'The Chaos Collective' is a brand new format for everyone who wants to be part of our creative production programme. It's uniquely designed so that all of our creatives and project participants can work collaboratively to produce their puppetry projects on a level playing field - regardless of their qualifications, experience or disability status.

It's our way of deliberately subverting - and actively challenging - the divisive culture we have all experienced when acknowledging to the professional creative sector that we are 'disabled' practitioners.  The immediate responses to our being open and transparent about our illnesses and disabilities too often lead to us being categorised as 'community participants' or 'beneficiaries', and rarely being seen as the qualified, capable and professional creative practitioners that we really are. This is something we will keep working to challenge within our sector, and the Chaos Collective is just one of the ways we've devised to invite everyone to be part of that effort in a proactive, creatively engaging - and hopefully productive - way.

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Put simply, we want to break down the barriers that disabled artists and practitioners face when entering our profession, and we know that this needs to happen simultaneously on all fronts; starting with the very first interactions people have with the puppetry arts, and continuing all the way from that first workshop they join or performance they see, right the way through to them having access to training, education, professional development and ultimately, if it's what they want to do, a paid and fulfilling career in puppetry or related theatre arts.