Access ALLways: Introduction to Equitable Accessibility in your Planning, Process, and Performance

Thursday April 3, 2025
9:30am-12:00pm ET

Format: Facilitated Workshop
Location: The Leynse Studio at Spaces@520 (520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY)

Participating Speakers/Instructors: Kinetic Light

Presented by internationally-recognized disability arts organization Kinetic Light, this hands-on workshop will include foundational materials about disability, equity, and access, with principles and frameworks to begin to apply in your own work. 

Specific topics will include planning and executing artistic & rehearsal processes, crafting your artistic content to be equitably accessible from the beginning, and getting all these pieces to your performance. Participants will additionally receive an invitation to a wider community of ALLways practitioners. 

Join Kinetic Lights as we all work to normalize accessibility and ultimately reposition it as an opportunity to expand and inform our creative processes!

This session is ideal for directors, choreographers, artistic and stage managers, designers, and all artists or creative personnel. This session will also be valuable to production personnel, presenters and venue staff, faculty and teaching artists, communications and development professionals, and administrative workers.

ACCESSIBILITY: 

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All portions of the Forum will include

• Live CART Captioning 

• Large print versions of any printed materials and

• Identifiable staff for wayfinding support.

Additional accommodations for all programs are available upon request, including:

• Support Service Provider (SSP)

• ASL Interpretation

• Visual stories

• Audio Description

A.R.T./New York Spaces@520 is fully ADA compliant, including:

• Elevator access to the floor. (Press 3 on the keypad OUTSIDE of the elevator.)

• The building floor is fully wheelchair accessible with no steps.

• All office doors include braille on their signage. 

• One ADA-accessible bathroom.

• A quiet/low sensory space.

We kindly ask that requests for additional accommodations are submitted by Tuesday, March 25, 2025. You may request accommodations directly on the registration form, or by contacting Ashley J. Hicks at [email protected]. We understand that this is not an exhaustive list, so if you have questions or if there is anything else we might be able to provide in order to make our programming accessible to you, we’d love to hear from you.