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.
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.
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.News
Connecting Communities begins across the North Coast
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.
The Connecting Communities project is designed to assist in the establishment of new arts and disability networks and to support existing opportunities for people with disability to fully experience and participate in the arts across the broader North Coast region. An exhibition to launch the project will mark the start of this regional initiative.
The project is currently calling for expressions of interest to form two steering committees comprised of four members each to advise on forums, events, access and workshops that will take place across 13 council regions from Kempsey to Tweed. Artists with a disability, practitioners from the arts and disability sector and representatives from local government and arts venues are encouraged to participate.
Read more about the Connecting Communities.