Disability Arts Festival

Acting Up is a Disability Arts Festival being organised by Interacting Trust, and being held in Auckland from the 28th until the 30th October 2011.  Interacting are seeking Expressions of Interest from artists, performers, speakers, and interested parties.

Acting Up will bring a community and participatory focus to the world of Disability Arts in New Zealand.  It will be an opportunity for innovation and inspiration by and for disabled artists and performers from around New Zealand.

The Festival will take place at Corban’s Art Estate in Waitakere and the Play House Theatre in Glen Eden, and “virtually” via the Interacting website.  They will be using technology as much as possible to broaden the involvement of participants, artists, and workshop leaders.  Opportunity exists to for involvement in both the physical festival in West Auckland and or in the virtual festival online.

Through this festival Interacting Trust will strive for a ‘community’ feel to the event, where all audience, performers and participants come together to celebrate the creativity and achievements of disabled people in the arts.   

Attached is the full Call for Expressions of Interest Document.  Responses can be emailed to             interacting@ihug.co.nz

Or posted to:            Acting Up

c/o Interacting
13 Mt Royal Ave
Mt Albert
Auckland

Feel free to spread this to your network and anyone else you think may be interested it would be much appreciated.