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Education & Training

Participants seated at desks in a room listening to a presenter standing at the front of the training roomAccessible Arts provides education, training and skill sharing opportunities to the arts and disability sectors with the aim of improving access to the arts for people with disability either as artists or as audience members. This is achieved through the provision of a range of quality professional development opportunities.

In recent years Accessible Arts has provided training for the Sydney Festival, National Portrait Gallery, Sydney Opera House, Museums and Galleries Foundation, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Theatre Company, Historic Houses Trust, the Museum of Contemporary Art and a number of regional galleries.

 

Our Approach

Accessible Arts aims to deliver training and education opportunities that:

  • Are interactive and participatory

  • Encourage the sharing of skills and knowledge

  • Include small group work and group discussions

  • Include short lectures and analysis of scenarios customised to meet the needs of the group

  • Incorporate a guest speaker with disability

“The workshop greatly increased my confidence in considering access issues and engaging with individuals with disabilities. Learning was informative, interactive and engaging.  The guest speaker was fabulous.”

Disability Awareness & Access training participant
National Portrait Gallery

What We Offer

Who should attend?

Accessible Arts promotes a ‘whole of organisation’ approach to disability awareness and access, encouraging staff from across all levels or art and entertainment organisations and businesses to attend including, but not limited to:

  • Front of house staff, box office staff, security, volunteer guides, designers, marketing staff and managers from arts organisations and venues

  • Disability arts workers including arts tutors, artists and health workers who run arts programs

  • Festival staff and volunteers

  • Local Government including cultural development officers and arts/cultural venue staff

  • Anyone interested in arts, disability and access

Why Attend?

  • Assistance with Disability Discrimination Act compliance

  • Identify barriers faced by people with disability when accessing venues and events in the arts

  • Identify strategies and solutions for overcoming barriers and increasing audiences

  • Improve confidence when dealing with access issues for people with disability

  • Improve customer service and communication with people with disability

  • Identify strategies to achieve Disability Action Plan objectives

  • Identify strategies to implement priority actions from the National Arts & Disability Strategy

  • Network with other organisations and arts workers, improving disability awareness and access

About the Trainers

Jenny Kapp, Freelance EducatorJenny Kapp, Freelance Educator

Jenny Kapp a freelance educator and writer with over ten years’ experience in presenting and facilitating workshops and writing documents for a range of community and government organisations.  She has previously produced a selection of radio documentaries for ABC Radio National and Triple J and coordinated training for a Sydney-based not-for-profit organisation. She has a particular interest in teaching people about communication, computer and technology-based subjects and working with other people with a disability.  She has also served on the Board of Directors of The Spastic Centre (Cerebral Palsy Alliance) and the Management Committee of the Physical Disability Council of NSW. Jenny is due to complete a Master of Education (Adult Education) degree at The University of Technology, Sydney at the end of this year.

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