Learning to Change - Accessible Performing Arts Education
A new report brings together insights on accessibility in performing arts education across Creative Europe countries and the UK. It reveals both challenges and promising practices to shift from individual goodwill to systemic change.
Across Europe, too many still navigate environments that weren’t built with their needs in mind.
Today, we acknowledge the work that has already been done to make the arts more accessible to people with disabilities, whether as artists, cultural workers, or audiences. At the same time, structural barriers to equal participation remain, often unintentionally reproduced by arts institutions, associations, funders, and policymakers.
On the International Day of People with Disabilities, we want to highlight the people who push our cultural sector forward every day. We invite you to explore Learning to Change, a new report authored by On the Move and commissioned by Skånes Dansteater in the framework of Europe Beyond Access, with the support of the British Council.
The report shows a significant gap between institutions’ commitments and lived reality. Many entry processes, buildings and communications remain inaccessible. These barriers have long-term consequences: exclusion at the training stage directly limits diversity across the wider performing arts ecosystem.
The Executive Summary is also available in different languages and accessible versions:
International Sign Language
English: English Easy-To-Read, English Audio File
Spanish: Written Spanish, Spanish Audio File, Spanish Easy-To-Read, Spanish Sign Language
German: German, German Audio File, German Easy-To-Read, German Sign Language
French: French, French Audio File, French Easy-To-Read, French Sign Language
Portuguese: Portuguese, Portuguese Audio File
Did you miss the online presentation? Here is the complete recording of the launch event:
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