In April, Articulate ran a series of writing workshops where young people discussed and practiced personal storytelling, exploring how to confidently, compassionately and powerfully share lived experience. These workshops were run by Nicola McCartney and Rosie Reid. Nicola is a playwright, director, screenwriter and applied theatre maker with over 30 years’ experience. She works collaboratively with communities in the UK and internationally and is currently Lead Artist on Nat

A couple of months ago, as part of Articulate’s Go/See/Do initiative, I had the opportunity to see the Design & Disability exhibition at the V&A in London. I’m already somewhat of an expert on disability - living with multiple long-term conditions myself and writing a whole dissertation on disability representation on reality show The Traitors will do that. Leaving the gallery, the one thing really spinning around my head was that so many concepts that disabled people have