Disability Arts History Australia

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• Andrew Hall
• Andrew Cherrin
• Andrea Cameron
• Amy Davidson
• Amanda Owen
• Amanda Moloney
• Allan Walker
• Alison Lapper
• Alice Gittins
• Alfson Parsons
• Adam Elliot
• Adam Benjamin
• Ada Bird Pettarre
• Tony Hargreaves
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2024"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2024 – Australian works screened include Rewards for the Tribe 90 Minutes | 2023 Director Rhys Graham ; 14 in February 9 Minutes | 2023 Director/WriterProducers Victoria Singh-Thompson, Lily Warland, Pip Smart, Anna Mannix; Revolver Baby 12 Minutes |2024 Director/ ProducerProducer James Di Martino and Daniel Facciolo; Bokeh 12 Minutes | 2024 Director/ WriterProducer Christian Misuraca and Daniel Shao; Carer 19 Minutes | 2024 Director/ Writer CompanyProducer Victorian College of the Arts Oliver Wicks; Dungeons, Goblins and Broccoli 8 Minutes | 2023 Director Dan Sanguineti; The Flower Man 8 Minutes | 2024 Director/ Writer/ Producer Evangeline Read;Threshold 8 Minutes | 2023 Director/ Writer Sofya Gollan; The Water of the Womb 9 Minutes | 2023 Director/ Writer/ Producer Baris Ulusoy
• “Sally Chance works with participants with disabilities, leading to the founding of Restless Dance Theatre”
  In 1989, UK-based community dance worker Sally Chance was invited to participate in the Come Out festival in Adelaide. She returned to South Australia the next year and begun the work with participants with disabilities which lead to the founding (alongside Tania Rose) of Restless Dance Theatre in 1991. Restless Dance Theatre continues to create and exhibit work by integrated ensembles. Their extensive performance history is available in the AusStage database. (see https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/organisation/7046)
• “Salubrious Productions (QLD) established in 1999”
  Salubrious Productions (Queensland) was established in 1999. Salubrious is an agency for disabled artists, representing musicians, writers and composers, theatre performers and actors, visual artists, and technicians in the creative industries. The agency continues operation today. Their website describes them as follows: “Salubrious Productions is a Brisbane-based entertainment and production agency. We represent a core of more than 200 diverse acts and artists and draw further from a large network of professional artists throughout Queensland and Australia.”
• “The first Focus on Ability film festival held in 2009”
  In 2009, the first Focus on Ability film festival was started by the CEO of NOVA Employment, Martin Wren. (NOVA is a Sydney-based disability employment service.) FOA holds events in Australia’s major cities and welcomes entries in open categories as well as a schools category and international section.
• “The Cunningham Dax Collection of artworks opens”
  In 1952, an English psychiatrist Dr Eric Cunningham Dax was appointed as the Chairman of the Mental Hygiene Authority in Melbourne. In the UK, Dr Dax had introduced art therapy in programs for patients in psychiatric care and introduced art programs to Victorian Hospitals. In 1959, Dr Dax organised the first art exhibition of psychiatric patients held at Gallery A, Flinders Lane. The Cunningham Dax Collection of artworks grew, and an official opening occurred in Faraday Street Gallery in the 1980s. “Two distinct eras are represented in the Cunningham Dax Collection; artworks produced within psychiatric hospitals from 1940s into 1970s and artworks donated to the Collection by artists and community groups from 1980s until the present.” Dr Dax had introduced art therapy in programs for patients in psychiatric care and introduced art programs to Victorian Hospitals. In 1981, the National Gallery of Australia received 68 paintings from the Dax Collection - these were returned in 1994.
• Lynne Cooke
• Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2006"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2006 - Australian work screened include SHARING STORIES ACMI and Rural Access, 2005, 36min, Digital Storytelling, Australia; WELCOME 2 MY DEAF WORLD Helen Gaynor, 2005, 52min, Documentary, Australia; HOW DO YOU EAT AN ELEPHANT? Neami NE, 2006, 20min, Documentary, Australia
• “Australia signs the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disability”
  In 2007, Australia signed the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disability. The CRPD seeks to “promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities”. The Convention came into effect in Australia on 16 August 2008.
• "The Other Film Festival - Writing on Film and Disability"
  The Other Film Festival Writing on Film and Disability - includes Mind’s Eye” Re-envisioning Mental Health in the Arts’ by Adolfo Aranjues; ‘I know it shouldn’t matter, but do you think I’m pretty’ by Naomi Chainey; ‘The Other Film Festival – Disability, Comedy & Subverting Expectations’ by Alastair Baldwin; ‘Filmdis Q&A with Dominick Evans’ by Jax Jacki Brown
• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras