Disability Arts Online

Seasons Greetings to you from all of the Disability Arts Online team 🎄 We hope you have a restful and enjoyable festive season. See you in 2025! ✨ 📸 Image description: A graphic of snow covered pine trees with snow falling from the sky. Text overlaid reads: "Seasons Greetings from the DAO Team."

Our Content Creator and Digital Influencer, Deen Hallissey, and current Associate, Revell Dixon – essentially a DAO supergroup of content producers – come together to discuss all things Christmas with an art sector twist 🎄 Here's the trailer for you to enjoy. Head over to our YouTube channel to watch the full Christmas Crossover playlist https://lnkd.in/eHJGDhGe 🎥 Video description: Revell (wearing a jumper with a Christmas bobbles pattern) and Deen sit in armchairs across from each other. They each have a microphone on a stand next to them and there is a table in between them with a pile of Christmas crackers on it. During the video, they pull the crackers together.

To coincide with Disability History Month and this year’s theme of Disability, Livelihood and Employment, we've created our new Guide to Accessible Recruitment and Employment. This step-by-step resource is aimed at supporting organisations (in the arts and beyond) to improve the accessibility of their recruitment and employment practices. It also includes some top tips from our friends DISABILITY ARTS IN SHROPSHIRE Head to our website's Resources section to explore the guide in written and audio formats ➡️ https://lnkd.in/euTKEQ-m 📸 Image description: Two women sit at a table looking at a laptop. Text overlaid reads: DAO's Guide to Accessible Recruitment.

Disability Arts Online is now on Bluesky Social! If you've joined it too, then be sure to head over there and give us a follow - https://lnkd.in/ekwq37PX 📸 Image description: Graphic with a teal background and a white version of the Blue Sky butterfly logo. Above the butterfly are the words: "We're now on Bluesky" and underneath: Follow us @disabilityarts.bsk.social". The DAO logo in white is in the bottom left corner.

So excited to discover we've made the longlist of the Digital Inclusion category in the #DigitalCultureAwards alongside so many brilliant organisations 🥳

Today is the United Nation's International Day of Person's with Disabilities. This year we were proud to award our second round of grants under the disability justice fund, providing over £1m to 14 projects across London. The theme of this year's #IDoPWD is "Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future", emphasising the slogan "Nothing about us without us." This embodies the work of so many of the organisations we fund under our disability justice work. All of the projects are led by Deaf and/or Disabled people in London. The projects and organisations range hugely – from inclusive arts organisations, to grassroots groups led by people with learning difficulties. Together they are working to diversify the disability sector and build the capacity of Deaf and Disabled people’s organisations to campaign for change. Flick through below to learn about the inspiring projects funded under our disability justice fund both this year and under our first round last year. And thank you to all of our funded partners, for all of the work you do! Disability Arts Online Candoco Dance Company ACT UP! NEWHAM C.I.C. Touretteshero Birthing Ourselves Deaf Unity National Survivor User Network Camden Disability Action Kingston Association for the Blind PEOPLE FIRST (SELF ADVOCACY) ADHD Babes ACTION DISABILITY KENSINGTON & CHELSEA ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION Bromley Experts by Experience filmpro

Confused by your self-assessment tax return? Baffled by expenses? Then we’ve got a webinar for you! Join artist Cathy Waller and accountant Jon Harris as they demystify self employment to enable you to better understand your taxes. 📅 Date - 06 December 🗺️ Location - Online 💷 Cost - £10 Cathy has supported freelancers working in the Arts and Culture sector to better understand their finances, self-employment & tax for over a decade. Jon is the Managing Director of Accounting4Actors, a private specialist accountancy practice for creative industry professionals. Find out more and book your ticket at https://lnkd.in/esWE37Cw 📷 Image description: A dark blue background with teal, dark teal and orange shapes on it. Overlaid is a black and white composite image. On the left is the headshot of a man wearing a dark shirt, with short hair and a short beard. In the middle is an image of the top of a Self assessment tax form. On the right is a headshot of a woman smiling at the camera with shoulder length light hair. Above the images text reads "Understanding Self Employment for Freelance Creatives" and below it reads "06 December 2024, 11am-1pm, Online, £10". #Tax #SelfEmployment #SelfAssessment #TaxReturn #Freelance #Webinar #DisabilityArtsOnline #DisabilityArts #Disability #Arts #DisabledArtists #Disabled #Artists #Artist

https://lnkd.in/ede-HVja Elspeth Wilson has written a beautiful, nuanced and complimentary piece about my work and art practice for Disability Arts Online. I feel honoured to have Elspeth write about my work in such an honest and meaningful way. It has been such a privilege to collaborate with her on this piece.

Head over to the DAO blog in the coming weeks to find a series of posts by Access All Areas celebrating the Transforming Leadership National programme. These blogs will feature learning disabled and autistic leaders from arts companies around the UK, sharing what leadership and this process means to them. Following those stories in March 2025, AAA and partners will share practical solutions for increasing learning disabled and autistic creative employment at an event (more details to be revealed soon). First up in the series is a post by Paul Christian, Deputy Chairperson of Access All Areas. Paul discusses his ideas about training others, seeing his experience reflected, and imagining the perfect board meeting. Visit https://lnkd.in/e73JyKjT 📸 Image description: A designed tile featuring a background image of Transforming Leadership National’s workshop with four people in a bright space. Three participants are sitting in a circle. Helen, the workshop leader, is standing next to the circle. She is holding a water bottle and laughing as a participant talks to her. On the design, text reads: "Transforming Leadership National Blog” along with Disability Arts Online and AAA Logos. There is also the illustration that represents the Transforming Leadership programme, two hands joined together seemingly holding various floating icons.

This week our magazine is showcasing the winners and shortlisted entries from the Down's Syndrome Association's My Perspective competition 📸 🎥 This international photographic and short film competition is for people who have Down’s Syndrome. Visit our website to discover the winning and shortlisted entries for the Adult and Child categories, plus the winners of the short film category and the Stephen Thomas Award. https://lnkd.in/eCGH8aww Alt text: A glass of water and two glass orbs sit on a reflective surface in front of a computer screen with a brightly coloured picture on it.