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I went along to the Liberty Festival in Trafalgar Square on the weekend. Which featured all sorts of performances and events featuring disabled artists. The crowds in the square included a bunch of our Ouch Messageboard users, loads more disabled people, plus many a bemused tourist dipping their toes into the fountain or taking photos next to Nelson's Column.
It is this this unusual mix that makes Liberty special, it's not just another event on the 'disability arts' circuit, instead we take over a big open space in the heart of London and see who happens to be there.

The events on offer spanned from performance, to film and parodies. I really enjoyed the tent showing films by deaf film-makers (including Ouch contributor Charlie Swinbourne) and especially the Rhinestone Rollers line dancing wheelchair troupe, which had attitude in more ways than one.

One point well made on our message board thread stuck with me though, now that every minority group seems to have a big celebratory event in London, we'll need to keep upping the ante to stand out in the party calendar. And that's about knowing just what makes us worth lots of Londoners partying about, toe-dipping tourists along with those 'in the know.'
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