Disability Arts Alliance
Hello - welcome to our Disability Arts Alliance page!
Our Alliance has evolved from what was the Disability Arts Board, established in October 2019.
We are a friendly, non-judgemental and mutually supportive group of disabled and non-disabled arts professionals. We are excited by the richness of disability arts and committed to continual improvement in disability access across the county’s arts and cultural sector.
Anyone willing to sign up to our Manifesto is welcome to attend our 2-hour gatherings, which take place in/around Cheltenham or Gloucester, every quarter.
When we get together, we leave inspired and engaged! We share our own and others’ artistic work and information, learn from guest speakers, and address important topics. The themes for our 2025 and 2026 gatherings are:
Health, Visibility, Change, Embedding Access, Stronger Together, Celebrating Neurodivergent Artists, and Money & Allies.
Do you share the vision in our manifesto?
- Joanne Callagan, Disability Arts Alliance Chair.
Through our Alliance, Gloucestershire’s cultural offer will become more exciting and diverse, developed by, with and for disabled people. Access barriers will be brought down and the visibility of a wider diversity of disabled professionals will rise. Members will invite, encourage, agitate for, and inspire positive change across the wider arts and cultural sector in the county. Our regular gatherings will result in new connections, raised awareness, appreciation of different perspectives, cross-pollination of ideas and approaches and burgeoning collaborations, initiatives or projects. |
How do I sign up?
Click here to provide some brief details and to sign up to our Manifesto
To get more information or if you need to sign up by telephone to the Disability Arts Alliance e-mail amy@artshape.co.uk or call 01452 863855.
We’ll then arrange a chat so that you have all the information you need and will ensure that you get details of forthcoming gatherings.
Provisional dates for these are Mondays 10.30am – 12.30pm on:
- 23 October 2025,
- 22 January 2026,
- 16 April 2026,
- 16 July 2026,
- 22 October 2026,
- 21 January 2027
