World Premiere of ‘We Year’, a new film by Sop (streaming 15th to 28th June)

Plus a special edition of Crip Film Club with RestFest and The Remote Body on 28th June at 6pm UK time, followed by an informal Q&A with the artist.

May 29 • resting up collective, RestFest Film Festival, and char @ the remote body

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February 2026

rest: a meditation in two parts

Welcome to the first 2026 'On Rest' post from frequent crier club founder, Sarena Brown. Their poetry project is excavated from the 1992 thesaurus, with…

Feb 6 • resting up collective and sarena

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August 2025

Four Poems from Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson

Interdisciplinary artist and embodied social justice practitioner Lateisha writes generous offerings that call for enjoying deep kinship …

Aug 13, 2025 • resting up collective

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July 2025

Writing This Book Felt Like Spilling My Guts, But There Were Some Guts I Didn’t Spill

Multi-genre writer Amy Berkowitz reflects on three things she regrets leaving out of her first book, Tender Points, a decade ago. Tender Points was…

Jul 1, 2025 • resting up collective and Amy Berkowitz

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June 2025

To the Rest of It,

Poet, essayist, and editor Cat Chong playfully untangles capitalist language and legacies of rest from 'the gardens of rest's enemy'

Jun 4, 2025 • resting up collective

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April 2025

Crip Resistance: Holding Space, Building Community

A collaborative programme from Resting Up Collective & Ort Gallery

Apr 5, 2025 • resting up collective

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December 2024

Rest is pending

Tesha Murrain-Hernandez writes about the liberatory possibility and necessity of resting as a Black woman, as an individual and collectively.

Dec 20, 2024 • resting up collective

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October 2024

Autumn as a Portal

Anna Ruddock shares four poems full of arresting stillness and quietly shattering observations.

Oct 28, 2024 • resting up collective

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September 2024

Rest Pieces

nicolette clara iles shares a DIY surrealist collage poem on liminal spaces of rest, dreaming, and reality

Sep 16, 2024 • resting up collective

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August 2024

Bed Folly for the Chronic Subject

Disabled artist and curator Nadia Lesniarek considers rest

Aug 25, 2024 • resting up collective

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May 2024

resting up collective for a FREE PALESTINE

Disabled-friendly resources and introducing resting up reads

May 31, 2024 • resting up collective

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September 2023

reflections in respite

taking a break, doing just fine

Sep 25, 2023 • resting up collective

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