What’s new in Europe Beyond Access II?
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
Culturgest
Partner
Website: Culturgest Culturgest – Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Lisbon, Portugal) is dedicated to contemporary creation and presents a regular programme of performing arts, music, visual arts, cinema and contemporary thought aimed at a diverse public, which includes schools, children and young people, invited to enjoy national and international first-rate
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
Europe Beyond Access presents ‘Arts, disability and social change’
Film
Discover how a generation of disabled dancers, choreographers and interdisciplinary artists are creating social change through the work that they make. https://youtu.be/OpeK6lPyNuI?list=PLdiB3YQ6fPnk5oUHsVP9L_V6WtWUztJ7- Artists involved in Europe Beyond Access from USA, Sweden, Poland, UK, Portugal and Austria reflect on how they are confronting the normative gaze and making a political statement by taking
Panel: Time to Act report (for Portuguese audiences)
An event hosted by Acesso Cultura as part of Acesso Cultura week 2021. The British Council commissioned a research report from the organisation On the Move regarding the level of knowledge and experience of European cultural agents in relation to disabled artists and their work. The study includes the 40 countries
Panel with Acesso Cultura, Portugal: Arts and Disability
Photo by Pedro Tiagro. Raw a Nude by Diana Niepce. As part of Europe Beyond Access, the British Council in collaboration with Acesso Cultura present a lively discussion ‘Arts and Disability: a new cultural agenda for Europe’. Addressing the areas for change outlined in a report published by the first European Arts
Art Without Limits: New Funding in Portugal
Case Study
Disability Arts journalist Paul F Cockburn speaks to Américo Rodrigues, Director of DGARTES (Portugal's arts council) and Maria Vlachou, Director of Associação Acesso Cultura, about new public funding in Portugal aimed at both supporting disabled artists and improving cultural access to wider audiences. Terra Amarela's Fala aos Bichos (2020). Photograph:
Europe Beyond Access introduces… Diana Niepce (Portugal)
Film
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oJcNAGV_H4I Europe Beyond Access introduces… Diana Niepce, a Portuguese disabled dancer and choreographer who uses shock and nudity to explore the sexuality of disabled people and the objectification of non-normative bodies. Niepce trained as a trapeze artist and ballet dancer. Now, her works (made for both stage and screen) channel the themes
Daniel Moraes
Artist
Daniel Moraes lives and works between São Paulo and Lisbon. He has a Master's in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, with a degree in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Campinas (2006). Daniel works with painting, drawing and video performance. His research resides
Digital exchange: Filip Pawlak in conversation with Teatr 21
Three chairs at the front of a stage sit before a video projection showing a learning disabled female performer. Photo: Pawel Kuligowski This event will take part on Europe Beyond Access' Facebook page and artist group, as well as being livestreamed on the Facebook pages of Instytut Muzyki i Tańca, Teatr