Europe Beyond Access continues!

Six performers, including a wheelchair user, two men wearing frocks and three women in trousers and braces perform rapturously to an onlooking crowd in an outdoor space.

Europe Beyond Access continues!

Europe Beyond Access has been awarded €2m by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, ensuring the world’s largest transnational Arts & Disability collaboration continues until 2027. Mixed Doubles by Grootens, Kalampaliki, Tortelli, & Espinosa. Photo © Simone Cargnoni Today we are pleased to announce that Europe Beyond Access has once

Two white female dancers. The first is a wheelchair user with her back on the ground and legs facing upwards. The other does a headstand against the wheels of her her chair with both her legs off at opposite jaunty angles.

Film: Five years of Europe Beyond Access

Film

After 5 years, the world largest transnational Arts & Disability project Europe Beyond Access, supported by the Creative Europe programme of the EU, is about to come to an end. https://youtu.be/uYdXKbEzAwQ Since 2018, we have supported hundreds of Deaf and Disabled artists across Europe and have been thrilled to see sold-out theatre

Arts and Culture Norway: joining the ‘disability revolution’ in the Norwegian arts sector

Case Study

Arts and Culture Norway is the main governmental operator for the implementation of Norwegian cultural policy. Here, Senior Advisor Kaja Tvedten Jorem describes the journey the organisation has been on over the last two years in discovering and attempting to remove some of the barriers for disabled artists in Norway's

A group of learning disabled actors in tattered costumes stand around another actor injured on the floor

Country Profile: France

Country Profile

Delphine Maurel, Artistic Director of theatre company, La Bulle Bleue in Montpellier gives an overview of France's arts and disability scene, which is dominated by employment support organisations known as ESATs but is nevertheless known for innovative work. Julien by Compagnie

Three artists stare into the camera as if watching a film. They're naked but covered by a black cinema curtain. On the left is a man from Fairford Reserve with short black hair and a moustache. He drinks from a straw from the cinema-style drink held by a blonde white woman of Polish background to his right. On her right, a Filipino-Canadian with short black hair holds a cardboard popcorn box in one hand, while his other hand is at his mouth in surprise or fear.

Country Profile: Canada (northern Turtle Island)

Country Profile

Glasgow-based disabled artist, Sandra Alland, examines disability arts in her birthplace, the settler-occupied Indigenous territories in the north of Turtle Island – known more widely as Canada. *Note: After English and French place-names, I list in parentheses: Indigenous place-names; names of First Nations territories occupied by the city/province; and/or numbers/names of

5 disabled performers stand in a line on stage

Country Profile: Australia

Country Profile

Australian disabled musician and arts, access and inclusion consultant Morwenna Collett explores Australia, a country that has produced some incredible d/Deaf and disabled artists, inclusive organisations and events. The Shadow Whose Prey The Hunter Becomes, Carriageworks, Back to Back Theatre. Photograph: Zan Wimberley 2019 Australia is home to some incredible d/Deaf and

A learning disabled man ina silver body suit holds a glowing yellow circle on a stage

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:

Open letter to major European policymakers demands full participation of people with disabilities in the arts

Opinion
December 3, 2020

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020, members of the European Arts & Disability Cluster have written an open letter to multiple European policymakers to ensure the European cultural programme 2021-2027 has the full participation of people with disabilities as artists, as arts professionals and as audiences. The cluster

Europe Beyond Access: developed in the laboratory

Opinion
February 14, 2019

Europe Beyond Access is a four-year pan-European project aimed at supporting disabled artists to break the glass ceilings of the contemporary theatre and dance sectors, initiated by a consortium of seven leading culture organisations and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. As the project celebrates its

Disability at Wellcome Collection

Case Study

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library based in London, which is part of Wellcome Trust, a global charitable organisation which supports research around health. Orla O’Donnell, Visitor Experience Manager at Wellcome Collection provides an insight into some of their work with disabled artists and audiences. Heart n Soul’s