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ARTS - ARTS FESTIVALS
ACCESS GUIDES ORGANISATIONS SOCIAL MEDIA
| In the UK there are 12 million people with a disability (PwDs), at least 70,000 of whom attend festivals across the UK annually. Lonely Planet and its technology partner, UMOJA, are launching the AccessFest 2016 campaign this summer with the goal of getting even more PwDs to travel to five great UK festival destinations: Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Bristol and Brighton |
| Accessible Edinburgh: A Festival Guide is the second in this series of free guides, and was produced using detailed access information provided by Edinburgh-based Euan’s Guide and UMOJA, as well as festival organisers. One of the main problems disabled travellers face is finding suitable accommodation. UMOJA access-audited all hotels featured in the guide so readers will know precise details of how they are accessible. |
| Accessible Glasgow: A Festival Guide is the third in this series of guides, FREE, and was produced using detailed access information provided by Edinburgh-based Euan’s Guide and UMOJA, as well as festival organisers |
| Lonely Planet Accessible Rio de Janeiro, as supplied to Paralympic athletes, is your free passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and which places have accessibility features.
Try surfing and samba with local disabled people’s organizations, explore the lively nightlife scene and take in amazing beach views from Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain), all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Rio de Janeiro and begin your journey now! |
| How to welcome people with disabilities into your show as artists and audience members. How to set up and run an accessible and inclusive festival. |
| Abilities Arts Festival is a disability arts organization that promotes diversity, inclusiveness and the power of art as a means of enriching the cultural fabric of our communities. Through multidisciplinary, visual, film and performing arts festivals, workshops and special events, Abilities Arts Festival showcases artistic excellence by artists with disabilities. The festival uses dynamic and powerful artistic presentations by artists with disabilities to positively impact attitudes and to help ensure an arts and culture sector that is both inclusive of people with disabilities and one that is enhanced through their participation.
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| This website includes an events calendar with events all over Australia, from wheelchair sports and dancing to outdoor cinema, to Arts Festivals, to Abilities Expo, there's always lots happening |
| ABILITY FEST is an event organised by The Dylan Alcott Foundation & Untitled Group that aims to use music as a platform to normalise disability. |
| The carnival is a four-day-long festival that starts from the state capital Panaji and then moves on to other cities.
“We are happy that the carnival in Panaji will be accessible this year for wheelchair users and those with orthopedic disabilities. We hope that eventually, other cities will also have accessible carnival arrangements” |
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