Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "History of Queensland Theatre of the Deaf"
  History of Queensland Theatre of The Deaf. Queensland Deaf Society Superintendent Leslie Abnett’s proposal for a Queensland Theatre of the Deaf in 1974, initiated via arrangement with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to have the National Theatre Trust perform in Brisbane and for a workshop at La Boite Theatre in 1974. Formation Founding Committee (Kerry Prior, Mary Gibbs, John O’Donnell, Leslie Abnett as Office Bearers, Lloyd Nickson as Artistic Director, Keith Puddlefoot as Technical Director, and N. Bricknell, R. Hilsdon, K. Donnell, M. Bergman, P. Arnold, A. Lynch, D. Villis as Committee Members). Company Aims, Workshops at the Queensland School for the Deaf, rehearsals for a core adult group and a junior group at the new D.M. Chadwick Hall at the Queensland Deaf Society at Newmarket in Brisbane – production history including changes in Artistic Director (from Llyod Nickson in 1975, to Nickky Bricknell in 1977, to Ken Donnell in 1979). Company technique, stated as “Our Technique is a combination of Visual Language, Sign-Mime (visual vernacular), Mime and the Spoken Word – a blending of hearing actors and conventional acting ideals with imaginative mime, expression and manual language of the Deaf.”
• "Queensland Theatre of the Deaf - Kenneth J Donnell - Actor, Director, and Foundation Committee Member - CV"
  CV of Kenneth J Donnell, Foundation Committee Member, Actor, Director, and Artistic Director Queensland Theatre of the Deaf from 1980, dated 1998 - training (including as first profoundly Deaf Australian to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship), awards, shows as actor (An Evening with the Theatre of the Deaf, Snow White & Company, Ondine, The Crane, Jack the Simpleton & his master, Dick Woodington-Lord Mayor of Where?, Treasure Map, Seasons, Christmas Carol, Only an Orphan Girl, The Man from Snowy river, A Stranger at the Inn, Gotze, Wolf Boy), as director (Medieval Mime, Mime Skits for Expo'88', Spring Mime Madness), and as director/author (Follow That Sign, Robert the Bruce, Anonymous Addict, Nara's Journey, Our Eyes are Your Ears, Assimilation, The Devious Black Marble, Fate of The Rose)
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2013"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2013 - Project Reports
• "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
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2007"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2007 - Artistic Director/CEO Report, history, including project history, major outcomes of the year including new works, creative development, reviews
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2011"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2011 - Artistic Director/CEO Report, history, program, key statistics for the year
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2015"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2015 - Project Reports
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2017"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2017 - Artistic Director/CEO Report, Partnerships, Professional Development/Mentoring Opportunities, Major Outcomes: Artistic, International, Succession
• "Undercover Artist Festival Program 2023"
  Undercover Artist Festival Program 2023 – Curated by Festival Director Madeleine Little - ‘Breathe In: Multilingual Storytelling in Performance’ by Crossroad Arts, ‘Sleep and the City’ by Emma-June Curik, ‘Sheltered’ by Kathryn Hall, ‘Betsy and I’ by Alexandra Ellen, ‘type-a-poet’ by Andi Snelling, ‘Are You Pulling My Leg?’ with Accessible Arts and Crips & Creeps, ‘The Jingo Brothers’ with Jolly Jingo and Steady Eddy, ‘Otherwise’ by Access Arts, ‘Celebrate All’ by Donna Dyson, ‘Blind in the Rabbit Hole’ by Screech Arts, Embrace’ by lnsideOutside Dance, Club Undercover with Deaf Indigenous Dance Group and Goddess Naavikaran, and WunderSounds with Aspy Jones and Eliza Hull.
• "InCite Arts - Lowdown NT Column Entry on ‘Community Mosaic Bench Project’”
  InCite Arts and Arts Access Central Australia announcement about Community Mosaic Bench Project, in Lowdown NT Column Entry. Entry reads, in part, “The project involved 2 curved concrete seating benches being covered with mosaic flowers, local fauna e.g., witchetty grubs, parrots, hawks and other flora and fauna representing Central Australia”
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - DL Promotion Card"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings' DL Promotion Card
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Program"
  InCite Arts ‘Strong Feelings Program - Acknowledgement of Country, Welcome, Information about stArts with a D Performance Ensemble, exhibition, film, photography, animation and opening hours, creatives, cast and crew
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Promotion Card"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings' Promotion Card
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Poster"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings' Poster
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Cast List"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings 'Cast List, including Brandon Williams, Jey ‘Janice’ Carroll, Isaac Trew, Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Trew, Michael ‘Mickey’ Wallace, Fabian 'Miller' Miller, Caleb McMillan, Christopher Day, including Arrernte/Pitjantjatjara/Warlpiri identification of each cast member
• "Incite Arts - Somebody Everybody - Poster"
• "Incite Arts - Somebody Everybody - Banner"
• "Incite Arts - Somebody Everybody - Media Release"
• "Incite Arts - Somebody Everybody - Program"
  Program for InCite Arts ‘Somebody Everybody’, reads, in part, “'Somebody Everybody” began as an exploration of ‘home’ in response to the artists missing their families and homes while living away during school time. This theme inspired us to explore personal stories of loss and grief, particularly in relation to family members and loved ones who have passed on. The work then expanded on the theme of ‘loss’ to explore all sorts of lost things including loved ones, pets and memories and the sorts of things we all lose at some point in our lives; hair, money, patience, the-way-home.”
• "Incite Arts - stArts with D Performance Ensemble 'Selfies' Residency"
  Case Study of 'Starts with a D' Performance Ensemble and the 'Selfies' project, reads, in part "Through a combination of group-writing exercises, poetry worksheets, collage and recording of spoken responses, participants created 77 poems under the title: ‘SELFIES'"
• "InCite Arts - Close To Me"
  Poster for "Close to Me" music and movement project, directed by Kat Worth
• "Incite Arts - NT Arts Access Awards - Nominations 2018"
  InCite Arts - NT Arts Access Awards - Nomination 2018
• "InCite Arts - NT Arts Access Awards - Invitation 2012"
  InCite Arts - NT Arts Access Awards - Invitation 2012
• "InCite Arts - NT Arts Access Awards - Invitation 2011"
  InCite Arts - NT Arts Access Awards - Invitation 2011