Creative New Zealand is sponsoring a new award in Arts Access Aotearoa’s Big ‘A’ Awards 2011 to recognise an arts organisation or company that has gone to extraordinary lengths to become more accessible to the disabled community.
Arts Access Aotearoa is calling for nominations to the Big ‘A’ Creative New Zealand Arts For All Award, open to arts organisations and companies able to demonstrate they have improved their access to disabled audiences during the 12 months preceding the nomination closing date of 25 March 2011.
The new award was inspired by Arts For All: opening doors to disabled people, published in late 2009 by Creative New Zealand in partnership with Arts Access Aotearoa. Aimed at artists, arts organisations and venues, it provides practical and long-term ways to increase access to the arts, market events to the disabled community and build new audiences.