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
Amplify your art recipients announced
Twelve artists with disability have been announced as the recipients of Amplify your art grants by the Minister for the Arts, George Souris, and the Minister for Ageing & Disability Services, Andrew Constance. The recipients were announced at Shopfront Theatre for Young People in Carlton.
Mark Coure, the Member for Oatley, Sarah Vyne Vassallo, Accessible Arts manager of the project, recipient and artist Matthew Massaria, and Amanda Foote, the General Manager of Shopfront were also in attendance.
“Artists with disability have a valuable and important contribution to make to the State’s artistic and cultural life,” Mr Constance said.
“The Amplify your art program will help and encourage these artists to reach their full potential.”
Amplify your art is a devolved funding program administered by Accessible Arts on behalf of the NSW Government through Arts NSW and Ageing, Disability and Home Care.
Recipients of funding under Year 1 of Amplify your art undertake their professional development programs between March and December 2013. A full list of all recipients is on the Amplify your art program page.