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«Crip Joy & Disabled Futures Hangout»
Criptonite in Kollaboration mit ZAK

Covid Safe Space

In collaboration with ZAK – Zürich Access Kultur, Criptonite invite disabled and chronically ill people to be a public hangout space.

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  • Sun 23/08

    Nordflügel

    Free admission

Four performers in motion. They are captured in a blurred shot, so their faces are unrecognizable. Copyright: Mayar El Bakry
  • Translation in DSGS
  • Relaxed Setting
  • Spoken English

Together with ZAK – Zürich Access Kultur, Criptonite is creating an open space for people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and deaf people to meet. There’ll be crafts, snacks, chats and chilling out. The hangout is taking place as part of the ‘Crip Joy & Disabled Futures’ lab.

Criptonite’s second lab focuses on storytelling, humour and joy. Ten artists from Switzerland with disabilities, who are deaf and/or chronically ill, have been invited by Criptonite to network within the lab, present their own artistic practice and develop it further. The focus is on joy, desire and pleasure, and on a future in which people with disabilities are equal members of society. The British artist collective Touretteshero will be running a workshop lasting several days. There will also be warm-ups, talks, opportunities to share and develop one’s own artistic practice, and moments of community.

Admission to the event is free.

Public sharing

On Thursday 27 August at 6 to 7.30 pm, there will be a public sharing where experiences and practices from the Lab will be shared publicly and the topic of ‘Crip Joy & Disabled Futures’ will be discussed.

Admission to the event is free.

Information on accessibility and language

  • Step-free access

  • Relaxed Setting

  • Language: Spoken English and Swiss German Sign Language

  • Covid Safer Space: This event is being held as a Covid Safer event. Testing and face coverings are compulsory. Tests and masks will be provided on site.

  • Beanbags for public events can be reserved via barrierefreiheit@gessnerallee.ch.

  • Artistic Director:
    Edwin Ramirez, Nina Mühlemann
    Production management:
    Laeticia Blättler (Moin Moin Productions)

  • Criptonite is a crip-queer theatre project founded in 2020 by Zurich-based artists Edwin Ramirez (they/them, none) and Nina Mühlemann (they/them, none). Criptonite's plays work with aesthetics of access and focus on the perceptual styles and experiences of disabled people. Criptonite’s latest production, ‘Bioluminescence’, premiered at the Tanzhaus Zürich in the summer of 2025, whilst the production ‘Pleasure’ was on an international tour. In addition to stage work, Criptonite also organizes community events such as labs, workshops, and other events. Criptonite has received multi-year concept funding from the City of Zurich for the years 2024–2027.

  • Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur

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