Arts and disability
- Access Arts
- An evolving collection of Flash based online workshops and educational activities, including "Red, Yellow, Blue" (enabling young children and children with learning difficulties to explore colour) and "I See What You Mean" (involving the use of visual works in teaching literacy).
- Accessible Arts
- Accessible Arts is the peak arts organisation in NSW promoting creative expression and participation in arts and cultural activities by people with disability.This site provides information on art and disability in NSW.
- Action Space Mobile
- A UK based arts company and a charity that works with people with special needs to create mixed media performances and tours, including theatre, music and art. It acts as an advocacy project and offers role models to other people with disability.
- Angryfish
- Robin Surgeoner (AKA Angryfish) is an established Disability Arts singer songwriter in the UK. He writes songs with powerful lyrics that are about realisation, oppression, potential, determination and one worldism - available on his web site.
- Art as a Healing Force
- This site concentrates on making art to heal, on the power of the creative process of art as a healing force, uniting body, mind, and spirit.
- Art Therapy on the Web
- Good art therapy links.
- Arts Access
- Arts Access is a not-for-profit independent arts organisation which creates opportunities for all people to participate in the arts - especially people with a disability and people who are disadvantaged by social conditions.
- Arts Access Aotearoa
- Arts Access Aotearoa (New Zealand) works with organisations in the social service sector, and communities of people with limited access to the arts, to stimulate them to undertake arts projects, develop their own arts activities independently and develop partnerships with funding organisations and art groups.
- Artsline
- Provides information about disability access to arts and cultural events in London. Web site includes an online database and publications.
- Art Through Touch
- Aims to promote and provide access to art activity for people who are blind and vision impaired. Activities include art talks, art workshops and visits to museums and galleries.
- Attitude is Everything
- Works to improve access to live music by people with disability.
- Autism Arts
- An online collection of artwork by children and adults with autism - web site inclide the Autism NetVerse Project.
- Axis Dance Company
- Since 1987, AXIShas created an exciting body of work developed by dancers with and without disability. They are in the forefront of paving the way for a powerful and inclusive dance form, "physically integrated dance".
- Blind Musician
- Electronic music created by Mikko Huhtala, using a computer, screen reader (JAWS), refreshable Braille and a midi keyboard. Musical scores and information about the assistive technology and software used for recordings are on Mikko's website.
- Chicken Shed Theatre
- Chicken Shed is a UK organisation whose mission is to produce excellent, original and creative theatre which demonstrates that the performing arts belong to everyone.
- Club Wild
- Club Wild brings together professional and aspiring musicians from the growing disability cultures scene in Melbourne and beyond. Bands, DJs, solo artists and performers who love the opportunity of performing to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience.
- Coalition for Disabled Musicians
- A voluntary, non-profit organisation dedicated to enabling musicians with a physical disability to pursue their musical dreams.
- Creativity Explored
- A visual art center and gallery for artists with developmental disability, located in San Francisco. Site describes programs and shows artwork by artists with disability participating in studio programs.
- Dayton Arts Institute - Access Arts
- Discusses the accessibility initiatives (museum and web site) taken by the Dayton Art Institute. Access Art was designed to be as accessible as possible to everyone, particularly people with disability using adaptive computer equipment.
- Donna Williams
- Donna William's personal space, includes books, music, paintings, sculptures and lectures.
- Drummer Stix
- Andrew Hewitt is a professional drummer. Born with cerebral palsy, his motto is "you can do anything if you put your mind to it". He started playing drums at the age of 10, has played with several rock bands and regularly perfoms live in hotels around Sydney. The Drummer Stiz web site includes some mp3 of his music.
- Fill in the Gaps
- Live audio description for art lovers who are vision impaired.
- Funky Flamingo TV
- The World's first internet TV station by and for people with disability. There are 4 main channels; Arts, Film, News and Youth, as well as sub channels in each of these categories. FFTV uploads films from talented artists with disability as well as producing its own and presenting exciting news and live broadcasts from around the world.
- Grin and bear it
- A disability arts theatre company comprising a diverse group of writers, actors and musicians with disability, who offer a unique and often comic perspective on society's attitudes about disability.
- Heart'n Soul
- Heart'n Soul is a dynamic arts organisation offering creative opportunities to people with learning disability, including "Art from the Heart", contemporary music, theatre and club culture.
- Johnno Crescendo
- This site is about disability arts, disability culture and disability politics expressed through music, poetry and humour.
- Keys to the Studio
- Original music from people diagnosed with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
- Kina Diamond (Canada)
- Kina is a female singer-songwriter of dance/pop/ music, mostly in English, but also in French or Spanish … with a unique edge.
- National Arts and Disability Center
- NADC is the US national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specialising in the field of arts and disability (based at the University of California).
- One Switch Music Creativity
- Accessible music creation software for musicans with disability, that can be operated with assistive technology.
- Orpheus Centre
- Accessible residential performing arts centre.
- Our Good Art
- CafePress sell a number of products with collaborative and individual art produced by artists with disability as expressions of themselves and their world. Proceeds go to support the artists and Goodwill Youth Programs which support employability, enrichment and independent living skills.
- Play in a Week
- Play in a Week is an annual event held at The Nomad Theatre in England, featuring a week-long disability workshop that culminates in the performance of an hour long show to a full audience each July.
- Playback Theatre at Shands Hospital
- Playback is improvisational theater that honors a personal story. The actors listen to the teller's tale, and then "play back" what they hear as the essence of the story. Their enactment may be realistic or symbolic.
- Restless Dance Company
- The company, based in Adelaide, combines the skills of up to 20 people with and without a disability. It creates dance theatre for performances in theatres, schools, the community and interstate. Collaboration is the key feature of the company's work, combining creative forces with some of Australia's most innovative artists in its productions.
- Salubrious Productions
- Salubrious Productions is a Brisbane-based entertainment and production agency specialising in representing professional artists with a disability.
- Shape Arts
- Based in England, Shape has been enabling access to the arts for disabled people for quarter of a century and co-ordinates a wide range of accessible projects. Activities include arts for leisure and life-long learning opportunities. Skills programmes cover traditional and multi-cultural arts as well as the latest developments in digital arts.
- S.O.D.A. Studio
- The Society Of Disabled Artists (S.O.D.A.) was created by Alistair and Garry, two Australian sculptors who have quadriplegia. Their aim is to show other people with disability the tools they have adapted and how they are used. If you are interested in learning stone sculpting, then drop by this web site for more information.
- Special Music
- This program began at the Chicago Park District in 1989 and allows people with disability the opportunity to compose, record and perform their own music.
- Sprout Film Festival
- An annual spring festival held in New York that showcases films and videos by, for and about people with developmental disabilities.
- Stop Gap
- A contemporary dance company consisting of dancers with and without disability.
- Theatre Resource
- An arts-based organisation that specialises in providing arts opportunities to people with disability. They produce professional arts projects, workshops, exhibitions, theatre and training courses and offer regular employment and supported employment opportunities.
- The Arts Dyslexia Trust
- A UK based organisation that aims to draw attention to the creative talents of people with dyslexia.
- VisAble
- A talent agency in the UK with the sole objective of supplying professional models, actors and presenters with disability to the television, film and advertising industries.
- VSA arts
- VSA arts is the coordinating organisation for arts programming for persons with disabilities in the USA. It offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the visual arts with the aim of creating a society where people with disability can learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts.
- Wheelchair dancing
- An introduction to wheelchair dance genres.
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