Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• “Disabled People’s International (Australia) (DPIA) formed in 1983”
  The organisation Disabled People’s International (Australia) (DPIA) was formed in 1983. Thirteen disabled Australians who attended Disabled People’s International (DPI) first world assembly in Singapore in 1981, the International Year of the Disabled Person, returned home to set up the Australian branch two years later. The Women with Disabilities Australia online history reports that DPIA “from the outset, was dominated by disabled men. Only 3 of the 11 members of its governance structure were women, and there was no mention of women or gender in DPIA goals and objectives.” This led to the establishment of a women’s network within DPIA, known as the National Women’s Network (DPIA).
• "Sydney Festival - StickybrickS MEDIA RELEASE - 2006"
  Sydney Festival - StickybrickS 2006 MEDIA RELEASE - Reads, in part "By 2002 Northcott was infamous once again as a seething pit of violent crime, multiple murders and suicides, with residents traumatised and Sydney’s media swarming, ready to pronounce this community a blot on an otherwise perfectly-good-inner-city-real-estate-investment-opportunity. Northcott residents, however, refused to be tarred with the same media brush and began working with national arts organisation Big hART writing, researching, filming, composing, performing, painting and photographing."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Information Pack"
• "Back to Back Theatre - Annual Report 2010"
• "Back to Back Theatre - Annual Report 2008"
• Susan Collings
• "Stepping Out - 1980"
  Australian Screen entry/clip for 'Stepping Out' 1980 - reads, in part "Romayne, a Sunshine Home drama group member, introduces us to the idiosyncrasies of some of the other members." - Press kit from Ronin Films available at http://web.archive.org/web/20231102095120/https://www.roninfilms.com.au/get/files/18222/stepping-out-original-1981-press-kit.pdf
• Richard Fotheringham
• Glenn Parry
• "Interview with Joanne Braddy"
  Joanne Braddy is a disability Advocate with lived experience and creates honest and insightful work about her experiences of anxiety and depression, as a way of breaking down stigmas that stand in the way of healing through painting, drawing, and ceramics to create emotive self-portraits. Interview Summary Joanne is an Australian visual artist with a 15-year career. She began creating art as an outlet for her mental health struggles and her work, which encompasses drawings, paintings, sculptures, and poetry, helps others by bringing awareness to mental health issues. Joanne finds a lack of accessibility with literacy and industry understanding but she remains motivated to exhibit her work and reduce mental health stigma, expressing the need for a supportive gallery to represent her. Despite these challenges, she aspires to have her substantial body of work seen more broadly and possibly go on tour, with the help of a mentor to guide her through the complexity of the art industry.
• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - The Democratic Set (2012), uploaded 2013"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - The Democratic Set (Sydney 2012) - reads, in part "THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a rapid series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits created in collaboration with communities."
• Cascade Place (Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland)
• A-Z Disability Programme
• The Western Australian Deaf Society
• Spectrum Films
• Wheelchair and Disabled Association
• Victorian School for Deaf
• Federation for Junior Deaf
• Air Design
• Hillview Community Centre
• Rigby Ltd
• St Saviours Neighbourhood Centre
• Royal Tasmanian Society of Blind and Deaf
• Inner City Entertainments
• June Pecover Adventure Playground