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Don't DIS my ABILITY 2010

Looking Out, Looking In exhibition, Workability Personnel, 2010.
Looking Out, Looking In exhibition, 2010.

In New South Wales, the month-long campaign Don't DISmyABILITY celebrates International Day of People With Disability (IDPWD), a day designated by the United Nations to celebrate talents, skills and abilities of people with a disability.

Don't DISmyABILITY is run by Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC), Department of Human Services NSW. Ambassadors are selected from the arts, sports and business as role models to support this campaign and to challenge assumptions about disability.

Over the last 8 years Accessible Arts has been a partner of the Don't DISmyABILITY arts program and has attracted an increasing number of arts events to the campaign, including participation from artists with disability as ambassadors, key speakers and entertainers at major functions.

The arts program promotes partnerships between arts and cultural organisations and the disability sector to produce an event, project or policy, inclusive of people with disability. The development of these initiatives is supported in a number of ways including the small grants, promotion of events online and in a publication distributed statewide.

Since 2006 Accessible Arts has devolved a number of grants to selected projects across all art forms with funding from ADHC. In 2008, 22 grants were awarded between $300 and $500 and in 2009, 11 projects were selected to receive grants of up to $1000. These small arts grants have given the arts and disability sectors an incentive to work together on joint events for total audiences exceeding 1100 people.

Grant Recipients 2010

In 2010 Accessible Arts offered small grants of $3000 to six projects across visual arts, dance, music, performance and new media.

Individual artists

Rural and Regional

Western Sydney

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