Award-winning writer, speaker and appearance activist, Carly Findlay, joins BoilOver Performance Ensemble for ‘Disability: a Lived Experience’, an event that highlights the role of lived experience in creating inclusive health services for those with a disability.
About Carly Findlay
Carly’s first book, a memoir called ‘Say Hello’, was released in January 2019. Carly edited the anthology ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’ with Black Inc Books. She writes on disability and appearance diversity issues for news outlets including the ABC, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and SBS. In 2020, Carly Findlay received a Medal of the Order of Australia for her work as a disability advocate and activist. She was named one of Australia’s most influential women in the 2014 Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards. She has appeared on ABC TV’s ‘You Can’t Ask That’ and ‘Cyberhate’ with Tara Moss, and has been a regular on various ABC radio programs. She has spoken at the Melbourne Writers Festival, the University of Western England and Melbourne University – to name a few. She organised the history-making ‘Access to Fashion’, a Melbourne Fashion Week event featuring disabled models. She has a Masters of Communication and Bachelor of eCommerce. Carly identifies as a proud disabled woman and lives with a rare, severe skin condition, ichthyosis. She organised Australia’s first ichthyosis meet in 2015 bringing together 75 people affected by the condition.
About BoilOver Performance Ensemble
BoilOver is an inclusive performance group which aims to create opportunities for artists with a disability to explore their skills and creativity through a theatre setting. Led by professional arts practitioners, members build on their performance, artistic and physical skills, emotional literacy, self-esteem and social networks. BoilOver has been a program of Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health for the last 15 years.
‘Heart Strings’
The artists from will perform exerts from their recent production, ‘Heart Strings’, which premiered at The Bowery Theatre in St Albans earlier this year. Inspired by the artists’ own experience of love and relationships, this beautiful piece explores love in all its forms and the associated themes of courage and risk.
Event Details
This free event is open to all and will be followed by Sunbury and Cobaw’s annual general meeting.
Date: Thursday 28 November 2024
Time: 5pm
Venue: Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health, 1 Caroline Chisholm Drive Kyneton
Registrations: Click here
Light refreshments will be provided.
