Disability Arts History Australia

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• Bernice McPherson
• "Arts Access Victoria established in 1973 and provides valuable resources and conferences throughout the decades"
  In 1973, Judy Morton successfully applied for funding to start a 6-month pilot program and Arts Access Victoria was established the following year. However, due to lack of government funding and despite public appeal, programs were suspended in 1977. Fortunately, operation resumed in 1979 and AAV was formally constituted with a small School Commission fund as Arts Access Society Inc. Arts Access Victoria had both organisational and financial growth in the mid to late 1980s. This led to a diversification of arts projects and the beginning of long-term artistic programs which remain as the core programs of AAV. Arts workshops also began in regional Victoria during this time. In 1988, Arts Access was approached to run a national conference focusing on the arts and disability. Two years later, they convened P-art-ICIPATE '90 and subsequently published ‘P-art-ICIPATE '90: a conference report’. They also published ‘Inner Words Outer Spaces’, edited by Bev Roberts (1995), ‘Arts Alive: An Information Leaflet about the Ways the Arts Can Work for Older People’ (1995), ‘Accessible Theatresports’ (1996), and Bev Roberts's ‘Work Guide: How to Establish an Artist in Community Project’ (1996). In 1998, Arts Access (Victoria) assumed responsibility for its own financial management and administration. In 1999, Arts Access Victoria presented Verve!, a national symposium on arts and disability.
• Australian Chamber Orchestra
• Helen Connor
• Helen Connors
• “Australian Caption Centre opened in 1982”
  The Australian Caption Centre was opened 13 September, 1982. A tour took place at the Australian Caption Centre in Sydney in the 1990s; the video (now available on YouTube) explains how the Centre worked. In 2005, the Centre sold its commercial operations including the captioning services to Red Bee Media and formed Media Access Australia.
• "ArtsHub (2013) Cultural Policy fails people with disabilities-Arts Access Australia is running a campaign to get a better deal for people with disabilities from the National Cultural Policy. 20 Mar 2013, ArtsHub"
  Reads, in part "By now you will have heard that the National Cultural Policy offers little for Australians with a disability. Not only is there no funding for the National Arts and Disability Strategy, but instead, the policy calls for a culture of tolerance towards people with a disability."
• Bell Shakespeare Company
• IHOS Opera
• Kate Larsen
• Kate Larson
• "Incite Arts - NT Arts Access Awards and Certificates of Commendation 2017"
  InCite Arts and Arts Access Darwin announcement of NT Arts Access Awards and Certificates of Commendation 2017
• “Access Arts Achievement Award inaugurated in 2014”
  Access Arts announced a $10,000 Achievement Award in 2013 and first awarded the grant in 2014 to actor Doug Robins. Other recipients since then have included writers, musicians, visual artists, theatre makers, and multi-disciplinary artists. The funding goes to a Queensland artist with disability to “create, develop, present, produce, exhibit and/or tour their work.” Access Arts describe it as “a game-changing opportunity for Queensland artists, arts workers and producers to extend the life of an existing work or create a new one!”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 1999”
• "InCite Arts Annual Report 2011"
  InCite Arts Annual Report 2011 - includes Chairperson, Artistic Director and Community Cultural Development Manager Messages, Projects, Arts Access Central Australia, NT Arts Access Awards
• "Interview with Asphyxia"
  Asphyxia is an artist, author, activist and performer who has founded Amplio, a music app for Deaf and hard of hearing people. She also provides free online Auslan lessons and online art courses. Interview Summary Asphyxia is a Deaf artist whose journey into the arts started with a deep love for ballet, but after facing discrimination due to her Deafness, she pivoted to a successful career in circus performance and later puppetry, which embraced her Deafness and signing skills. Her work in performance art led her to write and illustrate the Awards-winning art-journal book, Future Girl, which explores Deaf identity and environmental issues. She has now moved into music, creating an app that makes music accessible and writing music designed with Deaf and hard of hearing audiences in mind. Although not sure about the major milestones in disability arts history in Australia, she considers her art to be both political and personal, often tackling issues related to her identity as a Deaf person and the aesthetics of disability equipment. While Asphyxia identifies as a Deaf artist, above all, she sees herself as an artist whose work appeals to the mainstream while celebrating Deafness and diversity.
• Australian Opera
• Sandra Taylor
• Sandra Taylor Bowman
• Simon Gould
• Robyn Charlwood
• Robyn Chartwood
• Jan Doran
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter June 1991”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter June 1991 –Integration through the Arts for adults with Intellectual Disabilities, Community Health Centre singing, Acting Executive Director Message, Special Accommodation Project update, National Gallery of Victoria – meeting to develop art programs for older adults, Host Artist Scheme, Regional Development Program, staff development skills, Special Accommodation music program, Art Discussion project, Visual Arts exhibition participation invitation, Eaglemont Private Nursing Home textile mural, Peak disability arts organisations to form national body, AIDS awareness session for artists working in community projects, September workshops, membership
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter September 1990”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter September 1990 – Integrated Dance Project, Participant's Report, Artists in prison report, Special Accommodation Houses Art report, art exhibitions for Mental Health Awareness Week - Inside Art-Outer Images of Inner V isions, Austin Hospital Up-date, exhibitions - "Occhio dell' Artista", "6 Women", ''.Art/Craft Works”, resource centre update, Anti-Cancer Council poster project, Senior Citizens Week 1991 Encouragement Grants, Salamanca National Script Centre distributes unpublished and published playscripts, membership