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Stars add support to bid to transform access for disabled musicians

By John Pring on 13th December 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Stars add support to bid to transform access for disabled musicians
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A user-led music charity has launched a major survey of disabled musicians in a bid to push for improvements to the accessibility of performing, rehearsing and recording spaces. Attitude is Everything’s (AiE) NEXT STAGE project has already secured the support of […]

Music fans face premium-rate phone charges to book access for live events

By John Pring on 12th April 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Music fans face premium-rate phone charges to book access for live events
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More than half of disabled people who have tried to buy tickets for live music events have had to call premium-rate phone numbers to arrange access, according to a new survey. Four-fifths of those surveyed said they had experienced problems with […]

Charter could give fresh access boost to smaller live music venues

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Charter could give fresh access boost to smaller live music venues
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The country’s smaller live music venues will be encouraged to make access improvements that are within their budgets, and so open their doors to Deaf and disabled audiences and artists, thanks to a new best practice charter. The Grassroots Venue Charter […]

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding
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Disability arts organisations have missed out on a huge increase in funding that has been handed to other diverse-led groups by Arts Council England (ACE). Although there has been a significant increase in the number of disability-led arts organisations that will […]

Minister appoints 11 ‘sector champions’ to boost inclusion

By John Pring on 23rd February 2017 Category: Politics

Minister appoints 11 ‘sector champions’ to boost inclusion
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One of the 11 new “sector champions” selected by a minister to tackle the issues disabled people face as consumers has already used the appointment to rethink his own strategy on inclusion, he has told Disability News Service. Robin Sheppard (pictured), […]

Major arts organisations have ‘zero per cent’ disabled staff, Arts Council admits

By John Pring on 15th December 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Major arts organisations have ‘zero per cent’ disabled staff, Arts Council admits
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The arts sector appears to be making gradual progress on increasing the proportion of disabled people in its workforce, although many leading companies have admitted employing no disabled staff at all, a new report by the Arts Council has revealed. The […]

Concerns over training centre plans that will ‘separate’ disabled students

By John Pring on 10th March 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Concerns over training centre plans that will ‘separate’ disabled students
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Bristol’s largest concert hall has defended plans to set up the country’s first centre to provide advanced training for disabled young musicians, which will not include any non-disabled students. The plans, part of a £45 million development of Colston Hall, were […]

Lack of online access information for live music events is ‘constant frustration’

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Lack of online access information for live music events is ‘constant frustration’
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One third of venue and festival websites offer no information about the accessibility of their events, according to a biennial survey of the live music industry. Two out of three disabled music-lovers could not find the information they needed online, and […]

Radio One DJ’s crowdfunding bid wins high-profile backers

By John Pring on 6th February 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Radio One DJ’s crowdfunding bid wins high-profile backers
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A Radio One DJ is seeking crowdfunding for a company that will stage live music events for disabled people and their friends… with gold-standard access. Why Not People? (WNP) has been launched by Jameela Jamil, and has backing from a number […]

High hopes for new card access scheme

By John Pring on 30th January 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

High hopes for new card access scheme
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A user-led disability consultancy has launched the first national card designed to ensure that disabled people can let service-providers know their specific access needs with the minimum of fuss. Nimbus hopes that its Access Card – launched this month, and costing […]

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