Access Culture organises debates welcoming culture professionals and all those interested, so that we can think together about issues related to accessibility – physical, social and intellectual – which have an impact on our work and our relationship with people with different profiles. Apart from these national debates, Access Culture organises, since 2021, the online series “The activist museum: going deeper”, for an international audience.
Previous debates
4.12.2025
Access denied? Deaf and disabled people in higher artistic education
Culturgest, Lisbon
2.12.2025
The activist museum: going deeper
With Ann Burroughs and Marcela Kvetková
20.2.2025 [online]
The activist museum: going deeper
With Anna Cornelius and Gerald van der Wijngaart
25.11.2024 [online]
The activist museum: going deeper
With Julia Leser, Jana Golombek and Goranka Horjan
8.4.2024 [online]
The activist museum: going deeper
With Thomas A.Geisler and Vera Sacchetti
28.2.2024
Inclusion in cinemas: where does the responsibility lie?
Lisbon, Culturgest
19.2.2024 [online]
Supporting maternity/paternity in the cultural sector
6.2.2024 [online]
Live performance, recorded AD?
Recording available.
14.12.2023
What can a civic movement do for culture?
Ribeira Grande, Arquipélago
11.12.2023 [online]
Freedom of expression and censorship: war, culture and human rights
16.11.2023
Cultural participation
Évora, Direcção Regional de Cultura do Alentejo
3. 10. 2023
Municipalization of culture
Covilhã, Casa dos Magistrados | Galeria Prof. António Lopes
20.9.2023
The activist museum: going deeper
With Kirstine Møller and Randi Godø
More information and recording
19.9.2023
The decentralisation of culture: what is it and how is it done?
Faro, Instituto Português do Desporto e Juventude
2.6.2023
Participatory projects
Funchal, Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias
18.5.2023
Access and individual and social wellbeing
Vila Nova de Famalicão, Museu Bernardino Machado
20.4.2023
The activist museum: going deeper
With Margaret Middleton and Ben Garcia
More information and recording
18.4.2023
Promoting cultural democracy
Torres Novas, Municipal library
23.3.2023
Free access and participation
Aveiro, Auditorium of the Departament of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro
21.2.2023
The activist museum: going deeper
With Chao Tayiana and Marie-Reine Iyumva
More information and recording
6.2.2023
The municipalisation of culture
Castelo Branco, Fábrica da Criatividade
30.1.2023
Exhausted teams: why and for whom?
Porto, Coliseu Porto Ageas
13.12.2022
The activist museum: going deeper
With Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Fenia Lekka and Vassiliki Sakka
More information and recording
21.6.2022
What does programming mean?
On the occasion of Access Culture Week 2022
14 and 20 June
Imagination: reeinventing culture
A conversation with Marta Porto
19.4.2022
Culture and the “wars”
24.3.2022
The activist museum: going deeper
With Olha Honchar and Tony Butler
More information and recording
15.2.2022
Our little considered values
13.1.2022
The activist museum: going deeper
With Armando Perla and María Acaso
More information and recording
9.12.2021
The activist museum: going deeper
With Jessica Hallett and Sussan Babaie
More information and recording
14.9.2021
The activist museum: going deeper
With Mike Murawski and Emily Pringle
More information and recording
1.7.2021
The activist museum: going deeper
With Elaine Heumann Gurian
More information and recording
15.6.2021
Time: longed, imposed, negotiated
5.5.2021
The activist museum: going deeper
With Cristina Lleras, Richard Sandell and Maria Vlachou
More inforatio and recording
21.4.2021
Recruiting for inclusion
23.2.2021
‘Special’ activities for ‘special’ people?
17.11.2020 [online]
Apart, but together, in COVID times
16.6.2020 [online]
Self-created audiences
8.6.2020 [online]
Culture: an essential service
21.04.2020 [online]
Ahhh…. the time! Of quantity and quality
18.02.2020 | Angra do Heroismo, Castelo Branco, Évora, Faro, Funchal, Lisboa, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Torres Novas, V.N.Famalicão
The municipalisation of culture?
