Search for inspiring SEN music teaching
A programme aiming to raise expectations and awareness of what young disabled people can achieve is seeking examples of music proj…
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Bookshop: Oily Cart: all sorts of theatre for all sorts of kids
As a compendium and celebration of thirty years of inspirational children’s theatre, this book serves its purpose with clari…
ATG will pilot ‘relaxed’ theatre scheme
Ambassadors’ Theatre Group will pilot a ‘relaxed’ theatre scheme over this year’s Panto season, designed t…
Trinity Laban and Candoco join forces on inclusive practice
A partnership between two major dance organisations has been launched to tackle limited representation for disabled people i…
No Space for Disabled and Deaf
Subtitles Now!, a campaign against digital arts channel The Space, has been launched by Disabled/Deaf-led creative business start…
The art of playfulness
Play is a fundamental part of artistic projects that aim to improve the lives of disabled people, says Ciara Brennan
Tapping feet to the beat
Rebecca Taylor describes how the refreshing approach of a disability charity is leading its members to embrace the “cosmic dance…
Access is everything
Suzanne Bull makes the case for disabled access to be at the heart of music venues’ strategic plans – not an afterthought
Reasons to be cheerful
Cath Wilkins looks to the future for inclusive dance
New arts facility for the disabled and socially excluded
A new arts facility dedicated to education, innovation and excellence in the arts for disabled people and socially excluded groups…
Access failings at music venues
A new report has concluded that clear information on access prior to events is crucial to deaf and disabled customers being able t…
‘The Cultural Leadership Handbook: how to run a creative organization’
Hot off the press, The Cultural Leadership Handbook aims ambitiously “to be for anyone wanting to work, or already working,…
The price of everything and the value of nothing?
Last week I went to two art exhibitions. Paul Graham at the Whitechapel and George Shaw at the Baltic. Looking at Graham’s photos…
Striking a balance
FROM Mike Layward, Artistic Director, DASH In your article ‘ACE grapples with equality’ (p1, AP236), I would challenge…
A positive choice
Jenny Taylor shares Shape’s vision for disabled people to participate fully in the arts and cultural sector, and looks at the po…
An able board
A diverse board can be of great benefit to an organisation. Charlotte Jones highlights the importance of having board members from…
Art without boundaries
After being paralysed in a car accident, Keith Jansz turned to painting with the support of the Association of Mouth and Foot Pain…
Defying definitions
Mike Layward takes a look at how to put disability arts into the mainstream
Onwards and upwards
Vicki Balaam on how the integrated dance landscape has changed and is continuing to develop
ACE grapples with equality
Organisations’ shortcomings contribute to Arts Council England dilemmas over funding diversity
Festival time in Wales
Eleven of Wales’s arts festivals are to share over £500,000 of Lottery funding to enable them to “showcase cultu…
Design competition will create one-handed orchestral instruments
Leading theatre professional launches new initiative to extend music-making opportunities for disabled people
Graham Hitchen
We’ve heard lots about the importance of ‘frontline’ organisations recently, but very little about the organisat…
Equal Opportunities recruitment stifles applications
“The organisation will conduct an equal opportunities interview – asking all interviewees the same questions and scori…
