We went to Prague to talk about planning for this conference. The conference is being led by Inventura learning disability arts organisation based in Prague, Czech Republic. We are one of the partners who will be working together to put this exciting event together. We arrived in Prague on Tuesday the 2nd March in the evening. Marketa, one of the people from Inventura, met us at the airport and showed us to our hotel. The next day we went to the Meet Factory where Inventura have their studio. We had to cross a live railway track to get there – dodging the trains...

My name is Aleš Koudela. I am 23 years old. I don’t pay attention to my surroundings because I’m different from the others. Because I also happen to be autistic. I’m detached from what’s around me because sometimes I’m thinking about outer space and about Harry Potter and about Michal. I often interrupt people because I need them to explain something I don’t understand, and I’m too lazy to wait until the other person has finished talking, and also I’m impatient. Strangers think I’m a spoiled brat. I think that’s their...

My favourite thing about pottery is spinning the pottery wheel (this is when I feel uninspired or don’t have any project started). And then I like moulding; that’s when I can let loose. The colours I use for my pottery are engobes, made of ceramic clay, dyed with metal oxides: iron - red, burel - black, copper - green, cobalt - blue, titanium - yellow These are used on dry pottery (that has not been fired). It is more absorbent. After it dries, you can coat your object with engobe...

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