Community Arts Event

Disability 1 Issue Project presents:

Time:                   10am
Date:                    Thursday 28^th April 2011
Venue:                 Woodquay, Dublin City Council Civic Offices, 

Dublin 8

Event:  Disability 1 Initiative (Community Arts)

“Dublin Partnerships Working to Support People with Disability”

The Disability 1 Initiative has been developed by key Local Development Companies across Dublin who are working together to ensure that the needs of people living with disability remain high on their Social Inclusion agendas. Working directly with those living with disability, the Partnerships recently supported their participation in 6 local area Arts projects. This event has been organised to showcase the Art pieces and to encourage discussion about continuing to support people living with Disability through the work of local area Partnerships.

10AM Exhibition Opening

The opening will be followed by presentations of the artwork and discussions focusing on the role of area Partnerships in meeting the challenges of disability and Social Inclusion, the role the Arts can play in addressing barriers to inclusion for people living with disability and societal attitudes to disability in Ireland today.

Maureen McGovern, Community Development Links Worker with Canals Community Partnership said “Over the last 20 years Ireland have seen a lot of positive changes to our environment to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities, but disabled people are not participating to any great extent because the biggest barrier of all has not been broken down yet and that is attitudes.    To change attitudes, disabled people and non-disabled people have been working together across the City over the last few months to begin removing disabling barriers by producing art pieces together. The Partnerships will continue to work together under the Disability 1 Imitative to achieve the true inclusion of disabled people in communities”.

You are invited to send a Photographer and Reporter to this event.

For further information contact:

Richard Costello (Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership): 01-4095082/0860668140/richard@rpcp.ie

Maureen McGovern (Canals Community Partnership): 01-4732196/maureen@canalartnership.com