Accessible Arts North Coast has identified a need for more disability awareness and access training in the arts context for our region to improve access for all. To this end Accessible Arts NSW is providing training on the 29th and 30th of May, with Amanda Tink & Sophie Clausen of Accessible Arts NSW at Lennox Head Community Centre.
Accessible Arts 2012 Annual Report is now available for download. Chairperson Emeritus Professor Sharman Pretty is impressed by the depth, breadth and reach of our organisation. In her first year as Chairperson of Accessible Arts, Pretty noted “The ongoing achievements of Accessible Arts would not be possible without its many supporters and volunteers, and without the tremendous dedication of its staff.”
Disability awareness training is useful for people working at any level of an arts organisation, or in arts policy or practice. It provides a practical understanding of disability in an arts context with information and skills relevant to all venues and types of work including festivals and public events.
Sixty people gathered at Newcastle Museum on Thursday 28 February 2013 to consider how the roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (now Disability Care Australia) can assist artists with disability to overcome obstacles and realise their ambitions.News
Arts and the Individual Forum
The Arts and the Individual forum will be hosted in Newcastle, the launch site of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) later this month. With the roll out of the NDIS to the Hunter Region, Accessible Arts has partnered with the Octapod Association and the City of Newcastle to explore issues that affect artists living with a disability in the Hunter region, through the free forum, Arts and the Individual.
The NDIS represents a strategic opportunity to advocate for ‘reasonable and practical support’ for the needs of artists with disability and to gather information about questions surrounding the operation of the scheme. In support of the NDIS, Accessible Arts, the Octapod Association and the City of Newcastle has set out to gain a keen understanding of issues for artists with disability from the launch site of the Hunter region.
Sharon Grierson, Federal MP for Newcastle will officially open the Arts and the Individual forum, which will be held at the Newcastle Museum on 28 February. Artists, carers and service providers are invited to share and explore issues and ideas in relation to the roll-out of the NDIS, specific to artists in the Hunter Region.
For further information see NDIS and the Arts, or contact Elizabeth Hill, Policy and Project Manager, Accessible Arts, tel: 02 9251 6499 ext 104 or ehill@aarts.net.au