The Autism Podcast20 Jul 2020

Interview with Katya Balen and Miranda Prag (founders of Mainspring Arts!)

In Season 2, Episode 13 of The Autism Podcast, Chris and James interview the two founders of Mainspring Arts, Katya Balen and Miranda Prag!

Mainspring Arts is an innovative organisation that works across artistic disciplines and have over the years since it was founded in 2015 supported and provided many opportunities to many neurodivergent people (some of whom you will be hearing directly from in upcoming episodes!). They do this by facilitating workshops to develop participants' skills, providing mentoring by industry leaders, and producing publications, performances and showcases. They aim to promote our participants' work to all audiences, with the ultimate aim of mainstream representation of neurodivergence in the arts. They strongly believe that neurodivergent people should have the opportunity to represent their own voices and experiences.

During the episode, Katya and Miranda explain what led to the organisation being founded, the misconceptions and lack of representation that they wanted to help push back on, the work that the organisation has done to date, future plans and more!

Links:

Website: http://www.mainspringarts.org.uk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mainspring_arts Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/mainspringarts

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London Autism Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/272747662886046/

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