As summer time pageant season heats up, Accessible Festivals is once more serving to individuals with disabilities get to their favourite music festivals, without cost.
Functions are actually open for the nonprofit’s seasonal Dan Grover Memorial Ticket Grant Program, which offers free entry to leisure outings, live shows, festivals, and conventions for people with disabilities and their family members. With every pageant season, the group, devoted to enhancing accessibility within the dwell occasions trade, invitations individuals with disabilities to use for a pair of tickets to the pageant of their selection from a choice of most of the nation’s greatest music occasions.
After grant recipients went to Extremely Miami, Coachella, Past Wonderland SoCal, and Dreamville Competition this spring, Accessible Festivals’ summer time and fall ticket grants for 2025 embrace passes to loads of iconic digital weekenders, together with Past Wonderland (Chicago and on the Gorge), Day Journey Competition, III Factors, and EDC Orlando.
Elsewhere on the record, legendary multi-genre festivals Lollapalooza and Austin Metropolis Limits provide bucket-list experiences, together with huge rock occasions like When We Have been Younger, Shaky Knees, Minnesota Yacht Membership, and each the California and Florida legs of the just lately revived Vans Warped Tour. Hopeful attendees can share their analysis, life story, and love for music in Accessible Festivals’ on-line grant utility to be thought-about for the ticket grant.
The group goals to meet functions for “people that notably want one thing to look ahead to and lack the sources to buy a ticket,” and as such, “desire is given to people which have just lately been injured or identified with a illness, ailment, or dysfunction that leads to a incapacity,” in response to the applying.
Launched in 2022, the ticket grant honors Dan Grover, who, undeterred by his analysis with Muscular Dystrophy at a younger age, used his ardour for music to turn into one of many first accessibility consultants within the dwell music trade, enhancing ADA operations at festivals like Electrical Forest, Outdoors Lands, and extra. Grover handed away in 2022.
Since Accessible Festivals was based in 2014, the group has headed up a motion to destigmatize incapacity and create equitable areas in dwell leisure by means of ADA consulting and inclusion initiatives at occasions nationwide. Its founder, Austin Whitney, is an ADA compliance director for Coachella, Stagecoach, the PGA Tour, and extra.
Followers can apply for Accessible Festivals’ Dan Grover Memorial Ticket Grant Program right here. For extra data, go to accessiblefestivals.org.
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