Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Zoe Messenger
• "Safe in Sound Website, captured 2020"
  Safe in Sound Website - reads, in part "Safe in Sound (SIS) offers in-home concerts for people with disability and their families/supporters."
• "ARTAbility Conference"
  The national Disability and Arts Disadvantage and the Arts Australia (DADAA) committee was established in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1991, and – as described in the Access Arts Annual Report 1992 – at the inaugural meeting of this group in 1991, Access Arts offered to organise a conference for the group in 1992, with funding from the Queensland Performing Arts Trust, at the Queensland Cultural Centre - the Access Arts Annual Report 1992 says “Drawing on the experience of the Queensland ARTability conference of 1990 enabled Access Arts staff and members to be fully involved in the planning of the conference. It was a big success. Access Arts has also set up the Queensland DADAA network.”
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - SongCircleReport"
  The Song Circle Evaluation Report (2014), written by Kirsty Martin, reads "In 2013 a creative partnership was formed between Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. and Opera Queensland’s Open Stage. The Arts Queensland and Centacare Disability Services Queensland funded partnership resulted in ‘Song Circle’, a song-based production performed over three days at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane."
• "DADAA Accessibility Services Webpage, captured 2023"
  DADAA Accessibility Services Webpage, captured 2023 - reads, in part "Working towards larger social and political goals of cultural democracy, DADAA offers services that are designed to facilitate access to arts and cultural activity for artists and audiences with disability."
• "DADAA What's On Webpage, captured 2023"
  DADAA What's On Webpage, captured 2023 - includes a search function, with filters for venue accessible, blind/low vision accessible, audio described, and braile events
• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - Small Metal Objects (2005), uploaded 2016"
  Back to Back Theatre YouTube - Small Metal Objects (2005) - reads, in part "An ingenious theatrical gem, small metal objects unfolds amid the pedestrian traffic against the backdrop of the city. On a raised seating bank with individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired in to an intensely personal drama being played out somewhere in the crowd."
• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - Soft (2002), uploaded 2016"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - Soft (2002)
• "Access Arts - YouTube Undercover Artist Festival - 2021"
  Access Arts - You Tube - Undercover Artist Festival 2021 - reads, in part "Undercover Artist was developed by Access Arts who have been working to support people with disability to take part and excel in the arts for more than 38 years"
• "Access Arts - You Tube - 30th Anniversary Event Highlights"
  Access Arts - You Tube - 30th Anniversary Event Highlights - reads, in part "Guests attending the Access Arts' 30th Anniversary celebration give their thoughts on the importance of supporting Queensland artists with disability. The event was held at the Brisbane Powerhouse in November 2013" http://youtu.be/pV_XLZlkJnE
• "Jodee Mundy Collaborations - Imagined Touch - Live Show"
  Reads, in part "Imagined Touch is a multi-sensory arts performance project exploring the fascinating world of Deafblind culture with its own tactile sign language, unique relationship to the senses, space and navigation of the world."
• "Ron Grainer and Doctor Who - Interview - NFSA"
  Australian composer Ron Grainer, disabled in WWII, wrote the theme song to Doctor Who.
• "YouTube - Take Up Thy Bed and Walk - presented by Vitalstatistix and Gaelle Mellis"
  YouTube of 'Take Up Thy Bed and Walk' (2013) by Vitalstatisix and Gaelle Mellis - "Take Up Thy Bed & Walk is a subversive performance about women, disability & fiction."
• "Tutti Arts - Website - History, captured 2008"
  Tutti Arts Website History captured 2008 - reads, in part "“Founded by South Australian playwright/composer Pat Rix, Tutti began as a small singing group for people with an intellectual disability at Minda Inc in August 1997."
• "Access Arts - Brisbane Outsider Artists 2008"
  Access Arts Brisbane Outsider Artists (BOA) Studio/Programs page, with information about artists, and exhibitions, and examples of work
• "Arts Access Victoria - History, captured 2011"
• "Announcement of transition from DATT to Access2Arts"
  Announcement of transition from DATT (Disability and Arts Transition Team) to Access2Arts
• "Body Suits - 1997"
  Body Suits' 2004 - described in article in ArtLink https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20060824102733/http://ArtLink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=361, reads, in part "Body suits, conceived by Jane Trengove of Arts Access Victoria, proposes the body as a site for investigation with the contributing artists being mostly people who experience 'bodily difference due to disability'."
• "Access2Arts Artist Space artist development program as first added to website 2016"
  Access2Arts Artist Space, 4 March 2016.Includes information about Access2Arts "Artist development program creates activity and opportunities to support and stimulate Deaf and disabled artists’ professional practice and develop arts projects that explore new territory. Access2Arts supports emerging and professional artists in the following areas: Contemporary arts practice; Deaf arts and disability arts; Professional skills development; One-on-one artist consultations; Innovative arts projects; Information, forums, training; Auspicing services"
• "Arts Project Australia - Website, captured 2016"
  Arts Project Australia - Website, captured 2016 - includes Home, About, Studio, Artists & Art Gallery, Exhibitions & Events, Get Involved, Shop, Blog, Contact
• "The Other Film Festival - Website, captured 2017"
  The Other Film Festival website, captured 2017 - reads, in part "The Other Film Festival is the big party where everyone scores an invite! The festival programs provocative international and Australian cinema about the lived experience of disability and the Deaf community." - with links to About and Program pages.
• "Access2Arts Artist Profiles as first added to website in 2017"
  Access to Arts Artist Profiles as first added to website in 2017
• "Quippings presents Risky Business"
  Reads, in part "Risky Business is the Quippings crew daredevils taking over the Melba Spiegeltent with our cabaret wordfest game show extravaganza!"
• "Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre - Program 2018, captured 2019"
  Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre Program 2018, captured 2019 - ‘Share House’ at Anywhere Festival Brisbane, and Mullumbimby Drill Hall Theatre, ‘All Mised Up’ roving troupe performance at Summerland House grounds in Alstonville, performances at Lismore Lantern Parade, World Dance Alliance Adelaide, Gold Goast Disability Expo, end of year Gala
• "The Other Film Festival - Website, captured 2019"
  The Other Film Festival website, captured 2019 - reads, in part "Since 2004 The Other Film Festival has been an agent for change and the first international disability film festival in Australia." - with links to About, Program, Tickets, Access, and Archive pages