Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization
Mahatma Gandhi
Ted Talk: Change Your Perspective
Diversity has to be shown in our society in a normalised way.
Ines Enciso
This video is directed towards disability in performing arts, but there are some important messages conveyed. By changing our perspective and acknowledging our own limits we allow others to do the same. We can lift the barriers and restrictions to the arts.
Equal Society
Today in all art forms, from performing to visual to writing and more, there are works by many people with their diversities. Inclusive Arts is the generic term given to working in the arts with diverse and marginalised groups.
The recognition of art within these groups has exploded in the last 100 years, becoming evermore important from the beginning of XXI century. Barriers to inequality are being broken across the world creating a smaller gap.
The following pages provide us with an insight into some of the projects and organisations that have been set up across the world:
- Cardboard Citizens
- Disability Arts International
- Disability Arts Online
- EsAi: The Special Employment Center
- Graeae
- International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People
Working together we can fight to lift the barriers and help to ensure we all have access to the arts, to express ourselves, to create and to live.
Limitless
Alison Lapper – English artist, condition phocomelia
Arnulf Erich Stegmann – German artist, founder of the Association for Mouth and Foot painters.
Francisco Goya – Neurological problems and some motricity issues.
Gaelynn Lea – Singer and violoinist, condition osteogenesis imperfecta
James Bowen – Writer – recovering drug addict.
John Bramblitt – visually impaired painter
Kasia Puciata – artist with downs sindrome
Ludwig Van Beethoven – Deaf composer
Rakun Abdulaziz Kurdi – artist with motor disability
Vincent Van Gogh – Artist with temporal lobe epilespy and bipolar
… Stories …
~ Use Your Feet ~
If we’re truly inspired to create, we can learn something from this man.
~ Women in The Gallery ~
May art be a representation of everybody!
~ Art to Help the Homeless ~
How can we use creativity to help each other?
~ Be Part of Something ~
Feeling like part of something can be all we need to (re) construct our lives.
~ We’re All Artists ~
It doesn’t matter how our body is, the possibilities are vast.
~ Clean Break ~
Can learn something from these women?
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