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Access All Areas
Guidelines for marketing the arts to people with disabilities, by Neridah & Pam Wyatt-Spratt, Jane Haley and Lisa McKoy.
For most people, the decision to be exposed to the experience of an arts event is a simple one. You go, because you choose to go. Providing that choice to people with disabilities is the issue of Access All Areas. Access All Areas describes positive steps that can be taken that benefit both the arts organisation and the disability community. Marketing to people with disabilities is about equal opportunity, equal access and the recognition that people with disabilities are valuable members of your audience. Access All Areas not only describes the legal reasons why organisations and venues must provide equal access but also shows the benefits for arts organisations and for people with disabilities. Access All Areas was prepared by Accessible Arts and Arts Access for the Australia Council and contains some information from the Arts Council of England's Guidelines for Marketing to Disabled Audiences.
Available in print from Accessible Arts and as a free download from the Australia Council website.
Cost: FREE
Positive/Negative
Writings on Integrated Dance, edited by Neridah Wyatt-Spratt.
Integrated Dance, an artform for people with and without disabilities, is one of the most exciting disability arts movements of recent times. This unique publication brings together practitioners, dancers and arts workers to discuss their experiences and techniques.
Cost: $22
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One Heart One World
International Exhibition of the Heart, exhibition catalogue
The catalogue of this exhibition, held in Sydney during the Paralympic Arts Festival, features 100 full colour images and poems. This catalogue is both beautiful and inspiring.
Cost: $22
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Accessible TheatreSports
A book of drama improvisation ideas, by Anastasia Kyriakidis and Suzie Walker.
If you have ever wanted to try TheatreSports, enhance your drama skills through improvisation, or have a performance group who would enjoy this type of collaborative and creative form of activity then this publication will provide you with many ideas. Packed with activities designed for people with a range of performance skills this will help you develop a program or enhance your own work.
Cost: $33
Making the Journey
Arts & Disability in Australia by Mary Hutchinson 2005
This beautifully presented publication is 96 pages of full colour imagery encompassing arts activities, organisations and individuals all around Australia of people with disabilities. The inspiring work they do is documented in detail with colour examples. The book travels around Australia from Adelaide to Darwin with a list of resources, contacts, disability action plans and definitions of disabilities. A valuable resource.
Arts Access Australia & Australia Council have now made it possible to download a copy in pdf and html format. Download now from the Australia Council website.
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How to order these publications
To obtain copies of any of these publications or for further information contact Accessible Arts on 02 9251 6499 or email info@aarts.net.au.