Widening Access – Launch & Roadshow Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Tuesday, March 26th 2002 at 12.30am The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in association with the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, and the Arts and Disability sector, is launching Widening Access at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast on Tuesday, March 26th 2002. The event is open to everyone. The Launch begins at 12.30am. It will be preceded at 10.00am by Disability Equality Training and followed at 2.00pm by a series of Roadshow presentations. Widening Access is a programme of roadshows, performances, workshops, new funding and strategic initiatives which is designed to inform, promote, educate, stimulate and celebrate the concept of access to the arts for everyone. Widening Access Roadshows Training, workshops, networking and new initiatives across Northern Ireland March 26th Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Launch and Roadshow March 27th Market Place Theatre, Armagh Roadshow March 28th Verbal Arts Centre, Derry City Roadshow April 10th Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick Roadshow April 12th Share Holiday Village, Lisnaskea Roadshow April 15th Cookstown Leisure Centre Roadshow Roadshow Programme 10.00am - 12.30pm – Disability Equality Training (limited to 15 participants, so book early). Widening Access Workshops and Event Birds of Paradise is a Glasgow-based Theatre Company which will be facilitating interactive, skills-based workshops for physically disabled participants in the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn from Monday April 22nd - Thursday April 25th. If you wish to participate in these theatre workshops, please immediately contact Francis Murphy at the Arts Council on Tel: (028) 90385200, as places are limited. The participants will appear in a facilitated event at the Widening Access Performance at W5 at the Odyssey, Belfast on the evening of April 26th 2002. Widening Access – A Celebration at W5 at the Odyssey (April 26th, 2002) The programme is designed to highlight the work of creative disabled people and will involve music, theatre and dance. If you have any special requirements, please contact the Arts Council two weeks before any of the events Contact: Francis Murphy Arts Council of Northern Ireland MacNeice House, 77 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 6AQ Tel: (028) 9038 5200 Fax: (028) 9066 1715 Email: fmurphy@artscouncil-ni.org |
