“Australia Council grants funding for projects about disability or for disabled participants throughout the 1970s”
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- Title
- “Australia Council grants funding for projects about disability or for disabled participants throughout the 1970s”
- Description
- The 1974/75 Australia Council annual report states $1,350 in funding granted to Spectrum Films (NSW) to "develop a screenplay for a feature film of the social pressures on a deaf mute”, as well as a $4,500 travel/study grant to Lloyd Nickson (QLD) "to attend summer schools in children's theatre and theatre for deaf children (USA and UK) for six months". In the same year, the Council reported Bryan Gracey as one of numerous individuals in receipt of Experimental Film funding for his short film ‘The World of a Blind Child’ (1975) about the emotional and physical difficulties 10-year-old Peter faces and how he navigates his disability. In the 1974/75 financial year, Australia Council’s crafts board awarded $1,288 to the Wheelchair and Disabled Association (NSW) for "Jewellery making tools and equipment". The 1979/1980 Australia Council annual report describes the following funding: "As in previous years, a grant was given to the Braille and Talking Book Library for its Braille Book of the Year.”
- Identifier
- AC00041
- Publisher
- Disability Arts History Australia
- datePublished
- 1970s
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- Action
- Type
- Create Action
- Format
- Text
- inLanguage
- English
- keywords
- Disability Arts Practice, Film/TV/New Media, Craft and Textiles, Grant, Blind or Low Vision Arts and Artists, Physical disability
- copyrightNotice
- © Disability Arts History Australia, Contributed by Annie Rolfe
- creator
- Lloyd Nickson
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- Action
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