Arts OutWest progressing access to the arts
Arts OutWest, the regional arts development service for the Central West of New South Wales, is holding a series of focus groups to progress development of the arts for people with disabilities.
With funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, the focus groups will build on the work achieved at the recent Arts & Disability Speak Up forum hosted in Orange and initiated by Accessible Arts. Facilitated sessions will include hands on activities and establish potential partnerships for future initiatives across all arts forms including performing, digital and multimedia arts as well as visual arts, crafts and design. The first focus group will be 15 December 2008 at the Lithgow Information & Neighbourhood Centre. For more information contact Cate McCarthy tel: 02 6338 4657. This session compliments a dozen events, projects and exhibitions that will take place in the region during December for people with disabilities and the broader community. Arts OutWest have highlighted a range of activities in Bathurst, Cowra, Forbes, Lithgow and Orange under the banner Celebrate Ability in the Central West 2008 to promote Don’t Dis my Ability events in the region, in celebration of International day of People with a disability.
Photos courtesy Arts OutWest, Celebrate Ability in the Central West 2006.