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Lismore based music making collective Tra La La Blip brought a regional presence to the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney this month.
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Regional conservatoriums engaged in disability access and awareness
Accessible Arts presented Disability Access & Awareness training at the NSW Regional Conservatorium Events Conference held in Bathurst on 23 November 2010.
Fifteen of the 17 regional conservatoriums across NSW were represented at the training, an initiative of conference organiser Alex Masso from Wollongong Conservatorium. Delivering the training was a positive outcome of Masso's attendance at the Accessible Music Pathways Forum presented by Accessible Arts in Sydney earlier in the year.
As well as the training, participants were asked to suggest solutions to some of the barriers and needs of people with disability wishing to be involved in music which had been identified at the Accessible Music Pathways Forum. Participants also spent time considering inclusive strategies, changes and improvements, that could be implemented at their respective conservatoriums.
A range of accessible programs currently being conducted was presented amongst delegates, including the development of a new one-week residency and performance project at Orange Conservatorium planned for 2011. This performance project received Arts NSW funding and will engage15 professional musicians, ten of whom are living with a disability. The musicians will come together to create and develop a performance program, Rewriting the Score, with the theme of inclusivity in the world music genre.