Salamanda Tandem and Drake Music are running two consultation seminars aimed at Arts, Health and Care Professional who are interested in arts, and disability work in Nottinghamshire. They take place 14th & 15th July in Nottinghamshire. For more information please see http://www.empaf.com/forums/opportunities/arts_and_disability_seminars_14th_and_15th_july_nottinghamshire

If you are not able to attend but would still like to input you can either respond here via this forum or copy the following questions and email your responses to: shirleynovak@drakemusicproject.org or isabel.jones@salamanda-tandem.org. THANK YOU!

Questions

In order to develop and design new projects with you, we would like to know what you perceive are the principle barriers for you in working with disabled people in Nottingham/shire. And what solutions you have and the implications for professional development.

1. Are you interested in working with disabled people in Nottinghamshire?

2. Do you already work with disabled people in Nottinghamshire

3. If yes could you give us a quick example of that’s worked well, and something that was difficult.

4. What would help you develop this work further, and what barriers to your development do you think there are?

5. If you don’t yet work with disabled people in Nottinghamshire, what do you see as the potential barriers? Some prompts if needed below

• Not enough work
• Haven’t had the opportunity
• Not enough high quality work available
• Not enough appropriate work
• Don’t know how to adapt my art form.
• Not high profile enough ·
• Not enough opportunity to collaborate with other artists
• Need training
• Am trained but need continued professional development
• Have some training but need specific help (describe)
• Not well enough paid
• Locations inappropriate
• Not long term or in depth enough
• Feel excluded from existing work out there
• Don’t know how to get the work
• Feel Isolated
• Not interested in working with disabled people
• Not wide enough range of opportunities to work with people with different disabilities
• Other

6. What professional development opportunities would you welcome, or could offer to others?