The International Disability Art Festival 2024 took place from 26 to 27 April 2024 at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka. This inclusive festival was the culmination event of the British Council's project, DARE (Disability Arts: Redefining Empowerment), which depicted our ten years' journey of empowering disability arts in Bangladesh and featured representations of works and activities taking place in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and the United Kingdom.
This festival hosted ten theatre productions, which reflected our continued work in capacity building among artists with disabilities and bridging gaps between arts, disability, and society. The festival also included thought-provoking panel discussions centring representation, accessibility and finance, film screening, exhibitions promoting disability arts and rights, and stalls and marketplace to highlight works of different disability organisations, developmental organisations, arts organisations and so on.