Get disabled voices front and centre to build accessibility in the heritage sector from the very start. Our friends museumsandheritage.com want to hear from you ✉️

We’re looking for Disabled Co-Producers to support our Curating Visibility Fellows. Interested in museums and the stories they tell? 🔗http://alturl.com/rg7pb @disabilitylab.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social @charlestontrust.bsky.social @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social

The panel discussion from the Museums + Heritage Show 2025 is now available to watch online. Ruth Garde from Accentuate and former Curating for Change fellow Kyle Jordan spoke on the panel “Inclusive Career Pathways in Museums and Heritage”. Watch it now: youtu.be/XzlE1aPPAsA

We Will Not Be Left Behind is now live at IWM Duxford. This digital sound piece by Curating Visibility Fellow Cat Waites, Lucia Scazzocchio & DL Williams explores disabled people’s WWII stories via archives and oral histories.Thanks to @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.

Disability Arts Online is seeking new trustees! 🧩 Join DAO Board of Trustees and make a meaningful impact, using your skills and experience to support a charitable organisation in achieving its mission. Learn more and apply: disabilityarts.online/opportunity-... Deadline: 5pm on Thursday 31 July.

Last Thursday, we launched We Will Not Be Left Behind at IWM Duxford—a digital sound piece by Curating Visibility Fellow Cat Waites, Lucia Scazzocchio and deaf poet DL Williams. Huge thanks to all who came, and our funders @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for making it possible!

July is #DisabilityPrideMonth 🌈 We’re celebrating disabled voices + thinking about how tech can make museums more inclusive. What tools or ideas would make cultural spaces more accessible to you? Share your thoughts—let’s shape the future together.

Curating Visibility Fellow Anahita Harding worked with co-producers at the Food Museum, to present Food Not Cuts - exploring disabled people’s experience of sourcing, cooking and eating food. Now live at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social. @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Thanks for attending the launch of Food Not Cuts exhibition created by co-producers & Curating Visibility Fellow Anahita Harding at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social, with audio producer Lucia Scazzocchio. Thanks to @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for making this exhibition possible.

Congratulations to our Curating Visibility Fellow, Anahita Harding, who has been named the Visual Artist Winner at the London Icons of the Year Awards! Read more about her practice here: shorturl.at/9YtOK Image credit: Icons London

We want to express our support for deaf, disabled & neurodivergent artists and cultural practitioners in light of the government’s proposed “Pathways to Work” Green Paper. Without Access to Work, we risk increased barriers and reduced employment. Read our full response here: shorturl.at/VGlUe

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Curating Visibility reaffirms our commitment to tackling the under-representation of deaf, disabled & neurodivergent voices in museums—placing lived experience at the heart of workforce, collections & interpretation.

🔍 Object of the Week This 1789 pewter medallion celebrates King George III’s recovery from illness in 1801. George III’s condition also influenced major changes to British law around mental health and criminality. 📍 Dover Museum. Curated by Karl Mercer shorturl.at/hxEZP

🔍 Object of the Week These handmade swimming trunks (1970s) belonged to Scottish long-distance swimmer Bill Stein, who became one of the first disabled people to swim the English Channel in 1979. 📍 Dover Museum. Curated by Karl Mercer shorturl.at/vVV6g

🔍 Object of the Week: Bartholomew Fair by B.R. Haydon (1786–1846) features rare early depictions of disabled figures, including someone using crutches and a small Black figure, possibly a child or person living with achondroplasia. 📍 @dovermuseum.bsky.social Curated by @karlantmercer.bsky.social

We’re launching a new branded website for Curating Visibility! As part of this exciting update, we’re thrilled to announce that our 360° Virtual Tours from our Curating for Change project are now available to view! Head over and explore the tour here: curatingforchange.org/events/360-v...

Now that we’ve welcomed our final three Curating Visibility Fellows, we’re excited to introduce you to all six Fellows currently shaping the programme. Head to our website and get to know more about them! curatingforchange.org/2025/03/26/m...

We’re partnering with London Museum on a series of short films spotlighting disabled Londoners throughout history. DYSPLA is now casting for the final role: Billy Waters (1778–1823), a legendary Black, disabled street performer and musician. More info on our website: shorturl.at/y3FnF

Five Curating for Change exhibitions which were displayed at Museum of Liverpool, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, National Railway Museum, York, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, are launching online as 360 Virtual Tours. RSVP to [email protected] now 🚀

Final day for all deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent artists to apply for Uncomfortable Bedfellows! This is an arts-led project exploring disabled experiences in healthcare environments. Apply now (BSL version available): shorturl.at/fpso5

We inviting you to the online launch of 360-degree virtual tours of five Curating for Change exhibitions. Join us to discover how you can navigate the tours, how they were developed, and how we hope to build further accessibility into them in the future. 2pm, 19 March RSVP: [email protected]

Call out for Curating Visibility Filmmaker! 🎥 We are looking for an experienced filmmaker/editor to capture our project milestones, with a focus on the digital interventions at our six host museums. Learn more about how to apply: shorturl.at/hfsxI Deadline: 5pm, 21st March

