Guides
Material produced by Culture for All Service
Avaus Diversity Information Pack
This Diversity Information Pack contains information about diversity and how arts and cultural professionals can promote diversity in their sector. The Information Pack is intended for everyone who is interested in diversity and wants to promote equality within the field of arts and culture.
Avaus Diversity Information Pack [PDF]
Avaus Diversity Information Pack [DOCX]
Recommendations for improving the Sámi literature field
Recommendations for improving the Sámi literature field (PDF)
Recommendations for improving the Sámi literature field (DOCX)
Material produced by other organisations/people
How to promote diversity in recruitment?
Recruitment practices that promote diversity
Diversity and inclusion self-assessment tool
Diversity and inclusion: what and why
Diversity and inclusion in an expert organization
Toolkit on race and mental health at work
Diversity compass: insights from the 360° programme
LGBTQ2+ Resource Collection
LGBTQ2+ Resource Collection by The BC Museums Association (BCMA) includes for example:- Resources for Cultural Institutions
- Resources for LGBTQ2+ Identifying Cultural Professionals
- Resources to make your museum welcoming for LGBTQ2+ visitors
- Queerness in Museums
A Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility: Changing the Narrative of Disability in Documentary Film
Inclusive Events Toolkit
This toolkit is the result of a research and development project in 2019/2020 supported by European Heritage Days funding through the Council of Europe and the European Commission.
Inclusive Events Toolkit [PDF]
Anti-racism resources
This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. The document is compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in 2020.
Anti-racism resources (Google Docs, accessibility not confirmed)
Zine Feminist pedagogies
Aapo Raudaskoski & Jemina Lindholm 2020.
Anti-oppressive facilitation for democratic process
Resource produced by AORTA - anti-oppression resource & training alliance.
Anti-oppressive facilitation for democratic process (aorta.coop)
An ethical approach to interpreting disability and difference
The
Wellcome Collection and the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries
have put together a document outlining an ethical approach to
interpreting disability and difference. Published in 2020.
An ethical approach to interpreting disability and difference [PDF, 377kb]
An ethical approach to interpreting disability and difference [DOCX]
Clear Expectations — Guidelines for institutions, galleries and curators working with trans, non-binary and gender diverse artists
This resource aims to provide institutions, galleries and curators with tools and strategies for working with and supporting trans, non-binary and gender diverse people. Authors: Spence Messih and Archie Barry. Supported by Countess and NAVA. Published in 2019.
Words Matter - An Unfinished Guide to Words Choices in the Cultural Sector
Research publication on potentially sensitive words in the museum sector. Composed by the National Museum for World Cultures (Tropenmuseum, Afrikamuseum, Museum Volkenkunde, Wereldmuseum) (The Netherlands). Published in 2018.
Words Matter (issuu.com, not in accessible form)
Mainstreaming EO&D in the Design of Cultural Services
The guidebook is based on two complementing areas of expertise which the British Council has been working on for a long time - Equal Opportunities & Diversity and Intercultural Communications. The first area comprises of concrete tools and methods for making an organisation and its services and products more inclusive. The second area, relevant leadership and communication skills, help to execute these methods effectively and involve and motivate staff and customers and audiences. Published 2013.
Mainstreaming EO&D in the Design of Cultural Services [PDF, accessibility not confirmed]
Break the norm!
Methods for studying and working with norms in general and the
heteronorm in particular. (Produced by RFSL Ungdom & The Living History
Forum/Forum för levande historia, 2009)
Break the norm! [link to RFSLungdom.se]
Community Worker's Guide. When Circus Lessons Become Life Lessons.
This document is a summary of the social circus approach developed by Cirque du Soleil, as well as a practical guide. Written by Michel Lafortune & Annie Bouchard, published by Cirque du Soleil (2011).Community Worker's Guide (PDF, accessibility not confirmed, link to holisticcircustherapy.com)