Resources and publications
This section aims to provide useful resources and publications. Please let us know about any resources you think others would enjoy reading on topics related to arts access.
Arts Access Aotearoa publications
Over the years, we have published a number of books about cultural community development, art spaces and programmes for marginalised people and communities, and creative business. These include the following titles.
Creative Spaces Resource Kit
This toolkit was produced in 2007 in response to the many queries we receive from community arts organisations in need of information, guidance and resources. It includes sections on starting up, planning a structure, governance, fundraising and marketing, staff and volunteers, and evaluation. It also contains general information about Creative Spaces. You can buy a the Resource Kit for $30 (including postage and packaging within New Zealand) by contacting Laura Armstrong (T: 04-802 4349 E: ).
Creative Solutions and Social Inclusion
Written by Penny Eames and published in 2004, this book aims to encourage partnerships between social service organisations and the arts sector, building the arts and creativity into the organisations’ programmes and projects. It contains a wealth of information about the role of the arts in building inclusive communities. It also looks at the arts and creativity in the justice, health, disability and refugee sectors, along with the arts and children, young people and the elderly. Threaded throughout the book are sections highlighting the work of Creative Spaces throughout New Zealand.
You can buy a copy of this book for $20 (including postage and packaging within New Zealand) by contacting Laura Armstrong (T: 04-802 4349 E: ).
Other titles
Art Solutions: Arts programmes in social and community settings (2003) by Penny Eames
Creative Business: Income generation for people on the margins of society (2004) by Penny Eames
Creative Spaces: Art spaces for people on the margins of society (2003) by Penny Eames
Expanding Horizons: Encouraging creative opportunities for people with disabilities (1999) by Ginny Haynes
The ART and Health Partnership (1999) by Penny Eames
These books are free to community volunteers, groups and organisations or $10 (including postage and packaging within New Zealand) for others. Please contact Laura Armstrong (T: 04-802 4349 E: ).
Access all Areas
For most people, the decision to be exposed to the experience of an arts event is a simple one. You go because you choose to go. Providing that choice to people with disabilities is the focus of this excellent publication, Access all areas (1999). Published for the Australia Council for the Arts by Accessible Arts (New South Wales) and Arts Access Australia, it’s a practical guide covering actions that are within reach of arts organisations, especially their marketing departments.
Marketing to people with disabilities is about equal opportunity, equal access and the recognition that people with disabilities are valuable members of your audience. Although it has been written for Australia, it still contains relevant information and useful tips. It can be dowloaded from the Australia Council website.
Making the Journey
Written by Mary Hutchison and edited by Emma Driver, this book was produced by Arts Access Australia in 2005. It showcases arts organisations in Australia that have made the journey towards including people with disabilities across all aspects of their programmes and activities. There are 12 case studies featured as examples of different approaches to art and disability. They describe initiatives that remove barriers to arts participation.
A useful resource for encouraging ideas to include people with disabilities in arts activity, Making the Journey can be dowloaded from the Arts Access Australia website.