Making Performing Arts Venues Accessible to All

Accessible Arts (AA) is the peak arts and disability organisation across New South Wales.

AA promotes and provides opportunities for people with disability to participate in arts and cultural activities either as audience members; through attending galleries, theatres, museums and festivals; or as participants in art, drama, music, dance and multimedia activities; and by developing as professional artists.

AA has produced a great resource for performing arts venues to use in considering how to make their venues accessible to all in the community, including people with a disability.

The areas of consideration include: 

• Improving access to venues
• Marketing and Publication to the disability sector
• Training performing arts venue staff
• Anti-discrimination legislation compliance for venues

 

To find out more information visit: www.aarts.net.au/audience-development/access-to-performing-arts-venues

 

 

 

 

Focus on Ability Short Film Competition

The Focus on Ability Short Film competition is now in it's 5th year and asks people to submit short films in the 3 categories of 'open', 'schools' and 'corporate'.  The brief is to 'focus on ability'.

Voting is now underway to decide who will take out the major prize of 2 return tickets to Hollywood to study for 10 weeks at TAFTA’s film and television school, including accommodation and $3000 spending money.


So if you have a few spare minutes, check out some of the great entries via the link below and you can also vote for your favourite film in the people's choice:

http://www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films.html

Voting closes 11th August at 11.59pm. There will be an awards ceremony on the 15th August in Sydney. For more info about the evening and tickets please contact Amie on (02) 98332500. 

If you missed out this year on entering, perhaps get your thinking cap on for next year's competition ;)

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

We all make them, yet sometimes we need reminding of what our rights are around making decisions.

We came across this great video produced by Speak Out Advocacy in Tasmania - who are an organisation working in advocacy for people with a disability. 

This video talks about what decisions are and what rights we have around making them. It's designed to teach young people with intellectual disability about choice and decision making.

Check it out below: