Disability

Critical engagement please!

24 Apr 2014

Why are we not critically engaging with learning disability arts? Bella Todd reports on the recent Creative Minds conference.

Engagement

Cultural access scheme for disabled arts attenders

Photo of a man in a wheelchair in an auditorium

17 Apr 2014

News

Creu Cymru is to lead on the development of a ‘National Disabled Visitors’ Card Scheme’ in Wales.

Wales

Dancing to escape

10 Apr 2014

Case study

Dance workshops, courses and events in Somerset have allowed over 400 people with mental health issues to ‘escape their troubled minds’. Viv Gordon discusses their impact.

Health and wellbeing

Disability out of the box

31 Mar 2014

Mat Fraser focuses his disability activism on how exhibitions in medical museums can change ideas and attitudes around disability.

Museums

Job Ladder

20 Feb 2014

Arts People

Ruth Gould found her mojo on her journey through the arts into disability cultures and activism, to her current role at DaDaFest.

Take us seriously!

02 Dec 2013

The Creative Minds project asks how the work of artists with a learning disability can best join the mainstream. Mark Richardson explains.

Equality

The arts in a box

Image of children playing on sofa at Bloomsbury Festival

30 Sep 2013

The Bloomsbury Festival in a Box outreach scheme is tackling cultural exclusion, reports Cathy Mager.

Working in partnership with a Ugandan arts organisation has been a fraught experience (an understatement) for Blackpool’s TramShed, but as Zac Hackett and Marge Ainsley report, they are not giving up.

Arts organisations fall down on the marketing of accessible events

Individual in a wheelchair watches arts event

06 Sep 2013

News

Improvements in physical access for disabled people have not been matched by better strategies to attract audiences, says new report.

Access

Research

Book Review: Project Art Works Anthology 1997-2012

03 Jul 2013

Book review

Maggie Hampton finds immensely vibrant and powerful art in Project Art Works Anthology.

Job Ladder

06 Jun 2013

Arts People

The new Executive Director of Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Judith Kilvington, guides us through her career to date.

Inspired to continue

22 May 2013

Isabel Jones talks to Esther Harris about the inspiration behind her recent work with visually impaired dance performers.

A slow journey

09 May 2013

Tony Heaton reflects on how far we have come to make arts buildings accessible to all.

Access

A cold wind

09 May 2013

How can we make sure that physical access improvements remain a priority despite current economic constraints? David Bonnett has some suggestions.

Arts funding

Access