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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.
Arts Access Aotearoa - Latest News [Page 7]
Findings highlight role of Arts Access Aotearoa
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 4:11 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
An ageing population and an increase in people living with a disability or impairment in New Zealand highlights the important role that Arts Access Aotearoa plays in improving access to arts activities and events, says its Executive Director, Richard Benge. ... More >>
Pupils to perform with New Zealand String Quartet
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 12:14 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Pupils from two Hawkes Bay schools – Kowhai Special School and Hohepa School – will join forces with New Zealand String Quartet and clarinettist James Campbell on Friday 16 May to perform a special mixed-ability event in Hawkes Bay Opera House ... More >>
Mayor congratulates audio describers
Wednesday, 9 April 2014, 11:55 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
Nine audio describers, who completed Arts Access Aotearoa’s three-day audio describer training course, will receive certificates from Her Worship the Mayor of Wellington Celia Wade-Brown on Friday 11 April. More >>
US audio describer to share expertise with arts sector
Tuesday, 1 April 2014, 2:02 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
American Joel Snyder, one of the first audio describers in the world, will talk next week to arts and cultural organisations in Auckland and Wellington about the techniques he uses to provide audio description to blind and vision impaired people. More >>
Nominations to recognise leaders in access to the arts
Tuesday, 25 February 2014, 3:37 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Do you want to see an outstanding disabled artist recognised? Or how about a leader providing access to the arts for people in New Zealand? Nominations to this year’s Arts Access Awards, presented annually by Arts Access Aotearoa, close on Friday 14 ... More >>
Call for nominations to recognise leaders in access to arts
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 11:47 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
Do you want to see an outstanding disabled artist recognised? Or how about a leader providing access to the arts for people in New Zealand? Nominations to this year’s Arts Access Awards, presented annually by Arts Access Aotearoa, close on Friday 14 ... More >>
“Fantastic array of items” in Awesome Arts Access Auction
Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 3:53 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
A Gretchen Albrecht artwork, travel and a luxury resort and golf breakaway for two in Queenstown, dinner for eight in your own home, a Superman tee-shirt signed by Russell Crowe, and tickets to live performance are just some of the items up for ... More >>
Alisha McLennan challenges perceptions of who can dance
Monday, 11 November 2013, 1:40 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Many of us would like to fly, to spin and flip through the air with grace and agility. Most of us don’t get the chance but for Aucklander Alisha McLennan, it’s what she does for a living. More >>
Body Festival a Chance to Dance
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 4:36 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
“Everybody dances. We’re just providing a platform for it,” says Adam Hayward, Artistic Director of the Body Festival, on in Christchurch from 27 September to 13 October. More >>
Tauranga’s performance of Grease for blind patrons applauded
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 12:59 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Petrina Thomas-Chisholm, who is playing the lead role of Sandy in the Tauranga Musical Theatre production of “Grease”, has a powerful reason to applaud the theatre’s audio described performance of the musical. Her 12-year-old son, Levi, is legally ... More >>
New co-ordinator makes connections
Monday, 19 August 2013, 6:26 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Working with diverse groups, facilitating community and national events, and implementing innovative arts projects are among the skills that Claire Noble brings to her new role as Arts Access Aotearoa’s Community Development Co-ordinator. More >>
Auckland mayor applauds arts advocates
Friday, 14 June 2013, 11:21 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
Participants in a series of workshops on effective ways to advocate for improved access to arts and cultural events for people with disabilities or sensory impairments will be recognised by Auckland Mayor Len Brown at a function in the Corbans Estate ... More >>
Deaf community welcomed to WOMAD festival
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 9:31 am | Arts Access Aotearoa
WOMAD New Zealand, recipient of the Big ‘A’ Creative New Zealand Arts For All Award 2012, is providing sign language interpreters for Deaf and hearing impaired festival-goers at this year’s festival in New Plymouth from 15 to 17 March. More >>
Nominations To Recognise Leaders In Access To The Arts
Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 2:17 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Do you want to see an outstanding disabled artist recognised? Or how about a leader providing access to the arts for people in New Zealand? Nominations to Arts Access Aotearoa’s Big ‘A’ Awards 2013 close on Friday 15 March 2013 . Richard Benge, ... More >>
Carving skills “a gift” to pass on to others
Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 2:50 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Everything Joe knows about tikanga Māori he learned in prison: his whakapapa, te reo, carving, art, kapa haka, storytelling and politics. “It was total immersion for me,” says Joe (Ngā Puhi), who was recently released from Christchurch Men’s ... More >>
Original, inventive art in Pataka gallery
Friday, 7 September 2012, 1:22 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
Original, inventive, challenging … These are the words curator Stuart Shepherd uses to describe the work of self-taught artists around New Zealand featuring in a national exhibition presented by Arts Access Aotearoa at Pataka Museum of Arts ... More >>
JOLT dancer to receive recognition
Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 4:21 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
The “ability, determination and courage” of Melissa Fox, a member of integrated company JOLT Dance in Christchurch, will be recognised on Sunday 17 June by Arts Access Aotearoa and its Executive Director, Richard Benge . More >>
CQ Hotels Wellington sponsors Community Partnership Award
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 2:49 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
MEDIA RELEASE Date: 7 March 2012 Attention: Arts reporters / Chief reporters CQ Hotels Wellington sponsors Big ‘A’ Community Partnership Award More >>
Nominations to Big ‘A’ Awards 2012
Friday, 17 February 2012, 1:00 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
A new award recognising the artistic achievements of a disabled or sensory impaired artist is one of six award categories in the Big ‘A’ Awards 2012, presented every year by Arts Access Aotearoa at a ceremony in the Banquet Hall of Parliament. Nominations ... More >>
Nominations to Big ‘A’ Awards 2012
Thursday, 9 February 2012, 8:27 pm | Arts Access Aotearoa
A new award recognising the artistic achievements of a disabled artist is one of six award categories in the Big ‘A’ Awards 2012, presented every year by Arts Access Aotearoa at a ceremony in the Banquet Hall of Parliament. More >>
