Project overview Why the project matters All people deserve a cultural offering of their choosing. Aims Provide a film experience for people who prefer to watch in a safe and low sensory environment. Broaden understanding – programme is eclectic and seeks to challenge audiences. We’ve screened horrors, comedies, ’80s classics and even a stunning documentary … More
The festival takes place every other year and in its “off” year the festival tours around the UK and the world. In its eighth edition, Oska Bright Film Festival ran over three days (15 – 17 November 2017), showing more than 60 films from all around the world, with over 3600 people attending. If you’d … More
Project overview Watershed and Bristol Health Partners put together this season to increase awareness of psychosis and to launch the Psychosis Health Integration Team (HIT), which works to improve the support, treatment, services and lives of people with psychosis in the Bristol area. The season was designed to uncover the creativity often inherent in psychosis … More
The cinema can be a place to find escapism and solace when struggling with mental health. Mental health is sometimes harder to be aware of for venues than physical disability, but there are still ways to be considerate, welcoming and sensitive. To coincide with World Mental Health Day on 10 October, the ICO spoke to Mickey Fellowes from HearFirst about how your venue can do more to … More
The aim of this guide is to give you practical ideas about how to increase diversity in both those who experience the arts (audiences) and those who participate in making art (creators).
This guide is a compilation of ‘top tips’ and general guidance for working with and welcoming disabled artists and audiences of all ages. We hope it offers long and short term options for people working to any budget. It is not going to give you all the answers (we don’t have them) but we hope … More
Find out about changes in society for LGBT people in recent history and how they can affect those living with dementia today.
The dementia guide is for anyone who has recently been told they have dementia. This could be any type of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia or mixed dementia. It will also be useful to close friends and family of someone with dementia, as it contains information for anyone taking on a caring role.
A standard for how venues can be more inclusive in their practices to appropriately provide for older people
The Dementia-friendly arts guide is a guide for arts venue managers and staff on how to make the environment, facilities and programming of arts venues accessible to people withdementia, their families and carers.
