Our desires

Documentary Theatre & Creative Accessibility Workshops

Following a first year of shared research, encounters and creative exploration, our inclusive DisTime ensemble returns to continue the conversations we began and follow the questions that are still alive.

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The second cycle builds on the experiences, relationships, artistic practices and tools developed over the past year, while making space for new participants, new stories and new ways of being together. The group takes shape anew each time, and so does the work.

Workshops Open to Everyone

The workshops are open to people of all ages, bodies, gender identities, sexual orientations, backgrounds and lived experiences. No previous experience is required, only curiosity, openness and a willingness to participate. 

ℹ️ The workshops are accessible to people with sensory, physical and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

The focus

Last year, we explored everything that each Sunday brought with it through theatre and movement practices: from our outings and conversations to memories and the families we choose and/or inherit. We shared questions, celebrations, food, trauma and pauses.

We experiment, make mistakes, try again, and create an art that makes room for our longings and our presence.

This year, we return to the identities that emerged and took shape through our “Sundays”, allowing them to shift, expand and transform. Our focus turns towards our longings and our (in)visible bodies.

  • How do we speak about desire when it falls outside dominant narratives?
  • How does disability intersect with sexuality?
  • How might we rethink what sexuality means?
  • Which body is desirable?
  • How are care, desire and connection shaped?
  • And how might we reimagine the circles we move within: our relationships, families, friendships and communities that shape us, and that we, in turn, choose to shape?

The methodology

The experiential theatre and movement workshops follow a methodology developed by Nayia T. Karacosta. It brings together practices she has been studying, developing and working with since 2013, and continues to evolve through her ongoing research.

The methodology combines documentary theatre and creative accessibility with practices drawn from devised theatre, Drama in Education, theatre games, directing, acting, automatic writing, documentary research, dramaturgy and movement, alongside practices of care.

The experiences shared during the workshops are not treated as material to be reproduced or represented. Instead, they become starting points for a collective artistic process, opening up new possibilities for expression and encounter.

🎯 The goal of the second cycle is to co-create a performance work emerging from the group’s collective research: a work that continues to explore what an accessible artistic practice can be and what an accessible performance can become.

The questions and priorities remain the same:

  • How can dramaturgical material emerge from personal narratives?
  • How can accessibility tools become part of improvisation and the creative process?
  • How can we participate on equal terms and create shared worlds?
A key priority is to create a safer space grounded in consent, care, vulnerability and openness. Participants are invited to take risks, create, question, doubt, expose themselves and let go. The process is based on horizontal practices and collective engagement with the proposed theme.

Creative accessibility

Accessibility is approached as an integrated creative tool from the very beginning: in the design and facilitation of the workshops, throughout the creative process, and in any performance work that may emerge from it.

During the workshops, we will explore audio description for blind and partially sighted people, as well as Greek Sign Language and surtitling for D/deaf and hard-of-hearing people, not simply as access provisions, but as sources of dramaturgical and performance material.

We approach accessibility as an integral part of the artistic process: a creative practice that can transform the ways we work together, co-create and encounter one another, making space for different ways of participating, communicating and being present.

📌 Sign Up

Sign up to participate in the workshops by completing the form below.

ℹ️ For more information, contact us by email at nayiatk@hotmail.com or by phone at 6937367205.

Registration Form

Nayia T. Karakosta

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Nayia T. Karacosta is an interdisciplinary performing arts creator, a graduate of the Department of Theatre at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a master’s in Acting. She works with creative accessibility and documentary theatre on issues related to care and self-determination.

Since 2013, she has been designing and leading experiential theatre-movement workshops for groups of all identities, transforming the material created into performative texts. As an actor and performer, she has taken part in stage productions, performances, films, and television series in Greece and Cyprus. She has written six plays to date, some of which have been published and showcased at international performing arts festivals.

She is co-founder DisTime (2025), an inclusive theatre and movement group developed in collaboration with liminal, and of KOULLOU|MAKKA, the first theatre-movement group in Cyprus for participants with and without disabilities. She is also co-founder of the theatre group Intra Portas and co-creator of the educational game series Makers Will Make STEAM Toys. Additionally, she is a founding member of the association Practical Giving – ena emeis.

Nayia collaborated with liminal as a Cultural Manager as part of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme.

Useful information

Dates: Every Thursday, starting October 8 2026
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Location: Choros, Platia Theatrou 6, Athens

*Participation in the first session is free.

“Choros” is wheelchair accessible and has an ADA-compliant restroom.

Participation cost

Standard: €60 + VAT/month
Reduced (for people with disabilities, unemployed, 65+): €50 +VAT/month

👉 Register your interest by filling out this form.

ℹ️ For more information, contact us by email at nayiatk@hotmail.com or by phone at 6937367205.