How could we make our society more inclusive through arts participation and creation?

How can a museum be a focus for engaging people with dementia with their families, friends and carers?

How do we work with museum collections to inspire people with disabilities for movements and choreography, tacit interaction with the artefacts?

Since 2011, Art Council England together with art society in the UK promoted and reflected the diversity of England's contemporary society.  In 2016, the organisation has put in around £8.5 million in its projects including “Elevate” and “Unlimited” to support art organisations with its development on diversity art projects and also to improve the accessibility of their performing venues. Through its "Celebrating Age" funding of £1.5 million, Art Council England supported cultural spaces and other organisations to be open, positive and welcoming places for older people; and taking high quality arts and culture into places where older people will find it easier to engage. By 2025, Taiwan will become a “Super-Aged Society” and its current disabled population already reached 1.17 million; we are in urgent need to know more about how to promote a friendlier environment for engaging both aging and disabled population via different forms of arts.

British Council in Taiwan is aware of this trend where local art institutions and practitioners were seeking references on how to develop and to promote cultural accessibility and social inclusion, so in late October, we will be inviting three practitioners from the UK to share their experiences and findings at the "Cultural Accessibility and Social Inclusion— Museums' Practice in UK and Taiwan" seminar in both Taichung and Taipei. British Council in Taiwan also published a report on aging and disability arts in Taiwan in early 2017, the report can be downloaded from the “Download” section below.

 

Programme Schedule

 

  • NATIONAL TAIWAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: CULTURAL ACCESSIBILITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION— MUSEUMS' PRACTICE IN UK AND TAIWAN SEMINAR

    Time: 31 October (Tuesday) to 1 November (Wednesday), 2017
    Location: Auditorium, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA)
    Event registration: Please click here to register (in Chinese)

  • NATIONAL TAIWAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: CULTURAL ACCESSIBILITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION PRACTITIONER WORKSHOP

    Time: 1 November (Wednesday) to 2 November (Thursday), 2017
    Location: Seminar Room, NTMoFA
    Event registration: Please click here to register (in Chinese)

  • NATIONAL TAIWAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: ART PERFORMANCE BY AGING AUDIENCES WORKSHOP — 【LOVE IS A PROCESS: PASSING AND CUTTING】 IN TAIWAN

    Time: 31 October (Tuesday) to 2 November (Thursday), 2017
    Location: 3F, NTMoFA
    Artistic Director: Alice Fox Fox / Inclusive Arts M.A. Program, Deputy Head, School of Art, University of Brighton
    Accompanying Artist: Alison Donaldson
    Event registration: Please click here to register (in Chinese)

  • LAND BANK EXHIBITION HALL OF NATIONAL TAIWAN MUSEUM: CULTURAL ACCESSIBILITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION— MUSEUMS' PRACTICE IN UK SEMINAR

    Time: 3 November (Friday), 2017
    Location: 3F, Presentation Room, Land Bank Exhibition Hall of National Taiwan Museum (No. 25, Xiang Yang Road, Zhong Zheng district, Taipei)
    Event registration: Please click here to register (in Chinese)

  • NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRADITIONAL ARTS: INCLUSIVE ARTS – WORKING ALONGSIDE LEARNING DISABLED ARTISTS SEMINAR

    Time: 4 November (Saturday), 2017
    Location: Qizi Meeting Room, National Center for Traditional Arts (No. 201, Sec. 2, Wubin Road, Wu Jie Township, Yi Lan County); Please use the entrance at The Place Yilan Hotel
    Event registration: Please click  here to register (Chinese)

For detailed programme agenda and timeline, please refer to the event agenda in the "Download" section below.

About UK speakers

British Council in Taiwan has invited the below three UK professionals to participate in the programme to lead the seminar. 

  • Professor Alice Fox, Deputy Head of the School of Art and Principal Lecturer in Inclusive Arts Practice at the University of Brighton

    Alice Fox is Artistic Director of the Rocket Artists, a Tate Exchange Associate, Deputy Head of the School of Art and Principal Lecturer in Inclusive Arts Practice at the University of Brighton. She is founder of the pioneering MA Inclusive Arts Practice course. Her interests include conversations, collaborations and artistic exchange.  Alice’s research practice is inclusive arts education, performance, visual art and curation. Alice co-authored Inclusive Arts Practice and Research: A critical manifesto, published by Routledge 2015. Alice is also a trustee for Epic Arts, an inclusive arts center in Cambodia. 

  • Erin Barnes, the Tate Exchange Associates Producer

    Working with Gemma Clarke Erin has supported Tate Learning in the early development and subsequent delivery of the founding year of Tate Exchange, a major new programme for Tate that is driven by socially engaged practice and the difference that art can make in society. Her work has been in nurturing over 50 new Associate partnerships as part of the programme and producing activity with them where inclusion was a prominent focus. For many years her work has centred on public engagement for a range of museums, galleries and arts organisations.
  • Professor Helen Nicholson, Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London

    Helen Nicholson specialises in theatre in educational and community settings. She recently led a research project on the arts in dementia care, working with artists and practitioners in London care homes. Helen is the author of several leading books in the field, including Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre (Palgrave, 2005/2014), Theatre & Education (Palgrave 2009), Theatre Education and Performance (Palgrave, 2011).

External links

Share this