This Access Guide to Presenting and Touring the Performing Arts is intended for performing arts venues and presenters, but can also be used more broadly. It is meant to address long overdue work to make dance and performing arts spaces accessible to artists, venue workers, administrators and audiences with disabilities.

National Arts Strategies (NAS) builds and supports a diverse community of arts and culture leaders who drive inspiring change for the future. The Racial Equity Principles is a framework and shared commitment to guide us in creating more equitable workplaces and communities. We encourage you to commit to adapting and adopting them into their work to be a part of a diverse network of leaders across the world who are committed to advancing racial equity in arts and culture.

The Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) is a biennial national conference that centers the multiple oppressions that shape the lived experiences of disabled individuals, as told by disabled people, in a setting organized by disabled activists. Access should be a collective responsibility, and DIS provides a list of basic access suggestion as a place to start.

Practical tips and resources for independent venues, promoters and festivals, curated by NIVA's DEI Taskforce

The Kennedy Center offers numerous resources related to the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD®) program, including tipsheets, books, videos, and webinars. The LEAD program focuses on expanding the breadth and scope of accessible cultural arts programming.

Directory of people of color who work in audio around the world. You’ll find editors, hosts, writers, producers, sound designers, engineers, project managers, musicians, reporters, and content strategists with varied experience from within the industry and in related fields.

NAF is a blog that discusses all things nonprofit with a slant toward equity, including the challenges faced by leaders and organizations of color. Topics include bringing more inclusive hiring and fundraising practices into the nonprofit sector.

An interactive website offering recommendations for a number of different areas related to DEI in the workplace. While they are mostly geared toward tech companies, each area includes case studies and other helpful articles and resources at the bottom of the specific suggestions provided. As a result, we think this is a great resource for folks in any industry.

Accessible Festivals is dedicated to making live music and recreational events fully accessible for people of all abilities. By educating the public and bringing together like-minded organizations, we can end the stigmatization involved with having a disability so that everyone can have the opportunity to have amazing experiences, regardless of ability.

As a part of their Equity, Diversity & Inclusion work, Denver Arts & Venues presents a video series on integrating anti-racism into your organizational structure. Dwinita Mosby Tyler of the Equity Project and Tariana Navas-Nieves of Denver Arts & Venues discuss the necessary work organizations must commit to in order to be anti-racist, with a focus on tactical and actionable steps.

A free online resource for powerful, effective LGBTQ awareness and ally training workshops. Provides an entire curriculum around creating safe spaces for people of all sexualities and gender identities. Can’t afford a DEI educator? The Safe Zone Project gives you all the resources you need to facilitate these activities yourself.

A collective of industry professionals, musicians, fans and supporters, Jazz Coalition identifies global needs affecting the jazz and improvised music community, and strategizes response solutions and opportunities towards action. Jazz Coalition aims to unite the global jazz community by welcoming all industry professionals, musicians, and supporters into an inclusive network.

A coalition of artists, curators, culture producers, and organizers committed to using the arts to support direct action and civic engagement in the service of Black liberation and equity. Black liberation and equity is liberation and equality for all. This is a compendium of pledges, resources, and tools put together by The Blacksmiths that individuals and organizations can use to hold themselves accountable around issues of racial equity. Embedding racial equity into our lives and work is a continuous process in which we are constantly learning. Commit or recommit to this journey today.