Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Robert Brown
• "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."
• Carriageworks
• “Research project ‘Disability and the Performing Arts in Australia: The Last Avant Garde’ investigates the creative and aesthetic strategies of the Australian disability arts sector”
  A research project beginning in 2016, ‘Disability and the Performing Arts in Australia: The Last Avant Garde,’ investigated the creative and aesthetic strategies of the Australian disability arts sector. The project sought to map “disability arts practice across the nation” by examining “the role of artistic experimentation,” “co-design[ing] accessible strategies,” and raising “critical recognition, employment and funding opportunities for artists.” The project team describes themselves as a collective “of deaf and disabled and non-disabled researcher artists, performers, writers, arts managers and theatre makers.” The work was the result of a collaboration between Arts Access Victoria, University of Melbourne, and University of Sydney. The Australia Research Council provided funding for the research.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2021-22"
  Australia Council - Annual Report 2021-22 - reads, in part "Following a review of our 2019–21 arts and disability initiatives, the Council expanded support for sustainable careers and the celebration of the achievements of artists with disability. We have committed investment of almost $1 million over 2022–24 through the National Arts and Disability Awards, Mentoring Initiatives, as well as a new fellowship for d/Deaf and Disabled artists. We will also continue our partnership with Arts Access Australia on the awards." and "Safe in Sound is an exploratory concert series for people with disability and their families and supporters. The group offers real-time, in-person interaction, connection and communication through sound as an alternative to listening to recorded music or watching television."
• Dinny Downie
• Kitty Ginter
• Scott Pyle
• Steve Mayer Miller
• Bronwen Barton
• Bronwyn Barton
• "Interview with Peter Vance"
  Peter Vance is a singer, songwriter, musician, performer, facilitator and disability arts advocate. Interview Summary: Peter Vance is a songwriter, performer, musician and singer. Peter suggested disability arts in the last 20 years has become more visible and popular reflecting a positive shift in how society views disability as part of the rich tapestry of human experience. This is reflected in how the arts now tell the stories of individuals with disabilities, not simply as artists with a disability, but as whole people whose varied experiences - visible and invisible - inform and enrich their creative expression. However, there are still challenges with funding and accessibility and ongoing struggles for recognition and support of disability art. Changes in how organisations operate to suit new funding such as the NDIS have potentially limited the spontaneity and personal touch that smaller, community-driven organizations once offered. Peter said it is essential to continue to push for better understanding, support, and visibility for people with all kinds of disabilities in every aspect of life, including the arts, to truly embrace inclusivity.
• "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"
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2007"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2007 - Vision, Chair’s Report, Chief Executive Officer’s Report, Accessible Arts’ People, Strategic Outcomes, Service, Arts Programs, Training, Western Sydney Project, Audience Development, Information and Public Relations, Cultural Partners
• Caroline Bowditch
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2012"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2012 - Introduction, Mission, Overview, Sector Development, Education and Training, Leadership, Connections, Organisational Development, Board and Staff
• Steven Worrell
• "Tutti Arts - ENews April 2018"
  Tutti Arts - ENews April 2018 - information about performances, exhibitions, work in development, and Awards
• Jedda Belham
• Jedda Bellham
• Ray Richards
• "Creative Australia (2024) releases 'Equity: Arts and Disability Associated Plan"
  Reads, in part "The Australia Council for the Arts have released their critical new report Towards Equity: A research overview of diversity in Australia’s arts and cultural sector. This overview gathers published and unpublished data and research on representation within the arts and cultural sector in Australia."
• “Arts Access Arts Access News Autumn 1996”
  Arts Access Arts Access News Autumn 1996 – Calendar of Events, Editorial, profile of two Arts Access team - Samantha Marsh and Rhona Bester. Artistic Program – Art Day programs, Juvenile Justice programs, Supported Residential Services Program, North Fitzroy Youth Refuge project, The Heidelberg Hospital, Saturday morning Art Classes, Arts Access Library and Information Service – new technology and resources, EASE ticket service - EASE Industry Development Program Disability Seminars 1996, DADAA national one day meeting, Arts Access Membership, EASE Subscriptions and Donations, Arts Access mission statement and programs.
• “Australia Council - Grants, captured 1997”
  Australia Council (Creative Australia) grants captured December 1997. Website reads “extracted from the Australia Council Grants Handbook 1997” and includes Grant Categories: an Overview, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Community Cultural Development Fund, Dance Fund, Literature Fund, Major Organisations Fund, Music Fund, New Media Arts Fund, Theatre Fund, Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Awards
• Mark Madden