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ISAN Focus Seminars
Playing Up
Disability, Street Arts and Outdoor Performance
6th April 2006
The morning covered access for disabled audiences and the afternoon, the creation and programming of outdoor work by disabled artists.
The discussions included:
- how to assess how accessible an outdoor event is as it currently operates and how to communicate this to disabled audiences to enable them to decide whether to attend
- ways of encouraging existing disability arts organisations to consider making work for the outdoors
- encouraging street arts promoters to help support the development of this work
Members – please download the information from the seminar in the knowledge base section.
Non-members - more information is available on request from our administrator
Critical Discourse
Where do the press sit when theatre has no walls?
3rd August 2006
The event examined the critical discourse of Street Arts and was an opportunity to discuss how this differs from other art forms. It also continued the debate raised by Michael Billington after the Sultan’s Elephant – “simply a spectacular irrelevance to the real business of theatre”.
It began to advance relationships between the Street Arts sector and the media; it was chaired by Bradley Hemmings, Artistic Director of Greenwich and Docklands International Festival and attended by a dozen or so journalists, critics, arts practitioners, festival directors and academics to facilitate a pragmatic and in-depth debate. The event was supported by the Mayor of London.
Members – please download the information from the seminar in the knowledge base section.
Non-members - more information is available on request from our administrator