Time to Act: Final report
December 2021
What barriers do disabled people experience when accessing the arts? Authored by On The Move and commissioned by the British Council in the context of Europe Beyond Access, the final Time to Act research report provides the first transnational evidence that lack of knowledge in the mainstream cultural sector is a key barrier preventing disabled artists and arts professionals participating equally in European culture. This ground-breaking study spans 42 countries and includes a wide range of statistics and quotes from in-depth interviews.
Time to Act: Preliminary findings
April 2021
In 2020, IETM helped to circulate a major survey produced by On The Move and commissioned by the British Council through Europe Beyond Access. The striking preliminary “Time to act” report highlights the barriers that disabled people experience when accessing the arts. It also assesses the knowledge (and lack of knowledge) amongst performing arts managers across Europe concerning the inclusion and engagement of disabled artists and audiences.
The ground-breaking preliminary findings of this study spanning 40 countries are presented in the following areas: The depth of knowledge around the creative work and practices of professional disabled artists; how to make cultural programmes accessible to disabled artists; and how to make cultural programmes accessible to disabled audiences. The report also provides some solutions to lift the barriers disabled people experience when accessing the arts.
Disabled artists in the mainstream: a new cultural agenda for Europe
June 2020
This EBA report emerges from the first European Arts & Disability Cluster meeting in The Hague on 30 November 2019, hosted by two of the core partners of Europe Beyond Access, British Council and Holland Dance Festival. The cluster represents the first time that EU arts & disability projects have gathered in order to shape policy and cultural change.
Working towards raising awareness of the barriers that disabled artists and audiences continue to face when accessing Europe’s cultural institutions, the report heralds a clear call to policymakers and funders to seriously reduce the cultural exclusion of disabled people.
Co-authored by Betina Panagiotara (dance researcher and journalist, Greece), Ben Evans (Head of Arts & Disability, European Union Region) and Filip Pawlak (artist and producer, Poland), it outlines one major policy recommendation for a new European cultural agenda and six proposals for the forthcoming 2021-2027 Creative Europe programme.
An open letter from the European Arts & Disability Cluster
March 2020
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020, members of the European Arts & Disability Cluster have written an open letter to multiple European policymakers to ensure the European cultural programme 2021-2027 has the full participation of people with disabilities as artists, as arts professionals and as audiences.
