Image description - actor Jennifer Lisky is onstage playing Pip in Lighthouse. She is wearing cream trousers and waistcoat and a brown shirt. She is seated at a table looking at a photgraph album. The set is draped in cream calico which has handwritten notes on fabric attached to it, including the table covering. There is an empty chair at the table and a box of keepsakes on the table including, a stethoscope, some fairy lights and some jars of honey.

Cultural Shift - Ideas for Your Venue and Disabled People

Cultural Shift was a three year artistic, strategic, disabled-led project developed by Little Cog and ARC Stockton. Through this programme we developed a model of practice which we think is exciting and relevant to promoting disability equality in art and culture. We created this guide to explain what we did and what the impact has been since. We've also posed a series of questions which might help your venue to think about ways forward and actions you might take. 

Download the guide below by clicking on the image

Creating An Artist Access Rider

Disabled artists are taking control of ensuring their access requirements are known, acknowledged and met by employers, commissioners and collaborators by creating Access Riders. We've put together a guide on how to create one and what you might consider including. It includes a sample template which you can adapt.

Guide to creating an access rider can be found here

Guide to Hosting an Accessible Online Meeting

The world has changed and we need to be fully accessible online. We've put together a guide, based on what we've learned and experienced from a variety of meetings and organisations and our own advocacy to include disabled people in everything. It is not exhaustive, we're not access gurus and it will change and evolve over time.

Guide to Hosting an Accessible Online Meeting

The Social Model of Disability

The social model of disability was developed by disabled people to describe our experience of a disabling world.
You can find more information here about our thoughts on the Social Model of Disability, what Disabled-Led means, what a Disability Equality Ethos looks like and out thoughts on the ableist act of Crip-taking.

Social Model of Disability, Disability Equality Ethos and Crip-taking

Advice for Freelance Artists on Making Your Work Accessible

This information  was created for the Tees Valley New Creatives Network, offering some initial advice on artists who want to make their work more accessible. It's not an exhaustive list but it's a good start. 

Some ideas for artists about making their work accessible to collaborators and audiences