This project works on a Europe-wide problem around lack of inclusion in the arts. It does this through 3 strands of activity:

• Testing ways of cooperation between cultural centres and service providers to work together to engage a range of audiences (with(out) disabilities) in inclusive art performances.
• Encouraging deaf and hearing artists to collaborate through piloting (play: Guardians Of Dreams) a new theatre technique - Innovative Bilingual Theatre (IBT) - using integrated sign and spoken language.
• Trialing ways to adapt IBT for other different needs and media, e.g. learning difficulties.

The project provides capacity building and transnational mobility through workshops in three areas:

• For cultural and service provider organisations, to learn how to engage audiences with different needs in the arts (theatre as a trial).
• For artistic directors, to learn how to use IBT as a tool for developing inclusive theatre performances (or adapt it to other media and needs).
• For artists, to learn how to perform using IBT in collaboration between artists with different needs (e.g. hearing and deaf).

The pilot IBT performance is a play produced by 6 partner countries, and premiered and toured in each. The project concludes with a conference in Brussels, (International Deaf Week, 9/19). This will include results and feedback from the workshops and performances, and will present the guidelines and the recommendations for European policy makers.