Centre for Sustainable Development, Clark Hall (50, Sainte-Catherine Street West, Montreal)
Dan Ten Veen (Spectrum Productions)
Liv Mendelsohn (ReelAbilities)
Cindy Schwartz (The Muses: Performing arts centre)
The conference will be in English. ASL interpretation will be offered.
The Interrogating Access series aims to equip artists, organisations and cultural workers with the means to better address accessibility issues in the arts and in media production. The round tables on best practices and institutional models present concrete initiatives put forward by Quebec cultural organisations. The panellists will address the following questions:
*What does the notion of access represent in your field or organisation?
*What are the barriers to access that your publics or members experience?
*What concrete measures have you put in place to facilitate access to your services or to increase the participation of more diverse publics?
While recognizing that each organisation has different capacities and solutions to meet its own challenges, the ultimate goal of these roundtables is to generate ideas for actions that can be taken in order to improve the access conditions available to the staff, audiences and members of cultural organisations.
