Arts Access Aotearoa
Increasing access to the arts
Arts Access Aotearoa works in partnership with others to increase access to the arts for people in New Zealand who experience barriers to participation in the arts and culture as creators, audience members, readers, and gallery and museum visitors. Key stakeholders are people with physical, sensory or intellectual impairments; individuals and organisations in the community and professional arts sectors; and people with lived experience of mental ill-health. We are also the key organisation in New Zealand facilitating the arts as a tool to support the rehabilitative process of prisoners.
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Call For Nominations To Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2021
Monday, 22 February 2021, 12:18 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Do you want to see an outstanding Deaf or disabled artist recognised? How about an inclusive project or programme celebrating community arts? Or a leader providing access to the arts for people in New Zealand? Nominations to this year’s Te Putanga ... More >>
Updated Guide To Increasing Arts Accessibility
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 1:22 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
“I want more than inclusion. I want equity and an arts sector committed to including disability artistry in its annual programme of works rather than a tick-box measure or one-off accessible performance,” says Pelenakeke Brown, one of a dozen artists, ... More >>
Rue-Jade Morgan Connects Prisoners To Their Culture
Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 1:40 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2010/aee0aecef6637ff7002a.jpeg" width="720" height="462"> Rue-Jade Morgan initially assumed he must have done something wrong when a prison psychologist greeted him with the ... More >>
Advocate For Access And Inclusion In The Arts
Monday, 19 October 2020, 4:15 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Judith Jones’ involvement in audio description and with Arts Access Aotearoa since 2014 have been key elements in her kete as she continues to develop as an advocate for access and inclusion in the arts. A collage of images of audio describer Judith ... More >>
Arts For Health: Connecting With The Community
Thursday, 15 October 2020, 3:34 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
When the Hamilton-based Arts For Health Community Trust ran weekly “Zui” (Zoom meetings) for its artists during the Covid-19 lockdown, the participants were much more interested in talking to each other than in talking to the staff – and that ... More >>
Duncan Armstrong a trailblazing performer
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 10:51 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
Even as a toddler Wellington performing artist Duncan Armstrong couldn’t stop dancing to music and once he got a taste of acting at primary school he was hooked. More >>
Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2020 Celebrate Diversity And The Arts
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 4:01 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
An award-winning performing artist, arts projects and creative spaces nurturing mental health and wellbeing, a pioneer of accessibility in children’s theatre, and leadership in delivering arts programmes in prisons will be celebrated at Te ... More >>
Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2020 Go Digital
Thursday, 17 September 2020, 5:52 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
For the first time, Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2020 will be presented online instead of live at 6.30pm on Tuesday 13 October. With the ongoing uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, Arts Access Aotearoa will go digital so it can be sure the awards can be ... More >>
Giving Voice To People To Tell Their Stories
Monday, 10 August 2020, 3:51 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Antoinette Spicer is a second-year journalism student at the New Zealand Broadcasting School in Ōtautahi Christchurch. For her independent projects, she is creating a five-part podcast series on art initiatives and programmes that improve New Zealanders’ ... More >>
International Recognition For Audio Described Aotearoa
Wednesday, 24 June 2020, 2:28 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Auckland company Audio Described Aotearoa has received international recognition for its efforts in providing audio description for blind and low vision arts patrons, particularly during New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown. Shaun James Kelly and Kirby ... More >>
Audio Described Aotearoa goes online
Monday, 11 May 2020, 10:12 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s announcement in April that it would livestream videos of previous productions, making them available to a global online audience, was seen by Audio Described Aotearoa as an opportunity to include blind patrons in the audience. More >>
Audio Described Play In Te Reo Māori For Blind Children
Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 3:58 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Auckland children who are blind or have low vision will attend a bilingual audio described performance of Ngā Manu Rōreka , a play by Apirana Taylor in te reo Māori and presented by Taki Rua Productions as part of its 26th annual Te Reo Māori Season. ... More >>
Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2020 call for nominations
Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 12:33 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Do you want to see an outstanding Deaf or disabled artist recognised? How about an inclusive project celebrating community arts or a leader providing access to the arts for people in New Zealand? Nominations to this year’s Te Putanga Toi Arts ... More >>
Celebrating Creative Spaces Week
Thursday, 13 February 2020, 12:51 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Arts Access Aotearoa and a network of creative spaces throughout New Zealand will celebrate Creative Spaces Week 2020 from Monday 17 February to Sunday 23 February, aiming to increase public awareness about their value to people’s mental health ... More >>
Please Do Touch exhibition to open in Hamilton
Monday, 16 December 2019, 10:37 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
An exhibition by Raglan artist Yaniv Janson, previously displayed in Paris and New York, will feature for the first time in New Zealand at ArtsPost, the gallery of the Waikato Museum in Hamilton. More >>
Arohata Prison Christmas concert “humanising and healing”
Friday, 15 November 2019, 8:59 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
When Marama* got up on stage to sing in Arohata Prison’s annual Christmas concert, the audience wasn’t prepared for what happened next. As she sang the Whitney Houston song I will always love you , dedicated to her children, people began to cry. By ... More >>
Standing ovation for teacher and drama group
Wednesday, 18 September 2019, 9:46 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
Some of the men in Ruth Ratcliffe’s weekly drama group at Otago Corrections Facility find it hard to let go of their inhibitions when they first join up but gradually, the experience starts to get under their skin and they open up. More >>
Yaniv Janson’s art and activism
Tuesday, 17 September 2019, 1:47 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
The recipient of the Arts Access PAK’n’SAVE Artistic Achievement Award 2019, Yaniv has just completed a collection of works that he’s called Project 22 because each of the 10 paintings used 22 paint test pots. More >>
Robyn Hunt: fighting for human rights
Monday, 16 September 2019, 4:44 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
“I can’t stand injustice and I can’t stand discrimination. It’s something you can’t just turn on and off. Once you know about it you have to keep on fighting to make things right,” says Robyn Hunt, recipient of the Arts Access Accolade 2019, More >>
Award recognises theatre giving voice to the homeless
Thursday, 12 September 2019, 2:17 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
An Auckland theatre company where most of the actors have experienced homelessness was recognised in Parliament tonight when it received the Arts Access Creative New Zealand Community Arts Award 2019 for its award-winning play called That’s What ... More >>
