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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

✅ Share this campaign ✅ Call in your organisation ✅ Pay chronically ill artists ✅ Embed access, don’t bolt it on ✅ Make space for new ways of working ✅ Sign up to our newsletter, follow us, and donate to support our work if you are in a position to 🧵(2/3)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

All this week we’ve been posting the experiences and voices of chronically ill artists, shared with us by our members. Here’s what you can do now (especially non-disabled and non-chronically ill allies) 👇 🧵(1/3)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Access isn’t optional. It’s not a ‘nice to have’. It’s a right. If your event, residency or opportunity isn’t accessible to chronically ill artists, then it’s not for all artists. 🧵(1/3) #ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN #DisabilityJustice

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

What if we designed the arts with chronically ill people in the room from the beginning? Let’s stop expecting chronically ill and disabled people to “fit in” to broken systems. Let’s build new ones. 🧵(2/2) #ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

What if rehearsal periods were 8 weeks instead of 4? What if deadlines flexed around access needs? What if residencies happened from bed, not just a barn in the countryside? 🧵(1/2) #ClimbingTinyMountains

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Hiring a chronically ill artist isn’t a risk. It’s an opportunity to make your work more thoughtful, inclusive, and radically creative. #ClimbingTinyMountains 🧵(1/4)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

They still create. But the mountain is steep. They’re not climbing for inspiration. They’re climbing to survive. Are you a mountain climber? Share your experiences using #ClimbingTinyMountains, and sign up for our newsletter (link in bio) 🧵(4/4)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Zaya’s work has won awards. But they’ve lost jobs after flare-ups. One organisation told them it was “too-hard” to accommodate their energy-limiting condition. Another called them a “trouble-maker” for asking to attend events online. 🧵(3/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“For years I hid it. I thought I had to. When I finally told people, I found out that others had been hiding it too. We could have been supporting each other all along”. 🧵(2/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Meet Zaya (she/they). Zaya has been making theatre and painting for 15 years. But no-one knew they were chronically ill - not even their collaborators. 🧵(1/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Share your thoughts and experiences on the isolation and exclusion faced by chronically ill artists, using #ClimbingTinyMountains 🧵(4/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN #DisabilityJustice

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

What we need is to be seen, supported, and included. 🧵(3/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We’re here. We’re working. We’re building whole worlds - in between symptoms, flare-ups, hospital visits, and rest. 🧵(2/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Fighting for your right to be here shouldn’t be part of the job description when working in the arts. Being chronically ill is already a full-time job. 🧵(1/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We don’t want one-off access panels or performative allyship. We want embedded change - access, support, and space to create without risking our health. 🧵(4/5)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

That pressure? It’s crushing. The arts sector doesn’t need more “resilience”. We need rest. Support. Access. Equity. 🧵(3/5)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Many chronically ill artists live with the constant tension of trying to appear “sick enough” to access support, while also trying to prove they’re “capable enough” to be taken seriously in the arts. 🧵(2/5)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Being a chronically ill artist means waking up each day with no idea what your body will give you. It means exhaustion. Isolation. Starting over again and again. 🧵(1/5)

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Like, repost, and share your experiences too, using the hashtag #ClimbingTinyMountains Sign up for our newsletter at the link in our bio. 🧵(4/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN #DisabilityJustice

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Join us as we tell the truth about what it’s like to survive and create in a world that wasn’t built for us. Because when the arts aren’t accessible, everything takes more energy, more time, more courage. 🧵(3/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Everyday, chronically ill creatives face invisible barriers - inaccessibility, stigma, financial precarity, & an industry that still sees us as a “risk”. But we are not broken. We are tired of climbing alone. 🧵(2/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Climbing Tiny Mountains - a campaign by & for chronically ill artists. All this week we will be posting about the experiences of chronically ill artists, generously and courageously shared with us by our members. 🧵(1/4) #ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN

Image description: A pink graphic line drawing on a white background, showing a figure climbing one of a series of 3 hills.The text reads ‘Climbing Tiny Mountains’.

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

ICYMI visual notes from our networking events this past year, all done by the wonderful Amber Anderson! We'll be sure to have more events in the new year, so follow us and keep an eye out for those announcements :)

A pink and purple page of illustrations on the theme of Navigating & Progressing in the Arts when Chronically Ill, including sections on change in the arts sector, discussions, systems being ableist, finding connection and community, learning to communicate your needs, and believing in the social model

An orange page of visual notes and illustrations on the theme of Saving up tiny joys and Finding openings for joy in a chronic creative life, including sections on Joy as resistance and a creative force, creative play, joy as a way of pushing through, nurturing your disabled joy, having generosity in access, and reframing what counts

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Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hello :) we're the Chronically ill Artists Network Formed in 2021 out of a frustration for the lack of support, awareness, and opportunities for artists and arts professionals working, or unable to work, in the arts with a chronic illness. Find out more below www.chronicallyillartistsnetwork.com

chronicallyillartistsnetwork.com

chronicallyillartistsnetwork

The chronicallyillartistsnetwork supports chronically ill artists and arts professionals

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