ASEAN’s first ever Arts & Disability International Conference (ADIC) that will feature compelling speakers from Australia, Canada, Japan, Cambodia and the UK like:
- Kate Hood, artistic director of Raspberry Ripple. Kate has an acquired disability, and has reinvented herself as a disabled performer, director and leader. She sits on the Board of Arts Access Victoria, and is the Deputy Chair of Actors Equity’s Diversity Committee. She will be contributing her perspective as a cultural leader, and how leadership plays a key role in inclusion.
- Kris Yoshie, director of Slow Label. Kris has an acquired disability and founded Slow Label as a creative enterprise to create products through collaborative work between PWDs and artists in Japan and abroad. She has produced programmes that bring PWDs, artists, and the general public together, with the goal of building social platforms that help people live creative lives (regardless of disability/ability). Her perspective as a creative producer will demonstrate how availing platforms plays a key role in providing opportunities for inclusive participation in the arts.
- Pete Sparkes, artistic director of Drake Music Scotland, is a musician and educator specialising in working with technology and inclusive methodology; in particular, he works with children and adults with disability through music technology and innovative tools. He will be contributing his views on leveraging technology to advance inclusivity.
They will be joined by distinguished disabled artists like accomplished Singapore pianist, Dr Azariah Tan who is hearing impaired and Canadian violinist, Adrian Anantawan who was born with four fingers missing from his right hand.
Venue: Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre | Enabling Village
When: 22 - 23 Mar 2018,
By: Marina Bay