Blue Touch Paper Carnival is about making Carnival accessible.
Carnival is about expressing yourself through drumming, dancing, making costumes, storytelling, dj-ing and watching the fun!
BTP is working hard to make Carnival for Everyone.
Carnival has always been about speaking your mind, expressing yourself and your life and about people coming together.
Blue Touch Paper Carnival will see disabled and non-disabled people coming together, taking their time to plan, share skills and make top quality Carnival in an accessible way so that everyone can take part in a way that works best for them.
For many disabled people and their family and carers, even something as open as Carnival doesn't really work for them.
Building slowly over the next 2 years will mean that we'll be well on our way by 2012 when the Olympic and the Paralympic games come to our shores, and we will be able to show everybody how welcoming Carnival can be!
We want to show what accessibility can really look like and so Carnivals, everywhere, can look at our website and make the work they do more accessible to those people taking part.
Making Carnival accessible is about understanding our lives, how we do things and the different barriers we all face and this takes time to get right.
