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Accessible Arts News

Younger audiences engage with tactile tours

02/12/2011 - AArts News

Students from Halinda School travelled from Whalan in Western Sydney to participate in the Tactile Tours - Access program at this year’s Sculpture by the Sea exhibition. Visiting the exhibition for the first time, Assistant Principal Anne Bennett is enthusiatisic about attending the exhibtion as a regular event on the Halinda school calendar.

Accessible Arts focused on engaging children with disability at this year’s Sculpture by the Sea exhibition made possible through generous funding received from the St George Foundation and the Waverley Council.

Students from Wairoa School in Bondi also participated and returned to their art room to create their own works of art. Dominic Northey Sproule (pictured), a student and keen photographer, recorded the excursion on his camera for Wairoa.

Accessible Arts will continue to reach into the community with new initiatives made possibile by growing corporate and philanthropic support in 2012. In the past year philanthropic support through online donations has increased by 25 percent and we thank our supporters.