Disability Equality Masterclasses
with
Vici Wreford-Sinnott
What Does Disability Equality Have to Do With You?
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Vici Wreford-Sinnott is a disabled writer, director, filmmaker and equality strategist. She is the Artistic Director of Little Cog which is a regional new writing company promoting disability equality across the North East and beyond, raising the voices and profile of disability arts. She is a founder of Disconsortia, an 18 member disabled artist-led collective and a founding member of the We Shall Not Be Removed movement.
Vici held the position of CEO at Arts and Disability Ireland where she had a national remit to champion and promote disability equality in the arts. She dorected two of the first pieces of Disability Theatre in the republic. She was also CEO of ARCADEA, the North East's regional development organisation for Disability Equality for 6 years. She has advised DCMS, Arts Councils in England and Ireland, many cultural venues and organisations on Disability Equality matters. She writes a regular blog and is a regular contributor to the global online journal TheatreArtLife. www.viciwreford-sinnott.com |
Disability Equality Masterclasses
Dates and Times
Tuesday 15 September 1.30-3.30pm
Tuesday 22 September 1.30-3.30pm
Our online Disability Equality Masterclasses are led by Little Cog Artistic Director Vici Wreford-Sinnott and focus on North East England based arts venues and organisations, aimed at senior decision-makers, artistic and executive directors, management teams, producers, programmers and artistic directors.
It really is time to take stock of disability equality practices in the arts and culture sector. Just what does disability equality have to do with you? How does it sit with your organisation and how can you benefit from the amazing offer from disabled-led companies and artists?
Disability Equality is something that impacts on a whole organisation and the way it thinks, plans, operates and creates, programmes or commissions work. The Masterclasses are friendly, supportive and not at all judgemental of practice – you will be guided through a range of subjects warmly and with fun. Something that starts with a pub quiz can’t be that difficult to take part in surely!
The Masterclasses, which are the same in content so you just need to attend one, will explain disability as a social phenomenon and remove all medical myths. We will put disability in a historical, cultural and social context to understand why disabled people are often missed off the map, to discover a rich seam of untold stories from new perspectives, and explore how disabled people have often been represented, resulting in stereotypes and common negative tropes.
Disability Equality looks at accessibility, at language, and at how to begin relationships with disabled-led companies and artists.
We can’t emphasise strongly enough that, in the longer term, your work in this area will become organisation wide, other wise it is tokenistic and risks being piecemeal. And responsibility for it cannot sit with one person, or with front of house staff. Disability is in every area, including Board and Executive Management – and it cannot success without complete buy in at this level of an organisation.*
Some kind words from ARC, with whom we developed Cultural Shift, a complete model for embedding disabled-led work into the heart of your art.
“We were genuinely challenged to rethink and change the way we work with disabled people. New language, new approaches and gaining a new knowledge of disability that helped us understand why we need to do things a certain way, rather than just changing because we want to tick boxes. People have seen really brilliant work and had their own perceptions challenged by the work they have seen.”
Annabel Turpin, Chief Executive, ARC
*If you are interested in a larger team taking part in online masterclasses, for example for your whole organisation or for a significant number of members of your team, we can schedule a separate session for you. There may be cost implications but we do have some subsidy to support this.
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability-equality-masterclass-with-vici-wreford-sinnott-tickets-11727931258
Please note there are two sessions, these will be the same so you only need to book for one.
Dates and Times
Tuesday 15 September 1.30-3.30pm
Tuesday 22 September 1.30-3.30pm
Our online Disability Equality Masterclasses are led by Little Cog Artistic Director Vici Wreford-Sinnott and focus on North East England based arts venues and organisations, aimed at senior decision-makers, artistic and executive directors, management teams, producers, programmers and artistic directors.
It really is time to take stock of disability equality practices in the arts and culture sector. Just what does disability equality have to do with you? How does it sit with your organisation and how can you benefit from the amazing offer from disabled-led companies and artists?
Disability Equality is something that impacts on a whole organisation and the way it thinks, plans, operates and creates, programmes or commissions work. The Masterclasses are friendly, supportive and not at all judgemental of practice – you will be guided through a range of subjects warmly and with fun. Something that starts with a pub quiz can’t be that difficult to take part in surely!
The Masterclasses, which are the same in content so you just need to attend one, will explain disability as a social phenomenon and remove all medical myths. We will put disability in a historical, cultural and social context to understand why disabled people are often missed off the map, to discover a rich seam of untold stories from new perspectives, and explore how disabled people have often been represented, resulting in stereotypes and common negative tropes.
Disability Equality looks at accessibility, at language, and at how to begin relationships with disabled-led companies and artists.
We can’t emphasise strongly enough that, in the longer term, your work in this area will become organisation wide, other wise it is tokenistic and risks being piecemeal. And responsibility for it cannot sit with one person, or with front of house staff. Disability is in every area, including Board and Executive Management – and it cannot success without complete buy in at this level of an organisation.*
Some kind words from ARC, with whom we developed Cultural Shift, a complete model for embedding disabled-led work into the heart of your art.
“We were genuinely challenged to rethink and change the way we work with disabled people. New language, new approaches and gaining a new knowledge of disability that helped us understand why we need to do things a certain way, rather than just changing because we want to tick boxes. People have seen really brilliant work and had their own perceptions challenged by the work they have seen.”
Annabel Turpin, Chief Executive, ARC
*If you are interested in a larger team taking part in online masterclasses, for example for your whole organisation or for a significant number of members of your team, we can schedule a separate session for you. There may be cost implications but we do have some subsidy to support this.
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability-equality-masterclass-with-vici-wreford-sinnott-tickets-11727931258
Please note there are two sessions, these will be the same so you only need to book for one.
