LADA ELEVATE: The systemic barriers to independent and sustainable career opportunities for learning disabled and artists and how we might begin to dismantle them

Access All Areas creates award winning, disruptve performance by learning disabled and autstc artsts. Based in Hoxton, East London, our mission is to create a world where the creatve expression of learning disabled and autstc people is authentc, powerful and valued. Our creatve programmes are designed to enable people to gain access to quality performance training and community provision in London. This includes our Performance Making Diploma in partnership with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (winner of The Guardian’s Student Diversity Award, 2015). Access All Areas works with artsts creatng a new generaton of performance makers who devise their own work that is ofen autobiographical, ofen provocatve and creates a new learning disabled aesthetc that Lynn Gardner states ″has the power to change theatre.″