Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "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!"
• "Blue Roo Theatre - Productions, captured 2022"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - Productions, captured 2022 - reads, in part "Blue Roo performances and activities assist the performers, through a mentoring process to learn performing arts skills. The performers learn acting techniques, chorus work, voice, singing, movement, dance, different styles of performance-melodrama, clown, tragedy, commedia dell’ arte, visual and physical theatre" - with information about PERFORMANCES TO DATE (including A Midsummer Night's Dream 2021, Boss 2021, Around 2019, Time To Go 2018, Sea 2018, Now 2017, Orpheus and Eurydice 2016, The Bulimba Opera 2015, Song Circle 2014, Darcy O and the Browbeat Factory 2013, Flood Country 2012, The Last Night at the Grand 2011, Sugar Cane Ball 2010, Lily Pilly Letters 2009), COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE (including Hotel Pantelone, A Waddle of Ducks, Capitano Pretends Again 2015), MELODRAMA ENSEMBLE, COLLABORATIONS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM
• "The Other Film Festival - Creating Change"
  The Other Film Festival Creating Change webpage, captured 2022 - reads, in part "The Other Film Festival is a groundbreaking disability-led program that has put Deaf and Disabled people at the centre of the Australian screen industry for almost 20 years. The days of Deaf and Disabled people being erased, misrepresented or under-employed by the mainstream have gone. We encourage the screen sector to embrace inclusive production structures and processes, including paid employment opportunities and career pathways for Deaf and Disabled screen practitioners and performers."
• "Accessible Arts - Career Advancement, captured 2022"
  Accessible Arts - Career Advancement - reads, in part "We’re here to empower the creativity and careers of arts practitioners with disability right across NSW. We do this by providing a range of professional development programs for both artists and arts workers."
• "Crossroad Arts - Artistic Development, captured 2024"
  Crossroad Arts - Community Development, captured 2024 - reads, in part "Crossroad Arts is passionate about creating opportunities for people with disability who are serious about developing their skills in contemporary performance."
• "Emily's Eyes - IMDB"
  Emily's Eyes' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - review reads in part "Something to nudge you out of your comfort-zone! You might think YOU have problems once in a while! Little Emily Wu was born blind in one eye (The film is actually correctly known as EMILY'S EYE), totally deaf and was expected to be intellectually impaired to say the least - she had other ideas!
• "Audrey - IMDB"
  Audrey' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie has given her daughter Audrey everything, so when Audrey selfishly falls into a coma, Ronnie has no choice but to keep their dreams alive by assuming her identity."
• "Alicia - IMDB"
  reads, in part "Seven years earlier, an 18 year ALICIA was seriously injured in a car accident. It was her brain rather than her body which suffered. This tells the story of her long journey of recovery. Not content with just regaining a 'normal life', Alicia pursues her original dream of becoming an actress."
• "Latecomers - IMDB"
  Latecomers' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Frank and Sarah two strangers with cerebral palsy become entrenched in each other's dysfunctional lives after witnessing their able bodied friends in an awkward situation at a bar."
• "We Are Sexual Beings - IMDB"
  We Are Sexual Beings' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Over the course of 24-hours, three young Australians with disabilities will pull back the covers on their intimate lives. Oli, an aspiring tennis champ; Maya, an earnest sweetheart; and Christina, a wild-child motor head."
• Simon Darcy
• Hazel Maxwell
• Jenny Onyx
• Simone Grabowski
• Stephanie Dower
• "Undercover Artist Festival Program 2021"
• "Undercover Artist Festival Program 2017"
  Undercover Artist Festival 2017, curated by Festival Director Harmonie Downes, including “Here we all are, assembled” by Kathryn Ash, “The Grumpy Cripple” by Thane Pullan, “Environment Moves Me” by Eleonora Ginardi, “Rock ‘n’ Country Blues Show” with Steve Sparrow, “Inside”, by Wielding Theatre, “Explorations” by Vulcana Women’s Circus, “Stories So True” by Ged Maybury, “Whiplash” by Scott Wings, “Hotel Pantelone” by Blue Roo Theatre Company, “Alone with the Keyboard Kat” with Jeff Usher, “Love Me” by Indelability Arts, “Just Dance” by InsideOutside Dance Ensemble, “Ambition Road” with David Truong, “Morgan Stern” by Company of Rogues, “Sing It Out” with Leah Cotterell, “Tribal Disco Ball” by Velvet Pesu and Tichawona Noble Mashawa, “Songs from the Vault” by Donna Dyson and Friends””, “Unmasterclass” by Back to Back Theatre, “What Does Your Artist Statement Say About You?” workshop with Dr Kari Sullivan, “Disability Voices and Mainstream Stages” panel facilitated by Morwenna Collett.
• "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 - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Helen Meekosha - Article: Challenging Disabling Images - 1994 - Iss9, Pg21pdf"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Helen Meekosha - Article: Challenging Disabling Images - 1994 - Iss9, Pg21 - reads, in part "A new national research project has been set up to explore ways in which images of disability are created and used in the mass media"
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: House Gang -1993 - Iss8, Pg5"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: House Gang -1993 - Iss8, Pg5
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Microgroove Program - Iss22, Pg3-7"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Microgroove Program - Iss22, Pg3-7 - reads, in part "Accessible Arts presents Microgrove as an opportunity for: • artists • performers • teachers • disability workers • gallery, museum and performance venue staff • students • art and cultural officers and • people interested in the arts"
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Antony Jones - Review: Words About House Gang - Iss15, Pg7"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Antony Jones - Review: Words About House Gang- Iss15, Pg7 - reads, in part, "In every sense of the word House Gang is a sitcom in the American traditon. melodrama and simplecharacterisation, but without the blow­wave hair. This is not a criticism, it could simply be no other way for 30 minutes of light, comedy television. The only difference being that in House Gang, three of the characters are played by people with intellectual disabilities: Trev is the struggling athlete; Belinda is self-obsessed, love-struck and out of love; and Robert is the soft, sensitive type."
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2013"
• "Accessible Arts and Arts OutWest - Artability Music Workshops - Press Release"
  Accessible Arts and Arts OutWest - Artability Music Workshops 1995 - Press Release - reads, in part "Local musicians in Bathurst, Orange, and Dubbo are being sought by Accessible Arts Inc to run music workshops for people with disabilities. Free Music Improvisation training days for local artists, musicians, arts, and disability workers will also be run by Accessible Arts in October 1995. Anyone interested in participating is invited to attend the community consultancy meetings in each centre, held from Monday 11 September to Wednesday 13 September 1995."
• "Accessible Arts - Arts Activated Conference 2010 - Program"
  Accessible Arts - Arts Activated Conference 2010 - Program - reads, in part "Welcome to the second Arts Activated Conference. Arts Access Excellence. For those passionate about the arts and disability, the Arts Activated Conference provides an opportunity to come together to explore, debate, discuss, and connect ideas and practice. The conference will also celebrate the accomplishments."