Disability Arts History Australia

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• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
• Weave Movement Theatre
• "Interview with Jeff Usher"
  Jeff Usher is a jazz and blues composer, arranger, pianist, vocalist, teacher, lecturer, and music consultant. Interview Summary Jeff Usher is a visually impaired Australian jazz musician with a rich history of playing music since childhood, influenced by a significant early encounter with the Jazz Action Society and key individuals like his high school music teacher Kathleen Kerr and his supportive family. Throughout his career, he has worked with a diverse range of musicians across many genres, including country, rock, and church music, and has expanded his repertoire to include political and spiritual themes, often infused with his synaesthetic experience of colour. Despite a broad professional experience, his engagement with the disability arts space developed over time, particularly through collaboration with other disabled artists, and he values working with good artists regardless of their backgrounds or disabilities. He is deeply committed to his craft, finding a balance between the aesthetic quality of his work and the joy it brings, both to himself and his audiences.
• "Interview with Tim McCallum"
  Tim McCallum is a singer, performer and speaker and disability advocate. Interview Summary Tim McCallum is a performer who specializes in singing and acting, with singing being his foremost talent. Having sustained a spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia before beginning his studies at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Tim's childhood passion for the performing arts has continued to motivate his career. Through his experiences, both positive and negative, regarding inclusion and discrimination in the arts, Tim has become determined to challenge preconceived notions and make disability a visible and celebrated aspect of performance. He is a strong advocate for the representation of artists with disabilities in leadership roles within arts governance, stressing the importance of lived expertise over tokenism for lasting change in the industry.
• Geoff Cobham
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report Archive 2005-2011"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report Archive 2005-2011
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Reports 2013-2014"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Reports 2013-2014
• "We Are Sexual Beings - IMDB"
  We Are Sexual Beings' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Over the course of 24-hours, three young Australians with disabilities will pull back the covers on their intimate lives. Oli, an aspiring tennis champ; Maya, an earnest sweetheart; and Christina, a wild-child motor head."
• "It's Fine, I'm Fine - IMDB"
  It's Fine, I'm Fine' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "A suburban psychologist and her patients explore love, loss, obsession, anxiety, and an uncertain future, while grappling with how to persist and find magic in the world."
• "Latecomers - IMDB"
  Latecomers' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Frank and Sarah two strangers with cerebral palsy become entrenched in each other's dysfunctional lives after witnessing their able bodied friends in an awkward situation at a bar."
• "Access Arts Annual Reports 2014-2021"
  Access Arts Annual Reports, 2014-2021
• "Access Arts - Grants"
  Website reads "Access Arts can help you make the first, or next step through one of our grant funding opportunities. Provided with support and in partnership with other arts organisations, our grants and awards fund the development opportunities, guidance, and exposure artists with disability or disadvantage need to pursue their artistic practice."
• "Access Arts - Performing Arts Workshops"
  Website reads "Access Arts’ Performing Arts Workshops offer a supportive environment for performers of all abilities."
• "Access Arts -Our Artists"
  Website reads "Access Arts’ talented visual artists work across a range of mediums such as painting, photography, drawing, collage and mosaic."
• "Access Arts - Visual Arts Workshops"
  Website reads "Our Visual Arts workshops provide participants with a supportive, inclusive and creative environment to engage with various artforms, encouraging positive social interaction, a strong sense of community, and artistic expression of each individual."
• "Incite Arts - News, captured 2018"
  InCite Arts News, captured 2018 – Awards, Announcement of plan to host Arts Access Australia Meeting Place Arts and Disability Forum in 2018, new ‘Sounds Good to Me’ music program, visit from Tutti Arts’s Choir and Sisters of Invention music group, and ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble
• "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."
• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - The Democratic Set (2012), uploaded 2013"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - The Democratic Set (Sydney 2012) - reads, in part "THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a rapid series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits created in collaboration with communities."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Ganesh Versus the Third Reich -(2011), uploaded 2013"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - Ganesh vs the Third Reich (2011) - reads, in part "GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH is poignant, beautiful, disarming, full of vulnerability and sly transparency."
• "Second Echo Ensemble - Performance, captured 2024"
  Second Echo website 'Performances' page, with information about past projects including 'The Stare', '[in]security', 'The Beauty Project, 'The Bridge', 'Outside Boy', 'Let Me Dry Your Eyes', 'The Chain', 'Right of Spring,' 'Contested Land', 'By My Hand'
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - Productions"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company Productions 2009-2017, including Orpheus and Eurydice with Opera Queensland (2016), The Bulimba Opera with Opera Queensland (2015), a new touring Commedia dell’Arte production Hotel Pantelone (2015), a street theatre ensemble A Waddle of Ducks (2015), Song Circle with Opera Queensland (2014), parody, satire and music performance Darcy O and the Browbeat Factory (2013), small scale touring Commedia dell’Arte group production Capitano Pretends Again (2013), Flood Country (2012), The Last Night at the Grand (2011), Sugar Cane Ball (2010), and Lily Pilly Letters (2009)
• "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."
• "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."
• "Access2Arts Artist Interviews"
  Access2Arts Artist Interviews
• ”Bree Hadley, Janice Rieger, Katie Ellis, Eddie Paterson (2024) Cultural safety as a foundation for allyship in disability arts. Disability & Society, 39(1), pp. 213-233.”
  "In this article, we argue that cultural safety, respect, and trust is a precursor to good allyship in the creative industries. We outline factors that influence feelings of safety or non-safety for disabled arts and media makers, and the way the legacy of the medical model makes it difficult for many arts and media workers to appreciate and enact enablers of safety as part of an allyship relationship."