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A Step by Step Guide to Building Accessible Arts in California
A Step by Step Guide to Building Accessible Arts in California was designed by the NADC to assist the arts community as they make their space, programs, and activities available to approximately 5 million Californians with disabilities. Topics covered in this publication include: how the law applies to your organization, patrons, and audiences; conduct an ADA survey of your facility; adopt a policy statement about your organizations commitment to accessibility; train your staff; implement your ADA plan; and promote and advertise your accessibility.
Accessibility Planning and Resource Guide for Cultural Administrators
The National Arts and Disability Center at the University of California Los Angeles under contract and in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies produced this online companion to the printed text Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator’s Handbook (2003). The Guide provides guidance to cultural administrators on how to achieve accessible and inclusive programming for everyone including individuals with disabilities and older adults. It is designed to help your organization not only comply with Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act but also to assist in making access an integral part of your organization, including its staffing, mission, budget, education, meetings, programs and beyond. The Guide outlines a step-by-step "nuts and bolts" process for achieving accessible practices by setting the standard and illustrating how cultural organizations can make it happen. It features examples of “best practices” that illustrate specific methods for opening existing programs, services, facilities, and activities to individuals with disabilities and older adults, as artists, arts administrators, board members, volunteers, teachers, students and audience members. This online text takes advantage of Internet technology by presenting and linking to a wide variety of resources that assist cultural organizations. It is also provides necessary information to enable arts and humanities service organizations to assist their grantees/constituents in achieving accessible programming.
Assistive Listening Devices for People with Hearing Loss: A Guide for Performing Arts Settings.(PDF)
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts "This is a practical guide about accessible and universally usable facilities and performing arts programs."
Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Handbook
Designing Accessible Programs for Museums
This is an annotated bibliography on museum accessibility that includes a review of readably published information on guidelines for designing accessible services and programs; examples of model accessible programs and museums; disability related resources and materials; design resources such as exhibit design, signage, surveys; and studies conducted on museum accessibility.
Listening with an Open Eye
Listening with an Open Eye is intended to provide employers background and practical information with respect to working with Deaf and hard of hearing actors. It includes information about Deaf culture and American Sign Language; procedure and comportment for planning and executing a production, covering the arc of the audition, rehearsal and production process; and the role of the interpreter. In addition, related organizations are referenced.
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Artwork
Artwork, produced by Do-It from the University of Washington, presents strategies for accomodating students with disabilities through a case study presentation, frequently asked quesitons and suggested resources.
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Career Resources for Artists with Disabilities
Career Resources for Artists with Disabilities The following resources are to assist the individual with a disability find resources and information in support of establishing or maintaining a career in the arts. Please note, resources are listed for informational purposes only and do not denote an endorsement by the NADC.
Offering New Roles to Wounded Marines by Randal C. Archibold
Article about new career program in filmmaking for wounded service members from the NY times.
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Communicating With and About Individuals with Disabilities
This resource contains books, articles, and videos that provide suggestions on how to communicate respectfully and sensitively with people with disabilities.
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Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project
Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project was a four hour documentary radio series aired in 1998 about the shared experiences of people with disabilities and their families since the beginning of the 19th century. This web site includes excerpts from the shows as well as many of the primary source documents - extended interviews, images, and texts - from which the on-air programs were developed.
History Through Deaf Eyes
History Through Deaf Eyes developed by Gallaudet University is a traveling social history exhibition aligning nearly 200 years of United States history in the experiences of deaf people. Using objects and images collected by individuals, organizations, and schools for deaf children, this exhibition illustrates the shared experiences of family life, education, and work - as well as the divergent ways deaf people see themselves, communicate, employ and adapt technology, an determine their own futures.
The Disability Social History Project
The Disability Social History Project is a community history project that includes disabled heroes, important events in disability history, and resources.
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A Long, Strange Trip by Jaehn Clare(PDF)
(Featured in ArtsACCESS, the NADC online Conference in September 1998).
