Film and Discussion on Arts and Accessibility
Arts Access Inc. is sponsoring a film Sunday, Aug. 8, at 4:30 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. The event will feature the film A New Kind of Listening and a community discussion afterwards on promoting inclusive arts opportunities for people of all abilities.
Chris Mueller-Medlicott and his mom, Polly Medlicott, at theater group rehearsal. (Photo by Ava Johnson)
A New Kind of Listening, made by North Carolina filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer and co-producer Polly Medlicott, follows the year-long journey of an inclusive theater group in the Triangle as they explore the right to creative self-expression. The discussion will focus on accessibility to the arts for people with disabilities and provide an opportunity for members of the arts and the disability communities to connect and share information.
Arts Access Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the arts accessible to people with disabilities. For more information, visit www.artsaccessinc.org. The screening is free, but registration is requested by phone at (919) 271-3001 or e-mail betsy@artsaccessinc.org.
We hope members of the arts and disability rights community can join us for this screening and community discussion.
The Raleigh event is one of many grassroots screening events we hope to see happening across NC and the US in coming months. Please visit our website to learn more about the film and how you can organize your own community event to support inclusive arts.
If you want to live in a Raleigh where everyone belongs, where the arts help to bridge differences, and where your sister, brother, friend, son, or daughter who happens to live with disability is included in creating that community, please join us at this event!
We see this as an opportunity for people in our community who want to take inclusive arts to the next level can begin to network and prepare for an ongoing and sustainable group.