SALISBURY-based Disability Arts Organisation LinkUpArts (LUA) present Our Tales: Unveiled at Salisbury Arts Centre this February.

This new storytelling project invites Salisbury audiences to experience a powerful evening of performance and take part in a free series of creative workshops.

The event starts on Friday, February 6 at 7.30pm with a performance at Salisbury Arts Centre.

The exciting programme features disabled artists Liz Porter and Penny Pepper, who will be showcasing extracts from their new one-woman shows Learning to See and Lost in Spaces.

LUA’s lead artist Gini will also perform her new work Vinterblik. The evening will end with a Q&A chaired by Colin Hambrook of Disability Arts Online.

In Learning to See, Liz Porter explores her journey living with visual impairment through metaphor and her own life story. Porter explores themes such as identity and acceptance/non-acceptance, peer pressure, equality, miscommunication and perceptions of disabled people and the whole idea of ‘learning to see’.

Porter describes the work as being “not just about metaphor but also about how you tell the story.”

She hopes that people will be able to watch her story and be inspired to tell their own through the creative workshop sessions.

Creative Futures Literary Award winner Penny Pepper presents Lost in Spaces, an exploration of identity and difference. Pepper has created this part-memoir performance using her long-kept journals, which date back to 1979.

Through memories and personal concerns, the piece links to the universal – from fighting Maggie Thatcher in the 80s and corresponding with Morrissey, to current battles with the government’s harsh austerity measures – pushing her into an examination of the human condition at a time of considerable personal and public turmoil.

The Our Tales: Unveiled performance will be followed up by a free series of Lottery-funded creative storytelling and poetry and performance workshops. The artists will work with workshop participants to introduce different techniques for exploring personal stories and heritage. These will take place at Salisbury Arts Centre on Saturdays February 7, 14 and 21.

Tickets and workshop places can be booked at salisburyartscentre.co.uk or by calling 01722 321744.