Inclusion Festival 2024
We hope you had wonderful evening at Inclusion Festival 2024!
Our 2024 Inclusion Festival opened with a moving disability pride flag raising ceremony on the Petersham Town Hall forecourt. We then moved inside for a stimulating panel discussion hosted by ABC disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella and a diverse lineup of artists, activists and other community leaders.
Attendees also enjoyed an uplifting selection of music, comedy and other entertainment, and delicious food from Too Good Co.
A video of the panel discussion is available below.
You can also view and download photos from the event.
The full line up of trailblazing artists and panellists are listed below:
- Nas Campanella, ABC Disability Affairs reporter
- Jamal Abdul, comedian
- Timothy Hodge, Paralympic gold medal winner
- Jeremy Lowrenčev, Queer Deaf multidisciplinary artist and facilitator.
- Bedelia Lowrenčev, Actor, Community Facilitator and Creative Producer - both Co-Program Coordinators - Access at Sydney Fringe Festival.
- Lara Nahkle, musician, ambassador and music therapist
- Kitty Farrell - Activist and volunteer; former Co-chair of the Inner West Council Access Committee
- Daniel McDonald, Gadigal Wonnarua visual artist
- Sabrina Chan D'Angelo, screen and theatre artist running an interactive music experience devised by instrument designer and researcher, Alon Ilsar
- DJ ZZARNI, Burmese/Thai street photographer and beatmaker from Marrickville
Inclusion Festival was an accessible, interactive event which included:
- Auslan interpreters
- live captioning
- noise cancelling headphones available
- accessible seating that is not up the back
- service animals welcome
- a sensory space
2024 program
Inclusion Festival is part of a program of events across the Inner West supported by Inner West Council. See below and check back soon for additional events.
Sport and recreation programs
Partner events
Accessibility
Our vision is to model inclusive practice, to build a space where diversity is valued and thrives. We've put together an accessible events checklist, which you can download in PDF and Word format below.