"Interview with Tim McCallum"
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- Title
- "Interview with Tim McCallum"
- Description
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Tim McCallum is a singer, performer and speaker and disability advocate.
Interview Summary
Tim McCallum is a performer who specializes in singing and acting, with singing being his foremost talent. Having sustained a spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia before beginning his studies at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Tim's childhood passion for the performing arts has continued to motivate his career. Through his experiences, both positive and negative, regarding inclusion and discrimination in the arts, Tim has become determined to challenge preconceived notions and make disability a visible and celebrated aspect of performance. He is a strong advocate for the representation of artists with disabilities in leadership roles within arts governance, stressing the importance of lived expertise over tokenism for lasting change in the industry. - Identifier
- IV00025
- Publisher
- Disability Arts History Australia
- datePublished
- 2022
- Relation
- Brisbane
- Queensland
- Victoria
- Disability Arts History Australia
- AbilityFest
- Access Arts
- Undercover Artist Festival
- The Crooners
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"Undercover Artist Festival Program 2021"
- Tim McCallum
- gender
- Male
- category
- CreativeWork
- Type
- Conversation
- Format
- URL, Video, Text
- inLanguage
- English, Auslan
- keywords
- Music
- Theatre and Performance
- Dance
- Festivals
- Physical disability
- Education and employment
- Grant
- Advocacy and awareness raising
- Participation in public and political life
- Participation in cultural life
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Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| AbilityFest | Organization |
| Disability Arts History Australia | Organization |
| Tim McCallum | Person |
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