[accessibleimage] Re: exercises for consultation event

Hi David,

Have you contacted the Art Education for the Blind organization? Excellent
organization.
link http://www.artbeyondsight.org

Regards,
Lisa

accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev 7. mars 2007 kl. 17:09 +0000:
>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.


Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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