European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC)

TECLA - Teatri e Cultura Liberi e Accessibili

Associazione Culturale Fedora
Italy
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TECLA consists of an accessibility training course for cultural professionals and of a co-design process that involves disabled people, disability reference associations and three cultural organisations for the definition of accessibility strategies. Empowering cultural organisations to make themselves more accessible and supporting disabled people in the relationship with culture can provide the answers to breaking down the barriers that limit or prevent their cultural participation.


TECLA combines the right to cultural participation of disabled people and the need to raise cultural organisations skills about accessibility thanks to two main actions: -an accessibility training course dedicated to cultural professionals and students on the barriers that limit or prevent the cultural participation of disabled people as well as on tools and strategies to make cultural venues and activities more accessible. 

The 4 days training, accessible and free of charge, takes place at Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan and it is led by Fedora and other professionals such as artists from AlDiQua, the first Italian association composed by disabled artists -a co-design process that involves people with disabilities, association working with disabled people and 3 cultural organisations for the definition of tools and strategies aimed at implementing the accessibility of the latter, invited to activate a pilot project to respond in an effective way to needs and priorities emerged during the co-design process. 

At the end of the project a guidelines protocol will be created, as an effective toolkit dedicated to cultural realities that can use it to make them more accessible. The project is relevant because it aims at producing concrete changes, empowering cultural organisations to make themselves more accessible and supporting disabled people in the relationship with culture with a positive effect on their capacity for self-determination and self-representation.

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