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The Arts Access Podcast

The Arts Access Podcast

By: Arts Access Aotearoa
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 Arts Access Aotearoa is a national organisation, based in Wellington, New Zealand. Its purpose is to increase access to the arts for people who experience barriers to participation as artists, performers, audience members, and gallery and museum visitors. It does this by working in the disability, mental health and Deaf communities, and through a network of community arts organisations called creative spaces. It also works with the professional arts sector to help them improve their access to Deaf and disabled audiences. Arts Access Aotearoa advises the Department of Corrections on its arts programmes and activities, and advocates for the arts as a tool to support the rehabilitative process of prisoners and their reintegration back into the community on release. Arts Access Aotearoa is launching its first podcast series, featuring champions of accessibility in the arts and profiling disabled artists. A new episode of The Arts Access Podcast will be released every two or three weeks. The series covers a range of topics about the arts, culture and accessibility. There are interviews with artists and leaders at creative spaces; people working in the Arts in Corrections space; champions of arts accessibility; and disabled artists.Copyright 2022 All rights reserved. Art Entertainment & Performing Arts
Episodes
  • Writing through a disability lens

    Writing through a disability lens
    Nov 23 2022

    Today’s episode features a conversation with Helen Vivienne Fletcher, talking about her life as a disabled writer and what inspires her.

    Helen writes for children and young adults. She’s also a playwright, a spoken-word poet and a creative writing teacher living in Wellington, New Zealand.

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    20 mins
  • Pablos Art Studios: affirming identity through art

    Pablos Art Studios: affirming identity through art
    Nov 3 2022
    On today's episode, we visit Pablos Art Studios. Pablos is a Wellington creative space that supports participants' mental health and wellbeing with free art tuition and materials.
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    17 mins
  • Robyn Hunt: a voice for disability

    Robyn Hunt: a voice for disability
    Oct 13 2022

    This episode features a conversation with Robyn Hunt. Robyn is a fierce advocate for disability rights. Also a writer, she-co founded Crip the Lit as a way for Deaf and disabled writers to have their unique voices, perspectives and stories included and valued in mainstream writing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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    17 mins
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