Disability Arts History Australia

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• Brenton Shaw
• Brenton John Shaw
• "DADAA Annual Report 2021-2022"
  DADAA Annual Report 2021-2022 – Chair’s and Executive Director’s Reports, People, Partners, Arts and Client Services, Projects including The Other Film Festival WA, Creative Development 4:48 Psychosis Creative Development, Digital Project, Exhibitions, Financials
• "Interview with Caroline Bowditch"
  Caroline Bowditch is an Australian artistic director, leader, performer, presenter, instructor, disability advocate and was the CEO of Arts Access Victoria. Interview Summary Caroline Bowditch, the CEO and Artistic Director of Arts Access Victoria, shared her journey as a performance artist and her experiences working within the Disability Arts community, highlighting her creative process and the challenges faced by disabled artists in Australia. Despite significant support and successful projects in the UK, she expressed concern over the limited progression and exposure of Disability Arts in Australia, noting a lack of ambition and opportunity deterring artists from aiming for larger, mainstream stages. Bowditch emphasized the importance of integrating access as a core component of artistic work and changing the aesthetic by including diverse bodies and perspectives. She also discussed tackling intersectionality within Disability Arts, reflecting on her own experiences as a visibly disabled and queer woman, and contemplating the future of Disability Arts, the desire for cultural equity, and the impact of potential shifts in societal barriers.
• Janice Florence
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2005"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2005 - Artistic Director/CEO Report, history, including project history, major outcomes of the year including new works, touring, conferences, mentorships
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2006"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2006 - Artistic Director/CEO Report, history, including project history, major outcomes of the year including new works, theatre in education, partnerships
• Karen Lee Roberts
• Karen Roberts
• Rhondah Whitaker
• “Australia Council praises NSW Theatre of the Deaf and provides some funding to the Deaf theatres throughout the 1970s”
  The 1976/77 Australia Council annual report stated: "The NSW Theatre of the Deaf is a significant achievement. The only funded organisation in Australia working in nonverbal theatre, its production of King Lear received widespread praise. This company is now accepted as operating in a legitimate area of theatre rather than performing mime works for the deaf. This offers wide scope for innovation." The Council’s 1977/78 annual report recorded that it granted funding to the NSW Theatre of the Deaf “towards salaries of artistic director, deaf director, and tutors’ fees in 1978” for $25,000; the “presentation of theatre pieces (mime, clowning, puppetry) in public performance” for $2,500, and “towards costs of a production in 1978” for $4,000. It also awarded $1,980 to Queensland Theatre of the Deaf “towards the cost of transporting company to Sydney for seminar with NSW Theatre of the Deaf”. Drama Resource Centre (Victoria) received $2,840 “to develop student theatre at Victoria School for Deaf Children” and $630 went to Children’s Activities Time Society (Western Australia) for the “cost of deaf mime artist, Rae Gibson, to undertake four week visit to Melbourne and Sydney to work with deaf artists”. The following annual report for 1978/79 recorded that the Council granted $25,000 to the NSW Theatre of the Deaf “towards salaries of artistic director, administrator and tutors” in 1979. The Council also awarded $1,800 to the Queensland Theatre of the Deaf towards a salary for Geoffrey Rush to work with the company in 1979. The 1979/1980 Australia Council annual report mentions funding “provided for a playwright-in-residence at the NSW Theatre of the Deaf.”
• Indelability Arts
• “Creative Australia’s National Arts and Disability Awards are awarded to their inaugural recipients in 2019”
  Creative Australia’s National Arts and Disability Awards were first awarded to their inaugural recipients in 2019. The three awards go to an emerging or early career artist, and established artist, and someone who’s proven themselves as a leader in disability arts. From 2019 to 2023, the recipients span across artforms and the country.
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2005"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2005 - ABOUT ACCESSIBLE ARTS, CHAIR’S REPORT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S REPORT, ACCESSIBLE ARTS’ PEOPLE, STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, SERVICES, Information, Training, Audience Development
• "Interview with Jeremy Smith"
  Jeremy Smith is a Senior Producer in Western Australia at Performing Lines, has a long career across community, experimental and performing arts, is a disability advocate and previously worked in Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia) as Director – Community Arts and Experimental Arts. Interview Summary Jeremy Smith has vast experience in the arts including working as a director with Australia Council (Creative Australia). Jeremy is currently an arts worker in the performing arts sector. While Jeremy lives with Achondroplasia, he has not always identified as disabled however a transformative project for the 2016 Perth Festival led him to embrace his identity as a disabled person with pride recognising the complexities surrounding personal identification with disability. Jeremy talks about artists and organisations he finds inspirational who are leading change in the disability arts sector and his motivation to also advocate for inclusion and the evolution of public perception of disability arts work.
• Sydney Opera House
• "Mary Hutchison (2005) Making the Journey: Arts & Disability in Australia. Sydney: Arts Access Australia."
  Reads, in part "A collection of inspiring examples of how to include people with disabilities in the arts, as participants, creators and organisers"
• Nira Shani
• Richard Conigrave
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - My Life, My Story Creative Development (2020)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - creative development of first digital production My Life, My Story (2020) - reads, in part "My Life, My Story is a timely, poignant and uplifting narrative highlighting the personal journeys of four inclusive artists, from community isolation to public recognition for their creative abilities, determination and joyfulness."
• Nhan Nguyen
• Matthew Gove
• Bill Neville
• Fiona Hanrahan
• "Access Arts Annual Report 2009"
  Access Arts Annual Report 2009 - Indigenous Projects, Visual Arts, SoundCircles, Creative Recovery Project, Professional Development