for the listen to live here
If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam

6 Dec 2025 - Jun 2026
workshop series

A programme unfolding across eight months that invites an artful exploration of the making of socialities, with neuroqueering approaches leading the way.

In collaboration with Rajni Shah, Kai Hazelwood, Raoni Muzho Saleh, and Angelo Custodio.

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Languaging Errantly
Vox-Pop, UvA, Amsterdam

24 Feb 2026
workshop

A workshop that challenges neurotypical forms of expression by exploring how meaning is made when words are just one part of the tapestry.

Languaging Errangly is part of the program Brainwave #4 Worlding beyond Wording, curated by artistic researcher Julia Stoll.

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neuroqueering the reading room
CC Amstel, Amsterdam

26 Mar 2026
workshop

A collective reading of works by neurodivergent writers and poets within a serpentine installation of fabrics, exploring modes of perception that challenge neurotypical and ableist norms. 

Languaging Errangly is part of It’s Personal Festival - day 1: Neurospices.

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PAST EVENTS:

Kai Syng Tan & shy*play
Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership: A decolonial, neuro-queered and co-creative practice
ATD Lectorate, Amsterdam

23 Jun 2025
lecture-performance

A lecture-performance by Kai Syng Tan and a response by shy*play.

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What if... Neurodiversity? Symposium. ATD Research Month, Amsterdam

22 Jan 2025
symposium

A one-day event that brings together artists and thinkers who experiment with neurodiverse movement, poetics, and perception. With Tito Mukhopadhyay, Sam Metz, Hamja Ahsan, Rajni Shah, Sanne Kersen, Risa Horn and shy*play.

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Experiments for
Neurodiverse Futurities
0-eA Yokosuka Art Residency, Japan

30 Mar 2024
participatory installation

For this participatory installation shy*play proposes to create collectively an environment through languaging errantly...

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shyplay*
punt WG
Amsterdam

20 May – 10 Jun 2023
event series

A series of performative events in collaboration with Angelo Custodio, Karime Salame Sainz and Rajni Shah.

PuntWG acts as a laboratory where shy*play collaborates with visiting humans and more-than-humans in exploring techniques...

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A Neurodiverse Fabulation: Techniques for Neurodiverse Futurities
Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

26 Feb 2025
lecture-performance

A lecture performance for the program Radical Accessibility: Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice. Guided by the question "What can neurodiversity do?", the collective shy*play stories their art and pedagogical practice...

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Wayfaring Words
Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium, UNIARTS, Helsinki

22 Nov 2024
workshop

A workshop focused on creating conditions that facilitate different ways of learning with language...

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Doing Neurodiversity
Whispering Skins,
FLAM Festival, Amsterdam

2 Nov 2024
participatory installation

An invitation to bodyminds with a close affinity for embodied experiences of shyness, introversion and/or neurodivergence, as well as its many intersections, to participate in a workshop...

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Xogo-Tímido / facer a neurodiversidade
DESFOGA, Galicia, Spain

3 and 4 Oct 2024
workshop

Un taller dedicado a la sociabilidad tímida*, desarrollado con técnicas relacionales que surgen de la pregunta...

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Doing Neurodiversity: Wayfaring Words
Arts Beyond Ableism Conference
Amsterdam

25 Nov 2023
workshop

What if we do not yet know what inclusion is? What if inclusion is not about being welcoming to the "othered," such as the neurodivergent and the disabled, but rather...

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Doing Neurodiversity
EDI Conference
Rotterdam

9 Nov 2023
workshop

What if we do not yet know what inclusion is? What if inclusion is not about being welcoming to the "othered," such as the neurodivergent and the disabled, but rather...

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shyplay*
AHK Day of Teacher/Researcher
Amsterdam

02 Feb 2023
workshop

shy*play is a collective founded by teacher-researchers Aion Arribas and antje nestel (ATD/HvA/Co ECI). It departs from the urgency to reflect...

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Join the shyplay sessions!*
ATD and AMFI students
Amsterdam

17 Dec 2022, 14 Jan 2023
workshop

shy* play invites students with a close affinity to embodied experiences of shyness, introversion and/or neurodivergence to participate in a workshop...

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