British Council and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art are hosting a meeting with Kate Marsh. This is a unique opportunity to meet a UK disabled dance artist, choreographer and co-producer of the Change Maker programme at the UK’s arts organisation “Metal Culture”. The meeting will be part of the Culture Without Barriers Festival and prior registration applies. Link to the registration form: https://fkbb.pl/wydarzenia/1257/
Kate Marsh is a disabled dance artist with over 20 years of experience in performing, teaching and making. Specifically, she is interested in each of our lived experiences of our bodies, and how this does (or doesn’t) inform our artistic practice. Her recently completed PhD focusses on leadership in the context of dance and disability. She is currently a research fellow at C-DaRE (Coventry University Centre for Dance Research).
Change Maker is a programme funded by Arts Council England, with the aim of increasing the diversity of senior leadership in art and culture by helping to develop a cohort of leaders who are Black, minority ethnic and/or disabled by means of a targeted senior leadership training and development programme.
The meeting will discuss how to increase the number of disabled arts professionals as cultural leaders and decision-makers – and not just as participants.
The meeting will open with a presentation of preliminary findings of the „Time to Act” report – a major new study from On the Move into the barriers that disabled people experience when accessing the arts that spans 40 countries. It has been commissioned by the British Council through Europe Beyond Access.
Meeting will be hosted by Filip Pawlak and run in English with translation into Polish and Polish Sign Language.
Useful links:
More on the Change Makers programme
„Time to Act” report - preliminary findings
