Creating Connections North Coast is now in its sixth month and enthusiasm for the project from arts and disability communities across the Mid North and Far North Coast continues to grow.
North Coast based Accessible Arts Officer Julie Barratt is making connections in the Mid North Coast region. She will visit the Coffs Harbour to Port Macquarie area from the 21 to 24 February 2012, to meet with regional galleries, disability support services, artists, art workers and any other community arts organisations working with people with disability.
Julie Barratt, the Accessible Arts Officer North Coast has announced the launch of Accessible Arts' Connecting Communities project. A group show of works by artists with disability and local entertainment will take place at the Connecting Communities exhibition, Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina on Saturday 11 February 2012 from 2 to 4 pm.
Accessible Arts’ North Coast based project Connecting Communities is forming a steering committee to discuss inclusive events, forums and audience development across all art forms throughout the region. Artists with a disability, practitioners from the arts and disability sector and representatives from local government and arts venues are encouraged to participate.News
Creating Connections: Arts and Disability North Coast
Accessible Arts, with support from the NSW Government Family and Community Services, will undertake a capacity building project in the North Coast region of NSW commencing September 2011.
The Creating Connections: Arts and Disability project will be modelled on Accessible Arts' successful Western Sydney project, a community strengthening initiative that linked the arts and disability sectors in that region through a range of initiatives and partnerships.
A new regional Arts and Disability Officer, the first in the state, will be created for the North Coast project and a local project partnership group will be drawn together to support and guide the initiative. With successful funding from Community Builders NSW, the three-year project will further develop and support inclusive practice for both creative and audience participation by people with disability across the broader North Coast region.
More information about the project.