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
Accessible Arts highly commended by Australian Human Rights Commission
Accessible Arts received a Highly Commended certificate in the 2009 Australian Human Rights Awards, recognising its work promoting the cultural rights of people with disability.
Accessible Arts was one of five organisations shortlisted in the Community (Organisation) category for the 2009 Awards, selected from more than 200 entries nominated from around Australia. This is the second year in a row that Accessible Arts has been shortlisted for the award.
Australian Human Rights Commission President, The Hon. Cathy Branson QC, congratulated Accessible Arts on its success in the prestigious 2009 Human Rights Awards and Medals.
“The Commission recognises the extraordinary efforts of Accessible Arts in promoting and providing opportunities for people with disability to participate in arts and cultural activities,” she said.
“I wish Accessible Arts all the best for its future efforts in overcoming barriers experienced by people with disability in accessing the richness of artistic and cultural life.”
Accessible Arts’ Board Chair Maryanne Ireland said, "It's a great honour for Accessible Arts to be nominated for a second time. Wonderful too is the acknowledgement, implicit in this nomination, that access to the arts is a human right."
ACON HIV/AIDS organisation received the Community (Orangisation) Award, and GetUp! Action for Australia, The Human Rights Law Resource Centre, and the Centre for Multicultural Youth where other organisations shortlisted.
For more information on the Human Rights Medals and Awards, visit www.humanrights.gov.au/hr_awards