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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.

Next training date: Tuesday 1 May 2012

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

 

"I really enjoyed the session. It was relaxed and engaging. Amanda was great and made it fun.
I learned more about persons with disabilities and I feel more confident in this area. Thank you for an enjoyable and informative training session."

Disability Awareness Participant
Sculpture by the Sea

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

About the Trainer

Amanda Tink, Training Coordinator

Amanda Tink

Amanda coordinates all aspects of Accessible Arts Education and Training.  This includes training on Disability Awareness and Access (with the option of TAFE-accreditation), Disability Action Planning, Arts Awareness; educational seminars and forums; and the Arts Activated Conference.

Amanda is passionate about disability rights as human rights, facilitating for positive change, universally accessible art and coffee. Amanda has been in the role since October 2010. Previously she worked as the Training Officer at People with Disability Australia (PWD) and before that, as the CEO of Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN).  Her other work has included: producing and presenting Access All Areas (a national radio program on disability-related topics); guest lecturing at Australian Catholic University; movie reviewing for commercial radio; and presenting as a keynote speaker at the Disability Advocacy Resource Units 2nd Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference.

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