2010 International VSA arts Festival

The 2010 International VSA arts Festival is a multicultural eventt celebrating the accomplishments of people with disabilities in arts and arts education. The festival, which brings together artists, educators, and researchers from around the world, will be held in Washington, D.C., June 6–12. It will feature performances and exhibitions by prominent artists at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery, and other venues throughout Washington, D.C. Additionally, the 2010 International VSA arts Festival will once again serve as a convergence of knowledge and practice in the arts, education, and disability through the VSA arts International Conference.

VSA arts International Conference

To compete in our global knowledge-based economy, education systems around the world need to move toward inclusive education and bring the skills and competencies that are needed in the 21st century to all children, and also to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. VSA arts recognizes the arts as vital to all three: creativity as inclusive practice, arts learning as fundamental to everyone’s education, and the arts as a viable career path for people with disabilities.

With these objectives in mind, the VSA arts International Conference will address advancing inclusive education and 21st-century learning skills through the arts including a career development forum for artists with disabilities, which will take place at the downtown Grand Hyatt Washington, June 10–12.