Raspberry Ripples: A Very Camp Chair Dance Workshop

Do you love to sit? Do you also love to bust a move? Join us for a chair dance workshop! For all abilities and experiences
About this Event

Do you love to sit? Do you also love to bust a move? Join us for a chair dance workshop! For all abilities and experiences, this accessible dance class is entirely seated with a gentle pace. Think camp and silly, taking inspiration from cabaret, drag, and the ballroom scene of 1990s New York.

You can join either from a wheelchair or from a regular chair. The class focuses on upper body movement.

About Raspberry Ripples

🌞 This is a casual meet-up for LGBTQIA+ Disabled People. Whether you’re a high-femme lesbian with Hypermobility, an Autistic Asexual, a No-bones Bisexual, a Disabled Dyke, or just a questioning babe with a mobility aid - we’d love to come together and share disabled queer joy!

✊ This group is created by and for Disabled Queer People. We run on the social model of Disability, meaning we won’t be checking your GP records at the door. If you feel disabled, you probably are disabled - and you can sit with us! We include neurodiversity and mental health conditions in our definition of disability. We do not expect you to share the details of your disability or medical history with us. The only thing we need is to know if you have any specific access requirements you’d like us to consider.

🔄 We aim to meet monthly in a rotation between Central Oxford, Didcot, and Online. There is no pressure to attend every session to be part of the group; just coming as and when is absolutely fine.

Please help to keep our community safe by testing for COVID-19 before attending. If you are showing symptoms of being contagious/unwell, please stay home to keep from spreading it on!

If you need additional access needs other than the ones listed below for the venue, please e-mail [email protected]

Accessibility

We will be in the Lounge on the ground floor in East Oxford Community Centre.

♿ Level access

🚽 Accessible toilet

🐕 Assistance dogs welcome

🚼 Baby change facilities

👶 Pram parking

↔️ No lefts or rights or counting

🐌 Gentle pace

🚗 Small amount of blue badge and on street parking available outside

❄️ Air conditioning

The class is relaxed in nature, and there will be plenty of breaks. You are welcome to move around and stim as you need. We can adjust things like lighting levels and noise to work for you.

Please get in touch if you have any questions about accessibility on [email protected]