Accessible Arts is the peak arts and disability organisation across New South Wales.
Our vision is a society in which people with disabilities can contribute to and fully experience the arts and cultural life.
Accessible Arts is working across the Western Sydney region, raising awareness and creating opportunities in the arts for people with disability. Our work seeks to raise the profile of arts & disability through various model projects, creative programs and strategic initiatives, and through the provision of information, advice and training, improving access to the arts for people with disability.
Accessible Arts is working closely with arts centres and local councils across Western Sydney on a regional approach towards inclusive and accessible programs and practices for people with disability. The Western Sydney initiative fosters strong partnerships between the arts and disability sectors, local councils and community to ensure sustainability.
The Western Sydney project covers 11 local councils including Auburn, Bankstown, Baulkham Hills, Blacktown, Blue Mountains, Fairfield, Hawkesbury, Holroyd, Liverpool, Parramatta and Penrith.
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Western Sydney Team
Alison Richardson
Creative Programs Co-ordinator
Key areas: creative programs and professional development opportunities for people with a disability in all artistic disciplines.
Alison is responsible for coordinating quality arts programs and creative opportunities for people with a disability across Western Sydney.
Alison has worked extensively as a theatre director and tutor for community theatre companies, Powerhouse Youth Theatre, Shopfront Theatre, PACT Theatre and Australian Theatre For Young People. She was the Community Outreach Worker at Powerhouse Youth Theatre where she directed and produced several events for marginalised and disadvantaged youth. She has worked extensively as a drama tutor/director for various disability services and has established sliced bread attraction an organisation committed to creating creative opportunities for people of all abilities. She was the 2007 recipient of the Young Leaders Award for 2007 from the Australia Council for the Arts in acknowledgment for her commitment to community arts.
Jennifer Teo
Strategic Initiatives Co-ordinator
Key areas: advocacy, policy and strategic initiatives, consultation, forms networks, skills development and dialogue opportunities between arts and disability sectors.
Jennifer is responsible for the strategic development of sustainable programs and increased access to creative opportunities for people with a disability across Western Sydney.
Jennifer is a qualified Occupational Therapist and has worked in the disability sector for over fifteen years. She has worked on community development projects, developing aged care and disability services and resources with indigenous communities throughout Central Australia and Cape York Peninsula. Jennifer also works as a digital media tutor at the SoundHouse VectorLab (Powerhouse Museum) and is interested in the creative applications of technology, with a specific interest in sound and media arts. As an artist, director and curator, Jennifer has produced numerous installations and electronic music events in Sydney and Cairns, and is the Sydney co-director of Liquid Architecture, a national sound arts festival. She also runs Plum Industries (www.plumindustries.org) and programs an experimental music radio show / podcast.
Western Sydney Office
Level 1 / 62 Flushcombe Road
Blacktown City Council
Blacktown, NSW 2148
AUSTRALIA
Alison Richardson
Creative Programs Co-ordinator
Tel: (02) 9251 6499 (ext. 112)
Email: arichardson@aarts.net.au
Jennifer Teo
Strategic Initiatives Co-ordinator
Tel: (02) 9251 6499 (ext. 111)
Email: jteo@aarts.net.au
All snail mail goes via the Main Office.
Accessible Arts Main Office
Pier 4, The Wharf,
Hickson Road,
Walsh Bay NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 02 9251 6499
Fax 02 9251 6422
Web: www.aarts.net.au