Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "Access Arts - YouTube Undercover Artist Festival - 2021"
  Access Arts - You Tube - Undercover Artist Festival 2021 - reads, in part "Undercover Artist was developed by Access Arts who have been working to support people with disability to take part and excel in the arts for more than 38 years"
• "Access Arts - You Tube - Undercover Artist Festival 2015 - Captured in Three Minutes"
  Access Arts - You Tube - Undercover Artist Festival 2015 in 3 minutes
• "Access Arts - You Tube - 30th Anniversary Event Highlights"
  Access Arts - You Tube - 30th Anniversary Event Highlights - reads, in part "Guests attending the Access Arts' 30th Anniversary celebration give their thoughts on the importance of supporting Queensland artists with disability. The event was held at the Brisbane Powerhouse in November 2013" http://youtu.be/pV_XLZlkJnE
• "Access Arts - You Tube - Aerial Artist Lauren Watson"
  Access Arts - You Tube - Aerial artist Lauren Watson - reads, in part "Access Arts workshop participant - Lauren Watson"
• "Access Arts - You Tube - Access Arts and Expressions Dance Company - Marc Brew Masterclass"
  Access Arts - You Tube - Access Arts and Expressions Dance Company - Marc Brew Masterclass - reads, in part "Access Arts recently welcomed internationally acclaimed artistic director and choreographer Marc Brew to Brisbane to conduct a dance workshop in the Expressions Dance Company Studios at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts."
• "Access2Arts Access Resources Audio Description"
  Access2Arts Access Resources Audio Description - includes video example of audio described performance, and information about services and training - reads, in part "Access2Arts has a pool of highly trained and experienced Audio Describers. Our service operates on a fee-for-service basis. We are happy to provide custom quotes for any job, large or small, in any medium and artform. Information about audio describer training can be found on our training page."
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - Bulimba Opera (2015)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - Blue Roo Theatre Company in collaboration with Opera Queensland Bulimba Opera (2015) - reads, in part "Blue Roo Theatre proudly presents, The Bulimba Opera. Australia's first ever inclusive opera, telling a story of the robust Bulimba community during World War 2. It sings of their lives their loves and their loses."
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - NOW (2017)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - main house production 'NOW' original story devised and performed the company (2017) -  reads, in part "Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. proudly presents, NOW. Channel Blue Roo presents The Now Show with their adorable hosts, Maggie Moment and Tony Today. Unflinchingly honest and tenderly inspiring, NOW is a modern-day fable exploring protests, bus stops, fishing, the mystery of grief and the joy of memories. All surrounded by a sublime 10-piece live studio orchestra of leading Brisbane musicians."
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - A Midsummer Night Dream (2021)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - A Midsummer Night Dream (2021) QPAC Cremorne Theatre - reads, in part "Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. proudly presents A Midsummer Night's Dream. Introduced by the Variety Kids Choir singing an original song, Blue Roo Theatre Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a unique re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic tale set in regional Australia after a catastrophic bush-fire. Audiences will be taken on a journey as the ghost of Shakespeare himself wakes to watch yet another adaptation and retelling of his prized story."
• "Hot Pink Goanna Studios - Deadly With Disabilities - Walu Win Series by Uncle Paul Constable Calcott, Episode 1"
  Walu Win Series by Uncle Paul Constable Calcott, episode 1 - reads, in part "A mini-series exploring the benefits of art and how it is halping as a tool in the healing process. This episode is about Uncle Paul Calcott, a Wiradjuri man who is now living on Gubbi Gubbi country."
• “Arts Access Victoria – The Present and the Future (2020 – present)”
  Arts Access Victoria – The Present and the Future (2020 – present)- increased technology and digital literacy training and online programs and projects including Alter State Festival and celebrated 50 years in 2024
• “Arts Access Victoria – Sharing knowledge (early – mid 1990s)”
  In 1990 AAV hosted the Participate conference. From this the DADAA (Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts, Renamed Arts Access Australia in 2003) network was born. AAV created a guidebook on creating art projects in hospitals while programs and exhibitions “Stormy Weather”, “FEELEN BOORDUP” were gaining recognition with location and purchase of artwork.
