Current on the Ground - Toolkit workshop series 2009

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A practical workshop to impart valuable ‘tools’ and processes to creatively engage with communities. The workshop will be facilitated by Margie Breen, Accessible Arts and the Mixed Abilities Ensemble (PYT) featuring inclusive practice and techniques.

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Bankstown :: Disability Awareness & the Arts

Are you an artist, arts tutor, arts administrator, community worker running an arts program or setting up a community event?

Come and participate in this free practical workshop to increase your awareness about disability in a social context, barriers to participation for people with disability and developing practical strategies to use in your work context.

The workshop will be facilitated by Accessible Arts and is being financially supported by Bankstown City Council.

Morning Tea will be provided for everyone that comes along.

The workshop will be free of charge but registrations necessary.  Limited places only. To register, please call 

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Hip Hop takes over Youth Week

Hip hop workshops at Powerhouse Youth Theatre, photo courtesy Alison Richardson

Twelve hip hoppers have been working at Powerhouse Youth Theatre alongside Aussie B-Boy Morganics to create an original song to be performed at two of Western Sydney’s biggest Youth Week festivals, The Burbs in Blacktown & Bring It On! in Fairfield.  Taking place on the weekend of Saturday 4 April and Sunday 5 April, hundreds of young people will experience live acts, performances, competitions and lots more. Accessible Arts Creative Programs Coordinator, Alison Richardson says “It is a fantastic opportunity for the group to be

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Film shoot looking for assistants

'Be My Brother' film shoot 2008, photo courtesy Alison Richardson.

Accessible Arts and filmmaker Genevieve Clay are looking for people who identify as having a disability to assist and be mentored on a range of roles for a new short film, Francis & Annie.

Genevieve recently directed the short film, Be My Brother which took first place at this years Tropfest and featured Gerard O’Dwyer who won Best Actor for his role in the film. One of the other notable successes of Be My Brother was that it involved people of all abilities behind

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Come & Try Day in Fairfield :: 28 Feb 2009

Leisure Links would like to hear from young people living with a disability. Do yo like the arts? What type of art do you like? If you could learn about the arts, what would you like to learn?

Leisure Links, a program of the Spastic Centre of NSW, invites you to participate in an exciting day of inclusive creative workshops that give participants a taste of the arts.

Come and Try Day is a new initiative of The Spastic Centre, and designed so you , the participant, can experience a range of creative activities and then tell us what

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Creative Programs and Events for 2008

Hello Folks!! Accessible Arts Western Sydney have just finished planning for the year and would like to let you know about some of the exciting programs we have install for 2008.

Apprenticeship Training Program Firstly, a brief update on the Apprenticeship Training Program in live production, theatre and events. Now in its second term, the ATP started the year off with a bang – our fantastic tutor Don had the trainees operating coloured lights, smoke machines and sound equipment. We look forward to another action packed term working alongside Julius Media and Parramatta Riverside Theatre. Alison Richardson, Creative

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Opportunities :: Apprenticeship Training Program

Ever wanted to know what happens behind the scenes of a theatre production, event or festival? Have an interest in sound, lighting and multi media operation? If this sounds like you then get involved in Accessible Arts’ Apprenticeship Training Program!

WHY THIS COURSE? Julius Media are specialists in entertainment technology with an excellent track record in training people for career outcome and/or experience working on community events. Julius Media are very well connected in the industry and are the only organisation in NSW that offer this kind of training.

WHAT IS INCLUDED? Hands on experience in an accessible

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Opportunities :: Outreach Workshops hit the Blue Mountains!

Accessible Arts has partnered with Information & Cultural Exchange to deliver a series of six workshops in sound and image collection.

The workshops were delivered by a sound artist and photographer, and explore the themes of ‘space’ and ‘place’ with various special schools, support units, day programs and accommodation services across the Hawkesbury, Penrith and Blue Mountains region. The groups have captured and recorded some great moments with highlights being eating chips by the Hawkesbury river, visiting the rooms of 8 residents at Cherrywood Accommodation Service and visiting the bushland surroundings of Katoomba.

For more information on how

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