Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• “Restless Dance – Annual Report 2014"
  Restless Dance Theatre Annual Report 2014 - Company history, Chair's, Artistic Director’s, Dancer’s and Company Manager’s Reports, Productions including ‘What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?,’ ‘Shared visions,’ ‘Salt,’ “In the Balance,’ Community workshop programs, Financials, Staff and Board, Supporters
• "Arts in Action Annual Report 2004"
  Arts in Action Annual Report 2004, describing the organisation’s work, including the 2004 High Beam Festival, an artistic program including visual arts workshops, music club and choir.
• "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)
• "Indelability Arts - Love Me"
  Page reads, in part, "Love Me; is a new Australian work for schools and communities designed to unpack the stigma surrounding mental illness and provoke conversation over how to promote mental wellbeing (suitable for 15+)."
• "Tutti Arts - Visual Arts and Design Program Exhibition 'Paperworks' - Promotional Card"
  Promotional Card for Tutti Arts Visual Arts and Design Program Exhibition 'Paperworks' as part of SALA 2010 (South Australian Living Arts Festival)
• "Arts Project Australia - Video Doctor Exhibition 2013 - Promotional Card"
  Arts Project Australia - Video Doctor Exhibition 2013 - Promotional Card - reads, in part "Working in collaboration with Arts Project Australia and Electronic Arts Intermix New York, Video Doctor brings together works by international and Australian artists. The title of the exhibition takes its cue from early VHS or Beta Max head cleaning tapes. Just as the 'doctor' would revive the clarity of the picture, the idea of revival is a key theme shared by the artists invited to be part of the project."
• "Arts Project Australia - ENews - 20120525"
  Arts Project Australia - ENews - 20120525
• "Arts Project Australia - Promotional Card - 2018"
  Visual Arts and Galleries - reads, in part "Exhibited locally, international!y and collected by major Australian art institutions, Arts Project Australia artists work independently in a lightfilled Northcote studio."
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2000"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2000 - Management Committee, Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Director's Report, Studio Workshop Program, Outreach Program, Exhibitions, Financials
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1999"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1999 - Management Committee, Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Director's Report, Studio Workshop Program, Outreach Program, Exhibitions, Financials - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia celebrated its 25th anniversary in' 1999. Since its inception, Arts Project Australia has gone from strength to strength and has enriched the lives of·all those wbo have been privileged enough to be involved with it"
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1993"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1993 - inludes Aims and Objective's, President's Report, Director's Report, Exhibition Report, Financial Statements, Management Committee 1993, Acknowledgements
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1992"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1992 - includes Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Director's Report, Scenes from the Studio Workshop, Financial Reports, Acknowledgements and Thanks, images of artists
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1991"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1991 - includes Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Program Director's Report, 1991 Exhibition Report, Scenes from the Studio Workshop, Financial Reports, Acknowledgements and Thanks - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia began in 1974 as an arts based advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities. A major reason for the formation of "the Art Project" (as it was then known) was the insight on the part of its members that many people who have an intellectual disability displayed aptitude and talent in the visual arts, and that the flexible conventions of these arts forms could provide access to a variety of means of expression and communication, even when more common forms, particularly linguistic, were difficult for them to utilise."
• "Arts Project Australia - Australiana Exhibition 2017 - Email Invitation - Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Project Australia - Australiana Exhibition 2017 - Email Invitation - Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "AUSTRALIANA is a collection of functional art products devoted to monumental Australian icons, landscapes and pop-culture legends which are exclusively available from the National Gallery of Victoria from 3 February 2017, and will be later revealed at Arts Project Australia on 4 February 2017. rhe collection will be further presented at Third Drawer Down on 17 March 2017. "
• "Arts Project Australia - AnnualGala 2016 - Email - Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Project Australia - AnnualGala 2016 - Email - Promotional Flyer
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: House Gang -1993 - Iss8, Pg5"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: House Gang -1993 - Iss8, Pg5
• "New works by Nathaniel Edington and Too Many Legs by Bryan Tingey and Freight by DADAA"
  Flyer reads "You are invited to the launch of new works by Nathanael Edginton," and "Adelaide artist Bryan Tingey presents a new body of work that exhibits the varied influences of philosophy, history and psychology informing his work and his experimentation with the artforms of graffiti and , iconography and hieroglyphics. Freight is the latest shipment of outsider art on the move from WA. The exhibition showcases the work of three Western Australian artists working in textiles, photography and digital media."
• ".. Inflight"
  Invitation reads ".. Inflight - A photographic exhibition resulting from a short series of choreographic workshops directed by South Australian independent artist with a disability, Philip Channells."
• "High Beam Festival Program 2008"
  High Beam Program 2008 reads "Australia's international celebration of Arts and Disability - COMEDY | THEATRE| MUSIC | VISUAL ARTS | COMMUNITY EVENTS"
• "Tutti Arts - Tutti Choir - Songs In The Heart of the Hills - Program"
  Tutti Arts - Tutti Choir 'Songs In The Heart Of The Hills' Program 2017 - reads, in part "The Tutti Choir is Australia's first inclusive choir and takes its name from the musical term 'Tutti', meaning everyone. Pat Rix founded Tutti in 1997 to give people the opportunity to live out their dreams through music theatre and choral performance. With more than half of its members identifying with a disability, Tutti has become an internationally acclaimed model of artistic excellence and social inclusion with a truly unique voice in Australian arts."
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Filmmaking Workshop 2016 - Press Release"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch Filmmaking Workshop' 2016 Press Release - reads, in part “ On October 21 the second Sit Down Shutup and Watch [SDSW] Film New Media Festival will happen in the Angaston Town Hall. The festival is the brainchild of seven talented young film makers with learning disability form Regional South Australia and Adelaide. Their first festival, held in October 2014 was a fabulous success with over 40 films screened from all over the world and nearly 500 people attending. In the lead up to our second Festival, we are delivering a series of 4-day film-making workshops for people with learning disabilities across regional areas of South Australia to ensure we have plenty of South Australian films in the mix. The first of these is the Renmark / Riverland workshop to be held from Tuesday 8th March - Friday 11th March, at the McCormick Centre, Rau Rau Ave, Renmark.”
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Awards - Press Release 2014"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch' Awards 2014 Press Release - reads, in part, "Best Animation Award Cafe Chat - North Melbourne Institute of Technology (NMIT), Victoria; SA Film Corporation Most Original Film Award Our Story - William Gregory, South Australia; The Hive Award Wild@Heart Community Arts, Victoria; Funniest Film Award Next Factor - Caleb Rixon, Victoria; Best Special Effects Award- Eye TV - James Kurtze, South Australia; Arts Access Australia Best New Media/ Video Art Award- Dexter Aliens - James Kurtze, South Australia; People's Choice Award- Our Story- William Gregory, South Australia.”
• Australian Network for Art and Technology
• "Tutti Arts - The Shouting Fence - Program"
  Tutti Arts and State Opera of South Australia ‘The Shouting Fence’ 2009 Program - reads, in part "“The Australian Premiere of The Shouting Fence is the first of our Operatu coproductions and three Tutti soloists are making their debut alongside professional singers.”