Accessible Arts is conducting a survey for the Deaf Community in NSW to find out what the Arts mean to people who are deaf and to learn about their experience of artistic opportunities as artists, audience members or participants.
Carla Wherby, Auburn based visual artist and recipient of Accessible Arts’ AART.BOXX scholarship, travelled with her sisters Paula and Lisa to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra last month to study war objects, memorabilia and ephemera.
Sydney’s newest entertainment destination, The Concourse in Chatswood, will host Accessible Arts’ third Arts Activated National Conference in October 2012. This new cultural hub, many years in the planning and with considerable consultation with the disability sector and with Accessible Arts, is a leading example of accessibility within a world-class Arts centre.
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 and Museums & Galleries NSW (M&G NSW) will present a one day seminar on 28 November 2011 to promote improved access to heritage listed buildings for audiences, staff and arts professionals with disabilities.News
Inclusive Museum Conference: Enabling Diversity Sustaining Development
A panel of five speakers from NSW, Australia are presenting the session ‘Access to Museums: Inclusive Approaches to Attract Visitors with Disability,' at the second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, to be held at the University of Queensland in July 2009.
The session will highlight leading practices in access at museums across the state including regional NSW. Alison McLaren, Accessible Arts' Audience Development Officer, will facilitate the panel and present a paper about incorporating accessible design into heritage museum spaces, based on research undertaken by Accessible Arts about the relationship between disability discrimination and heritage legislation. Speakers from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australian National Maritime Museum, Age of Fishes Museum and Arts Access Australia will also participate. The conference is held annually in different locations around the world and attracts some of the leading thinkers in museum studies as well as leading practitioners.
Find out more about the International Conference of the Inclusive Museum.