Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• “The Victorian Government commissions ‘Picture This: Increasing the Cultural Participation of People with a Disability in Victoria’”
  In 2008, ‘Picture This: Increasing the Cultural Participation of People with a Disability in Victoria’ was published. The report was commissioned by the Victorian Government, specifically the Victorian Office for Disability in partnership with Arts Victoria and Disability Services Division and written by Kim Dunphy and Petra Kuppers. It focussed on methods to increase participation by people with disability in the arts as artists and audience members.
• "NuunaRon Queensland"
  Webpage for First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group, with video introducing where Paul Constable Calcott introducing the group, reads in part "NuunaRon is a group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists and emerging artists living with disability."
• "Australia Council Arts and Disability Initiative 2022-24"
  Australia Council Arts and Disability Initiative 2022-24 - reads, in part "This program is for d/Deaf artists or arts workers, or artists or arts workers with disability, seeking to undertake a project or activity to advance their practice, skills or career."
• "Victoria : disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations - DADAA National Network and Australia Council (1998)"
  Disability fact pack for arts and cultural cultural organisations in Victoria
• "Australia Council - Creating Pathways: Insights on support for artists with disability - 2018"
  Reads, in part "This report brings together findings and insights from a range of research undertaken in 2017–18 to inform the Council’s approach to future support for artists with disability."
• "Queensland disability fact book for arts and cultural organisations - DADAA National Network and Australia Council (1998)"
  https://disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net/s/DAHA/item/9586
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2013-14"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2013-2014 – discusses year in review, report from the CEO, Strategic priorities, funding overview, statement of outcome, about the Australia Council including The Governing Council and the Board, Structure of the Australia Council; financial review and discussion of funding for numerous programs including a new Artists with Disability Program grant which funded development opportunities and creative projects for practitioners with disability and the dance board funded development and presentation of new work, workshops and residency programs, and strategic initiatives that focus on leadership, development and collaboration with a highlight being the “Torque Show” supported for the Melbourne premiere of “Intimacy”, a collaboration with Michelle Ryan presented as part of the Unlimited Festival in London which celebrates originality of artists with disability.
• “The Australian Government’s Creative Nation policy released in 1994”
  ‘Creative Nation’ was released in 1994. This was the first ever cultural policy formally developed by an Australian Government. Alongside a number of art forms, the policy included establishments like libraries in its definition of culture and pledged $250 million in funding to cultural organisations.
• “Tutti Arts is founded in Adelaide by Pat Rix in 1997”
  Tutti Arts was founded in Adelaide by Pat Rix in 1997. Initially a choir of people with and without disabilities, it quickly added a focus on visual arts. Tutti has since expanded to offer programs in dance, screen, music, acting, and visual arts, and its choir continues. Programs are on offer in Brighton, Port Adelaide, and in the Barossa Valley, for adults as well as kids and youth. Tutti has performed both nationally and internationally, and has taken part in significant co-productions. Tutti Arts and KickstARt 2 Choir presented Up and Away for the KickstART Festival in Vancouver, Canada in 2004. Tutti’s international performance of 'Between the Worlds' in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2007) was remounted as a coproduction with Interact Center for the Performing and Visual Arts. Tutti returned to Minneapolis in 2009 to perform ‘Northern Lights, Southern Cross,’ which they first performed in 2007 for Adelaide Fringe. It was a collaboration with Interact, which brought together Aboriginal, Native American and Disabled Artists from the Northern and Southern hemispheres “to explore personal, racial and environmental trauma.” In 2009, Tutti Ensemble performed with the State Opera of South Australia to present ‘The Shouting Fence’.
• David Doyle
• "Cultural Ministers Council (2009) National Arts & Disability Strategy."
  Reads, in part "On 9 October 2009, the Cultural Ministers Council agreed to the National Arts and Disability Strategy, which sets out a vision for improving access and participation in the artistic and cultural activities for people with disabilities. The Strategy provides a framework within which jurisdictions can assess and improve existing activities. It also identifies new priority projects that could be progressed as national initiatives or by individual jurisdictions."
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2000-01"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2000-2001 - discusses letter from chair of council, corporate overview, year in review, financial statements, analysis of funding and grants for projects, initiatives, new work, programs, presentation and promotions including funding for music development, implementing the Commonwealth Disability Strategy by evaluating current and changing needs of people with disabilities in the arts sector and reflecting this in funding and policies, arts marketing and audience development and triennial grants to disability arts organisations in NSW, South Australia and Victoria
• "Victoria's Disability Resources Centre (DRC) created"
  1981 saw a number of Disability Activists create the first Australian Disability Resources Centre (DRC) for Victorians with disabilities.
• “Screen Australia commissions the reports ‘Seeing Ourselves’ (2016) and ‘Seeing Ourselves 2’ (2023)”
  In 2016, Screen Australia commissioned a report "Seeing ourselves: Reflections on diversity in Australian TV drama". The report highlighted the lack of characters on TV with a disability. When characters with a disability were part of the story they were played by actors without a disability and were portrayed as either unemployed or retired. Screen Australia commissioned a follow-up report in 2023 called "Seeing Ourselves 2 - Diversity, equity and inclusion in Australian TV drama". This report shows that, while diversity is a global conversation and there is an increase of disability representation, it remained significantly lower than the actual disabled population.
• “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”
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2001"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2001 - report from the chairperson, treasurer's report, independant auditor's report, report on the 2001 operational plan, report on the 2002-03 operational plan, Organisation Infrastructure, Consultative Services, Training, Regional Networks, Website development
• "Soprano Marjorie Lawrence performs in her wheelchair in the 1940s"
  In the 1940s, Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence contracted polio and performed in her wheelchair, both nationally and internationally, showing veterans life after disability was possible. Platforms were modied for her wheelchair so she could perform.
• "South Australia : disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations - DADAA National Network and Australia Council (1998)"
  Disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations in South Australia
• "Western Australia : disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations - DADAA National Network and Australia Council (1998)"
  Disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations in Western Australia
• "NuunaRon - Min Min Lights by Josh Lennox"
  First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group - 'Min Min Lights' by Josh Lennox
• "NuunaRon - Songlines by Paul Constable Calcott"
  First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group - 'Songlines' by Paul Constable Calcott
• "NuunaRon - Rainbow Serpents by Eve Kitchener"
  First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group - 'Rainbow Serpents' by Eve Kitchener
• "NuunaRon - Elders Gathering by Paul Constable Calcott"
  First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group - 'Elders Gathering' by Paul Constable Calcott
• "NuunaRon - Totums by Paula Wotton"
  First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group - 'Totums' by Paula Wotton
• "NuunaRon - Mamalanha by Paul Constable Calcott"
  First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group - 'Mamalanha' by Paul Constable Calcott