The Scene

Cultivate is a new professional development fund for Australian artists with disability supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Access Australia.

By providing seed funding, Cultivate will support artists with a disability who want to develop their professional career. It will also help artists with disability compete for funding in general arts funding programs. Read more: Arts Grants

We regularly hear stories about able-bodied people taking up disability parking spots and public buildings that are anything but universal in their design, but a new project may shed some light on some of the good things that happen every day.

A new Sydney civic art project called Acts of Kindness 2011 is being developed by UK artist Michael Landy. He is calling for everyday stories of kindness that you have seen or experienced in Sydney. Read more: Random Acts of Kindness

This year Sculpture by the Sea, one of Sydney’s favourite annual outdoor events, will run a series of tactile tours for people with low vision and people with an intellectual disability.

Guided tours through the exhibition site of Mark’s Park will encourage people to interact and engage with a series of artworks that are located in accessible areas. Read more: Sculpture by the Sea

The annual Carnivale ARTES exhibition is on again at Hornsby  on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 September and everyone is welcome.  For the first time, it will be held in the new fully accessible Gallery ARTES on the corner of George and Florence Streets, Hosrnsby. Read more: Carnivale ARTES 2010

Entries are now open for the fabulous AART.BOXX Exhibition, presented by Accessible Arts and Sydney College of the Arts.

AART.BOXX  is a national exhibition of recent works by contemporary visual artists with disability. The exhibition will be held at SCA Gallery in October 2011. Read more: AART.BOXX 2011