Opening Doors: be part of our story

We believe in art for all – do you, too? This year, we’re opening even more doors and aiming higher and we need your help to get there

Opening Doors is an NGO which continues to engage and actively involve adults with learning disabilities in the artistic and creative sector across Malta and Gozo. We have been growing and evolving since 2008.

Besides regular classes to our members, we run classes in various Day Services to reach other adults with intellectual difficulties. Since 2016 Opening Doors has also been supported by Arts Council Malta through a Cultural Partnership Agreement. These past two years have been full of artistic explorations with our creative team and participants, to produce a full-length work across three artistic groups, Music, Dance and Theatre and involving 37 performers with learning difficulties.

We would now like to offer our performers a unique opportunity to train professionally and artistically through a number of collaborations we have lined up to develop and present the production we have always dreamed of.

We aim to develop our production Ahdar Id-Dezert by collaborating with Teatru Salesjan, Theatre Anon Arts Foundation and also sharing the stage with The Tailors and Gianluca Bezzina, the band The Ranch as well as Alegria Dance Company. We are also looking at engaging some of the best people in lighting and sound design to create a higher level of production, complete with costumes and set. This will also provide a great opportunity to integrate our work within the local arts scene and even attract new audiences.

Opening Doors’ intention, to integrate adults with learning difficulties within the arts sector, is a national endeavour. The more we share our work with other arts organisations and freelance artists locally, the closer we are to achieving our aim effectively.

If you would like to support our campaign and be part of our story visit www.zaar.com.mt and donate today. If you can’t be part of this, please tell your friends. Our performers deserve this opportunity.

Ahdar Id-Dezert is an initiative supported by Malta Arts Fund. Opening Doors is supported by Malta Arts Fund through a Cultural Partnership Agreement and a five-year collaboration agreement with Fondazzjoni Kreattivita’.