Access and Communities

The Royal Academy aims, wherever reasonably possible, to remove or reduce physical, sensory, attitudinal or intellectual barriers to access, to ensure that all aspects of our galleries, exhibitions and activities are as accessible as possible for all visitors.

Click here to read our Access Guide, with full details of our facilities

Click here for a full programme of RA Access and Communities events

Tresham Resource Centre Gallery Tour of the Summer Exhibition 2010, led By Harry Baxter

Follow these links for the full list of Access programmes:

• InMotion: Wheelchair Users and Visitors with Mobility Impairments
  Audio Description Touch Tour Summer Exhibition 2009

• InTouch: Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors

• InteRAct: Deaf, Deafened and Hard of Hearing Visitors

• InMind: Visitors living with Dementia and Alzheimer’s

• SEN Schools

• People Affected by Drug and Alcohol Problems

• Communities

• InPerson: An Arts Club for Everyone

The RA is pleased to partner with:

• Action Space and the Leighton Project

• Portugal Prints

• Outside In

• Nightingale Hammerson House

• Action Space

• Westminster Drugs Projects

• Leighton Project

• Pallant House Gallery

• Alzheimer’s Society

• Art4Dementia

Access Focus Group
The Access Programmes are created and moulded in response to consultation with an access focus group. If you are interested in joining the group, please contact the Access Officer.

The Access Team
Molly Bretton (RA Access Officer), Harry Baxter (Artist Educator), Bridget Crowley (Audio Describer & Trainer), Will Bishop Stephens (Artist Educator), Abigail Hirsch (Artist Educator), David Johnson (Trainer), Nurul Hussain (Deaf Host), Philip Nix (Deaf Host), Paul Brandford (Artist Educator), Becky Jelly (Artist Educator), Francesca Herrick (Gallery Educator), Kim Jacobson (Artist Educator) and Jonathan Huxley (Artist Educator).

RA Access is pleased to work with:
Portugal Prints , Foundations Westminster , Richard Cloudesley School , Queen Eizabeth II Jubilee School , Stagetext , Shape , Tresham Resource Centre , Westminster Arts , Westminster Memory Service , MOMA NY , Photosymbols , The Bridge School , Oaklands School , Carlton Dene Residential Home , WFS Create , The Evan Cornish Foundation , Shaftesbury High School , Ellerslie Day Centre

Disability Arts Online
Disability Arts Online is a a unique journal for discussion of arts and culture. It gives disabled writers and artists the opportunity to share critique, showcase and blog about arts practice. You can read a review of David Hockney at the RA by Deborah Caulfield here.

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