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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended the contracts of three discredited outsourcing giants blamed for much of the discrimination and failings within the disability benefit assessment system. DWP had been planning to start a contract procurement exercise for […]
Disabled artists have expressed disappointment at the mayor of London’s scaled-back plans for the capital’s annual disability arts festival, which has continued to shrink in size since its heyday in the mid-2000s. Liberty was originally launched by Ken Livingstone in 2003 […]
Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]
Disabled artists and activists are mourning the death of Katherine Araniello, a “force of nature” who leaves behind a “hugely significant” disability arts legacy. Araniello was a performance and video artist who used satire and subversive humour at the expense of […]
A new exhibition is charting how artists have fought back against attacks on disabled people’s rights and financial support over the last six years. Shape Arts’ retrospective, Cumulative Effect: Disability and the Welfare State, looks at how that work has reacted […]
A collection and archive that tells the 40-year history of the disability arts movement will have a permanent home from next April, the project has announced. The latest stage of the £1 million National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) project […]
Mainstream arts organisations have “a mountain to climb” to ensure they have an acceptable proportion of disabled directors, artists and staff, according to leading disability arts figures. They spoke out after new figures showed a new Arts Council England (ACE) programme […]