Saturday 27 June from 2:00PM AEST
Streaming LIVE on
www.platformriverina.com
& PLATFORM on Facebook
Eastern Riverina Arts are pleased to announce PLATFORM Live, a FREE online one-day festival featuring some of Australia's boldest, funniest, creative, and most provocative artists and performers with disability.
Broadcasting live on Saturday 27 June, PLATFORM Live comprises four online sessions: PLATFORM Ideas, Screen, Words and Stage. Curated by Hanna Cormick and Daniel Savage, who both identify as artists with disability, the festival will be supported by audio description, closed captions and Auslan.
The festival also aims to promote an initiative by Eastern Riverina Arts called PLATFORM, a multi-sensory mobile art installation space adapted from a 20-foot shipping container, now available for hire by festival and event organisers. With one in five Australians identifying with disability, the PLATFORM space is an accessible experience for people of all ages and abilities who might otherwise find that attending a festival or event is beyond their reach.
Producer of PLATFORM Live, Scott Howie says: “Everyone has the right to participate in the cultural life wherever they live. PLATFORM has been our way of increasing inclusivity and accessibility for events in regional NSW. We have worked with volunteer festival teams, giving them the tools to put people with disability front and centre in their event planning. In the rush to move events online quickly and cheaply, accessibility and inclusivity has sometimes been overlooked.
With PLATFORM Live, we want to put artists with disability out there, and make sure the event can be enjoyed by everybody. Our curatorial team Daniel Savage and Hanna Cormick, who both identify as disabled artists, have put together a line-up that promises to entertain, provoke, amuse and astound - and maybe dispel a few misconceptions about the type of work that artists with disability make.”
PLATFORM Live also promotes an initiative by Eastern Riverina Arts called PLATFORM, a multi-sensory mobile art installation space adapted from a 20-foot shipping container, now available for hire by festival and event organisers. With one in five Australians identifying with disability, the PLATFORM space is an accessible experience for people of all ages and abilities who might otherwise find that attending a festival or event is beyond their reach. More information on hiring PLATFORM for your event here.
PLATFORM is an initiative of Eastern Riverina Arts in collaboration with IDEAS (Information on Disability Education and Awareness Services). The project has been funded through a National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) grant to ensure everyone has appropriate access socially and economically to their community.