NCFA- National Day of Action for arts and culture

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[GarretMr]

The bar of the abbey has no access, they hold all the talks up there when they could easily be held in the theatre or downstairs area, there are 2 wheelchair spaces in the abbey main theatre each on opposite sides so if two wheelchair users go together they are on opposite sides.

They could have put in a lift last year into the peacock when they were doing up the Abbey and taking out 120 seats but they chose not too...

[GarretMr]

What is the point in being trained in 'disability' issues when they people you are being so called trained to 'look after' are outside the fecking door???

[GarretMr]

No doubt the staff are friendly in the abbey, when I say " wheel chair friendly" I mean it in the sense of accessibility or lack there of.

[GarretMr]

The peacock is very much NOT wheel chair accessible, and i think the bar in the abbey is not also, but it does have a nice carpet. The wheel chair loo in the abbey is poorly desinged and minimal to say the least. so all in all it is not wheel chair friendly.

[alangarveypoet]

@GarretMr I thought that was the case with the Peacock - to be fair though, friendly and accessible are two different concepts; accessible being an objective assessment, friendly being a very subjective interpretation. I trained as an audio-descriptor (working briefly in the Abbey) and found the staff there extremely friendly, helpful and well-trained in the area of disability.

[GarretMr]

This is a campaign for arts administrators and bureaucrats. Why do we have a national theatre (the abbey) which is not wheel chair accessable despite having millions poured into it. where does all the money go?

[alangarveypoet]

@GarretMr Now I have to correct you on that, the Abbey is wheelchair accessible - not sure if the Peacock is or not?

[alangarveypoet]

@GarretMr You're a voice of sanity here, mate - arts admin has wasted so much money that could have been given to artists instead. I think of how expensive the whole ArtLinks project has been here in the South East - hundreds of thousands flushed down the toilet (admin salary & expenses) in a few years and for what, providing what local authorities are charged to do anyway, which is look after amateurs and semi-pros with a few workshops.

[alangarveypoet]

I didn't see a national day of action when it was decided to underwrite the banks and developers - horse/stable door springs to mind. Nor did I see any mass protests when free speech was undermined by the Blaspemous Libel law.

[SmArtImaginNation]

I love this video, I agree with the meaning of the scripts 100%, Go Ireland!!!

[lncran]

No Musicians?

[SmArtImaginNation]

@lncran --> Yes the musician has made the tune background! :)

[NCFAireland]

@lncran - actually we asked a number of musicians to participate and unfortunately none were available to do it. Well, there was one: we had a great singer lined but they had to bow out the afternoon of a shoot due to a totally legitimate reason. We'll be doing something with music in the next couple of months though - so watch this space!!

[brezairola]

@NCFAireland Cinema, theatre, dance, literature - sure isn't there enough "art" there? Why bother with music? Having been involved in music professionally since 1987 I can say that I have had more interaction with hamsters than other artists in that time.