Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Accessibility: resources from our Associate Members
IETM's Associate Members gathered in Brussels on the occasion of IETM's Plenary in November 2018 to discuss about their own strategies for inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility. The closed-door meeting, supported by the British Council, hosted also other European and international networks from the social and human rights field that are in contact with IETM and agreed to share their own experiences and strategies.
This report includes an overview of the discussion, general recommendations (mostly for arts funders) and an overview of the inclusion and diversity strategies adopted by IETM's Associate Members. In addition, this Forum thread gathers presentations and documents about these topics, hoping to provide inspiration and practical tools to all those interested. Feel free to feed the discussion with other relevant documents!
Please note that the report is not meant for publication or larger dissemination!
Here are a few presentations from the meeting. Please note that there is much more inside the report!
British Council's strategy for diversity and inclusion (ppt presentation)
Diversity and inclusion at the Australia Council for the Arts (ppt presentation)
Presentation by European Disability Forum (ppt presentation)
Creative Scotland's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy - EDI is about creating the conditions for excellent art and creative production. Equality is about removing the barriers and diversity is about supporting and reflecting the different cultures in Scotland, enabling all artistic and creative voices to be heard. Inclusion is about creating the conditions for everyone to work in, engage with, participate in, or experience arts and creativity throughout the country.
In 'Which diversity?' the Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis looks into the ways in which the diversity mandate is being interpreted by state and regional cultural institutions. The study focuses on the ways in which these cultural institutions are working to promote ethnic and cultural diversity, and the support they are seeking in this effort. The study is in Swedish with an English summary (page 10).
A couple of years ago the 'Code Culturele Diversiteit' (Code for Cultural Diversity) was introduced in the Netherlands. The Code provides a stepping-stone to develop comprehensive diversity policy in the area of Personnel, Public, Programme and Partners. The institutions themselves are responsible for whether or not to apply the Code. The Code is available in Dutch and in English from the link above.