This event has been co-designed with Voices Gloucester Community Producers with lived experience of disability.
It has been developed as an opportunity to explore best practice, and showcase the work undertaken by groups and individuals as part of Voices Gloucester Community grants programme over the last three years. Open to everyone, we are particularly keen that those managing and programming Heritage and Cultural venues in Gloucester are able to attend.
Schedule
10am - 1pm Access Rider workshop (30 places)
Vijay Patel, performance artist, writer and neurodivergent access consultant will lead a workshop on creating an Access Rider - a transformative document that communicates your access needs to others.
This session is open to all, including d/Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, autistic people: anyone who needs adjustments in the workplace (or life!), including for autism, long COVID, period pain, perimenopause/menopause symptoms and more. Vijay will cover a range of areas including how to identify your access requirements and how to design an Access Rider that fits you.
1 - 2pm Lunch [for those attending morning and afternoon sessions] and film showing
2pm - 4.25pm - Carousel of activities
2pm - 2.40pm Activity 1
2.45pm - 3.25pm Activity 2
3.25pm - 3.45pm Break
3.45pm - 4.25pm Activity 3
A. 1 x creative hands on activity, supported by Sam Lucas (My body in My hands, Neurodiverse quilt, works at Star College) and/or Sarah Snell Pym (Body talks ND art group, quilt & various projects at Folk and elsewhere). Exhibition of Art Talk work.
B. Sight Loss Then and Now: Investigating experiences of sight loss in Gloucestershire in the 19th and 21st centuries through drama, discussion and lived experience.
An audio drama and podcast discussion. The audio drama, "The Letter", is a fictionalised account of the writing of a letter that was found in the Gloucestershire Archives. The letter (D574a/M44) was written on 20 October 1834 by James Waite, a blind man. The podcast episodes, recorded at The Music Works in Gloucester, are discussions between blind and partially sighted people living in Gloucestershire today, addressing issues of access to housing, employment and social attitudes towards sight loss. This mirrors some of the themes highlighted in the audio drama.
C. How do we improve? Session led by Jacqui Grange Voices Gloucester and/ or Red Isaac Guildhall, using the https://weareunlimited.org.uk/resource/cards-for-inclusion/ as a stimulus for conversation and reflection.
4.30pm - 5pm Plenary/Listening Session and Q&A - Cinema. Jacqui Grange and Red Isaac to reflect on day with attendees and identify next steps.
Places are limited for the morning session, so if you are unable to make it please let us know so we can free up the space.
Candidates are encouraged to come for the full day if they have a place in the morning, to support Gloucester's own neurodivergent and disabled practitioners who have co-designed the day, and with whom we will be drafting an action plan in response to the findings of the day.
Access: We offer free Carer / Assistance tickets. Please contact the Guildhall Box Office (01452 503050) to book these.
Tue 10 Sept 2024
Tickets: Pay As You Like
Ages: All ages