Liberty 2025: Access Training Brief
We want to commission a disabled artist or group to produce four digital anti-ableism modules for partners to watch and learn from.
Why is access training so often bland?
As part of Liberty 2025, we’re committed to ensuring that all the partners across Liberty have received high-quality anti-ableism training. This is a creative space, and the training should be led by creative disabled people - but we wanted to go further than that, and invite the training itself to be creative, artistic, and engaging.
Please note this role is reserved for a disabled person. By this, we mean “all people who face disableist [including audist or neurotypist] barriers”, or “people who identify themselves as disabled and/or are identified by others as disabled in society”. Read more here.
We want to commission a disabled artist or group to produce four digital anti-ableism modules for partners to watch and learn from. They should have a focus on the application of these concepts both within Liberty Festival and disability-centred spaces and cultural spaces more widely. Each one should be 5 minutes or shorter.
They should be aimed at cultural venues and producers hosting events or shows where there might be disabled team members, creatives, audiences, freelancers, or colleagues present.
These should be creative and interesting. Whether you’re acting or animating, drawing on a Tiktok aesthetic or are doing the training as ‘stand-up’ comedy, these videos should engage anyone experiencing them, and should cover the following four modules:
- Who are disabled people? How do you interact with them? What do and don’t you say to them? Why is it a bad thing to call someone a wheelchair?
This module should introduce disability, the various impairment categories included within that, and explore how to talk about disability and how to talk to disabled people, especially Deaf signers, and people with speech you find difficult to understand - What are disabled visitors going to need from you? What barriers will they be facing? How are these barriers constructed by society? How can we remove them?
This module should introduce the Social Model of Disability through exploring the kinds of barriers disabled people face in the cultural sector, and should demonstrate why removing those barriers is a shared responsibility - What rights do disabled people have? What do you have to do to make sure you’re not breaching them?
This module should introduce the Equality Act, discrimination, reasonable adjustments, and the anticipatory requirement to make things accessible before disabled people come and need them, not only when they ask - What can you do?
This module should give practical advice and guidance on what people can do to improve the experience of disabled people within the cultural sector
Delivery Schedule
We are proposing the below delivery schedule. We are open to alternative suggestions, though the final delivery date must be 1 August.
- Tuesday 1 April: Applications open
- 12pm, Thursday 1 May: Applications close
- Friday 16 May: Artist contracted
- Monday 16 June: Draft script shared with CRIPtic for approval
- Wednesday 16 July: First cut shared with CRIPtic for approval
- Friday 1 August: Final cut delivered
- August - September: Venues and partners complete training
Fee
The fee for this is £2,000 for the four videos (based on NUJ guidance). A further £500 buyout licence fee will also be paid so CRIPtic Arts and Wandsworth Borough Council can use the finished assets for future events, with appropriate crediting, and subject to a license agreement.
How to Apply
To apply please send the following to [javascript protected email address]:
- A rough outline for a single module covering what you would deliver. This should be no more than half a page of A4, a 30-second audio clip or a 30-second video in spoken English or BSL.
- 30 seconds of video that conveys (however roughly) what the training would look/sound/feel like, either recorded for this purpose or an example of previous work. This can be in spoken English or BSL.
- A link to a portfolio of your work - this might include samples from videos/documents/presentations from previous training you have done, a CV, or anything you think demonstrates your previous work well. We can review up to 3 short documents/up to 2 minutes of video.
- Please fill in this online Demographics and Equalities form for our monitoring purposes, your data will be anonymised on receipt.
The deadline for applications is 12pm (noon) on Thursday 1 May 2025.
