Access 2026

RISING wants to make our festival accessible for people who are d/Deaf, have disability or are neurodivergent. We hope we can support and promote change in the arts through our approach to access.

People who are d/Deaf, have disability and or are neurodivergent experience many barriers to participation. We define access as identifying and removing these barriers. We aim to create processes so that everyone can engage with RISING in a meaningful way. This includes people of different ages, abilities, gender identities, sexualities and cultural backgrounds.

RISING is committed to the social model of disability. This means we focus on the barriers to participating in society and the arts. We are not interested in medical information. We want to know what barriers people experience. We will then use that information to better design our festival for universal access.