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Arts Links

Access

Information and magazines

Disability Organisations

Arts Links

Multi Arts

Arcadea - previously Northern Disability Arts Forum: www.arcadea.org

Arts Council of Wales: www.artswales.org.uk

Arts Care: www.artscare-gofalcelf.co.uk

Arts & Disability Forum, based in Belfast: www.adf.ie

Arts & Disability Ireland: www.adiarts.ie

Artsline - access information (arts, leisure and entertainment): www.artsline.org.uk

Art + Power (group of disabled artists based in Bristol): www.artandpower.com

DASh (Disability Arts in Shropshire): www.dasharts.org

Disability Arts Online: www.disabilityarts.com

Edward Lear Foundation ­ disability arts think-tank: www.learfoundation.org.uk

Extant (arts production company run by blind professionals): www.extant.org.uk

First Movement (experimental arts projects for people with learning disabilities): www.first-movement.org.uk

Full Circle Arts (Disabled Artists' Support Agency): www.full-circle-arts.co.uk

Heart 'N Soul (creative opportunities for people with learning disabilities): www.heartnsoul.co.uk

Holton Lee: www.holtonlee.co.uk/arts.htm

International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers: www.igodap.org

Ithaca (working in Oxfordshire and Berkshire with disabled people): www.ithaca.org.uk

Kaleido (Disabled and Deaf People's arts in South West England): www.kaleidoarts.org

National Arts & Disability Center (USA): http://nadc.ucla.edu

North West Disability Arts Forum: www.nwdaf.co.uk

Shape: www.shapearts.org.uk

Society for Disability Arts and Culture (S4DAC) in Canada: www.s4dac.org

VisAble - agency for disabled models and actors: www.visablepeople.com

VSA Arts (USA): www.vsarts.org

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Visual Arts & Craft

The Art House: www.the-arthouse.org.uk
exists to "ensure that disabled and non-disabled artists have equal access to facilities and opportunities in the visual arts".

National Institute for Art & Disabilities in California, USA. www.niadart.org

Project Ability, Scotland www.project-ability.co.uk

 

Theatre

Deafinitely Theatre: www.deafinitelytheatre.co.uk

Drama Association of Wales: www.dramawales.org.uk

Graeae Theatre Company: www.graeae.org

Hijinx Theatre and Odyssey Theatre: www.hijinx.org.uk

Mind the Gap: www.mind-the-gap.org.uk

Turtle Key Arts - performing arts company: www.turtlekeyarts.org.uk

Dance

Anjali dance company (dancers with learning disabilities): www.anjali.co.uk

Axis Dance Company ­ (integrated dance company, USA.): www.axisdance.org

Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company, based in Shrewsbury: www.blueyedsouldance.com

CandoCo: www.candoco.co.uk

Community Dance Wales: www.communitydancewales.com

StopGAP Dance Company (integrated dance company, Surrey, UK): www.stopgap.uk.com

uhhuh dance company (inclusive dance company, Wales): www.uhhuhdance.com

Music

Attitude is Everything: www.attitudeiseverything.org.uk

Community Music Wales: www.communitymusicwales.co.uk

Drake Music Project ­ creating music opportunities for disabled people through technology: www.drakemusicproject.com

Orpheus Centre ­ inclusive performing arts centre (Surrey): www.orpheus.org.uk

Women in Tune: www.womenintune.org.uk

Literature

The Welsh Academy (the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society of Writers): www.academi.org

FWWCP (The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers) http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thefwwcp/Index.htm

Literaturetraining (info on training and professional development opportunities in the UK) www.literaturetraining.com

Writernet (help for writers) www.writernet.co.uk

Film & Media

London's Disability Film Festival: www.disabilityfilm.org.uk

Disabiltiy Films - films involving disabled people: www.disabilityfilms.co.uk

MH Media (Mental Health Media): www.mhmedia.com

Individual Artists

Ben Cove, visual artist: www.benjamincove.com

Bill "CrutchMaster" Shannon, performer (USA): www.virtualprovocateur.com | www.whatiswhat.com

David Roche, comedian (USA): www.davidroche.com

Julie McNamara, performer: www.juliemc.com

King Gimp, aka Dan Keplinger (USA): www.kinggimp.com

Laurence Clark, comedian: www.laurenceclark.co.uk

Mat Fraser, performer: www.matfraser.co.uk

The Nasty Girls, comedy: www.nasty-girls.co.uk

Ju Gosling, multimedia storyteller: www.ju90.co.uk

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Access

Access London Theatre - access to London theatres: www.theatre-access.co.uk

Arts Access UK online database of access information: www.artsaccessuk.org

Direct Enquiries - a "nationwide disabled access register": www.directenquiries.com

Good Gallery Guide - access information for galleries in the UK: www.goodgalleryguide.com

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council: www.mla.gov.uk

SPIT (Sign Language Interpreted performances): www.spit.org.uk

Stagetext - information for Deaf and hearing impaired people on captioned performances around the country: www.stagetext.org

Your Local Cinema - information on subtitled and audio described films being shown in the UK: www.yourlocalcinema.com

Vocaleyes: www.vocaleyes.co.uk

Information and magazines

ableize Disability Directory: www.ableize.com

Disability Discrimination Act - Advice & News: www.disability.gov.uk

Disability Information ­ "dedicated to the Disabled People's Movement in the UK": www.disabilityinformation.com

Disability Now magazine: www.disabilitynow.org.uk

Disability Social History Project (USA): www.disabilityhistory.org

EtCetera archive - NDAF's weekly online newsletter: www.topica.com/lists/EtCetera/read

Office for Disability Issues: www.officefordisability.gov.uk

Ouch - the BBC's website for disabled people: www.bbc.co.uk/ouch

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities - promoting opportunities for post-16 disabled people in education, training and employment: www.skill.org.uk

Voluntary Arts Network's website, which includes a useful series of briefing sheets: www.voluntaryarts.org

Youreable - information, products and services for disabled people: www.yourable.com

Disability Organisations

All Wales People First: www.allwalespeople1st.co.uk

Autism Cymru: www.autismcymru.org

Cardiff & Vale Coalition of Disabled People: www.cvcdp.org.uk

Cognition Associates (innovative training company): www.cognitionassociates.co.uk

Disability Powys: www.disabilitypowys.org.uk

Disability Wales: www.disabilitywales.org

Epilepsy Wales: www.epilepsy-wales.co.uk

Equality and Human Rights Commission: www.equalityhumanrights.com

European Disability Forum: www.edf-feph.org

Learning Disability Wales www.learningdisabilitywales.org.uk

Mencap Cymru: www.mencap.org.uk

Mind Cymru: www.mind.org.uk

National Deaf Childrens Society (NDCS) Cymru: www.ndcs.org.uk

North Wales Deaf Association: www.deafassociation.co.uk

RNIB Wales (Royal National Institute for Blind People): www.rnib.org.uk

RNID Wales (Royal National Institute for Deaf People): www.rnid.org.uk

Sense Cymru: www.sense.org.uk

United Kingdom's Disabled People's Council: www.bcodp.org.uk

Wales Council for Blind People: www.wcb-ccd.org.uk

Wales Council for Deaf People: www.wcdeaf.org.uk

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