A Placement Experience with Opening Doors Association. My name is Shane Shelmerdine and I’m from a small town in the North West of the UK called Horwich, where theatre and performance or the arts aren’t very popular. My aspiration of theatre started rather late in life,...
Last October, Opening Doors Association opened its first performing arts (music) group for adults with intellectual disabilities in Gozo. The six performers in the group have been meeting up every Saturday at the Gozo Visual and Performing Arts School in Xewkija. The group is supported by the Ministry...
NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FOR OPENING DOORS P Ilona Baldacchino has been appointed as the new artistic director of Opening Doors Association - an arts NGO for adults with learning disabilities. Ilona will continue developing the artistic vision and ethos of Opening Doors, following the tenure of Sandra...
Please support us ! Alert, alert! The countdown has begun! Only 3 weeks to go until the Opening Doors performers wow the crowd at the Opening Doors annual show being held at Teatru Salesjan on the 4th and 5th May. This year our two theatre groups, two...
Once again, Opening Doors is being nominated for Best Project in The Community by Arts Council, based on the year 2018. This award is being nominated for Opening Doors annual collective performance which was staged in April 2018 at Salesian Theatre. This production was made up of : A...
Hello! My name is Leonie, I am 18 years old and from Germany and I had the great pleasure of accompanying Opening Doors for 1 ½ months as an intern in the dance department. I didn´t really have any expectations coming to Malta, firstly because...
2018 is a celebratory year for Opening Doors – We celebrate 10 years of the Opening Doors’ journey so far, 10 years of collaborations, of participations, of tuition and dedication, and performances which have taken us beyond our shores. Jo Butterworth, President of Opening Doors, has...
(In)Visibility PHOTO//Brian Slater (In) Visibility is a double-bill performance by diverse capacity actors, dancers and musicians from Malta and Wales – Opening Doors’ Ensemble and Draig Tan Productions Ltd. It’s happening at Valletta Campus Theatre on 08 and 09 December 2018. This performance is co-produced by Opening Doors...
OPENING DOORS IS 10 YEARS OLD , AND IT NEEDS YOUR HELP ! Opening Doors have just released a video celebrating 10 years of artistic training for adult performers with a disability. It has already been viewed 17,000 times and counting! But as funds run thin,...
From its small beginnings in April 2008, Opening Doors has, over the last 10 years , expanded its team, its number of participants, rehearsel and performing venues, but never its mission statement. We make the arts accessible to all – particularly adults with learning differences...