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Access Ideas and Insights: Co-Design in Practice

Join us at ACO On The Pier or online as we examine co-design as a creative process when artists lead the development of new work.

Speakers will discuss how ideas are shaped, negotiated and sometimes challenged through collaboration, and how authorship and decision-making are shared across artists, communities and organisations.

From Songsmiths to Milk Crate Theatre, the panel showcases different approaches to co-design, highlighting how collaborative practice can shape creative processes, artistic outcomes and community development through meaningful engagement, connection and shared ownership.
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Accessible Recordings: First Nations Storytelling

Earlier this year, Accessible Arts partnered with Bangarra Dance Theatre to present an Access Ideas and Insights event focused on First Nations storytelling as a central platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures, Identity and Empowerment.

This event explored Storytelling as a living knowledge system – one that sustains First Nations Cultures, including language and traditional practices, while respectfully shaping community connection and advocating for collective responsibility.

Check out the accessible recordings of this event.
Ripple 2026 Interns Announced

Congratulations to the Participants Selected for the 2026 RIPPLE Program

We’re excited to announce the eight successful applicants who will be undertaking paid internships as part of Ripple, the Disability and Culturally Diverse Internship Program led by Accessible Arts and run in partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and a range of arts, cultural and screen organisations across NSW and the ACT.

Congratulations to Senjuti Maitra, Anya, Elena Akami Hammer, Sehej Kaur Sehmbhi, Denise Nolasco, Mei Lin Meyers, Lara-Marie Wilkinson and Sione Puloka on being selected.
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Growing Inclusive Audiences: Accessible Recordings

Accessible Arts recently presented an Access Ideas and Insights event focused on Growing Inclusive Audiences.

This event explored how arts and cultural organisations can expand access and deepen audience relationships by embedding access across all areas of practice. It considered cultural access, engagement, and long-term thinking, with a focus on how audiences are actively included in programming, marketing, and organisational decision-making.
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Advance Your Career: Artists at Work – Fees, Rights and Getting Paid 

We’re presenting a free Advance Your Career workshop for artists and arts workers with disability or who are d/Deaf.

In partnership with the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), this workshop introduces key tools from the Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design, a sector-wide resource that provides minimum standards and guidance for fair and ethical working relationships.
Access Ideas and Insights_ Growing Inclusive Audiences

Access Ideas and Insights: Growing Inclusive Audiences

Our upcoming Access Ideas and Insights event explores how arts and cultural organisations can expand access and deepen audience relationships by embedding access across all areas of practice.

This exciting panel will consider cultural access, engagement, and long-term thinking, with a focus on how audiences are actively included in programming, marketing and organisational decision-making.

Panellists include Angie Goto, Sidney McMahon and Rosell Flatley. This event will be MC’d by Michael Louis Kennedy.
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