The Twisting Ducks：
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Home For a Special Group of Artists
About Us
Our Members
The Twisting Ducks members are talented singers, actors, and musicians with learning disabilities and autism. Each member of the company is a creative, motivated, focused, and passionate individual standing for important political, social, and health issues. Using musical instruments as a medium, and their talent as an aim, the Twisting Ducks members not only entertain, but, also, raise awareness of the rights of people with learning disabilities and autism, the challenges they face, employment, education, health, relationships, equality, diversity, independence, and support issues, through their songs and other creative activities.
Now confident and enthusiastic, the Twisting Ducks members used to be shy before stepping in the company. The members of the Twisting Ducks family, as they proudly call themselves, say that they are incredibly happy to work in such an inspiring atmosphere with friendly like-minded people who always understand and support each other.
Expressing themselves through everything from acting to DJ-ing, the TD rising stars know how to entertain the audience in the smartest way, so you definitely have some food for thought after each of their unique performances.
If you want to know more about the TD members, please click the video......
Our Daily Life
What do we do?
In rehearsal, Twisting Ducks members can do a solid two hours for one chapter of the play. It is not just about playing characters themselves, but also about telling stories and spreading love.
Standing on stage under the spotlight, they spread love by their smiles, their sparkling eyes, their steps and their melodious songs that they create. They are all talented actors, singers, designers and film makers.
We are all different. However unsatisfied the life might seem to be, there is always something we can do and succeed it.
Nervousness,uneasiness and shyness, these may be your first impression of the people in this video.
This is a group of people with learning disabilities or autism, but we'd rather call them 'artists', and the Twisting Ducks Theatre Company, where they are from, is not just a place for performances but also a warm home for all the members.
Why are those artists special? How do they interpret 'arts' and 'talents'？Let's see their stories together.
Past Events
Gig Night
DJ Academy
TD Theatre Rehearsal
​The word ‘inspire’ literally means ‘to breathe in’
By Song
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As Shakespeare said, “All the world is a stage, and all the men and women are merely players.” Participating in the Twisting Ducks Theatre Company for three days, we found members of Twisting Ducks talented and the great players who moved us a lot. Also we learned from the selfless devotion and the generosity of Ani and Jay to spread love to others whenever and wherever we can.
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It is difficult for people with learning disabilities to be employed. Equality and Human Rights Commission found that the employment of people with learning disabilities has become a concern in industrialised countries. Precisely, as non-disabled people (35%) are more likely than disabled people (18%) to get a job on the Work Programme. Despite an increase in the proportion of both disabled and non-disabled adults in employment in Britain in 2015/16, less than half of disabled adults were employed (47.6%), compared with almost 80% of the non-disabled adult population, and the gap between these groups has widened since 2010/11.
Twisting Ducks Theatre Company, a promising company, which provides opportunities for people to take part in drama and music and to showcase the best of learning disability talents across the regions, could be an example to deal with unemployment issues.
“Many people did share a universal concern about evocative desire for seeing disabled people overcome physical challenges successfully,” argues Mark Scott Rosenbaum, Rojan Baniya and Tali Seger-Guttmann, who published research on International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management in 2017, “as the YouTube video ‘dancing barista’ about two employees suffering from autism and a movement disorder was uploaded on January 26, 2016.
It indicates that we do care and support people with learning disabilities as hope is still glimmering in our minds. Therefore, the cumulative impact of thousands of small acts of goodness can be bigger than we could imagine.
“We have definitely achieved a wide range of audience and have done a lot of work from health professionals informing people with issues affecting adults with learning disabilities, and we are looking forward others to joining us”, says Ani Sherab, the project support worker at The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company.
Horraine Lowaina, the mother of Mark, a member of The Twisting Ducks, says that she trusts her son and the company, and it can be fulfilling for him to chase a ribbon as long as it is a ribbon he really wants.
The word “inspire” literally means to “breathe in” because people may take a deep breath when they gain courage. The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company, which promotes the gifts and talents of people with learning disabilities, is on the way to break down the barrier of social discrimination and help creating a more inclusive community.