Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "Accessible Arts - Arts Activate, captured 2022"
  Accessible Arts - Arts Activate - reads, in part "Arts Activated is one of Australia’s leading national forum for arts, culture and disability."
• "Arts Access Victoria - Alter State, captured 2022"
  Arts Access Victoria - Alter State - reads, in part "Alter State is a celebration of disability, creativity and culture."
• "Australian Theatre of The Deaf - The Trust's Theatre Of The Deaf"
  Information about Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust support for establishment of Australian Theatre of the Deaf - Reads, in part "In 1974, the Trust presented a highly successful Australian tour by America's National Theatre of the Deaf and, realising the need for a similar company here, set about the nurturing of the Theatre of The Deaf. which was established in 1979.
• "Australian Theatre of the Deaf - Touring Shows 2005"
  Australian Theatre of the Deaf touring shows 2005 - "Take Two" and "Aliens"
• "Australian Theatre of the Deaf - Touring Shows 2004"
  Australian Theatre of the Deaf touring shows 2004 - "Dislabelled - It aint over til the deaf girls sing!" and "Take Two"
• Australian Film Commission (AFC)
• "Australian Theatre of The Deaf - Deaf Players Guide"
  Australian Theatre of The Deaf Deaf Players Guide 1986 - reads, in part "The idea for the Australian Deaf Players' Guide comes from America's National Theatre of the Deaf, which has published such a guide every year since 1979. We felt the time right to publicise the fact that there are qualified deaf actors within Australia's theatre community who have contributed immensely to theatrical growth. Not all of these actors have professional experience - but all of them do have the training and talent to merit attention from theatre, television, and film producers who may find themselves with a deaf role to cast."
• "The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust begins operations in 1954"
  The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust began operations in 1954. The key role of the trust was to support the arts in Australia leading to the independent companies of: Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet Foundation, National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and Bell Shakespeare Company. At this time there was little involvement of people with disabilities in the arts.
• Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC)
• Film Australia Limited
• Screen Australia
• "Katie Ellis (2008) Disabling Diversity: The Social Construction of Disability in 1990s Australian National Cinema"
  Reads, in part "This book critically examines numerous 1990s Australian films with reference to socio-political influences to approach disability as a problem with society rather than as one within a damaged body."
• "Ron Grainer and Doctor Who - Interview - NFSA"
  Australian composer Ron Grainer, disabled in WWII, wrote the theme song to Doctor Who.
• "Anthony White (2021). Anthony Mannix's mixed realities. Art Monthly Australasia, (327), pp. 80-87."
  The Australian artist Anthony Mannix has produced a large body of work, mostly in the form of artist books. His art has featured in dozens of exhibitions; has been the subject of catalogues, journal articles and a PhD thesis; and has entered national and international collections. One of his most recent works, the dazzling, vibrantly decorated 2020 cover of I Am Cut Viciously, features a harrowing self-portrait of the artist. The work depicts Mannix with injuries he sustained while in 'a psychotic state' during a period in 1986 when he was homeless and living in the Royal National Park, New South Wales. As an artist with experience of complex mental health issues, or what he prefers to describe as 'mixed realities', Mannix has often been categorised as an 'outsider' artist.
• National Multicultural Arts Festival
• Vertigo Productions
• Australian National Academy of Music
• National Gallery of Australia
• “Disabled People’s International (Australia) (DPIA) formed in 1983”
  The organisation Disabled People’s International (Australia) (DPIA) was formed in 1983. Thirteen disabled Australians who attended Disabled People’s International (DPI) first world assembly in Singapore in 1981, the International Year of the Disabled Person, returned home to set up the Australian branch two years later. The Women with Disabilities Australia online history reports that DPIA “from the outset, was dominated by disabled men. Only 3 of the 11 members of its governance structure were women, and there was no mention of women or gender in DPIA goals and objectives.” This led to the establishment of a women’s network within DPIA, known as the National Women’s Network (DPIA).
• “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.”
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2018-19"
  Australia Council - Annual Report 2018-19 - reads, in part "This year the Council made a new commitment of $750,000 over three years to support structured mentorships and two new national awards for artists with disability. Empowering and celebrating artists with disability is imperative in ensuring that Australia’s rich diversity is truly reflected across the breadth of our arts."
• “Arts Access Victoria – Annual Report 2001-02”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter October 1989"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter October 1989 - Venue notes for National Gallery of Victoria, information about live and pre-recorded television audience participation
• National Library of Australia
• "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”