About
The Story
The idea behind Mulberry Tree (MT) began through Diana’s work coordinating training opportunities for Persons with Disabilities. During one of these programmes, a young woman with visual impairment shared her experience of trying to join her college theatre team. Her story revealed the discrimination, bullying, and barriers she encountered—not because of her artistic abilities, but because of how others perceived her disability.
Her experience raised a fundamental question: Why should disability be a barrier to participating in the arts?
The encounter resonated deeply with Diana, reminding her of moments in her own life when she had challenged the limitations she felt or believed were placed before her. It became the starting point for a wider vision: creating artistic spaces where disability is not a barrier to participation, creativity, or professional opportunity.
This vision grew into MT, founded to advance inclusive performing arts and create opportunities for artists with and without disabilities to meet, create, and contribute on an equal basis.
Mission
Mulberry Tree (MT) seeks to create an access point for marginalized persons in the art and culture scene in Egypt, in an inclusion environment and a safe place for expression to discover and promote their talents, contributes to raising public awareness of their artistic issues, through providing more opportunities for them in Acting and Drama Education, Creating Drama and theater casting opportunities, participating in arts inclusion awareness campaigns and events.
Vision
An inclusive artistic society gives equal opportunities for the persons with disabilities to participate as real performers in the art and culture scene in Egypt.
