Accessible Arts / arts + disability NSW

Registrations are now open for Accessible Arts’ Arts-Activated Conference at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney over 25-26 March 2010. A range of national and international speakers from the arts and disability sectors will come together to explore the themes of Arts – Access – Excellence through a series of workshops, panels and performances.

The Conference will examine issues of access and excellence in relation to festivals via a range of presentations.  A program highlight will be the panel discussion focusing on the challenges and best practise of access within the festival environment featuring festival representatives such as Rick Randall, Artistic Director, The Other Film Festival, John Bayley, Head of Production at The Sydney Festival, Craig Rogers, Darebin City Council, The Festivalists and the United Kingdom’s Jenny Sealey.

Jenny Sealey has been announced as the keynote speaker for Accessible Arts’ 2010 Arts-Activated Conference. Sealey is Artistic Director of London’s Graeae Theatre and Artistic Advisor to Unlimited, the UK’s largest ever cultural disability program and a major component of the Cultural Olympiad for London’s 2012 Olympics.

The conference is intended for artists with and without a disability, arts workers, disability service providers, policy makers, funding bodies, festival organisers and volunteers, cultural institutions, venues and anyone interested in arts and disability.

Early-bird registrations are open until 18 December. To register, visit www.aarts.net.au

CONTACT: Jane Pollard, Education and Training Manager, jpollard@aarts.net.au, 02 9251 6499 ext 106

MEDIA CONTACT: David Finnigan, Media and Marketing Coordinator, dfinnigan@aarts.net.au, 02 9251 6499 ext 101

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