Seven creative organisations and businesses will improve access in their workplaces and venues with support through the Making Space program.
$500,000 in grants has been provided to help organisations upgrade and redevelop infrastructure to ensure that Deaf and Disabled creative workers and audiences have equal opportunity to participate in our creative sector.
- Warrnambool-based creative collective Find Your Voice will upgrade its headquarters, including upgrading its office space to improve sensory access.
- Flow Festival Australia will create a Deaf-led digital space for Deaf and hard-of- hearing artists and art workers that will allow increased participation in all areas of their Deaf arts festival.
- Inclusive performing and creative arts organisation BAM Arts Inc will make the bathrooms at its Frankston headquarters accessible.
- Collingwood Yards will install new automated doors to improve accessibility to common areas.
- Independent dance hub Dancehouse will improve physical access including updating its front ramp, widening doors and adding an automated door its acccessible toilet.
- Street dance organisation Cypher Culture will launch an accessible website with a livestreaming system.
- Footscray live music venue Mamma Chen’s will upgrade its venue to improve Deaf and Disabled patrons’ experience, including updating lighting, improving acoustics and installing new livestreaming equipment.
Managed by Arts Access Victoria on behalf of the Victorian Government, the Making Space program is an initiative of the Creative State 2025 strategy.
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Making Space recipients
BAM ARTS INC, Frankston, $50,000COLLINGWOOD YARDS, Collingwood, $56,878CYPHER CULTURE VIC Inc, Melbourne, $67,874DANCEHOUSE, Carlton North, $99,996FIND YOUR VOICE, Warrnambool, $99,500FLOW FESTIVAL, Collingwood, $75,000MAMMA CHEN’S, Footscray, $50,000