Keynote speeches presented by Jenny Sealey, MBE on both days of Accessible Arts’ Arts Activated National Conference are now available online.
The second Arts Activated National Conference, held at the Powerhouse Museum at the end of March 2010, bought together 350 people over two days, from across Australia and overseas.
A range of young artists with disability from across Australia and New Zealand attended the Arts Activated National Conference as presenters, performers and delegates.
An information booth and staff from the Australia Council for the Arts will be available at the Arts Activated National Conference for all delegates to drop by, have a chat and pick up relevant information about their current programs and services.News
Arts Activated 2010 offers training for arts based programs
A disability service in the eastern suburbs of Sydney has registered more than half of its Day Service staff to attend the Arts Activated National Conference at the Powerhouse Museum in March 2010. Eleven staff from Miroma will attend the conference as part of their staff development and general training.
Georgina Michaelis, the CEO of Miroma will also be attending. Georgina said, “This is a great opportunity to provide professional training for our staff who work in direct care with people with disabilities in arts based programs. We attended the first Arts Activated Conference in 2008 and it inspired ideas, variety and scope for us to use within our programs. It was also an effective networking opportunity, attracting new people to Miroma and connecting Miroma artists to a broader network of like-minded people.”
Douglas Channing and Jethro Trevitt at Miroma
Georgina is also interested in gaining a broad perspective of the growth of arts and disability as a sector. “Miroma considers its arts programs central to providing quality care, and it is essential to stay up to date with current practice here and overseas in arts and disability.”
Miroma, an organisation well known for its Steiner philosophy, annual public art exhibition and community festivals in Vaucluse, employs artists to provide a range of quality arts based programs within the centre.
Registrations for the Art Activated National Conference remain open until 9 March 2010.