This week we’re at the Kennedy Center LEAD Conference Pop-Up Studio with Arts & Disability Ireland’s Executive Director, Padraig Naughton. We chat about his decision to pursue visual art in college and running away and into being the “visually impaired visual artist”. Learn what brought him back to Ireland after a stint in the UK with EquATA and how he collaborated with Episode 73 guest Tabitha Allum and Stage Text to bring captioning to Ireland. Hear/Read how LEAD has inspired him not only in creating access but in creating Access to Inclusion 2020 an arts and culture summit happening March 2020. Finally, we chat about what he hopes for the future of access and inclusion in Ireland both culturally and legislatively. All of that and more on this week’s episode of The Access Champions Podcast.

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