ACCAC Global

19/11/2025

🌍 Katombo Arts Festival 2025 – Call for Short Films 🎬
ACCAC Zambia invites filmmakers worldwide to submit short films under 30 minutes for screening at the Katombo Arts Festival – The Granary of Arts, taking place December 1–3, 2025 in Lusaka, Zambia, alongside the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (Dec 3).
✨ Theme: Arts Beyond Barriers We welcome films exploring disability, accessibility, creativity, and cultural diversity – in any form: documentary, fiction, animation, or experimental.
📩 Contact via WhatsApp: +260977540292
Be part of Zambia’s first inclusive arts festival and share your voice on a global stage! 🌟

11/11/2024

We are thrilled to announce that our ACCAC Global community has grown again! Today, Headway Arts has officially joined our network, giving birth to ACCAC UK! Now, our ACCAC network includes 15 organisations worldwide!

Headway Arts is renowned for its innovative arts programs and commitment to inclusivity, and we are excited about the energy and expertise they bring. This collaboration opens up new opportunities to advance accessibility and inclusivity in the arts.

Welcome, Headway Arts! Together towards a more accessible and diverse art world!

Headway Arts ACCAC Nepal ACCAC France ACCAC Egypt ACCAC Cameroon ACCAC Global Japan Silence Radio ACCAC Algeria ACCAC Finland - Esteetön taide ja kulttuuri ry

27/06/2024

CiM - Dance Company is promoting a unique training in Lisbon from 24-26 July with the British Stopgap Dance Company for three days of intensive research. An opportunity to get closer to the artistic practices of a prestigious, innovative and inclusive company in the world of contemporary dance.
Registration until 21 July at: https://forms.gle/WYAr4ir4Hh7bfXsA9

𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗖̧𝗔̃𝗢 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗔 𝗰/ 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗚𝗔𝗣 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆

A CiM - Companhia de Dança promove uma formação única em Lisboa, de 𝟮𝟰 𝗮 𝟮𝟲 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗵𝗼, com a Stopgap Dance Company, do Reino Unido, durante três dias numa exploração intensiva. Uma oportunidade de se aproximar das práticas artísticas de uma companhia prestigiada, inovadora e inclusiva do mundo da dança contemporânea.

A 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗴𝗮𝗽 é reconhecida por integrar artistas com e sem deficiência, criando espetáculos que desafiam as convenções e expandem as fronteiras do que é possível no palco:

“Com o nosso trabalho, procuramos oferecer uma janela para um mundo paralelo onde a interdependência humana, a força e a vulnerabilidade se desenrolam com um realismo poético.”

Dirigida pelos coreógrafos e bailarinos 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗵 𝗣𝗼𝗮𝗻, esta formação consiste em improvisações, tarefas e exercícios predefinidos, incentivando todos a dançar, permitindo um espaço de partilha sobre as práticas.

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰̧𝗼̃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗲́ 𝟮𝟭 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗵𝗼 𝗲𝗺 https://forms.gle/WYAr4ir4Hh7bfXsA9

̧a Stopgap Dance Company

14/06/2024

It was a pleasure to be part of the ENCC annual conference in Riga, especially when the topic was for inclusive culture in unequal times. Meeting with culture professionals from around Europe. Thank you!
ACCAC Finland - Esteetön taide ja kulttuuri ry Kirsi Mustalahti Tony Taewon Kim

20/04/2024

“Let’s PASS” is a powerful call to action in the world of performing arts. It challenges the status quo, advocating for greater visibility and engagement for artists and audiences with cognitive and sensory disabilities. Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program, this international project aims to transform the performing arts landscape, making it more inclusive and accessible. Fondazione Arturo Toscanini (Italy), along with ACCAC (Finland), En Dynamei (Greece), and Studio Citadela (Czech Republic), leads this inspiring initiative.
The chosen composer or composers’ team will create up to two original musical pieces to be performed in 2025. Their expected compensation is €1,500.00, covering all fees and expenses. Specific composition details and deadlines will be directly communicated to the selected artist or team, who must commit to meeting project objectives and timelines.
Read more and apply: https://finland.accac.global/…/pass-international-open…/…
La Toscanini Studio Citadela - klub, divadlo, kavárna ACCAC Finland - Esteetön taide ja kulttuuri ryEn Dynamei Ensemble / Ομάδα Εν Δυνάμει ACCAC Cameroon ACCAC Global Japan "ACCAC France ACCAC Nepal ACCAC Egypt ACCAC Algeria

“Let’s PASS” is a powerful call to action in the world of performing arts. It challenges the status quo, advocating for greater visibility and engagement for artists and audiences with cognitive and sensory disabilities. Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program, this international project aims to transform the performing arts landscape, making it more inclusive and accessible. Fondazione Arturo Toscanini (Italy), along with ACCAC (Finland), En Dynamei (Greece), and Studio Citadela (Czech Republic), leads this inspiring initiative.

