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…
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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…
Volunteers plug the gaps
New figures suggest heavy reliance on volunteers and public subsidy
Amala Anyika shares the websites she wouldn’t be without
WWW.DISABILITYARTSONLINE.ORG.UK Disability Arts Online provides lots of information on the disability arts sector, for artists and…
If Stephen Hawking was a musician…
Doug Bott explains how one company is working to remove some of the obstacles that disabled people face when trying to participate…
London cuts on hold
Proposed cuts were not fully assessed for gender, disability and race equality impacts, judicial review finds
Creating something irresistible
The Unlimited fund has opened up new avenues for Deaf and disabled artists. Ben Rothera profiles the work of Jez Colborne, recipie…
