Live for disability e showa bill for accessibility to live events.
“We no longer have time.” It is with these words that the intervention of the activists and activists of the Committee for accessible concerts and of theAssociazione al.di.qua.artists in the Senate of the Republic. A heartfelt, urgent appeal, but far from new. Their battle has been going on for years and today, 3 July 2025, it has turned into an institutional initiative: the press conference “A live law for All”promoted by the senator Ivan Scalfarotto and convened to ask that Parliament finally be charged with guarantee full and equal access to the live show for people with disabilities.
Live for All Disability Show, a proposal for a bill forgotten in a drawer
The heart of the request is The immediate recovery of the examination of the bill no. 1536currently blocked in the Culture Commission in the Chamber. A proposal that transpires the requests contained in Manifesto “Live for All”signed by almost 30 thousand people On Change.org, and built thanks to the collective work of the Committee and Al.di.qua.artists. After five years of activity and one year exactly from the launch of the manifesto, the group no longer asks for words or promises, but but concrete rules that make the show live really for all – on stage and in the public.
These are not concessions, but rights. Culture is a fundamental human right.
From the press conference of 3 July 2025
Who was and what was asked
To speak in the Senate was a composite and determined collective: Chiara Bersani, Valeria Carletti, Marina Cuollo, Federica D'Alessandro, Flavia Dalila D'Amico, Riccardo Di Lella, Marilena Lafornara, Haydée Longo, Alessandro Martian, Giorgia Menegasso, Lisa Noja, Simone Reflex, Sofia Righetti, Arianna Talamona, Valentina Tomirotti, Serena Tummino.
The goal is clear: build a fair, accessible, equal show system. There are ten requests and are divided into two main areas.
For the public with disabilities:
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Booking and purchase in equal conditionswith transparent and non -arbitrary procedures.
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Mandatory communication of the number of accessible placesbased on verifiable criteria.
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Full visibility and usabilityfor every type of disability (physical, sensory, cognitive).
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Stop to “dedicated areas”: does not ask for inclusion for kind concession, but equal participation, even with your group.
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Universal designfor new structures and redevelopments.
For Artistə and worker of the show with disabilities:
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Dedicated fund to guarantee accessibility in production and tour.
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Open calls accessible sectorin order not to exclude anyone already in the selection.
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Accessible and inclusive training programswith teachers prepared for inclusion.
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Re -evaluation of income limits For access to the supports: a rule designed without knowing the intermittent artistic work.
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Elimination of barriers in all areas of the show: training, production, distribution.
Adhesions (real) and risks of the aesthetics of inclusion
The initiative has received the adhesion of many associations, from Fish (Italian Federation of Handicap overcoming) a AISMfrom Luca Coscioni Association to Coordownuntil UILDM, Equally, Cubital characters, Soundset Turin And Keep on Live. The collective also participated Karma Bin presence, and publicly supported the artist manifesto as Francesca Michielin and the comic duo Ficarra and Picone.
But in an era in which the words “diversity”, “inclusion” and “accessibility” are often used for glossy campaigns, we must ask: How much is concrete about this support? How many cultural realities have really changed their processes to be accessible?
We no longer want to be satisfied with partial accessibility. We no longer want to ask for permission to exist in a system that lives thanks to the reproduction of inequalities.
Marta Miglosi, anti -agent movement
Culture is not niche. It is politics.
In his final intervention, the senator Ivan Scalfarotto He recalled that the removal of obstacles is a constitutional duty. And he promised his commitment to bring the bill back to the classroom. But promises are not enough. Italian politics has often shown a form of condescending paternalism towards the themes of disability, unable to make the leap towards one structural vision of rights. As if to include it was always an optional gesture, and never a necessary condition of citizenship.
In 2025 it is no longer tolerable that concerts and events are inaccessible for a part of the public.
Matteo Cadeddu, Change.org Italy
Accessibility is not a technical question. AND A litmus test of democracy. If those who organize concerts continue to predict “reserved seats” as if people with disabilities should be aside, if those who work in the show is excluded due to lack of supports, then the problem is not individual: it is systemic.
What to do now?
Sign, yes. Spread, of course. But above all pressure. Ask that a date is set in the Commission. Involve Artistə, Director of Festival, Booking Agencies, Training Schools. Because there are no cultural reforms that do not pass through daily practice. AND There is no living music scene that leaves part of his audience and his workers on the margins.
The Italy of the show needs this law. And he needs to do it now.
