"Arts Access Victoria established in 1973 and provides valuable resources and conferences throughout the decades"
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- Title
- "Arts Access Victoria established in 1973 and provides valuable resources and conferences throughout the decades"
- Description
- In 1973, Judy Morton successfully applied for funding to start a 6-month pilot program and Arts Access Victoria was established the following year. However, due to lack of government funding and despite public appeal, programs were suspended in 1977. Fortunately, operation resumed in 1979 and AAV was formally constituted with a small School Commission fund as Arts Access Society Inc. Arts Access Victoria had both organisational and financial growth in the mid to late 1980s. This led to a diversification of arts projects and the beginning of long-term artistic programs which remain as the core programs of AAV. Arts workshops also began in regional Victoria during this time. In 1988, Arts Access was approached to run a national conference focusing on the arts and disability. Two years later, they convened P-art-ICIPATE '90 and subsequently published ‘P-art-ICIPATE '90: a conference report’. They also published ‘Inner Words Outer Spaces’, edited by Bev Roberts (1995), ‘Arts Alive: An Information Leaflet about the Ways the Arts Can Work for Older People’ (1995), ‘Accessible Theatresports’ (1996), and Bev Roberts's ‘Work Guide: How to Establish an Artist in Community Project’ (1996). In 1998, Arts Access (Victoria) assumed responsibility for its own financial management and administration. In 1999, Arts Access Victoria presented Verve!, a national symposium on arts and disability.
- Identifier
- AC00023
- Publisher
- Disability Arts History Australia
- datePublished
- 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
- location
- Victoria
- sourceOrganization
- Arts Access Society Inc. (Victoria)
- creator
- Judy Morton
- category
- Action
- Type
- Create Action
- Format
- Text
- inLanguage
- English
- keywords
- Disability Arts Practice, Multi Arts, Awareness Raising, Equity and non-discrimination, Access
- copyrightNotice
- © Disability Arts History Australia, Contributed by Arts Access Victoria and Annie Rolfe
- Item sets
- Action
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| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Judy Morton | Person |
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