Access & Equalities
Podcast – Learning Week with Matt Lehrman
This episode is an exclusive live recording from our series of Learning Week events. Matt is a globally recognised audience development expert, motivator and strategist. You’ll hear Matt’s talk The Imperative of Innovation, which focused on what audiences want from arts organisations.
SIMD16
What is the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD16)? And how can this tool can be used by arts and culture organisations to understand the communities they operate in, their current reach, and potential targets for programme planning and audience development?
Equality, Diversity and Access
At September’s #1stWed, Jodie Wilkinson, drew from her experience as Glasgow Film’s Public Engagement Coordinator and shed some light on how to pro-actively overcome equality, diversity and access challenges in the arts and culture in Scotland. Here are some of the key points from her talk. What is equality? Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals […]
Archived: September First Wednesday
Jodie Wilkinson, Public Engagement Coordinator at Glasgow Film, joins us for this First Wednesday session looking at how a clear focus on equality and diversity produces exciting and challenging results.
Families Population Profiles: The Essentials
There are over six hundred thousand families with children living in Scotland and many of them are looking for positive, enriching family experiences that they can share.
Culture Republic Podcasts
The Culture Republic podcast brings you the voices of the learning and engagement professionals, marketers and artistic directors who are building meaningful connections with audiences across the country.
Racial and ethnic diversity in Scotland’s arts audiences
March’s Culture Republic podcast looks at how the arts are connecting with Scotland’s racially and ethnically diverse communities. In this episode we speak with Barrowland Ballet, Glasgow Women’s Library and Bemis.
‘Accessibility is everything, but so is communication’
The Glasgow Refugee Asylum Migrant Network (GRAMNet) film series is a celebration of diversity in Scotland. We spoke to Poppy Kohner, who co-ordinates the series along with Rebecca Kay, to find out more about the aims behind the project and how they attract such a varied audience.
‘Take everyone with you’: Dundee Rep on embedding equalities in the arts
Dundee Rep Theatre’s inclusive production of Blood Wedding was an example of best practice in Creative Scotland’s EDI report. We sat down with Jemima Levick, Artistic Director at Dundee Rep, to learn more about their efforts to improve access.
Embedding equalities in the arts: Signdance Collective
Signdance Collective (SDC) have an impressive track record when it comes to access, inclusion and cultural diversity. We spoke to Isolte Avila, Dance Director at SDC, to find out more about how the organisation has managed to embed these principles in their work.
Archived: Disability Equality Planning and 1:1 consultation
Brought to you by Culture Republic and delivered by flip, the experts in disability equality in the arts, this hands-on workshop session will explore the legislation, language and attitudes to disability that you need to know about; present examples of good practice in inclusivity and planning from across the cutural sector and help you and your team benefit from 1:1 consultation with flip to focus in detail on your own organisation’s tailored Equality Action Plan. Morning or afternoon session available.
Embedding equalities in the arts: The Fruitmarket Gallery
Creative Scotland has asked that all Regularly Funded Organisations should have an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion plan in place for April 2016. The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh set up their action plan in February 2014, and so we spoke to the Gallery’s Equality Officer Caitlin Page, to find out what we could learn from their approach.
Podcast – increasing access for socially excluded audiences
The December Culture Republic podcast looks at audiences who are experiencing social exclusion in Scotland and the arts organisations that are working to serve them. This episode features interviews with Rob Gallagher of Impact Arts and Kate Wimpress of North Edinburgh Arts.
Archived: Disability Equality Planning
Brought to you by Culture Republic and delivered by flip, the experts in disability equality in the arts, this hands-on workshop session will explore the legislation, language and attitudes to disability that you need to know about; present examples of good practice in inclusivity and planning from across the cutural sector and help you and your team work on a tailored Equality Action Plan for your organisation.
Transcript – Access All Areas
Electronic notes taken at the Access All Areas conference 29 October 2015 – this transcript is an encapsulation of the day but not a verbatim transcript.
Archived: Julie Tait – Access All Areas
This video features Culture Republic’s Director, Julie Tait, reflecting on learnings from the Access All Areas conference and looking forward to the future.
Archived: Panel Discussion, Looking to the Future – Access All Areas
This video features afternoon panel discussion at the Access All Areas conference. Chaired by journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Wark the panel includes contributions from: Jill Miller, Glasgow Life; Leonie Bell, Creative Scotland; Jackie Killeen, Big Lottery Fund and Julie Tait, Culture Republic.
Archived: Julie Tait and Kirsty Wark – Introduction to Access All Areas
This video features Director of Culture Republic Julie Tait with journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Wark introducing the Access All Areas conference.
Archived: David Goodhart – Access All Areas
This video features Director of the Demos Integration Hub, David Goodhart who started the Access All Areas conference off by Setting the Scene.