• “Arts Access Victoria – Making Moves (Mid to late 1980s)”
  AAV received funding to run programs connecting students in specialist schools with students in mainstream school settings and created EASE – the Entertainment Access Service, was an accessible ticketing service. By 1989 AAV had established its own studio program.
• “Arts Access Victoria – On Tour (mid – late 1990s)”
  Arts Access Victoria – Sharing knowledge (early – mid 1990s) – growth in programs, training, consultancy and developed the first AAV website. Weave Movement Theatre and Club Wild (Wild at Heart) emerged and toured exhibition of “BodySuits” created new artist commissions and opportunities.
• “Arts Access Victoria – A New Millennium (early – mid 2000s)”
  Arts Access Victoria – A New Millennium (early – mid 2000s)– online artist’s register, “Artability” festival, Deaf Arts Network started in 2001, new programs including regional areas, audio description of first TV production, AAV hosted Inclusion International World Congress, The Other Film Festival started,
• "Jodee Mundy Collaborations - Imagined Touch - Live Show"
  Reads, in part "Imagined Touch is a multi-sensory arts performance project exploring the fascinating world of Deafblind culture with its own tactile sign language, unique relationship to the senses, space and navigation of the world."
• "Jodee Mundy Collaborations - Imagined Touch - Documentary"
  Reads, in part "When two deafblind women Heather Lawson and Michelle Stevens approached director Jodee Mundy to make a show, they pulled off the impossible. They turned their small community performance into IMAGINED TOUCH, a theatre production that became a sell-out success at the Sydney Festival, going on to win at the Victorian Green Room Awards. This documentary has followed Imagined Touch with cameras from the very beginning."
• “Arts Access Victoria – Growth and Opportunity (Early 1980s)”
  Arts Access Victoria – Growth and Opportunity (Early 1980s) – Funding from Australia Council for the Arts enabled program and performance for IYPD AAV – “Theorem” a theatre show with Chilean Theatre Director Aldo Gennaro including over 100 performers. 
• "Indelability Arts - YouTube - Look Mum no Hands Promo"
  Indelability Arts - Promotion Video - "Look Mum no Hands"
• "Documentary by Madeleine Little on Indelability Arts - Theatre that leaves a Mark"
  Documentary by Madeleine Little on Indelability Arts - "Theatre that leaves a Mark" for Focus On Ability Film Festival
• "Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode One - Water"
  Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode One 'Water' Audio Described - Reads, in part "As part of the Unbroken Land 2020 program, these Connect2Culture films show the importance of water and fire in the desert. First Nations Disabled Artists Tiffany Malthouse and Lizzie Trew want the audience to experience how vital both fire and water are to them, their ancestors and their culture. Portraying this through the mediums of dance, film and music enables their thoughts, ideas and visions be understood and heard."
• "Noise - IMDB"
  Noise' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "This is a story about the wrong person in the right place at the wrong time. Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling." Simon Laherty plays a young man with a mental disability and another character suffers from tinnitus.
• "The Silent Revenge - IMDB"
  The Silent Revenge' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Tale about the status degree of some incidents of the two deaf thugs who terrorized several innocent pass-by on street until was stopped by a main person who took revenge at them."
• "YouTube - Take Up Thy Bed and Walk - presented by Vitalstatistix and Gaelle Mellis"
  YouTube of 'Take Up Thy Bed and Walk' (2013) by Vitalstatisix and Gaelle Mellis - "Take Up Thy Bed & Walk is a subversive performance about women, disability & fiction."
• "Access Arts Website 2001"
  Access Arts website, captured 2001, website reads “Access Arts Inc is a non-profit, professional arts organisation working with people with disabilities and people disadvantaged by social conditions with the aim to assist them to fulfil their ambitions in the arts. We run projects for all people including indigenous Australians.”