Disability Arts History Australia

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• Disability and Arts Disadvantage and the Arts Australia (DADAA)
• “Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts, Australia (DADAA), based in Western Australia, is established in 1994”
  The National Participate Conference, hosted by Arts Access Victoria in 1990, set the scene for the emergence of the DADAA network. This came after several years of conversations among Western Australian artists about starting an organisation; the organisation was officially established in 1994. “In 1986, a small group of artists with disability met to discuss starting their own WA-based arts organisation. It is from this meeting that DADAA slowly grew, from a pilot project it became an organisation in its own right in 1994: taking the name Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts, Australia – DADAA.”
• "Arts Project Australia - Studio Annexe Supported Employment Launch - Promotional Flyer - 1994"
  Arts Project Australia - Studio Annexe Supported Employment Launch - Promotional Flyer - 1994 - reads, in part "The Hon. Brian Howe, M.P will launch the Arts Project Australia Annexe Supported Employment Program on May 25th at Arts Project Australia. This program has provided six very talented individuals with greater opportunities to further develop-artistic skills, supported their involvement in integrated activities arid has 'assisted Arts Project Australia in the promotion and marketing of their art.”
• "Arts Project Australia - Beyond Words Exhibition 1994- Promotional Card"
  Arts Project Australia - Beyond Words Exhibition 1994- Promotional Card - reads, in part “The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria and Arts Project Australia have great pleasure in inviting you to the official opening of Beyond Words”
• "Arts Project Australia - Miscellaneous 1994 - Program/Catalogue"
  Arts Project Australia - Miscellaneous 1994 - Program/Catalogue
• "Arts Project Australia - DirectLine Exhibition 1994 - Program/Catalogue"
  Arts Project Australia - DirectLine Exhibition 1994 - Program/Catalogue
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Helen Meekosha - Article: Challenging Disabling Images - 1994 - Iss9, Pg21pdf"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Helen Meekosha - Article: Challenging Disabling Images - 1994 - Iss9, Pg21 - reads, in part "A new national research project has been set up to explore ways in which images of disability are created and used in the mass media"
• “Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Summer 1993-1994"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Summer 1993-1994 - EASE Managers and Promoters forum, Melbourne Theatre Company 1994 Season
• “Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Spring 1994"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Spring 1994 - Disability Discrimination Act, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Melbourne Fringe Festival, training on BASS ticketing system, venue profile The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant
• “Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Winter 1994"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Winter 1994 - Disability Discrimination Act advocacy service, Seminar on Americans with Disabilities Act, EASE Consumers Group advise on BASS ticketing system
• Victorian Arts Centre
• Viva Gibb
• Rhona Bester
• Rhona Better
• Nerida Weller
• Mary Brogan
• Julian Martin
• John Northe
• John McKay Northe
• Jan Doran
• Irene Dunsmuir
• Helen Bowman
• Alan Constable
• “Australia Council for the Arts website captured 2008”
  The website reads “The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body.” – links to the arts, Grants, News, Events, Publications, Philanthropy.
• "Bree Hadley, Gerard Goggin, Petra Kuppers, Colette Conroy, Meagan Shand, Donna McDonald, Martin Paten, Norm Horton, Sarah Moynigan, Veronica Pardo, Caroline Bowditch, Morwenna Collett, Kerry Comerford, David Doyle, Pat Swell, Clark Crystal, Peter Stuart (2019) The NDIS and disability arts in Australia: Opportunities and challenges. Australasian Drama Studies, 74, pp. 9-38."
  "In Australia, disabled people’s participation in the arts has historically been afforded by means of direct-to-organisation grants that arts, community services or disability services arms of government award to arts organisations, charities or disability service organisations, who then deliver programmes. The introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is creating wide-reaching changes for disability arts practice in Australia. We undertake a first step in addressing the need for research into how the NDIS will alter the landscape of disability arts practice in Australia. We highlight a set of questions that all performing and creative arts industry stakeholders will need to respond to, in order to ensure that the excellent work done in disability arts in Australia to date can continue in the new climate that the NDIS brings."