DYSPLA is an award winning arts studio producing and developing the work of dyslexic + neurodivergent storymakers

Creative Producer - Lennie Varvarides
Creative Director - Kazimir Bielecki

DYSPLA is a neurodivergent lead, Tottenham based studio. Supported by the Arts Council England, DYSPLA produce the work of neurodivergent storymakers lead by award winning disabled artists, Lennie Varvarides and Kazimir Bielecki. Currently conducting research into the neurodivergent aesthetic while exploring the medium of XR (Extended Reality), DYSPLA continue to elucidate a new artistic aesthetic defined by the cognitive difference of neurodivergence.

We work internationally in film, immersive theatre, installation & digital art. Incorporated in 2013 to shed light on Dyslexic Narrative and the Neurodivergent Aesthetic, DYSPLA is at the forefront of neurodivergent creativity.

Commissioned by the PASCALL Research Project to produce 'Body of the Gods' (2019) and following with Beatfreaks commision for the Festival of Audacity, 'Two Women' (2019), DYSPLA have produced experimental installations since 2016, including 'FIGHT' (2018) in collaboration with world renowned video artist D-FUSE, ‘Author of Expectations’ (2016) winning Best Artist Film at the Aesthetica Film Festival 2018 and the large scale installation at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth ‘YOU WILL FAIL HER’ (2017).

“Sometimes Abbreviated as ND, neurodivergent means having a style of neurocognitive functioning that diverges significantly from the dominant societal standards of ‘normal’. Neurodivergent people include dyslexics, dyspraxics, AD(H)D, autistics (including those with Asperger’s), dyscalculics, OCD, dysgraphics, Tourettes, etc.” The Westminster AchievAbility Commission for Dyslexia and Neurodivergence 2018.

DYSPLA aims to:
• Produce and develop the work of dyslexic and neurodivergent storymakers.

• Create stories with undervalued and unheard communities around Britain and the world.

• Build a national and international network of dyslexic and neurodiverse creatives.

• Inspire Britain’s neurodivergent storymaking community

Dyslexic and Neurodivergent storymakers have a strong heritage in narrative and non linear art history. Agatha Christie, Pablo Picasso, WB Yeats, Stan Brakhage, Steve Mcqueen, Quentin Tarantino, and Steven Spielberg, are just a few storymakers on an endless list, that share dyslexia as their commonality, and as their genius.

The UK’s education system has belittled and undervalued the neurodivergent community for centuries. Cuts to education in the arts, craft and music, lead by the worship of academia and the mythical neurotypical are destroying our young storymakers.

DYSPLA speaks up for the unrepresented voices in our society; those who are disenfranchised politically, socially, economically and educationally. We have built a creative community with the facility to enable artists to explore their craft to the extent that would only usually be available to established artists and large production houses. We are democratising the development and production process to allow, early career writers, artists and grassroots activists be heard.

DYSPLA believes that our education system is suited for the few. The ‘social model of disability’ says that disability is caused by the way society is organised, rather than by a person’s difference. We are looking at ways of removing barriers that restrict life choices for those who think differently. By undervaluing the creative, the risk taking and the empathetic, the UK have lost countless great minds over the years and will continue to, unless we realise society is made up of a plethora of individual minds.

In recent days, one of the UK’s great dyslexic resources went into administration. The loss of Dyslexia Action is another blow to a neurodivergent community which lacks government support. It is another blow to a voice of millions that deserve to be heard.

DYSPLA dreams of a world where each and every creative mind, no matter how different from society’s norms, is individually valued and can flourish within an empathetic and supportive environment. We exist in the hope of building the crucial, next generation of innovative thinkers.

DYSPLA is run by two dyslexic artists. Lennie Varvarides and Kazimir Bielecki.

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