Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1999-2000"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1999-2000 - discusses letter from chair of council, corporate overview, year in review, financial statements, analysis of funding and grants for projects, programs, presentation and promotions, triennial grants to disability arts organisations in NSW, South Australia and Victoria and funding to Accessible Arts for audience development, as well as the New Media Arts Fund for Back to Back performance of “Soft”
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2004-05"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2004-2005 - discusses letter from chair of council, letter from CEO, corporate overview, year in review, goals, financial statements, analysis of funding analysis and grants list, including funding for key organisations, new work, presentation and promotion, audience participation (with publication “Access All Areas”), skills and arts development with Arts Access partnering with Helicon Dance to provide 10 workshops in Princess Alexandra hospital Mental Health Service to find out which arts the community members wanted to pursue with a reference group including the University of Queensland and funding for Back to Back theatre to perform Small Metal Objects, in collaboration with sound artist Hugh Covill, animator Rhian Hinkley, director/designer Bruce Gladwin to shed light on, provoke and transform society, and to position artistic creativity as an integral part of the nation’s agenda. Triennial funding to Arts Access Australia (formerly known as Disability in the Arts Disadvantage in the Arts Australia—DADAA)
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2005-06"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2005-2006 - discusses letter from chair of council, letter from CEO, corporate overview, year in review, goals, financial statements, analysis of funding analysis and grants list, including various artistic and community projects - “Stickybricks” – exploring the history of a Sydney Housing Estate where 95% of residents receive aged or disability benefits were traumatised by by murders, suicides, assaults and drug and alcohol-related crimes and they partnered with Big hART to tell their story at the Sydney Festival, “Small Metal Objects” by Back to Back Theatre presented at the Melbourne international arts festival, and the DADAA (WA) regional collaborative “Bridging the Gap” project in Bunbury and publication of “Making the Journey: Arts and disability in Australia”
• "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.”
• Focus on Ability Film Festival
• Gayle Kennedy
• Amanda Tink
• Ashleigh Smart
• Bridie McKim
• Bruno Booth
• Dan Graham
• Emily Crockford
• Emma Barry
• Hugo Flavelle
• Jane Trengove
• Janice Florence
• Jessica Trueman
• Julia Hales
• Lenny Seberry
• Lesley Murray
• Melinda Smith
• Nathan Mewett
• Nick Hughes
• Nikhia Trask
• Peter Renzullo