CRIP RESISTANCE II: HOLDING SPACE, BUILDING COMMUNITY
We are so thrilled to announce resting up collective will be returning with a second iteration of the crip resistance programme we launched last year!
Join Resting Up Collective (RUC) and Ort Gallery for Crip Resistance II: Holding Space, Building Community, an online programme of events exploring disabled, sick, mad, and crip modes of resistance and remote community care.
From June 2026 onwards, this interdisciplinary collaboration will feature a series of online events including creative workshops, artist talks, and film screenings.
This year, the programme's focus on community building is evident in its bringing together a wider network of crip collectives, organisations, and artists.
The programme’s print publication, which documents and expands on its themes, will also launch this year.
20% of the event and publication proceeds will support Disabled People Against Cuts.
Access
Events for the Crip Resistance programme will include comfort breaks, autogenerated captions, and live BSL interpretation upon request. You are welcome to take part with cameras on or off, and to communicate through chat, voice or not at all, depending on what is best for you at the time. This programme will be running on Crip Time. As a result, we endeavour to reschedule events should any of our contributors not feel well / experience a change in capacity in the lead-up to and / or on the day of the event itself.
About Resting Up Collective
Resting Up Collective is an interdisciplinary group of chronically ill and disabled friends practising slowness/crip time to create, think, and interrupt neoliberal pressures and expectations on the body. We offer workshops and spaces for the crip community. We are running our second iteration of Postcards from Flaresville, a slow mail chain of care-full postcards from one resting space to another. We are slow works in progress, open to all who wish to join and help dream/organise.
Upcoming Events
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Special Screening: 'We Year' by Sop // June 15-28, 2026
RestFest Film Festival is honored to present the World Premiere of Sop's newest work: 'We Year', streaming June 15-28, 2026.
About the Film
A mixed media, moving-image (love) letter to others with energy-limiting conditions. Using 16mm direct animation, archival & new footage, poetic voiceover, and an ethereal soundscape, artist Sop immerses the viewer into the both isolating and unifying experience of a chronic illness flare during a hot summer indoors.
This event is part of the larger We Year Programme, a series of interdisciplinary events and workshops inspired by and responding to the themes of the film We Year by Sop, held by various crip and disabled friends and allies, including RestFest, The Remote Body, as well as Resting Up Collective x Ort Gallery via the Crip Resistance II programme.
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Permeable Body, Porous Time: 'We Year' Writing Workshop
Tuesday, 16th June from 2 - 4 pm, UK Time
Join us for this writing workshop led by Char Heather of The Remote Body, in response to Sop's new film, We Year.
Through creative writing prompts, we will respond to ideas of the permeable or porous nature of inside and outside, relating to physical space, bodies and time. You will be invited to experiment with different forms of writing, using prompts from and relating to Sop's new film We Year, to generate ideas and writing.
This event is part of the larger We Year Programme, a series of interdisciplinary events and workshops inspired by and responding to the themes of the film We Year by Sop, held by various crip and disabled friends and allies, including RestFest, The Remote Body, as well as Resting Up Collective x Ort Gallery via the Crip Resistance II programme.
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Crip Film Club: 'We Year' by Sop | RestFest Film Festival x The Remote Body
Sunday, 28th June at 6 pm UK Time.
Join us for this special edition of Crip Film Club with RestFest Film Festival and The Remote Body, where we will be watching Sop’s film, ‘We Year’ together, followed by an informal Q&A with the artist and a broader chat about the film.
This event is part of the larger We Year Programme, a series of interdisciplinary events and workshops inspired by and responding to the themes of the film We Year by Sop, held by various crip and disabled friends and allies, including RestFest, The Remote Body, as well as Resting Up Collective x Ort Gallery via the Crip Resistance II programme.
