnt-know-had-dyslexia/
– Florence of Florence & The Machine, & Learning Differences, short article: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/celebrity-spotlight-singer-songwriter-florence-welch-is-proud-of-her-dyspraxia
– Introduction to Neurodiversity Celebration Week and starting point to lots of different links:
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/introduction
– Picture list of books by autistic LGBTQIA+ authors / books by autistic authors that centre LGBTQIA+ narratives, see link for more clear description.
https://autismbooksbyautisticauthors.com/lgbtqia/
I hope these resources are useful or interesting for you!
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Can’t wait to sing with you on Saturday! All voices are welcome. Go GLOW! ❤
Thanks for reading this blog post, wishing you a happy day,
Hannah-Rose
We have fallen into the place where everything is music - Rumi 