Crucial Conversations
Disabled Artists Developing Access Statements/Riders
Developing Access Statements/Riders Tuesday 1 March 1.30-3.30pm
This event has now happened and you can read the blog here
Disabled artists are taking control of ensuring their access requirements are known, acknowledged and met by partners, commissioners and collaborators.
We see a regression in accessibility in our current times and so our aim is to continue to keep these matters visible. Disabled people often have access requirements that there aren’t existing routes to communicate and share with employers, commissioners, companies and collaborators. This is a way to take control of ensuring your access requirements are shared, acknowledged and met.
This is an area new to some artists and so we’d like to take some of the mystery out of it and provide a template for you to consider and adapt.
Whether or not you choose to use the term disabled, if you have a condition or impairment which means you're at risk of discrimination and exclusion, where both unintentional and intentional barriers keep you out or make your practice difficult - you have RIGHTS. They are solid and enshrined in law. We hope that by introducing this into our own practice that organisations and partners will begin to use it in theirs, and really positive working environments and relationships are created.
Having access requirements met is NOT the responsibility of the artist, and it is NOT the job of the artist to either provide free organisational access advice or solve an organisation’s access problems. An access statement is a tool to meet the access requirements of the artist it belongs to, and clear communication between the relevant people involved in a piece of work.
In this session we’ll discuss our experiences of access, how we articulate our access requirements, what to include and what not to include in an access rider, when to use it and we’ll make a start on developing our own rider. The session will be facilitated by Vici Wreford-Sinnott who is a disabled theatre/screen writer/director, is Artistic Director of Little Cog and long-term member of the disability arts movement.
This session was aimed at UK based disabled artists interested in discussing access for artists and creating an access statement / rider.
Funded by Arts Council England
This event has now happened and you can read the blog here
Disabled artists are taking control of ensuring their access requirements are known, acknowledged and met by partners, commissioners and collaborators.
We see a regression in accessibility in our current times and so our aim is to continue to keep these matters visible. Disabled people often have access requirements that there aren’t existing routes to communicate and share with employers, commissioners, companies and collaborators. This is a way to take control of ensuring your access requirements are shared, acknowledged and met.
This is an area new to some artists and so we’d like to take some of the mystery out of it and provide a template for you to consider and adapt.
Whether or not you choose to use the term disabled, if you have a condition or impairment which means you're at risk of discrimination and exclusion, where both unintentional and intentional barriers keep you out or make your practice difficult - you have RIGHTS. They are solid and enshrined in law. We hope that by introducing this into our own practice that organisations and partners will begin to use it in theirs, and really positive working environments and relationships are created.
Having access requirements met is NOT the responsibility of the artist, and it is NOT the job of the artist to either provide free organisational access advice or solve an organisation’s access problems. An access statement is a tool to meet the access requirements of the artist it belongs to, and clear communication between the relevant people involved in a piece of work.
In this session we’ll discuss our experiences of access, how we articulate our access requirements, what to include and what not to include in an access rider, when to use it and we’ll make a start on developing our own rider. The session will be facilitated by Vici Wreford-Sinnott who is a disabled theatre/screen writer/director, is Artistic Director of Little Cog and long-term member of the disability arts movement.
This session was aimed at UK based disabled artists interested in discussing access for artists and creating an access statement / rider.
Funded by Arts Council England
