Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• “Inaugural High Beam festival in 1998”
  High Beam was a biennial community-based disability arts festival. It was a joint initiative of SPARC Disability Foundation and Arts In Action (through the direction of Tony Doyle). (Arts in Action later became Arts Access SA.) The 10-day event was the first of its kind in the Southern hemisphere, attracting around 20,000 people at each festival. The festival showcased theatre, dance, comedy, and music. Some celebrity artists included Adam Hills and David Helfgott. The inaugural festival (1998) invited Swedish Disability Theatre Company Mooms Teatern to perform; the company also conducted workshops with a disability-led Australian theatre company, No Strings Attached. This first festival was also the site of Tutti's first public performance as a choir.
• "Commonwealth of Australia (2017) “National Arts Disability Strategy Evaluation Report 2013–2015.” Canberra: Meeting of Cultural Ministers."
  Reads, in part "The second Evaluation Report was endorsed by cultural ministers in September 2017. It concludes that progress continues to be made against the Strategy. It also identifies that there have been significant changes to the arts and disability sector since the release of the Strategy in 2009 such as the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme."
• "Maree Roche, Ben Whitburn (2019) Mate, You’re Crippin’ Us Out: Biopolitics of the Arts Curriculum in Australia and the Swinging Identities of Dis/abilities. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.13(3). https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2019.25"
  Reads, in part "The article explores arts curriculum in Australia as developed in the contexts of schooling, community organizations, and higher education for people with disabilities and mental health concerns. Motivated to explore whether or not students provided access to modified arts curriculum are engaging in education or receiving therapy, the aim is to address a dichotomy that is seemingly present in educational institutions, but extends well beyond the school gate and informs organizational responses to arts in the lives of people with disabilities. Resourced with the theoretical contributions of dis/ability studies for its concern for the biopolitics of disability, the authors weave personal experiences through the discussion of participation in arts throughout their lives. The article concludes with a theoretical discussion of how arts provision in the Australian context might develop the social and political value of art in the lives of people with dis/abilities and for all, on the basis that its educative value is emphasized over its therapeutic one."
• "Morwenna Collett, Gill Nicol (2024) Building Strong Foundations: Research on arts and disability needs and opportunities, Creative Australia, 2024."
  "This report is a summary of an arts and disability needs and audit conducted in 2023 for Creative Australia. Through desktop research and consultation with d/Deaf and disabled artists and creative workers, peak bodies and broader arts and cultural organisations, this research provides insights into needs and opportunities in the arts and disability ecology in Australia."
• "Office for the Arts (2013) Creative Australia: National Cultural Policy. https://www.arts.gov.au/publications/creative-australia-national-cultural-policy-2013"
  Reads, in part, "Creative Australia (2013) celebrates Australia’s strong, diverse and inclusive culture. It describes the essential role arts and culture play in the life of every Australian and how creativity is central to Australia’s economic and social success: a creative nation is a productive nation."
• “Tutti Arts 10th Anniversary Concert Promotional Flyer”
  Tutti Arts 10th Anniversary Concert Promotional Flyer – reads, in part, “A night to remember with South Australia's acclaimed Tutti Choir conducted by Pat Rix, Philip Griffin, Richard Chew and Joel Hartgen.”
• Bus Stop Films
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression -1998 Win - Iss2"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression News Publication issue 2 Winter 1998 - information/reviews of Creative Writing, Music, Dance, Theatre and Performance programs,opportunities, resources, Accessible Arts AGM
• "Accessible Arts - Avenues into Creativity for People with Disability 1986- Report"
  Accessible Arts - Avenues into Creativity for People with Disability 1986- Report - PANEL ON 'WHY THE ARTS - Joan Hume: Why the Arts? An overview of the Need; - Lydia Fegan: Citizen Advocacy INFORMATION EXCHANGE - Who's Who - What's Happening SPECIFIC PROJECTS - Jo Caust: Arts Access Society Melbourne; - Angelika Pechloff: Good Time Junk Machine; - Laura Hastings-Smith: Adolescent Medical Unit Children's Hospital, Camperdown ON ART - Pam Fairburn: Cromehurst Special School OPEN SESSION: COMMUNITY GROUPS- Rozelle Arts and Drama Group: Sue MacDonald; - Art Reach: Melissa Lee VIDEOS - Linda Dyer: Activities Research Department, RNSH- Arts with the Aged: Jana Cattanach; The Ward Game- Laura Hastings-Smith: Adolescent Medical Unit; Children's Hospital, Camperdown; ENTERTAINMENT: 'Finger Ballet' - Chin Yu; PUTTING IDEAS INTO ACTION - Jana Cattanach: Artist in Residence, Tweed Shire Council; - Margot Currey: Community Artist/Sculptor; - Nan Bosler: Co-ordinator of the Narrabeen Community Learning Centre & Northern Beaches Creative Leisure Movement; ACCESS: OBSTACLES AND SOLUTIONS! - Ellen Bynum: Accessibility Consultant; - Lis Pack: Royal Blind Society; - Wendy Miners: Recreation Project Officer, AAMR; INTEREST GROUPS - Drama & Movement - Alison Lee; - Computer Art - Duncan Wallace; - Music - John Broomhall, Wollongong; - Silkscreen - Nina Angelo; - Craft - Branka Kringas
• "Tutti Arts - Amalgumation Arts Festival - Promotional Flyer"
  Tutti Arts - 'Amalgumation Arts Festival' 2006 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "The program starts with the screening of a short comical film entitled 'Wheel Love' by Emma Butler from Launceston. Then follows 12 personal digital stories,Telling Tales, produced by Arts Access Victoria and the Australia Centre for the Moving Image The final film features Bronwyn Hayward from New Zealand, who wants to become a dancer but is told that she cannot because of her disability. The story tells her journey to become a dancer."
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1981-82”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1982-83”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1984”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1985”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1987”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1988”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1989”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1990”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1991”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Annual Report 2001-02”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter September 1990”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter September 1990 – Integrated Dance Project, Participant's Report, Artists in prison report, Special Accommodation Houses Art report, art exhibitions for Mental Health Awareness Week - Inside Art-Outer Images of Inner V isions, Austin Hospital Up-date, exhibitions - "Occhio dell' Artista", "6 Women", ''.Art/Craft Works”, resource centre update, Anti-Cancer Council poster project, Senior Citizens Week 1991 Encouragement Grants, Salamanca National Script Centre distributes unpublished and published playscripts, membership
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Inc. - Theorem Program 1982 - Program"
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Inc. - Theorem Program 1982 - Report"
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Inc. - Theorem Program 1982 - Short Report/Reflections"
• “Arts Access Victoria – Inclusive Arts Studio - Arts Day South - Promotional Flyer"