ZMINA:Resilience capacity building workshops on accessibility, inclusion and creative practice in crisis contexts

From 7 October to 25 November, ZMINA:Resilience runs four online capacity building workshops on accessibility, inclusion and creative practice in crisis contexts. Each session lasts two hours, takes place on a Wednesday at 13:00 Central European time (14:00 Kyiv) and is held in English.

Language and inclusion in culture
7 October, 13:00 to 15:00 CEST
Trainer Natália Centková of Kino Úsmev in Košice treats accessibility as a communication practice. The session covers which terms to use and avoid when speaking with and about people with disabilities, what changes when audiences are involved from the start, and arguments to bring to colleagues and funders. People with lived experience of disability contribute to the session.
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Access management for events and venues
21 October, 13:00 to 15:00 CEST
Disability consultant and access manager Luke Sinclair explains the medical and social models of disability, sensory, cognitive and invisible accessibility, and how access riders work. Two hands-on exercises let participants apply the tools to their own events.
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Accessible tools for inclusive cultural practices
4 November, 13:00 to 15:00 CET
Kapalakasa Zelo Chiley, founder of Refugee Together for Social Transformation in Kampala, shows how to design activities with people with disabilities instead of for them. Participants learn low-resource ways to adapt storytelling, music, movement and crafts, then try the approach in a short exercise.
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Creative practices in crisis and conflict response
25 November, 13:00 to 15:00 CET
Veronika Skliarova, founder of Art Dot NGO and Art Therapy Force, looks at where an artist's role in humanitarian response begins and ends. The session covers the difference between a therapeutic effect and therapy, how to design participatory activities that avoid re-traumatisation, and how practitioners sustain themselves while working inside a crisis.
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More about ZMINA:Resilience opportunities at zmina.eu

ZMINA:Resilience is a cooperation between IZOLYATSIA (UA), Malý Berlín (SK) with support of Trans Europe Halles (SE).

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Workshop #12 is co-funded by New Democracy Fund / Danish Cultural Institute.