Loud and Clear is the name that we give to the support
work we do with a variety of different projects. Many of these
projects
deal
with non-disability related issues but give a voice to groups or
communities that might otherwise be ignored.
Highlights of this work include three national tours of
Change of Mind, Peter Spafford’s play about Alzheimer’s,
the production of a video training pack; and the Incluedo audience
research development programme.
Incluedo
Incluedo is an audience development research programme that we
devised along with the Acting Company and ADA inc. It aims to bridge the gap between
audiences, performance, companies and venues.
The programme highlights the barriers that prevent people with
a learning disability from accessing the arts.
Incluedo consisted of the following key stages:
We held initial research workshops with both learning-disabled
people involved in the company’s training programmes, and
non-disabled young people from the Bradford area. We found out
their attitudes to the arts and theatre going, and what the terms ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ meant
to them.
These finding became Never Again, an interactive
forum theatre production performed in education settings
in the region.
Along with ADA inc and members of the Acting Company, we then
led a regional seminar on good practice and invited programming,
marketing and front of house staff from venues in the region.
A team of learning disabled, and non-disabled
people visited a number of venues in the region and recorded
their experiences. Following return visits, four of the
venues received in depth auditing and training on access
and inclusion from ADA inc.
Never Again… is available to buy, either as a performance and workshop package or as an interactive CD Rom training package.
It is aimed
at venue staff, particularly box office, front of house and marketing
personnel was produced. The training covers the evidence, findings
and solutions of our research.
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