In recent years, cultural venues in various countries are increasingly actively introducing accessibility services for people with disabilities. By providing sign interpretation, audio descriptions or providing a soothing atmosphere, cultural institutions try to create conditions so that people with disabilities, as well as their family members and friends, can enjoy the cultural offer together.
However, when thinking about accessibility, there is an aspect that is often neglected – it is important to include people with disabilities in the working groups of cultural organizations and regularly invite them to participate in events as artists.
If social inclusion and diversity are viewed as a whole, rather than in separate parts, a variety of creative solutions to this problem can be found. In this cultural management seminar, we will discuss the concept of disability and society’s attitude towards it, we will also learn more about accessibility and the introduction of accessibility services, we will evaluate how different departments of a cultural organization (administrative and artistic management, curators, communication department, producers, creators of educational programs, technical and administrative staff) contribute to accessibility.
Proofreaders – Marija Vlahu (“Access Culture | Access Culture”Portugal)
Maria Vlaho is a cultural management and communication consultant. She is “Access Culture | Access Culture” founder and executive director, this organization promotes physical, social and intellectual participation in culture. She is a bilingual (English/Portuguese) blogger “Thinking about culture” author, where she writes essays on culture, art, museums, cultural management and communication, accessibility. She participated in the European project “RESHAPE – Reflect, Share, Practice, Experiment” in Art and Citizenship, and previously she worked as a communications manager at the São Luiz Theater and the Pavilion of Knowledge – Ciência Viva, Science and Technology Museum in Portugal.
Target audience: employees of the cultural industry – leaders and managers of cultural organizations, producers, curators, art mediators and others.
Event dates and times: Online on 10th and 11th May 2023 from 13:00 to 17:00 (daily).
Working language: English (the last lesson will be held in Latvian in order to gather and consolidate the newly acquired information and localize the context together with Liba Bērziņa).
Membership fees: 30 euros per participant. The invoice will be sent by LJTI before the seminar. This amount will cover the lecturer’s participation in the seminar.
We invite you to the seminar register by May 1 (20 places available): https://forms.gle/GKgyuMDxqj1L1GEj6
Photo: Ingus Bajars, “Back to Back Theater” film “Shadow” at the 2022 “Homo Novus” festival
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