Neurodivergent Revolutionary Comedy & Zine Club
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Neurodivergent Revolutionary Comedy & Zine Club
September 5 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Full Comedy hour set by Don Biswas on stage at 7pm. Award-winning comedy set from Edinburgh Festival about Neurodiversity & revolution.
Don Biswas is one of the gems of the circuit. A politically charged gag merchant who likes to cover a wide range of subjects including his Asian upbringing, his neurodiversity as someone with dyspraxia, ADHD, and ASD. Don has gained huge admiration off all corners of the circuit.
Don is now a regular face in comedy clubs across the UK. Alongside that Don recently recorded a comedy special for BBC Radio 4 entitled ‘Neurotopical’ and has appeared on Radio 4’s 13 Million Club, Rosie Jones’s Boxticker as well as UKTV Digitals Rosie Jones’s Disabled Comedy Extravaganza and BBC Onlines Future Food Stars. Don has played in USA & Switzerland.
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Hamja Ahsan International Neurodiversity Zine archive will be on display. Zines on autism, depression, ADHD, bipoplar. Ahsan rans the UK biggest zine activism festival DIY Cultures from 2013-2017. He is the author of Shy Radicals: Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introverts – which envisions a homeland called Aspergistan for neurodivergent people. He has worked with Project Art Works in developing the national neurodiversity and contemporary art network since Documenta 15. Zines will be for sale. paper, glue, staplers will be available to chill and make zines after the comedy.
IG: @diycultures
https://diycultures.tumblr.com/
We may have the film My Name is Khan in the background about an Autistic Asian man falsely accused of terrorism following 9/11 that inspired some of the Free Talha campaign work.
We will collectively chill and discussion making an organisation called Neurodiversity Against Genocide & Apartheid (NAGA) on the national Palestine Solidarity demonstrations.
Bring your own zines to share & collage materials you may wish to cut up.
There will be opportunity to see the exhibition My Brother is Back and the archive reading rooms all day from 12pm-10pm
https://www.hamjaahsan.com/solidarity
#WIPBrother