Improving lives through art
Supporting rugby players with brain injury is the aim of Connect the Dot's pilot programme.
Attitude Artistic Award
Auckland artist Andrew Blythe has won the Attitude Artistic Achievement Award 2012.
Album release of prisoners’ songs
Songs From The Inside, Maori Television’s 13-part series following four top Kiwi musicians as they teach songwriting to prisoners, now has a 13-track album of the prisoners’ songs.
Play opens curtains on Deaf
Arts Access Aotearoa interviews Abbie Twiss about her role as Deaf culture advisor for Silo Theatre's Tribes.
Accessible documentation
Accessible documentation is “easier to create than you think".
Prisoner art contributes to earthquake fund
More than $21,000 will be donated to the Christchurch Earthquake Mayoral Relief Fund.
Prison art auction for Canterbury
An auction of prison art was developed in response to a prisoner’s request to be able to give something back to Christchurch.
Fortune Theatre connects with vision impaired audiences
Dunedin actor Anna Henare and her trust, Experience Access, have teamed up with Fortune Theatre to present the first of six audio-described performances in 2012.
Grants to improve access to arts
Arts organisations and venues will become more accessible this year, thanks to eleven grants provided by Creative New Zealand.
The gift of quilting
The eight women meet in the car park at Arohata Prison. Carrying bags filled with fabric, they head to the prison gates ready for another quilting session with the women inside.
Arts Access Aotearoa’s uplifting art blessed
Wellington City Councillor Ray Ahipene-Mercer, who blessed the commissioned installation by Fraser Hoffe for the Arts Access Aotearoa office, described it as a taonga.
Arts For All
Online checklists, guidelines, information sheets and other useful resources supplement Arts For All.