We’re thrilled to welcome you to The Accessibility Accelerator Podcast, a new series from Xenia Concerts hosted by Kalyce Carter, Accessibility Coordinator. This podcast celebrates the brilliance of disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent artists and arts workers while exploring how accessibility can transform the ways we create, produce, learn, and experience the arts.

This series is the result of the Accessibility Accelerator Program, a project that began in October 2023 with a simple but important belief: while organizations can develop expertise in accessibility, our understanding becomes richer, more meaningful, and more impactful when it is shaped alongside people with lived experience. Through an in depth co-design process, six disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent artists, arts workers, and disability advocates shared their knowledge, creativity, and lived expertise, fundamentally influencing how Xenia Concerts understands, practices, and continues to evolve accessibility within our adaptive concert model.

The conversations that emerged throughout this process were too meaningful to keep within the project alone. The Accessibility Accelerator Podcast was created to share these reflections more broadly, offering listeners an opportunity to engage with the ideas, challenges, and possibilities that arise through collective learning and collaboration.

Across this season, you’ll experience conversations about accessible arts production, disability arts, music education, community care, and the importance of creating arts spaces where disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and immunocompromised artists, audiences, and arts workers can fully participate and thrive. At its heart, this podcast is an invitation to question assumptions, embrace disability wisdom, and imagine more accessible futures where creativity, care, and disability justice are woven into every aspect of the arts. 

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