Are you a deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent artist interested in arts & healthcare? 1 week left to apply for Uncomfortable Bedfellows, a paid online workshop by Accentuate & Screen South exploring disabled experiences in hospitals. Apply and share your perspective (BSL available): shorturl.at/fpso5

Call for deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent artists! Take part in an online workshop - Uncomfortable Bedfellows - an arts-led exploration into the challenges faced by disabled people in healthcare environments. Learn more and apply by 7 March (BSL avail): shorturl.at/fpso5

Applications are now open for the British Art Network/Yale Center for British Art Curatorial Forum, a 10-day residential programme in New Haven and New York from 5 - 15 October 2025. Find out more and apply: britishartnetwork.org.uk/opportunities/

Jessica Starns, a critical friend of us, is now an Adobe Creative Resident for Inclusive Design at the V&A Museum! Her first open studio event is on Saturday, 22 February 2025—don’t miss it: shorturl.at/ZRRTa Photo: @vamuseum.bsky.social

Happy Lunar New Year from all of us at Curating Visibility! 新年快乐! 🐍 As we welcome the Year of the Snake, we celebrate transformation, wisdom, and renewal—values that inspire our mission to create equitable and accessible museum storytelling. Thank you for being part of our journey!

On 4th Feb, join us for the online launch of ‘Museum Accessibility Spectrum’, with events on Powershifts, Agents of Social Change, etc. @appleyardfox.bsky.social will speak about Disability Gain at Event 2. Sign up now: Event 1: 9:00–10:15 AM shorturl.at/H6xBd Event 2: 4:30–5:45 PM shorturl.at/z0EZd

Esther Fox @appleyardfox.bsky.social, Head of Accentuate, contributes a chapter to ‘Museum Accessibility Spectrum: Reimagining Access and Inclusion’, edited by Alison Eardley @alisonfe.bsky.social and Vanessa Jones. Now the book's free digital version is available to download: shorturl.at/WLuil

We’re excited to share that we have selected our final three fellows, who will be taking up placements at the London Museum, @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social , and @charlestontrust.bsky.social We’ll be introducing them soon. Stay tuned! 🌟

We’re introducing Anahita Harding, Curating Visibility 2024 Fellows at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social . Anahita brings a unique perspective as a practising artist with a mixed heritage background and a wheelchair user, creatively weaving local traditions and food narratives: shorturl.at/IjXYO

Karl Mercer is one of Curating Visibility 2024 Fellows at Dover Museum @dovermuseum.bsky.social As a writer, poet and musician, Karl explores museum collections as a new storytelling vocabulary and unearths hidden disability narratives from the past. Read more about Karl here: shorturl.at/6FcA4

Meet Catherine Waites, one of our 2024 Fellows at the Imperial War Museum. Catherine explores the impact of war from a medical perspective and her lived experience as a disabled person: shorturl.at/DB6Vj

Now we have finished recruiting for #CuratingVisibility Fellows, we wanted to introduce our fellows from the first cohort, which started back in summer 2024. We will be introducing our final three fellows over this next month.

Happy New Year from Curating Visibility! 🌟 Our fellow Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social and the team at @dovermuseum.bsky.social have researched stories from across thousands of years of Dover's history.

The Accentuate team is now winding up for Christmas. 🎄 We'd like to wish all our friends and supporters a restful seasonal break and look forward to sharing more news with you. See you in early January! 🎅✨🦌

Check out an interview with Anahita Harding, Curating Visibility Fellow at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social as she discusses her work exploring the link between food poverty and disability, and sharing disabled narratives around accessing food and cooking: shorturl.at/b7ZNY

Thanks to the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance for sharing ‘Wildflowers’ by Karl Mercer, Curating Visibility Fellow, at @dovermuseum. This short video explores Karl’s own experiences of employment within the heritage sector. Full video: shorturl.at/rVUXF

This UK Disability History Month, Emily Goff, Accentuate’s Project Manager, highlights the urgent need for equitable museum employment for the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance. 👉 Read more: shorturl.at/52YmP

@dovermuseum.bsky.social is looking for D/deaf, disabled & neurodivergent people to join #CuratingVisibility as Co-Producers. Help us uncover and share disability perspectives in our collections and shape more inclusive museum experiences. More info: shorturl.at/gt1Ar

15 years ago today, on International Day of Disabled People @ScreenSouth launched @AccentuateUK. Established for the South East by Legacy Trust, in the lead up to 2012 Paralympic Games, we have now grown from a regional programme to one with a national remit.

In #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we’re thrilled to share that Round 2 #CuratingVisibility Fellowships received 103 applications! This demonstrates a huge range of talented D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent people seeking employment as curators. Thank you to all who applied!

Launching #CuratingVisibility to amplify disability history and art, building on the successes of Curating for Change! Follow us on Instagram @curatingforchange for exclusive visuals and updates—we’d love to connect. #disabilityhistorymonth

Digital Day at Screen South! #CuratingVisibility fellows explored Green Screen, VR, AR & immersive soundscapes. Thanks to Manuel Vason from Studio Radar for sharing his insights on virtual environments. We hope to amplify disability perspectives through digital innovation in museum collections.