Shape Arts brings the UK’s Disability Arts movement to the Venice Biennale
Shape Arts brings the UK’s Disability Arts movement to the Venice Biennale
Case Study
Leading UK disabled-led arts organisation, Shape Arts has curated a landmark exhibition of work by disabled artists which also charts the UK's disability arts and rights movements. Crip Arte Spazio: The DAM in Venice is on display at CREA during the run of the 2024 Venice Biennale. Shape Arts CEO
What’s new in Europe Beyond Access II?
Opinion
March 1, 2024
Following the announcement that Europe Beyond Access has secured Creative Europe funding for a further four years, Project Director, Ben Evans explains what was learnt from the first iteration and what changes will be made. Moby Dick, Chiara Bersani/Danskompaniet Spinn. Image: Simone Cargnoni Late last year, it was confirmed that Europe Beyond
Chiara Bersani
Artist
Chiara Bersani is an Italian artist working in the field of performing arts. She trained in the field of theatrical research with influences from contemporary dance and performance. Her first choreographic work, Family Tree, received several national awards including the Perspective Dance Award 2011 and was part of the NID
Giuseppe Comuniello
Artist
Giuseppe Comuniello is a visually impaired dancer and choreographer from Italy supported by Oriente Occidente Dance Festival. In 2019, he was one of the selected artists to take part in the third Europe Beyond Access laboratory held in Maastricht. His work, spanning both stage and screen, demonstrates a broad range
Diana Anselmo
Artist
Diana Anselmo is an Italian Deaf performer, the youngest member of the British Council Italy Cultural Advisory Board for 2021-2022, the Italian ambassador of Europe Beyond Access, and President of the association Al.Di.Qua. Artists, founded in 2021 with Chiara Bersani among others. Pronouns: they/them In 2022, they performed at Sign Language Art
Beyond Signs
Collaboration
For equal access, professionalisation and engagement of native signer artists for mixed audiences Beyond Signs is a two-year project (2020-2022) intending to improve the social integration of deaf people through artistic cooperation, by involving them actively in the performing arts sector, from the creation to the staging, collaborating and touring in
Aristide Rontini
Artist
Aristide Rontini is an Italian dancer and choreographer supported by Europe Beyond Access. He is a founding member of the Italian disabled artists-activists group Al Di Qua who are leading the way in advocating for the autonomy and rights of disabled artists in Italy. Rontini’s research questions the dimension of
Oriente Occidente festival 2022
Festival
https://youtu.be/p4-s23eWncw Taking place in Rovereto, Italy, from 3-10 September 2022, Europe Beyond Access partner Oriente Occidente will be incorporating SubPac technology and audio introductions to performances to ensure that Deaf, hard-of-hearing, Blind and visually impaired audiences have access to the festival programme. The performances that will feature the use of SubPacs are: é
Europe Beyond Access presents new film about Disabled Artists and Covid-19
Film
How have disabled artists across Europe experienced the pandemic? How have artist networks, collaborations, perspectives and ambitions changed since 2020 when Covid-19 began to circulate around the world? Our latest film features disabled artists reflecting on the past few years. Queer disabled Polish performer Katarzyna Żeglicka reflects on how lockdowns made
Oriente Occidente presents PRESENTI ACCESSIBILI
Europe Beyond Access partner Oriente Occidente is leading on PRESENTI ACCESSIBILI (ACCESSIBLE PRESENT), the first major all-Italy conference on arts and disability taking place from 27 to 29 April 2022. The initiative – run in conjunction with the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Region of Lombardy as part of