Accessible Arts / arts + disability NSW

A mentorship involving eight performers from the Ever After Theatre Company, working under the guidance of Back to Back Theatre will take place in April in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts and Accessible Arts at Sydney Theatre Company.

First Flight Crew will make their first appearance for 2010 at Platform 3, Sydney’s largest hip hop festival on Saturday 20 March 2010.

An information booth and staff from the Australia Council for the Arts will be available at the Arts Activated National Conference for all delegates to drop by, have a chat and pick up relevant information about their current programs and services.

Accessible Arts, Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School and Pine Street Creative Arts Centre are developing scholarship positions for artists with disability. Based in Sydney, Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is the oldest and largest independent sculpture school in Australia.

Workshops : Fairfield / Blacktown : 7 - 16 Apr 10 : Powerhouse Youth Theatre are running an exciting Easter Holiday season of workshops at the Blacktown Arts Centre and the Fairfield School of Arts

Workshops : Fairfield : Beginning March 2010 : Beyond Vision, theatre for people who are blind or have low vision.

Workshop : Parramatta : 13 Mar 10 : The British Council with support from Riverside Theatres is offering emerging performers, writers and comedians the opportunity to participate in a free workshop with UK comedian, Francesca Martinez.

Performance : Parramatta : 14 Mar 10 : British award-winning 'wobbly' comedian and star of Ricky Gervais' hit TV series, Extras, makes her Sydney debut with a personal, hilarious and hard-hitting show.

Competition : location : Deadline 2 Apr 10 : Truth in Art competition theme "People, Parks & Climate Change".

Unlimited, the UK’s largest ever disability arts program, has been launched by the 2012 Cultural Olympiad as part of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, planned for July 2012 through to September 2012.

A nationwide protest was held in all capital cities on Saturday 13 February 2010, galvanizing general consensus that the current level of access to cinema is unacceptable to people who have sensory disabilities, their families and their friends.

Three inventions to help people with disability are featured in a special edition of the ABC1 television program The New Inventors screening on 10 March 2010.

Action on Cinema Access, a newly-formed community group, will protest in Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide, on Saturday 13 February at 11:00 am, to demonstrate disapproval at Village Roadshow, Greater Union, Hoyts and Reading Cinemas, who have applied for an exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act for two and a half years.

An innovative project for musicians with mixed abilities will use sound to explore new realms of possibility in a place free of social and physical barriers.