Get a Plan is an annual training intensive, designed in association with ADA inc, running for 3 consecutive years. The intention of the course is to support arts organisations in the region to develop Disability Action Plans.
The training is designed to have a particular impact on partnership, programming and employment opportunities for disabled people. Through this organisations can show the reasonable steps that they are taking to respond to the implications inherent in the Disability Discrimination Act.
The training includes a quality showcase of disability and Deaf arts work from across the region with invited disabled and deaf practitioners. This shows the diversity and quality of work and the impact Grants 4 Arts is having in generating and sustaining disabled and deaf people's projects and ideas.
At the showcase at the Komedia, Brighton in March, attendees of the course were invited to presentations from Miles Thomas, Adam Reynolds, StopGap Dance Company, Anjali Dance Company, DaDa-South disability Arts Development Agency, Carousel, Ithaca, ArtWorks, Trading Faces and No Handbags Theatre Company.
The venues and organisations currently on board are Komedia, Brighton Festival/Dome, Pallant House Gallery, Lewes Live Literature, Ann Sutton Foundation, Creative Partnerships Kent, Arts & Business Brighton, Corn Exchange and New Greenham Arts, Arts Marketing Sussex and Towner Gallery.
The initiative will have benefited up to 40 arts organisations in the region by 2006.
ADA inc.
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last updated: 2004-12-01 00:00:00
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