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Indepth Arts News:
"ArtsACCESS: Online Conference"
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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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