Listen to an English language executive summary of the Time to Act report. This ground-breaking study, authored by On the Move and commissioned by the British Council as part of Europe Beyond Access -the world’s largest transnational arts and disability programme spanning 42 countries.

Time To Act provides the first transnational evidence that lack of knowledge in the mainstream cultural sector is a key barrier preventing disabled artists and arts professionals from participating equally in European culture. 

Now you can find out more about the study background and some of its findings in an accessible way by listening to this audio recording. 

You can also visit the Europe Beyond Access webpage to find and download the whole report in pdf and Yumpu formats: https://www.disabilityartsinternational.org/resources/time-to-act-final-results/

Watch the Time to Act report launch event recording on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7044DMjr0&feature=youtu.be

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Gonna and Gotta

In informal English conversation, we often use shorter, versions of common word combinations.

One of the most common is ‘gonna’ - short for ‘going to’.

When we say the words ‘going to’ very quickly, they run together and sound like ‘gonna’.

So ‘Are you going to wash the car today?’ becomes:
B: ‘Are you gonna wash the car today?’

And ‘We are going to go home for dinner.’ becomes:
‘We’re gonna go home for dinner.’

We also shorten ‘got to’ so it sounds more like ‘gotta.’
Here, ‘got to’ means ‘have to’ or ‘must’:

So ‘I have got to wash the car today,’ becomes:
‘I’ve gotta wash the car today.’

And ‘I have got to go home for dinner,’ becomes:
‘I’ve gotta go home for dinner.’

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Gonna and Gotta

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