Insightful and revealing, Clare's piece discusses experiences both pre and post her disability that contribute to her strong sense of SELF and journey as a performer.
Artists with Disabilities, A Cultural Explosion an Essay by Pamela Walker(PDF)
(Featured in ArtsACCESS, the NADC online Conference in September 1998).
A "movement" requires political change AND a cultural revolution-these two things need to go hand in hand in order for real change to occur. Disabled people became empowered by the Disability Rights Movement and began to refute stereotypic images of disability through their art. If disability culture exists, what are the roots of that culture and what part do artists with disabilities play in it?
How We Got To Where We Are: A Select Bibliographical Look at Disability Culture, Past, Present and Future by Steven E. Brown(PDF)
(Featured in ArtsACCESS, the NADC online Conference in September 1998).
Passionate advocate and provocative thinker, Steven Brown takes a look at the writings and work of artists with disabilities to explore disability culture.
Online Magazines
The following resource directory contains a listing of online magazines that publish material on disability culture, advocacy, the arts, disability history, entertainment, and disability studies. The online magazines are aimed for the disability community, academicians, and/or the general public.
Selected Portrayals of Persons with Disabilities in Books and Film: 1930-1990
Over the course of the twentieth century, books, films, and other media have presented a variety of portrayals of individuals with disabilities, ranging from Lon Chaney in the 1923 film Phantom of the Opera, drawn from Gaston Leroux's classic novel, to Tom Hanks in the 1994 release Forrest Gump, based on a story by Winston Groom. These portrayals reflect the language and attitudes of their creators as well as the artistic and popular cultures of the years in which the works were created. Drawn from primarily UCLA Library collections, the books, posters, screenplays, musical scores, and other materials in this exhibit present some of these portrayals.
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Funding for Individual Artists and Arts Organizations
The following is a selective bibliography of funding related publications, information clearinghouses and funders. Many of the listings lead to additional online links or resources. The descriptions are based on information supplied by the publishers or organizations.
Funding Sources and How To Find Them. Moderated by Olivia Raynor, Ph.D., OTR. Speakers: Deborah Lewis; and Wayne Cook (PDF)
(Presented at the Association for Theatre and Accessibility Conference, May 1999).
What kinds of funding opportunities are there for Artists and organizations? How do you find them? How do you effectively get their attention (and their money?) Come listen to the straight talk about foundation, government, and corporate funding sources.
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Promoting and Advertising Your Accessibility
A resource that provides information on how to promote and advertise the accessibility of your event to the disability community.
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Sightlines
Produced by Graeae, Sight lines is a 23-minute film that examines and demystifies the practice of providing access for blind and visually impaired actors.
The Employment of Persons with Disabilities in the Entertainment Industry
This 2005 Screen Actors Guild Study conducted by Olivia Raynor, Ph.D. and Katharine Hayward Ph.D. from the National Arts and Disability Center found performers with disabilities are significantly underrepresented in the entertainment industry and often reluctant to ask producers for even the most minor accommodations. See the Executive Summary and Full Report link to http://www.sag.org/sagWebApp/Content/Public/diversity_reports_2003.htm#top
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Possibilities: Disabilities within Theatre
Transcript of a roundtable convened on diversity and theatre by the Non Traditional Casting Project. Led by John Belluso, playwright and Co- director of Other Voices at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angles with Peter DuBois Artistic Director, Perseverance Theatre, Alaska; Timonthy Douglas Associate Artistic Director, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky; and Sandy Shinner, Associate Artistic Director, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago. The focus of the discussion was about the representation of disability on stage.
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Excerpt from Outsider: the Life and Art of Judith Scott
Documentary of Judith Scott, a disabled artist at Creative Growth Art Center artists.
Interviews with Performers with Disabilities
Podcast –focused interview with performers with visual disabilities performing at the recent Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Includes interviews with Chris McCausland and Lynn Manning.
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Designing Accessible Web Pages for the Internet.
The following resources provide information on how to design accessible web pages for persons with disabilities.
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