Music Access and Inclusion Masterclass Program

The world currently presented on many mainstream stages and airwaves doesn't reflect the true diversity of the Australian musical community.

While venues, festivals and industry employers are committed to enhancing access and inclusion, many don’t know where to begin. Accessible Arts’ disability-led Music Access and Inclusion Masterclass program has been developed to bridge this gap through building disability confidence.

This expert training has been designed to upskill artists, employers, venues and festivals to better understand and respond to access requirements. Discover practical solutions for existing barriers and increase representation of musicians with disability at festivals, gigs and on air.

Masterclass For Industry

This disability-led training has been expertly designed to upskill employers, venues and festivals in better understanding and responding to access requirements through providing practical knowledge and building disability confidence. Learn about the social model of disability, the language and etiquette of disability, creating an inclusive workplace and where and how to access advice.

The course will include:

The social model of disability
Language and etiquette
What access riders are and how to use them
Creating an inclusive workplace
Where and how to access further support

Access

Closed captioning and Auslan interpreting are available for these Masterclasses upon request. You can request these services during the booking process. Please note that we require at least 4 working days’ notice.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access requirements, please email Michelle Teear at training@aarts.net.au or call (02) 9251 6499.

About the Course Facilitator

Dan Pash is a small ‘d’ deaf musician and academic. He was a founding member of the band Leader Cheetah, whose debut album (‘The Sunspot Letters’) was a triple J feature album upon its release and was longlisted for the Australian Music Prize. In addition, the band performed multiple times at festivals such as Splendour in the Grass and the Big Day Out, and toured with international bands such as Interpol, Dinosaur Jr, Blonde Redhead, Elbow and Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys). In part due to Dan’s deafness, Leader Cheetah ended in 2013. Having moved to Sydney in 2012, Dan’s next musical project, Reality Instructors, was created to explore the possibility of writing, recording and performing music while being almost totally deaf. In the last few years, the band has released two albums, the second of which was made possible via funding from Accessible Arts’ Sound On initiative. Dan is a passionate advocate for creating greater opportunities for musicians who identify as d/Deaf or disabled and has appeared on various podcasts and radio programs as a way of furthering the important conversation surrounding these issues. In addition, he recently underwent cochlear implant surgery and is now exploring the musical possibilities that such technology might afford.

Dan completed a PhD in 2020 and was an Anderson Research Fellow in the Philosophy department at the University of Sydney.

About Zoom

This Masterclass will be facilitated online via Zoom.

Zoom is an easy to use, reliable and FREE cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops and telephones.
If you haven’t used Zoom before you can find out more here: https://zoom.us/
After signing up for our workshop, you’ll receive an email from us inviting you to a Zoom meeting on the date of the workshop.
On the day of the workshop, all you have to do is click on the relevant link in the invitation, follow the prompts and you’ll be part of the workshop.

This initiative has been made possible with support from Sound NSW.