Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Interview with Julie Moralee"
  Julie Moralee is the Chief Executive Officer of Restless Dance Theatre, bringing a wealth of experience in marketing, business development, and festival organisation within the arts sector. Her leadership focuses on showcasing the talents of artists with disability and ensuring sustainable employment opportunities in the arts. Interview Summary Julie Moralee is the CEO of Restless Dance Theatre, where she has focused on promoting the talent and abilities of artists with disability. With a commitment to ensuring sustainable full-time employment in the arts for these artists, she emphasises the importance of audience impact and high-quality performances as measures of success. Julie is mindful of the challenges and perceptions within the disability arts sector and envisions a future where the label "disability art" becomes obsolete, as the quality of the work transcends its creators
• Valerio Ciccone
• Chris Mason
• "Restless Dance - Celebrating 30 Years - Promotional Flyer"
  Restless Dance - Celebrating 30 Years - Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "Now in its 30th year, Restless collal)orates with some of the industry's most renowned choreographers, companies and artists. We create performance work that is presented at prestigious festivals and venues around Australia and internationally. Our workshop program continues to be an incubator for dancers, It creates a pathway for artists to pursue a career in dance. It is the past successes of Restless that have caused the arts sector to be devastated by the news that The Australia Council for the Arts will no longer fund the company through the multi-year funding program (2022 - 2024). It is important that Australia understands the impact this decision will have on the company. Whilst we have funding to continue to produce work, our operational funding ceases at the end of 2021."
• Christopher Mason
• "Australia Council: Australian Arts Snapshots - Disability & the Arts (2002)"
  Reads, in part "Australians who have a disability are recognised as being creators of innovative, thought provoking, high quality, and often very irreverent artistic product. They are active across all artforms in mainstream and community arts contexts"
• "Interview with Paul Constable Calcott"
  Uncle Paul Constable Calcott is a proud Wiradjuri man and artist living with a disability on Gubbi Gubbi country….. Uncle Paul uses his art to share stories of his journey as an aboriginal gay man living with a disability in urban Australia. Interview Summary Uncle Paul Calcott is a proud Wiradjuri elder and disability advocate who contracted polio as a child. During the interview, Uncle Paul discusses becoming an artist later in life through the encouragement of his husband and influenced by the storytelling of his culture. He embraces his identity as an Aboriginal, gay man living with disability. He talks about his artwork aiming to celebrate the achievements and contributions of people with disabilities, using traditional symbols to tell new stories, particularly about disability within Indigenous communities. Although there has been increased visibility and acknowledgment of disability arts in Australia, Paul notes that there's still a long way to go in terms of policy, funding, and public recognition. Uncle Paul says art can reflect political and social issues, and he proudly identifies as an artist with a disability and believes in the significance of diverse stories being told through the arts.
• “Australia Council for the Arts website captured 2008”
  The website reads “The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body.” – links to the arts, Grants, News, Events, Publications, Philanthropy.
• “The National Disability Strategy 2010–2020 is launched and, later, Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031”
  The Australian Government launched the National Disability Strategy 2010–2020 in 2011. All levels of government were involved in a united national approach to improving life for people with disabilities, their families and carers. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was an outcome of this process. In 2021, the Disability Strategy Advisory Council was established and the most recent iteration of the strategy, Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031, outlines a vision for a more inclusive and accessible Australian society where all people with disability can fulfil their potential as equal members of the community.
• "Arts in Action - LOS for KickStart Canada Application for Janelle Colquhoun, Liz Navratil, and Jann Rutherford"
  Letter of Support from Tony Doyle of Arts in Action South Australia (later to become Access Arts South Australia, and Access2Arts), for JanelleColquhoun, Liz Navratil, and Jann Rutherford's application to take work presented at the High Beam Festival in Adelaide to the Kick Start Festival in Canada
• "Arts in Action Annual Report 2005"
  Arts in Action Annual Report 2005, describing the organisation’s work, including an artistic program with visual arts workshops, music club and choir, and a new mentoring program.
• "Arts in Action Annual Report 2004"
  Arts in Action Annual Report 2004, describing the organisation’s work, including the 2004 High Beam Festival, an artistic program including visual arts workshops, music club and choir.
• Julia Hales
• "Accessible Arts and Australia Council - Access All Areas: Guidelines for Marketing The Arts to People With Disabilities"
  Accessible Arts - Access All Areas: Guidelines for Marketing The Arts to People With Disabilities 1999 - reads, in part "People with disabilities is the issue of this guide. This guide is intended to be practical, covering actions which are within reach of arts organisations, especially marketing officers and their departments. How to identify this audience, how to reach them and how to provide what they want is the key advice contained here."
• “Australia Council - Artists with Disability Program 2014”
  The website reads “The Artists with Disability Program provides funding for Australian artists with disability (including Deaf artists) to create, develop, present, produce, exhibit and/or tour their work”
• "DADAA - The Proper Shoes - Radio Play 2007"
  DADAA - 'The Proper Shoes' Radio Play 2007 - reads, in part "In 2005 & 2006 DADAA Inc worked in partnership with ABC radio to develop "The Proper Shoes", a radio play to be broadcast nationally. In 2005 & 2006 DADAA Inc worked in partnership with ABC radio to develop "The Proper Shoes", a radio play to be broadcast nationally.  In 2007 DADAA Inc has been invited to take a reworking of Proper Shoes to be part of TRASNA Festival of Inclusive Theatre.  The Proper Shoes will be broadcast in Callan, Kilkenny Ireland with a live site specific component developed to extend the work from its previous incarnation. The festival runs from 26th - 28th Oct 07 with two production staff and two performers attending and devising the work for the festival."
• "Arts in Action Annual Report 2006"
  Arts in Action Annual Report 2006, describing the organisation’s work, including an artistic program with visual arts exhibition, music club and radio program.
• "Arts in Action Annual Report 2003"
  Arts in Action Annual Report 2003, describing the organisation’s work, including preparation for the 2004 High Beam Festival, an artistic program including visual arts workshops, music club, and choir, and assistance with preparation of funding proposals, informational and referral, networking, advocacy.
• "Interview with Jeremy Smith"
  Jeremy Smith is a Senior Producer in Western Australia at Performing Lines, has a long career across community, experimental and performing arts, is a disability advocate and previously worked in Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia) as Director – Community Arts and Experimental Arts. Interview Summary Jeremy Smith has vast experience in the arts including working as a director with Australia Council (Creative Australia). Jeremy is currently an arts worker in the performing arts sector. While Jeremy lives with Achondroplasia, he has not always identified as disabled however a transformative project for the 2016 Perth Festival led him to embrace his identity as a disabled person with pride recognising the complexities surrounding personal identification with disability. Jeremy talks about artists and organisations he finds inspirational who are leading change in the disability arts sector and his motivation to also advocate for inclusion and the evolution of public perception of disability arts work.
• "Access Arts - The Divine Kiss, website captured 2004"
  Access Arts - The Divine Kiss, website captured 2004"- reads, in part "The Divine Kiss - The Evil is Always and Everywhere - is a music theatre work exploring the imagery of the Seven Saving Virtues. This is not a traditional text driven narrative, but a collection and superimposing of images with text. Although the perimeters may seem fluid, the work is structured around a base of Seven Virtues with twelve images per virtue of either sound, light and/or singing. Seven sections equal the Seven Virtues, each section to explore one virtue in its quarternity. The sections build one on another using the device of a palimpset of images to reinforce and deepen the audience experience through thematic reiterations."
• Claire Thackray
• Patrick Francis
• Cameron Noble
• Cam Noble
• Anthony Romagnano