Archived: Julia Middleton – Access All Areas
This video features Founder and Chief Executive of Common Purpose, Julia Middleton, speaking on Cultural Intelligence.
Archived: Fiona Hyslop – Access All Areas
This video features Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop, sharing the Scottish Government’s perspective on culture and public engagement.
Archived: Q&A David Goodhart and Julia Middleton – Access All Areas
This video features a question and answer session chaired by journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Wark on Demos’ David Goodhart and Common Purpose’s Julia Middleton’s talks at the Access All Areas conference.
Archived: Kerry Michael – Access All Areas
This video features Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kerry Michael, speaking on how Equality, Access and Inclusion isn’t just ‘a good thing’, it’s also good for business.
Archived: Panel Discussion on Mainstreaming Equality – Access All Areas
This video features the morning panel discussion at the Access All Areas conference. Chaired by journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Wark the panel includes: Janet Archer Creative Scotland; Tanya Raabe-Webber Visual Artist; Claire Cunningham Performing Artist; Annie George Writer & Director; Kerry Michael Theatre Royal Stratford East; Johnny McKnight Random Accomplice; Dr. Maria Balshaw the Whitworth Gallery
Archived: Maria Balshaw – Access All Areas
This video features Director of the Whitworth Gallery Dr Maria Balshaw on how artists, arts organisations, audiences and partnership are the natural direction of travel for future sustainability.
New Partnership for Wider Engagement – Access All Areas
This video features the first Access All Areas breakout session, New Partnerships for Wider Engagement. Chaired by Culture Republic Board member Sue Crossman and featured short talks from: Kevin Harrison of Artlink Central, Jackie Shearer of Platform and Dr. Rami Ousta of BEMIS Scotland.
Access All Areas
Video from the Access All Areas conference is now available for delegates to revisit and for those who weren’t able to attend to benefit from the archived content.
New Approaches to Community Engagement – Access All Areas
This video features the second Access All Areas breakout session, New Approaches to Community Engagement. Chaired by Culture Republic Board member Nick Parr and featured short talks from: Sarah Drummond of Snook, Amanda Brown of Glasgow Life, Jan-Bert van den Berg of Artlink Edinburgh.
Working with Glasgow Film Theatre
Glasgow Film Theatre is doing a great job of making themselves more accessible to a wide range of audiences. We worked with them to evaluate the success and reach of their existing access and equalities measures and to scope further audience groups with potential for increased engagement.
Introducing the Culture Republic Podcast
An introduction to Culture Republic’s podcast, all about how the arts community in Scotland is reaching out to different sections of the population.
Accessing the Arts – October’s First Wednesday
Disabled Access Day is all about highlighting the accessibility of your venue, encouraging more people to visit and learning what you could do better. Antonia Lee-Bapty of Euan’s Guide was at October’s First Wednesday to talk about how arts and cultural venues can get involved, and why they should!
Creative Change September’s First Wednesday
Creativity is increasingly recognised as an essential higher order skill for learning, life and work. For September’s First Wednesday we were joined by Stephen Bullock from Education Scotland, exploring the ways in which arts and cultural organisations can engage creatively with the new Scottish Education system.
Introducing the Culture Republic Conference: ACCESS ALL AREAS
Access All Areas is a one-day conference from Culture Republic, bringing speakers from across the UK to show that when cultural leaders, artists and entrepreneurs act in the interests of everyone, creative inspiration and engagement grows.
Edinburgh | 29 October | #CRConf15 | #OneAudience
Innovative approaches to accessibility in the arts sector
This July we attended an AMA network meeting looking at accessibility in the arts. The session highlighted some of the creative ways Scottish organisations are responding to the challenges of serving a diverse audience.
Access advice for arts organisations from Euan’s Guide
According to Euan’s Guide, many arts and cultural organisations are already doing a good job of making their spaces accessible to a range of audiences. Unfortunately, in many cases, arts organisations are doing a poor job of letting these audiences know about the resources that are in place to serve them.
Disability in Scotland
Based on data from the last Scottish census, 20% of people living in Scotland have a long-term activity-limiting health issue or disability. This equals about 1.04 million people.
Family Friendly Arts in Focus
Culture Republic recently partnered with the Family Arts Campaign, hosting two briefing sessions in Glasgow and Edinburgh on what we know about family arts engagement in Scotland and to gauge the appetite for the Campaign in Scotland. Culture Republic set the context for the conversation by giving an in-depth look at the arts attendance patterns for […]
Event Evaluation 360 for events & festivals
In response to increasing demand, we’ve created the Event Evaluation 360 package: an affordable four-part research solution developed with the specific needs of Scotland’s events and festival producers in mind.
The missing millions: breaking down barriers to access
We’ve taken a closer look at some of the practical tools and creative solutions that organisations are using to understand and connect with groups that have historically been absent or under-represented in their audience profiles.