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UNESCO supports Nigerian artists and creatives with disabilities to go digital!
The project holder, Potter’s Gallery, is one of the leading disability-led organizations in Nigeria that was founded to mobilize support for persons with disabilities using the power of the creative arts, and to amplify their voices to lead processes of positive change and inclusion.
The key objectives of the project are to:
- Reinforce the capacities and networks of persons with disabilities.
- Strengthening stakeholders’ commitment in the creative industry towards facilitating the inclusion of artists and creatives with disabilities.
- Promoting access to local, national, and international markets for artists and creatives with disabilities through digital platforms.
The main activities supported by the IFCD funding will include hosting creative boot camps in Lagos and Abuja in order to build the capacities of civil society organizations and creatives with disabilities, a media round table to engage stakeholders in the creative industry, focus group meetings in Lagos and Abuja to deepen the engagement of key stakeholders and creatives with disabilities on policy issues, and publishing a policy brief on issues and strategies for enhancing the inclusion of disabled artists and creatives into the cultural and creative industries in Nigeria.
"The central aim is to strengthen the capacity to create, produce, distribute and facilitate access to a diverse range of cultural goods and services. And our focus, thanks to the IFCD funding, is on supporting vulnerable groups in Nigeria to achieve this goal."
This project will be supported by a mobile application that will showcase and promote the work of Nigerian artists and creatives with disabilities. Potter’s Gallery will coordinate a major stakeholder meeting in Abuja to present the policy brief and to launch the mobile app to the public in 2023.
The IFCD supports the emergence of a dynamic cultural sector in Member States that are party to the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Funding is especially channeled to the Global South and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), contributing to our goal of promoting sustainable development and poverty reduction through the cultural and creative industries.
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