The NSW Government’s celebration for International Day of People with a disability, presented by Ageing, Disability & Homecare was held at the Australian Museum this year on Friday 2 December 2011. Delineate projects, supported by small grants from ADHC and devolved by Accessible Arts, were highlighted at the celebration, to congratulate the range of inclusive projects in progress across the state. 
Delineate artists and project managers gathered at Accessible Arts at the end of September for a day of roundtable discussion, professional development and project presentations. The six model projects from across the state will feature throughout November and December in various regions, to bring focus to the NSW Government's Don't DIS my ABILITY campaign and to celebrate cultures of disability through the Arts.
Accessible Arts’ small grants arts program has been supporting the creative initiatives of the Don't DIS my ABILITY campaign since 2002. This year, in partnership with Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC), the program has been reshaped and launched under the program banner Delineate.
Newtown based emerging artist Georgia Cranko received a Don't DIS my ABILITY Small Arts Grant in 2010 for her project Living WITHin Context. Receiving the grant enabled Georgia to work with local artists Georgie Read and Michelle Dennis and producer Claudia Chidiac to create a new performance work.News
Regional arts and disability on YouTube
Two regional arts and disability projects Drumming to our Own Beat held in Byron Bay and Looking Out Looking In held in Eurobodalla, are featured in a short film clip produced by Accessible Arts, to document regional participation in the 2010 Don’t DIS my ABILITY campaign.
The clip is being broadcast on the Accessible Arts’ YouTube Channel and on the Accessible Arts’ website, profiling a range of people involved in the projects. Both projects were funded under the Accessible Arts Small Grants funding program, devolved on behalf of Ageing, Disability and Home Care, Department of Human Services. Projects also received marketing support and were profiled on Accessible Arts’ website to gain an online presence through documentation, often beyond the resources of small regional initiatives.
Improving awareness of arts and disability projects, programs and artists with disability in regional and rural NSW is a goal of Accessible Arts’ Rural and Regional Engagement Strategy. Send in your comments about the film clip or other news about regional arts and disability projects in your region, to help raise the profile of arts and disability statewide. Email news and views to info@aarts.net.au.