Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion
Mr. Peter Kearns:
As we said, they need to have disability equality training in terms of what they think about disability. I had to repair my life with cerebral palsy. That was 30 years ago I was forced to change. That is not my identity. I identify as a disabled artist. It is about buy-in. It is about the current structure engaging with disabled people through disability equality training, but it is also about recognising that disability arts is a movement. It is an arts movement. It is quite exciting. It is not just about grants and accessing audiences. Disabled people are as useful as the rest of us and we have great evidence of that.
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