"ArtsACCESS: Online Conference"
0000-00-00 until 0000-00-00
National Arts and Disability Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA United States of America

The National Arts and Disability Center invites performers, arts administrators and educators to ArtsACCESS, an online conference on the inclusion of performers and audience members with disabilities in the media and performing arts. The conference is open 24 hours a day and participants may visit as frequently as they want. Anyone can simply register for free at http://nadc.ucla.edu/conference.html.

The site features transcripts from the presentations given at the Association for Theatre and Accessibility and Coalition Partners Conference, Promoting Creative Power held in Los Angeles in May 1999. Many ATA conference participants stated that it was the best conference they had ever attended. Performers and arts administrators said that the conference was exciting, helpful, inspiring and bolstered their energy towards their work.

ArtsACCESS participants can READ presentations from speakers from the performing and media arts such as Victoria Ann Lewis, David Roche, Jeremy Alliger, Burt Pearl, Robby Heisner, Gail Williamson, as well as dancers and performers from international and US theatre and mixed ability dance companies. Topics include audience development, careers in the arts, funding resources, developing and pitching a treatment, images of persons with disabilities in the media, artistic quality, and how to develop a one-person show. In addition you can SEE newly developed web tours and TALK ABOUT the critical issues related to inclusion in the arts. The NADC is the national information, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. The NADC is dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual, performing-, media- and literary arts communities. Its resources, directories, annotated bibliographies, related links and conferences serve to advance the careers of artists with disabilities and foster access to the arts. The NADC is a project of the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA) University Affiliated Program.

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