Community Arts Programs

 

Access Arts’ Community Arts workshops provide members with a supportive, inclusive and creative environment to engage with various art forms, encouraging positive social interaction, a strong sense of community, and artistic expression of each individual.

Anyone is welcome to attend these workshops, whether or not you experience a disability and irrespective of your previous experience. Support is available to participate in all our programs. See our Disability Access Policy for further details on how we can assist and feel free to contact us to discuss your needs. If you would prefer, we can work with you to develop a tailored program to meet the individual needs of your group. Feel free to contact us at any time to discuss your ideas.

Current Workshop Program

Access Arts’ Community Arts Workshop Program is available for download:  Term 1, 2012.

Access Arts Disability Support

The high-quality creative participation support which Access Arts provides, enables people experiencing disability to gain maximum benefit from our programs across the state. This sets us apart from other available community workshops and programs.  If you require support with personal care, please see our Personal Care Policy online or contact Access Arts to discuss your support needs.

Creative Partnerships

Access Arts recognises the many benefits of partnering with a wide range of community organisations.  Access Arts welcomes all members to participate in our programs.  We invite Indigenous, multicultural communities and individuals to work in partnership with us.  The benefits include opportunities to share resources, the development of programs that meet the needs of members/clients of both organisations, increasing the marketing reach of both organisations and enables cross-skilling between staff and members of both organisations. You can find further information on our Creative Partnerships page on the website or contact Emma.

Community Showcase

Every year Access Arts holds a mid-year Community Showcase that participants work towards throughout the first half of the year.  All participants are welcome to be involved in the Community Showcase.

NEWS FLASH! Art Bites – Coming soon

Posted on 13/01/2012 by

Art Bites program is almost here!

With only a few weeks to go, Access Arts has an exciting opportunity to deliver the Art Bites program in partnership with Brisbane City Council during February/March 2012.

The Art Bites program will be running in various locations throughout Brisbane which will offer free workshops that will give people a taste of various art forms.

Our Arts Bites program will include drama, drumming, dance, painting, printing, music, business, origami, brooch making, digital storytelling, zine making, and photography workshops and all sessions are FREE!

We see this as an opportunity for you to try a variety of workshops within your local community while ensuring access requirements are provided for.

Access Arts is pleased that many current workshop facilitators submitted proposals for the workshops and we look forward to working with local artists who we haven’t collaborated with before.  All facilitators will participate in Access Arts’ Disability Awareness Training program prior to workshops commencing. As with our current program, a support worker will be employed to ensure maximum participation. You are welcome to bring your own support worker too.

This will be the perfect chance for you to participate in a community arts program. Bring your family and friends too!

JUST REMEMBER to enrol with Access Arts before commencement. Spaces are limited and will fill up quickly!

We look forward to hearing from you!

Transport assistance may also be available, please let us know if this is required when you enrol.

All Art Bites workshops can be found on the Brisbane City Council website under “Art Bites”

http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/whats-on/type/LIVE/index.htm?trumbaEmbed=filterview%3dinclude_art_bites

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Art work from the new Northside Visual Arts Workshop

Posted on 14/09/2011 by

The Northside Beginners Visual Arts workshop at the Regional Community Association, Redcliffe has been producing some beautiful art work – please enjoy!

 

A very bright print of blue, green, yellow and red with various shapes and silhouettes – flowers, lizards, love heart, people holding hands in a semi circle. This member has gone further and sewn buttons in the middle of the flowers, put a material edge around the print and sewn in contrasting colours around some of the shapes.
by Susan Gale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A black, yellow and red print with a lizard, horse, flourish, the name ‘Amy’, and a zigzag line arching over the shapes.

by Amy Currie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pink and purple horizontal striped prints with flowers and horse silhouettes.

by Emma Crosby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horizontal black, red and yellow print with 2 human figures touching hands, 2 circular symbols (one similar to yin and yang), and a fish bone like shape arching over the figures.

by Stephen Walsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A blue print with different shades, with a flower with a lacey/doily pattern circling it.

by Margaret Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A print of a blue butterfly and 2 flourishes (1 on top and 1 on bottom), with what looks like many paint brush marks/dots of red, yellow and green all around the butterfly.

by Adam Connolly

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Term 3 Workshops starting next week!

Posted on 21/07/2011 by
Photograph of colourful abstract painting

Photo by Colleen Stevenson, 2010

Our Term 3 Workshop Program will begin next week – see Current Workshop Program link above. 

NEW WORKSHOP on the north-side!!! Check out the details for our North-side Beginners Visual Arts workshop, starting next Thursday 28th July in Redcliffe.

Don’t forget to ring Julie Jones in the office to enrol, or contact Joelene Scot for further information on the program.

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Community Showcase 2011

Posted on 11/07/2011 by

This year’s Community Showcase was a wonderful event! Centered around the theme ‘Seasons’, each workshop group expressed ‘seasons’ through various mediums: painting, photography, ceramics, movement, sound, music, action and voice. Thank you to everyone who performed, attended and helped at the event, and assisted in its preparation! Here are a few photos from the day:

Performance Troupe waving to audience at end of their performance

Performance Troupe

Drumming Group performance

Drumming Group

Beginners Visual Arts collabortive screenprinted seasons banner

Beginners Visual Arts collaborative screenprinted 'Seasons' banner

Performance Writers opening scene

Performance Writers

Photography by Magda Labuda.

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