The chosen composer or composers’ team will create up to two original musical pieces to be performed in 2025. Their expected compensation is €1,500.00, covering all fees and expenses. Specific composition details and deadlines will be directly communicated to the selected artist or team, who must commit to meeting project objectives and timelines.

Read more and apply: https://finland.accac.global/en/2024/04/19/pass-international-open-call-for-composers/

La Toscanini Studio Citadela - klub, divadlo, kavárna ACCAC Finland - Esteetön taide ja kulttuuri ry En Dynamei Ensemble / Ομάδα Εν Δυνάμει

29/02/2024

On 26 and 27 February, Parma hosted an intensive kick-off of the 𝑃𝐴𝑆𝑆 - 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 project, which finally got off the ground and the operational part of the project officially started.

The main coordinator of the two-year Creative Europe project is La Toscanini from Italy. ACCAC Finland, Studio Citadela from the Czech Republic and En Dynamei from Greece are the other project partners.

The project will produce an accessible international and multidisciplinary performance on the theme of Celebration of Life that will tour the partner countries. The project will also include training workshops for teachers, musicians and cultural operators, and will address accessibility and inclusion, valuing and respecting diversity, promoting cultural and social rights, and fostering innovation in the cultural and creative sectors across the EU, which are EU priorities for 2023-2026.

ACCAC Finland - Esteetön taide ja kulttuuri ry La Toscanini Studio Citadela - klub, divadlo, kavárna En Dynamei Ensemble / Ομάδα Εν Δυνάμει

07/02/2024

Headway Arts has amazing opportunity to artists collaboratiom. Read more and apply😀

Headway Arts has a great new opportunity for new/ early career artists who are looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of inclusive creative practice.

Commissions 4 Exchange Laboratory (‘C4X Lab’ for short) will offer the chance for new visiting artists to collaborate with members of the company of neurodiverse and learning disabled creatives over a 4 day laboratory.

Read more on our website:
https://headwayarts.co.uk/project/commissions-for-exchange-2024/

30/08/2023

Open Minds: Design for Radical Inclusion
9-14 October 2023

We're counting down to be part of our biggest-ever international Labs event: Open Minds - a week-long, immersive Creative Innovation Lab taking place in five countries with over 250 participants and invited experts collaborating, sharing ideas and inventing a brighter future.

Industry partners, policymakers, educators and innovators are invited to join us in creating a sustainable and inclusive world for us all.

Led by MTF Labs in Sweden with satellite events in Portugal, Finland, Albania and Croatia, and with participants from all around Europe, Open Minds combines sustainability, inclusion and aesthetics in interdisciplinary design - and is aimed at bringing together young people with diverse backgrounds, abilities and perspectives to solve societal challenges.

Learn more and get in touch: https://mtflabs.net/openminds

ACCAC Finland - Esteetön taide ja kulttuuri ry

Photos by Sari Soinenen are from the first preparatory Open Minds session in Tampere, Finland.

22/08/2023

Greetings after summer!
ACCAC has had many things happening during the past summer that look far into the future. In the early summer annual meeting, a new board was formed. At the end of June, there was a creative residency in Cesena, Italy for the Game On! Creative Europe project. In July, we got the news that another Creative Europe project was accepted. We will tell you more about it in due time. In August, we opened the Open Minds Erasmus + project, whose sessions will continue in September and will culminate in October with a satellite event organized in five countries.
Read more from the August Newsletter:

Greetings after summer ACCAC has had many things happening during the past summer that look far into the future. In the early summer annual meeting, ...

08/05/2023

Erasmus+ Open Minds promotes a design education approach that centres Radical Inclusion. We believe that everyone can and should contribute meaningfully to the grand challenges facing us today, regardless of gender, ethnicity, circumstances or disability. It is not an ‘impairment’ that hinders someone’s full participation in society but rather the disabling environments and infrastructures that create barriers.

About Radical Inclusion Partners Resources Contact About Open Minds Open Minds is a European funded Erasmus+ programme for 18 to 29-year-olds. It focuses on Design Education for Radical Inclusion and uses an innovative card game methodology for collaborative ideation as well as a specially-designed....