19.11.2019 | Angra do Heroismo, Castelo Branco, Évora, Faro, Funchal, Lisboa, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Torres Novas, V.N.Famalicão
“Please behave!”: tensions between new and traditional audiences
28.06.2019 | Castelo Branco, Évora, Faro, Funchal, Lisboa, Ponta Delgada, Porto, V.N.Famalicão
How to live together? Our tolerance towards cultural relativism
9.04.2019 | Castelo Branco, Évora, Faro, Funchal, Lisboa, Porto, V.N.Famalicão
Who interprets whom? Controversies in relation to the interpretation of TV and theatre characters with disability, black or of asian origin, LGBT
19.02.2019 | Castelo Branco, Évora, Faro, Funchal, Lisboa, Porto, V.N.Famalicão
The politically correct: a way of inclusion or rather a new barrier?
20.11.2018 | Évora, Funchal, Lisboa, Loulé, Porto, V.N.Famalicão
Programming in the peripheries: What? For whom? With whom?
19.6.2018 | Évora, Funchal, Lisboa, Loulé, Porto, VN Famalicão
What are the barriers to the implementation of good practices in access?
17.04.2018 | Évora, Funchal, Lisboa, Porto, S. Bras Alportel, V.N.Famalicão
Can cultural organisations be political? Should they?
20.2.2018 | Évora, Funchal, Lisboa, Loulé, Porto, V.N. Famalicão
Elitist communications design?
21.11.2017 | Évora, Faro, Lisbon, Porto
Continuing the discussion… What is elitism in culture?
20.6.2017 | Braga, Évora, Lisbon, Olhão, Porto
Open Access
18.4.2017 | Évora, Lisbon, Portimão, Porto
Saying of the unspeakable for what?
On the occasion of the 2017 International Museum Day theme, “Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums”.
21.2.2017 | Évora, Faro, Lisbon, Porto
Continuing the discussion… Leaving our premises: What about those who can’t come to us?
15.11.2016 | Évora, Faro, Lisbon, Porto
What is elitism in culture?
14.06.2016 | Évora, Faro, Lisbon, Porto
(In)Acessible art: Roles that combine
19.04.2016 | Évora, Lisbon, Olhão, Porto
Our everyday poetry: Just for the few?
16.02.2016 | Évora, Lisbon, Porto, Tavira
“Us” and “Others”: Culture in the refugee crisis
19.11.2015 | Évora, Lisbon, Loulé, Porto
Gender equility: A (non) issue in the cultural sector?
18.06.2015 | Lisbon, Porto, S. Brás de Alportel
Participatory projects: Sharing responsibilities
21.05.2015 | Lisbon, Portimão, Porto
Management models for access: What does it take?
23.04.2015 | Lisbon, Loulé, Porto
On International Book Day: Access to the pleasure of reading
19.03.2015 | Lisbon, Porto, Faro
Cinema Audiences: What is being don in Portugal?
19.02.2015 | Lisbon, Porto, Silves
Opening hours at theatres and museums: Reconciling needs, creating opportunities
01.22.2015 | Albufeira, Lisbon, Porto
Accessible tourism: Opportunities and obligations
11.12.2014 | Lisboa, Loulé, Porto
What about the people? The audiences in the contents cultural management and museum studies courses
13.11.2014 | Lisboa, Porto
Music and deaf people: A possible relationship
16.10.2014 | Lisbon, Porto
Copyright and public domain: Liberties and implications for audiences, organizations, artists
19.06.2014 | Lisbon, Porto
Architecture: Issues of limitation and liberation
22.05.2014 | Lisbon
Accessible language: Are we able to make ourselves understood?
10.04.2014 | Lisbon
Artists with disabilities: What’s special about them?
20.03.2014 | Lisbon
Leaving our premises: What about those who can’t come to us?
20.02.2014 | Lisbon
Immigrant communities: To represent, to involve and to keep
16.01.2014 | Lisbon
Legislation for access: To add or to comply?
12.11.2013 | Lisbon
To charge or not to charge? And how much? Pricing policies for people with disabilities
24.10.2013 | Lisbon, Porto
Public service, museums and photography: What are the limits?
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