Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Australia Council - Awards - National Arts and Disability Awards 2019-2021"
  The website reads “The Australia Council National Arts and Disability Awards 2019-21 celebrate the work and achievements of both established and young artists, and the significant contribution of artists with disability to the vibrancy of Australian arts”
• "Australia Council (1999) Access All Areas: Guidelines for Marketing the Arts to People with Disabilities. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080720180431/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/publications/disability_and_the_arts/access_all_areas_guidelines_for_marketing_the_arts_to_people_with_disabilities"
  Australia Council 'Access all areas: guidelines for marketing the arts to people with disabilities' 1999 - reads, in part "Access all areas: guidelines for marketing the arts to people with disabilities For most people, the decision to be exposed to the experience of an arts event is a simple one. You go, because you choose to go. Providing that choice to people with disabilities is the issue of Access all areas. 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 in Access all areas."
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2011-12"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2011-2012 – discusses year in review, letter from chairman, vision, list of council staff, message from the CEO, Strategic priorities, funding overview, statement of outcome, about the Australia Council including governance, boards, organisation, accountability, workplace; financial review and discussion of Arts Organisations having two sections: Major Performing Arts and Key Organisations with a view to making the performing arts broadly accessible.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1981-82"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1981-82 - discusses objectives, members of council, board members, organisation chart, staff list, council report, programs, board reports, financial statements, publications and grant lists incuding Arts Access Society (Vic) theatre performance of “Theorem” as well as funding for workshops in Artreach, Southern Media Co-operative, disabled playwright in residence, travel costs and artists fees as well as salaries of deaf artists and mime directors and research publication.
• "Janice Rieger, Jasmien Herssens, Megan Strickfaden, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, Bree Hadley (2019) Vis-ability Exhibition."
  "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD, 2016) foregrounds the importance of cultural participation to realise human rights for people with disabilities. The creative industries play a critical role in supporting and shaping these social attitudes towards inclusion. Through the theoretical foundation of Design for All (EIDD Stockholm Declaration, 2004) new engagement processes involving a transdisciplinary team from Australia and around the world converged at QUT to co-design more equitable and collaborative forms of knowledge and practice around inclusion. International universities, the EU Commission and the European Institute for Design & Disability collaborated and presented Design for All for the first time in Australia, positioning QUT leadership in this field and as the first non-European member of EIDD-DfA. Co-design methods were employed through, Vis-ability workshops, Making Visible workshops, tactile artefacts and audio description work in the VisAbility Exhibition. Innovative practice was through the Inclusive Film Screening and Wondrous Googles technologies. An innovative model of engagement was created through the DfA Week program and events across sectors. Knowledge was disseminated through academic articles."
• "Access Arts Annual Report 2018"
  Access Arts Annual Report 2018 - Brisbane Outsider Artists (BOA), Visual Arts Studio, Access Arts Singers, Rhythm Circle Drummers, Theatre and Dance Ensemble, Circus and Dance Workshop, First Nations Projects, Professional Development, Grants, Awards, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
• "InCite Arts - History, and 2014, 2015 Annual Reports"
  InCite Arts history, and 2014, 2015 Annual Reports, captured 2017 - including starting as Alice Springs Youth Arts Group (ASYAG) in 1998, becoming InCite Youth Arts Inc in 2004, auspicing Arts Access Central Australia (AACA) 2005, then revising its constitution to reflect the broader scope of work as it became InCite Arts in 2013
• "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."
• "Bree Hadley (2007) Review - Mirage, by Igneous, Australian Stage Online"
  Reads, in part "In Mirage, a performance installation by Brisbane-based multimedia company Igneous, dancer James Cunningham uses a combination of dance and data projection to draw the audience into a strange new perceptual space, in which body parts can be transposed, twinned and mirrored, providing new capacity for movement in the face of challenges to a body’s conventional structure and integrity. The work, like Cunningham’s previous collaboration with multimedia artist Suzon Fuks on The Body in Question (1999), is based on Cunningham’s experience after a motorcycle accident in 1992 left him paralysed in his left arm. Both works touch on the perceptions and realities of the human body as it reacts, recovers and rediscovers its potentialities in the wake of injury"
• "Tutti Ensemble - History"
  Tutti Ensemble History - reads, in part "Tutti ~nsemble is a fully integrated choir including people with disabilities and members of the wider community in Adelaide. It has become known for its nonstereotypical music-theatre productions for the main stage and community events."
