Learn how to craft a rider that expresses your access accommodations and ethics.  

As part of the local and global response to the ongoing genocides happening in a world experiencing climate crisis, it is imperative that we as artists, question the sources of funding and support that nurture and advance our practices. How do we ethically create, aid and support each other as we work towards our interconnected liberation? How do we ask for and lean towards collaborations that foster accommodation and care? 

Prompted by process-driven creative activities, this workshop provides space for artists/ curators/ organisers to explore incorporating ethical considerations into an access rider as a tool to share with future collaborators and organisations for relationship building and accountability mapping. 

We will engage with relational maps regarding ethics and access in the career experiences of disabled artist collaborators and consider how our ethics and access needs contribute to our choices, opportunities and directions.  

Led by Leah Manaema Avene, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and TextaQueen this process intends to expand artist’s toolbox for examining and refusing collusion with oppressive powers, so that the cultural spaces we co-create can truly be divested from injustice. 

Who it is for 
This workshop is for disabled and/or BIPOC artists of all disciplines who are interested in learning more about crafting access riders for their work as artists/curators/organisers and collectively build richly accessible cultural space together. This workshop also broadens this focus to art making in ethical relationship to land, decolonisation, being in right relation with each other, and working in solidarity against oppression. 

How to apply 
Lead Makeshift artists determine the application and selection process for participating artists. 

We want you to apply in the format that is easiest for you.   

Responses to questions in the EOI can be submitted here as:  

• Written  
• Video  
• Audio  
• Auslan (we can arrange interpretation or captioning of your video if needed)  

For each question, there is space to write an answer or include URL link with your preferred format. 

This Makeshift Workshop can support up to 10 participants in person at Arts House and 10 participants online. All participants are provided with a $100 honorarium. Participants joining in person are provided lunch and $100 local travel support. 

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Deadline for applications: Thu 1 August