[accessibleimage] exercises for consultation event

Hi everybody,

I am currently putting together a Disability Equality Scheme for an art gallery. As part of the process I have arranged for thr Gallery to host a consultation event which disability organisations from the region will attend. The event is not exclusive to blind and visually impaired visitors. I have arranged for a series of talks by practitioners and artists with disabilities to take place during the morning session. In the afternoon I plan to facilitate some activities and a feedback session that will hopefully generate some useful ideas about how the Gallery can identify specific disability-equality targets and implement recommended strategies. The groundwork for an ongoing disability equality forum will also be laid.

I am finding it diffucult to devise a series of activities that are likely to generate the type of response that will be of use to the Gallery in its attempts to make itself more inclusive and accessible. The ideas I have come up with so far have been rejected by the Gallerry's Education Officer, and so I am hoping that somebody who has undertaken a simlar consultancy event in the past might share with me a description of exercises that were particularly effective. Thanks very much.