• "Arts Access Australia appoints Emma Bennison (2012) and Megan Shand (2017) as CEO"
  Prior CEO Kate Larsen statesin 'Disability Leadership: If You're Gonna Talk the Talk .... ABC: Ramp Up, 30 March 2012' - "Now, I love my job. I'm good at it. I think that I've been useful here. But on the same day I accepted the position last February I also did something else. I gave notice of my resignation, and undertook to hand over the organisation by the end of 2012. The reason? Because I believe that Arts Access Australia should be led by a person with disability."
• "Disability activist Geoff Bell leads significant advocacy”
  In the 1970s, Geoff Bell was a disability activist who, after a diving accident left him quadriplegic at age 21, was placed in a nursing home. Not accepting nursing homes as appropriate residences for young people, he wrote to the then Minister for Social Security Bill Hayden. The letter was presented to parliament. In April 1978, Geoff Bell led ten members of the Disabled People’s Action Forum as they blockaded the entrance to a Medibank claims office for an hour. The protest was held outside Medibank to raise awareness of the architectural barriers to conducting personal business when Medibank was supposed to be of service. Signs held by the members read “We don’t need a stairway to paradise, We want ramps to independence".
• "David Throsby, Katya Petetskaya (2017) Making Art Work: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia, Australia Council for the Arts, 2017."
  Reads, in part "Making Art Work: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia by David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya is the sixth in a series carried out independently over thirty years by Professor Throsby at Macquarie University, with funding from the Australia Council. The series tracks trends in the lives and working conditions of Australian artists over 30 years and identifies challenges and opportunities for artists’ careers into the future."
• Royal Blind Society Sydney
• Royal Blind Society of NSW
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1997"
• Fulli Andrinopoulos
• Dorothy Berry
• "Access2Arts Project Archive"
  Access2Arts programs as at 2022
• "Crossroad Arts StrategicPlan 2022-2025"
  Crossroad Arts Strategic Plan 2021-2025 - includes Vision, Mission, and Goals, Artistic Program and Artists, Community, Markets, Board and Staff, Partners, Impact
• "Hot Pink Goanna Studios - Deadly With Disabilities, Website captured 2024"
  Hot Pink Goanna Studios: Deadly With Disabilities, website captured 2024 - with About, Gallery, Commisions, and Prints sections - reads, in part "Hot Pink Goanna was developed by Uncle Paul Constable Calcott a proud Wiradjuri man and artist living with a disability on Gubbi Gubbi Country. Hot Pink Goanna showcases the works of Uncle Paul and other First Nations artists living with a disability."
• "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2008"
  Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2008 - reads, in part "Welcome to Fusion Theatre Inc Australia. Fusion Theatre is a company of actors interested in making theatre around issues of disabilities and discrimination", includes information about Fusion Theatre, its History, and three Fusion Theatre groups "Dramability, Dramatts, and Blairlogie."
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts presents Beats Workshops"
  Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Beats Workshops - reads, in part "Lead by its learning disabled participants, the workshops offer the chance to get creative and connect with the world through digital technology and contemporary popular culture."
• “Arts Access Victoria – Art Everywhere (2010-2015)"
  Between 2010 and 2015, Arts Access Victoria (AAV) received $2.5 million to support audio description and captioning in film as part of its worth with The Other Film Festival, launched Write-ability with Writers Victoria, the mobile, accessible arts space Nebula in Melbourne’s Federation Square in 2012, and collaborated in research such as the ‘Beyond Access’ project with University of Melbourne and Dance Haptics with Deakin University.
• “Arts Access Victoria – Making Moves (Mid to late 1980s)”
  AAV received funding to run programs connecting students in specialist schools with students in mainstream school settings and created EASE – the Entertainment Access Service, was an accessible ticketing service. By 1989 AAV had established its own studio program.