Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consoritum
Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium (SCAC) connects arts and culture organizations with the information and resources needed to improve accessibility for people of all abilities. Our strategy is to educate audiences through programming that is designed to inform, advocate and nurture meaningful connections through community-based forums, workshops, networking events and conferences. SCAC is the sustained, focused, coordinated effort in Seattle to ensure accessibility in the arts for those with disabilities.
As a contract Program Coordinator and the second paid staff member, I have a hand in all aspects of the organization. I provide organizational and administrative support ranging from grant writing, donor stewardship and budgetary oversight to marketing, event coordination, and project management.
For each of the events, I provided day-to-day project management, designed and created the webpage, executed the communications strategy, and reconciled finances.
Roam Around Seattle Center
We are supporting the Kennedy Center as a co-host of the 2024 Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) Conference. We saw this as an opportunity to showcase Seattle organizations and their accessibility work through a supplementary event for attendees. Partnering with ten organizations from Seattle Center, we created an evening of events that put the organizations and efforts on display.
Deep Dive Day
In September 2023, SCAC hosted our first in-person, half-day conference, called Deep Dive Day. The conference was a success, selling out within 2 weeks of launching ticketing. The event was designed so that each attendee would walk away with three immediately actionable items to improve accessibility within their organization.
Crip Camp
The Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium, Town Hall, and Seattle International Film Festivalco-presented a free screening of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, followed by a Q&A with the film’s co-directors, James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham. This event celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the ADA and honored Judy Heumann (1947-2023), a prominent disability rights activist who worked in the Clinton and Obama administrations and is widely regarded as “the mother” of the Disability Rights Movement.
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