Resources
Theatre, Film, and Dance Organizations
AXIS Dance Company
AXIS works to build a bridge between contemporary dance, integrated dance, and disability culture based in Oakland, California.
BLIND WITH CAMERA
Beyond Sight Foundation is a nonprofit organization in Mumbai, India promoting social and cultural integration of the blind and the visual impairment through photographic practices
Corali Dance Company
Performing Arts for people with learning disabilities. Corali is a committed group of people made up of performers with learning disabilities, artist collaborators, and educationalists.
Dance Into Space Foundation
Dance Into Space Foundation (DIS) is an East African Contemporary dance theater company with a mission to give a dance to all.
Face Front
Face Front Inclusive Theatre creates original, ground-breaking Inclusive Theatre with a company of disabled and non-disabled artists.
The Film Bunch
The Film Bunch showcases short films from upcoming filmmakers from around the world. Their mission is to improve access for deaf and hard-of-hearing people to mainstream short films by providing subtitles, British Sign Language interpreters and live captioning at their events
Full Radius Dance
Full Radius Dance works to promote, advance and enhance the modern dance form by exploring the sweep of the human experience through physically integrated dance, based in Atlanta, GA USA.
Graeae Theatre
Graeae Theatre is a force for change in world-class theatre, breaking down barriers, challenging preconceptions and boldly placing disabled artists center stage.
Heidi Latsky Dance
Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD) is an internationally recognized physically integrated dance company from New York City
Sick and Twisted
Sick + Twisted is a theatre company in Canada dedicated to creating work exploring the experience of living with a disability.
Stopgap Dance
Stopgap Dance Company seamlessly integrates dancers with and without disabilities.
THE.AM.A. (Theatre for People with Disabilities)
THE.AM.A was established in 2010 as a professional integrated theatre group, which aspires to establish the first Greek Higher School of Drama for people with all disabilities.
Un-Label
Un-Label is an open community of artists from all over Europe and from various artistic disciplines (dance, music, drama, poetry) where the focus is not on the disabilities but on the diversity.
Advice, Resources, Services, and Communities for Artists
A-N The Artists Information Company
Whether it’s finding a job, gaining professional development, making use of insurance, campaigning to improve your profession or making contact with like-minded folk – a-n membership opens up a range of brilliant benefits for artists, arts professionals and students.
ActionSpace
Based in London, ActionSpace supports the development of artists with learning disabilities in a professional studio environment and creates innovative projects for people with learning disabilities to engage with the visual arts.
ADIArts
Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI) is a national development and resource organization for arts and disability in Ireland
ArtBusiness.com
Resources, advice and much more, from the USA
Artbox London
Artbox London runs free weekly studio sessions for artists with learning disabilities. These sessions aim to create a supportive, creative and inspiring environment for its artists to create and develop unique artwork using a variety of materials. Artists are empowered to sell their work through Artbox London exhibitions held in professional galleries and corporate spaces. Our vision is a world where everyone is given the opportunity to be creative and reach their full potential through art.
Art House Meath
Showcasing talents and skills of adults living with severe epilepsy, learning and physical difficulties. 100% of sales revenue goes back into the project.
Art Quest
Art Quest provides practical support to visual artists throughout their careers.
Arts Job Finder
Arts jobs listings from Arts Professional.
Carousel
Carousel helps learning disabled artists develop and manage their creative lives, true to their voice and vision, challenging expectations of what great art is and who can create it
Core Arts
Core Arts is a registered charity that exists to promote the artistic and creative abilities of people who experience severe and enduring mental health issues.
CVAN
Contemporary Visual Arts Network – excellent links to a variety of artist resources, including toolkits and fees guidance
DASH
Disability led visual arts organization based in Shropshire, UK
Disability Arts Online
Delivers editorial about disability arts and culture and offers a blogging platform for disabled artists, as well as commissioning opportunities and support
Disability Rocks
Disability Rocks develops new and innovative ways to help people living with disabilities have positive experiences of music and arts
Disabled Photographers Society
A registered charity based in the U.K. that promotes photography for people with disabilities
Disability Writes
Online community for disabled writers.
Full Circle Arts
Full Circle Arts are a disabled led organization who work to involve those who are excluded from the arts, firmly believing that great art should be available to everyone. We provide inclusive opportunities that raise aspirations, challenge the norm and support success.
Georgia Artists with DisAbilities, Inc.
Enables disabled artists throughout the state of Georgia with the opportunity to display and sell their original art, as well as being eligible to compete for awards.
Heart N Soul
Heart N Soul is an award-winning creative arts company and charity. We believe in the talents and power of people with learning disabilities, providing opportunities for people to discover, develop and share this power and talent as widely as possible.
Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture
Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture, in Vancouver BC, gives artists with disabilities a voice. This can mean everything from facilitating a disability art group, to bringing an international film to Vancouver, to presenting art exhibitions and concerts.
Low Vision Art
Painting for visually impaired people.
Outside In
For artists who find it difficult to access the art world because of disability, health, social circumstance or because their work does not conform to what is normally considered as art.
Project Ability
Development arts organization promoting the importance of the arts to disabled individuals
Rocket Artists
Learning Disability Visual Arts based in Brighton, UK
Tangled Art + Disability
Tangled Art + Disability is a registered charitable organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities for artists with disabilities to contribute to the cultural fabric of society
VisABLE actors’ agency
VisABLE is the world’s first initiative to create mainstream professional opportunities for actors, presenters & models with disabilities.
Disability Accessibility, Funding, Employment, Legal Assistance
Access to Work
Financial support to assist disabled people to gain and remain in employment
Ableize
Disability resource directory
Access to Work
Financial support to assist disabled people to gain and remain in employment
ADP
Association of Disabled Professionals
Business Disability Forum
Building disability smart organizations.
BCODP
Pressure group for disabled people’s rights
DisABILITYLINK
disABILITY LINK is an organization based in Georgia led by and for people with disabilities and promotes choice and full participation in community life.
Disability Grants
General grants for disabled people and other disability-related information
Disability Rights UK
Disabled people leading change, working for equal participation for all
Disabled Workers
Listing for various job sectors, including arts
Disabled Go
United Kingdom access information
Disability Horizons – Travel pages
Information, articles and tips about disability and travel
Disability Horizons
Provides a 21st century view of disability
Even Break
Disability and employment
Inclusion London
Promoting equality for London’s deaf and disabled
Museums DCN
Disability Co-operative Network to increase access for disabled people in the heritage sector
Remploy
Putting ability first
Rethink
Rethinking Mental Illness
RNIB
Extending the Reach – paid work experience for people with sight loss
Snowdon Trust
Grants for physically disabled and sensory impaired students studying in the UK
Time To Change –
Organization works to end mental health discrimination
United Response
United Response provides a range of services for people with learning disabilities, mental health needs or physical disabilities.ed people