Shape Arts
Overview
Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists, training cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and through running participatory arts and development programmes.
In addition to this they provide access auditing and training services to arts organisations. Working across the UK and internationally they deliver consultancy that works towards the improvement of cultural services for all disabled people. They find organisations who engage with them are better equipped and more confident in welcoming and working with diverse groups of all kinds, whether as participants, employees or artists.
All of Shape’s work is informed by the Social Model of Disability.
Mental Health Tips for Arts Workers. Working in the arts, though rewarding and enriching, can take its toll on your mental health, whether you’re an artist, performer, curator, programmer, or facilitator; whether you work in a studio, gallery, office or venue; whether you consider yourself disabled, abled, neurodivergent, neurotypical, a self-carer, a mental health systems user or survivor, or none of the above. Their team has put together their best tips on how to care for your mental health, and that of others, when working in the creative sector. See website:
https://www.shapearts.org.uk/News/mental-health-tips-arts-workers
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) is a £1-million digital archive chronicling the history of disability arts in the UK, available to the public at www.the-ndaca.org.
See Shape Arts website for more information about many aspects of working in the Arts.
Overview
Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists, training cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and through running participatory arts and development programmes.
In addition to this they provide access auditing and training services to arts organisations. Working across the UK and internationally they deliver consultancy that works towards the improvement of cultural services for all disabled people. They find organisations who engage with them are better equipped and more confident in welcoming and working with diverse groups of all kinds, whether as participants, employees or artists.
All of Shape’s work is informed by the Social Model of Disability.
Mental Health Tips for Arts Workers. Working in the arts, though rewarding and enriching, can take its toll on your mental health, whether you’re an artist, performer, curator, programmer, or facilitator; whether you work in a studio, gallery, office or venue; whether you consider yourself disabled, abled, neurodivergent, neurotypical, a self-carer, a mental health systems user or survivor, or none of the above. Their team has put together their best tips on how to care for your mental health, and that of others, when working in the creative sector. See website:
https://www.shapearts.org.uk/News/mental-health-tips-arts-workers
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) is a £1-million digital archive chronicling the history of disability arts in the UK, available to the public at www.the-ndaca.org.
See Shape Arts website for more information about many aspects of working in the Arts.
Contact Details
Phone:
020 7424 7330
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
https://www.shapearts.org.uk
Address:
Shape, Deane House Studios, 27 Greenwood Place, Kentish Town, London NW5 1LB
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Last updated:
16th July 2021
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