Run of the Mill make award-winning, inclusive art and provide outreach, training and artistic opportunities for intellectually disabled artists and participants.
Run of the Mill make award-winning, inclusive art and provide outreach, training and artistic opportunities for intellectually disabled artists and participants.
Run of the Mill was founded in 2014 by theatre artist Aisling Byrne with the goal of creating a meaningful platform for the stories, artistic expressions and talents of a community of learning disabled artists and participants in North Kildare with whom she had been collaborating with for many years.
Run of the Mill derived its name from its base at The Mill Community Centre in Celbridge, which remains home to some of our weekly workshops.
At Run of the Mill we make work through collaborative practice, using the methodologies and techniques of drama, theatre and performance.
We seek to redress the historic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of learning disabled people on our stages and our screens by making work that puts the stories, ideas and lived experiences of our participants and artists front and centre.
Run of the Mill is committed to creating a platform for the stories, artistic expressions and talents of intellectually disabled people in the arts in Ireland. We strive to make work of high artistic quality that is entertaining, ambitious, impactful and visible on our stages and our screens.
We believe that the arts are a powerful tool for social change – through amplifying unheard voices and the sharing of new perspectives. We champion the rights of our participants and artists to have meaningful opportunities in the arts and we lobby for increased access for learning disabled people to participation in the arts in all capacities and at all levels – as audience members, participants, artists and paid professionals. We work towards making the landscape of arts practice in Ireland a more inclusive one.
