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Accessibility to cultureAn overview from Finland
Outi Salonlahti / Culture for All ServiceCulture and Accessibility Conference
Helsinki 12.11.2015
Equality of culture
Starting point Means Aim
How do we define accessibility of culture?
•Regional possibilities•Accessible communication • Social accessibility•Accessible pricing•Accessibility of the build environment•Various possibilities to use different senses•Understanding made easy
Some examples
What kind of good practices there are in Finland?
Social accessibility: ”Cultural companions”
www.kulttuuriakaikille.fi/kaikukortti
Accessible pricing
Various possibilities to use different senses:Audio description
Jill and Joy’s Winter and The Fencer
MovieReading application
Various possibilities to use different senses:3D printing
The Sports Museumof Finland
Open captioning = OC
Closed captioning = CC
The various possibilities to use different senses: Captioning
Interpretation to Sign Language
The National Opera: Carmen
Mainstreaming & inclusion
Absolutely AbNormal, Exhibition at The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas
What are the means of the cultural administration to direct cultural institutions to be more equal?
Non-Discrimination Act• New act 2015• Reasonable adjustements to realise equality of persons with
disabilities
• Non-Discrimination Ombudsman
The Ministry of Education and Culture•Working groups, reports, action plans and strategies•Working groups have diverse members• ”The Accessibility of Art and Culture” (report 2014)•Monitoring or evaluation of how the planned actions have
been carried out can be missing?
The Ministry of Education and Culture• Financing for accessibility• Grants for promoting the accessibility of culture• Grants for cultural activities of the language minorities and
disability organizations• Grants for easy-to-read literature• Grants for buying accessible materials to libraries
• Information: e.g. The Culture for All Service
The system of state funds for the cultural institutions• The quality and effectiveness of the institutions will maybe affect on
how much money the institution will get in the future (to about 3 % of their fundig)• Planned indicators include some viewpoints of accessibility• The culture field has mostly been against the indicators• 2014 some indicators were removed• E.g. Accessibility considering the build environment
Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
•Peer review• On 2014 the disability organizations were asked to
propose artists for the first time
How accessible is the culture field in Finland?
Survey about the accessibility and diversity of art and cultural institutions funded by state(survey 2012)
Source: The Ministry of Education and Culture. Valtionosuuden piirissä olevien taide- ja kulttuurilaitosten moninaisuus ja saavutettavuus - syksyllä 2012 toteutetun kyselyn tulokset sekä vertailu vuoden 2007 kyselyyn. DRAFT, will be published 2015?
Overall conclusions•Most of the institutions had done improvements for
accessibility or diversity•Museums have been working with accessibility
longer, so they have developed accessibility more than other institutions• Institutions seem to take the public better into
account than the needs of the staff
Planning• The institutions had included accessibility and
diversity aspects into their action plans and budgets quite often •Most of the institutions did not have a special plan to
improve accessibility or diversity
Accessibility surveys• The institutions had done much more accessibility
surveys than in 2007
Communication and information• Information about accessibility is given in• 73 % of the museums• 65 % of the theatres• 57 % of the orchestras• 30 % of the libraries
Communication and information•Accessible websites•71 % of the orchestras•About half of the museums•30 % of the theatres•34 % of the libraries
Various possibilities to use different senses•Many institutions provided cultural experiences and
information for different senses• e.g. combination af sound and picture, possibility to touch or the
possibility to do something yourself, e.g. visual elements in concerts
• Interpretation is rarely offered
Staff of the institutions
• Training of the employees includes more and more accessibility issues• Less than half of the institutions told they support the
employment of the minority and special groups
Biggest challenges•Limited resources• especially money•Also time and challenges with the
premises/buildings•There is interest and will to develop the accessibility, but the resources limit the possibilities
How accessible are the cultural events and festivals in Finland?
Source: The Culture for All Service 2011. Kulttuurifestivaalien ja -tapahtumien saavutettavuus. Keväällä 2011 toteutetun kyselyn tulokset. Kulttuuria kaikille -palvelu / Kehittäminen ja yhteiskuntasuhteet KEHYS. Valtion taidemuseo. www.kulttuuriakaikille.info/saavutettavuus_tutkimukset_ja_raportit_festivaalit
Overall conclusions
•Many festivals had contributed to develop their accessibility• The physical accessibility was taken into account quite
well•80 % of the festivals estimated, that they should
improve their accessibility•About half of the festivals was going to develop their
accessibility
Festivals had…
•Accessible entrance: 92 %•Accessible toilets: 76 %• Information available in many languages: 90 %•Free entrance for the personal assistants and interpreters: 68 %
But there was…
•Not so much accessible parking possibilites• Stages and other places where people perform were
mostly not accessible• Lack of information about the accessibility of the
festivals•Websites are not so accessible• Lack of interpretation possibilities•Not so many possibilities to use different senses
The biggest issues•Small staff•Money•Premises:•Rental venues•Historic venues
•Outdoor challenges: pathways grass and gravel/soft sand, weather•Lack of knowledge
What do the people with disabilities think?(Survey published 2012)
Source: Kähkönen, Kirsi 2012. Vammaisten ihmisten kokemukset taide- ja kulttuuripalvelujen käyttäjinä - Kyselyyn ja haastatteluihin perustuva selvitys vuonna 2011. Kulttuuria kaikille -palvelu / Kehittäminen ja yhteiskuntasuhteet KEHYS. Valtion taidemuseowww.kulttuuriakaikille.fi/saavutettavuus_tutkimukset_ja_raportit_kulttuuriala_yleisesti
Communication and information: challenges
•The information doesn’t reach the right people•The information isn’t always in accessible form•Lack of information about accessibility of cultural services and premises• There is too little information or no information at all• The information isn’t always reliable
What is needed?•Cultural institutions should provide more assistance• The producers of cultural services need more
knowledge• There should be different alternatives for booking and
buying tickets
Comparison to a similar survey in 2002•No significant development of the accessibility of the
art and cultural field during 10 years• Interviews: the attitudes have become significantly
better towards accessiblity• In some areas of accessibility people were even less
satisfied in 2012, for example about the information of accessibility
Other conclusions• Younger respondents were most critical and not so
satisfied with the services • The respondents who were over 65 years old were the most satisfied
•People living in southern Finland and bigger cities were more satisfied with the amount and location of services• Investing in accessibility and services is worth the
effort, because it increases the degree of satisfaction
How can one become an artist?
Art and culture universities and univerisites of applied sciences• Researches show, that the attitudes of the teachers and lack of
knowledge can make the studying difficult• There is lack of wide strategies, which include every aspect of the
education• Marketing• Entrance examinations – who gets to study?• Studying, support• Teaching• Equality monitoring?
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