Artists with disability the focus of new Sydney Festival initiative

The initiative, presented in partnership with Accessible Arts, aims to increase the number of Deaf artists and artists with disability creating work for Australian festivals.
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A scene from Midnight Feast’s recent production, Fireside. Photo credit: Prudence Upton.

A new partnership between Sydney Festival and Accessible Arts, the peak arts and disability organisation in New South Wales, aims to increase representation of Deaf artists and artists with disability in Australian festivals.

Launched on the International Day of People with Disability (Monday, 3 December) the Disability Programming Initiative introduces an accessible and inclusive pitching process, with support available at each stage of the application.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts