abcd webinars
We’ve a large section of recorded webinars covering many aspects of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. If you’re a member and logged in, you can download these to watch free of charge – look for the ‘member download’ button. If you’re not a member, each webinar is just £8 to download.
View the full series here, or choose from the ones below which particularly cover accessibility and inclusion.
Signed song, with Paul Whittaker
A Convention 2020 session. Find out more about using British Sign Language to perform songs. Paul uses pieces from the Friday Afternoons repertoire and exploring some of the new resources by Russell Hepplewhite with lyrics by Michael Rosen. Profoundly deaf, Paul is a pianist and organist and has worked for 30 years to raise both awareness and standards of signed song and educating (and entertaining!) people about music and deafness.Price: £8.00
The Seven Inclusive Principles for Arts & Cultural Organisations
An abcd Festival session from 2021 exploring how to use these seven principles as the basis for planning, policy and practice. #WeShallNotBeRemoved is an intersectional UK Disability Arts Alliance formed as an emergency response to the pandemic, to advocate, to campaign and support D/deaf, neurodivergent and disabled creative practitioners and organisations through and after Covid19. The Seven Inclusive Principles for Arts & Cultural Organisations working safely through COVID-19 was designed to complement the guidance documents issued by UK Governments and sector support organisations. Michèle Taylor will talk through why the 7 Principles are as important and relevant now as they were when they were first created in summer 2020 and explore the principles, looking at how they can be used as the basis for planning, policy and practice.Price: £8.00
Creative Lives (previously known as Voluntary Arts) is an organisation that works to improve and broaden opportunities for everyone to be creative. We recommend the following briefings that they’ve created:
- Making Performances Accessible: https://www.creative-lives.org/making-performances-accessible
- Welcoming People with a Learning Disability: https://www.creative-lives.org/welcoming-people-with-a-learning-disability
- Welcoming Speakers of Different Languages: https://www.creative-lives.org/welcoming-speakers-of-different-languages
- Events Checklist: disability and access: https://www.creative-lives.org/events-checklist-disability-and-access
Useful websites and resources:
- Making Music has created and collated a series of written and video resources exploring how to remove barriers to arts participation. These resources can be accessed by member groups: Removing barriers to participation | Making Music
- Drake Music is a national organisation that pioneers the use of accessible music technology to allow more people to make music: https://www.drakemusic.org/ They provide training, especially for those working in music education, and they have created a resource bank of documents and videos here: Resources for Music Education | Drake Music
- Open Up Music runs three key programmes – Open Orchestras, The National Open Youth Orchestra and Clarion. Each of these initiatives support young disabled people to make music and to perform in ensembles together. Find out more about their work here: https://www.openupmusic.org/
- Attitude is Everything is a disability-led organisation that works across the music and creative industries to improve access. They work with large and small organisations to provide training, resources and support: All of our resources – Attitude is Everything
- Music and the Deaf: https://matd.org.uk/