Disability Arts History Australia

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• Alex Varley
• Alex Jones
• Albert Waters
• Albert Blackney
• Alan Newman
• Ahmed Zeed
• Adriane Hayward
• Adam Rozsa
• Adam Pederson
• Adam Elliot
• Adam Benjamin
• Ada Bird Pettarre
• Abi Crompton
• Abby Witts
• Tony Hargreaves
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2024"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2024 – Australian works screened include Rewards for the Tribe 90 Minutes | 2023 Director Rhys Graham ; 14 in February 9 Minutes | 2023 Director/WriterProducers Victoria Singh-Thompson, Lily Warland, Pip Smart, Anna Mannix; Revolver Baby 12 Minutes |2024 Director/ ProducerProducer James Di Martino and Daniel Facciolo; Bokeh 12 Minutes | 2024 Director/ WriterProducer Christian Misuraca and Daniel Shao; Carer 19 Minutes | 2024 Director/ Writer CompanyProducer Victorian College of the Arts Oliver Wicks; Dungeons, Goblins and Broccoli 8 Minutes | 2023 Director Dan Sanguineti; The Flower Man 8 Minutes | 2024 Director/ Writer/ Producer Evangeline Read;Threshold 8 Minutes | 2023 Director/ Writer Sofya Gollan; The Water of the Womb 9 Minutes | 2023 Director/ Writer/ Producer Baris Ulusoy
• Disability Arts History Australia Launch 2025 - 1 Page Information Sheet
• "Interview with Michèle Saint-Yves"
  Michèle Saint-Yves is a playwright, filmmaker, poet, and director. Interview Summary Michèle Saint-Yves’ background includes a colonial upbringing in Pacific territories, a Scottish boarding school education, and a complex personal journey of confronting her own inherent racism and colonial legacy, particularly through her writing. Her work as an artist with disability is deeply informed by her sense of otherness and focuses on creating inclusive performance-based work that challenges mainstream audiences and systems, aiming for transformative experiences that impact disability justice and community. Michèle actively embraced the social model of disability, which shifted her understanding of herself and her art, and has received recognition for her pioneering work with the prize-winning show "Clock for No Time." However, recognising the social model’s limitations, her current creative endeavours are concerned with 'access intimacy' and evaluating the lasting impact of her performances, in collaboration with other artists and through research grants.
• "Bree Hadley (2015) Participation, politics and provocations: People with disabilities as non-conciliatory audiences. Participations: journal of audience and reception studies, 12(1), pp. 154-174.”
  "Disability has always had a prominent place on the theatrical stage. Throughout the C19th, C20th and C21st to date, disabled characters have been used to signify corruption, innocence or suffering, and, of course, as salutary examples of how to overcome such suffering. In the past three decades, the work of disability scholars, activists and artists has also provided opportunities for people with disabilities to produce their own plays, performances or installations challenging these stereotypes. Interestingly, though both the body of literature on theatre makers with disabilities and the body of literature on theatre audiences has grown apace over the past decade, there is still surprisingly little written on people with disabilities as theatre audiences. In this article, I draw on observations made during five years of practical, empirical and theoretical research into disability theatre to discuss how people with disabilities work as a distinctive sub-group of spectators, with distinctive spectatorial processes, modalities and preferences, within contemporary theatre audiences. I begin with the factors that make attending theatre difficult for people with disabilities. I note that people with disabilities respond to the challenges they face in attempting to become active audiences of contemporary theatre in three common ways. I then unpack what these spectatorial modalities teach us about people with disabilities as audiences, other marginalised groups as audiences, as well as about audiences, audiencing and the part audiences play in theatre practice more generally."
• Vulcana Women’s Circus
• Expressions Dance Company
• Screech Arts
• Phluxus2Dance
• Art From the Margins
• Brisbane Community Arts Centre