NCFA- National Day of Action for arts and culture

Do you believe that the arts are fundamental to Ireland's social and economic wellbeing? Well the great group of artists and arts supporters who participated in this video do - and they're not alone.

That's why THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ARTS, Ireland's first ever coalition of arts festivals, venues, producers and representative organisations in theatre, film, dance, music, visual arts, literature, architecture and collaborative arts, is organising a National Day of Action on Friday 17 September 2010 - Keeping the arts centre-stage in the country's road to recovery.

See how you can be part of the day on www.ncfa.ie.

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• eddy ballardi
• colm hogan
• bob brennan
• denis clohessy
• john boyne
• dustin the turkey
• hilda fay
• darragh cooney
• ronan macdevitt
• val sherlock
• claire kilroy
• mia gallagher
• amanda coogan

[lncran]

No Musicians?

[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!!

[Sharaashleyz]

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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.

[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]

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

[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 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.