Disability Arts History Australia

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• Restless Dance Theatre
• "Australia Council - Making the Journey: Arts and Disability in Australia"
  Reads, in part "A collection of inspiring examples of how to include people with disabilities in the arts, as participants, creators and organisers"
• "Australia Council - Creating Pathways: Insights on support for artists with disability - 2018"
  Reads, in part "This report brings together findings and insights from a range of research undertaken in 2017–18 to inform the Council’s approach to future support for artists with disability."
• "Australia Council - Arts and disability a priority as Australia Council commits significant new funding"
  Australia Council - Arts and disability a priority as Australia Council commits significant new funding - reads, in part "The Australia Council has committed $750k over three years to support sustainable careers and to recognise the artistic excellence of artists with disability."
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2005"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2005 - ABOUT ACCESSIBLE ARTS, CHAIR’S REPORT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S REPORT, ACCESSIBLE ARTS’ PEOPLE, STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, SERVICES, Information, Training, Audience Development
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2006"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2006 - Board, Staff and Volunteers, Supporters, About Arts Project Australia, President's Report, , Director's Report, , Studio Manager's Report, Exhibitions and Collections Report, Financial Report
• "Blue Roo Theatre - Productions, captured 2022"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - Productions, captured 2022 - reads, in part "Blue Roo performances and activities assist the performers, through a mentoring process to learn performing arts skills. The performers learn acting techniques, chorus work, voice, singing, movement, dance, different styles of performance-melodrama, clown, tragedy, commedia dell’ arte, visual and physical theatre" - with information about PERFORMANCES TO DATE (including A Midsummer Night's Dream 2021, Boss 2021, Around 2019, Time To Go 2018, Sea 2018, Now 2017, Orpheus and Eurydice 2016, The Bulimba Opera 2015, Song Circle 2014, Darcy O and the Browbeat Factory 2013, Flood Country 2012, The Last Night at the Grand 2011, Sugar Cane Ball 2010, Lily Pilly Letters 2009), COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE (including Hotel Pantelone, A Waddle of Ducks, Capitano Pretends Again 2015), MELODRAMA ENSEMBLE, COLLABORATIONS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM
• The Other Film Festival - Past Festivals, captured 2022"
  "The Other Film Festival - Past Festivals, captured 2022, includings programs 2004 to 2022
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Promotional Flyer 2022"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch 2022 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part “Sit Down, Shutup & Watch is Australia’s first international film and new media festival featuring work made by people with a learning disability.”
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Promotional Poster 2022"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch 2022 Promotional Poster
• "Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (1993) Australia's welfare 1993: services and assistance. Canberra: AGPS."
• Adelaide Fringe Festival
• “The inaugural National Braille Music Camp takes place”
  In 1986, Ian Cooper was one of the creators of the first National Braille Music Camp, which continues annually.
• “Arts Access Australia established”
  Arts Access Australia was established in 1992 as a national body for arts and disability with funding support from the Australian Council for the Arts.
• "Interview with Joanne Braddy"
  Joanne Braddy is a disability Advocate with lived experience and creates honest and insightful work about her experiences of anxiety and depression, as a way of breaking down stigmas that stand in the way of healing through painting, drawing, and ceramics to create emotive self-portraits. Interview Summary Joanne is an Australian visual artist with a 15-year career. She began creating art as an outlet for her mental health struggles and her work, which encompasses drawings, paintings, sculptures, and poetry, helps others by bringing awareness to mental health issues. Joanne finds a lack of accessibility with literacy and industry understanding but she remains motivated to exhibit her work and reduce mental health stigma, expressing the need for a supportive gallery to represent her. Despite these challenges, she aspires to have her substantial body of work seen more broadly and possibly go on tour, with the help of a mentor to guide her through the complexity of the art industry.
• "Interview with Andy Jackson"
  Andy Jackson is a published poet focusing on disability and difference, has completed a PhD and is a lecturer of poetry and creative writing. INTERVIEW SUMMARY This is an oral history interview with poet Andy Jackson. Andy, who has Marfan syndrome, discusses how disability and visible difference have shaped his writing and poetry, explaining that he often writes about the meaning of the body within society. He emphasizes the importance of Disability Arts, noting a growing community of disabled writers and expressing the need for both disability-specific literary spaces and mainstream recognition. Andy also highlights the transformative role of online communities in creating networks for disabled individuals and the emergence of disability-focused literary journals, anticipating an anthology from a collaborative writing project he is involved with.
• "Interview with Jenny Simpson"
  Jenny is CEO and Artistic Director of AWESOME Arts Australia while also a Musical Director of the Mighty Camelot Community Choir and a Sessional Academic at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. Interview Summary Jenny Simpson is the CEO and Artistic Director of AWESOME Arts Australia. She grew up in a musical family and always had an interest in the arts. After working in the corporate world, she decided to pursue a role in the arts to make a difference in the community. She has since focused on engaging young people with disabilities in the arts, and has worked on projects and festivals that promote inclusivity and accessibility. She believes that the perception of disability arts is changing and hopes to see more individuals with disabilities involved in arts management.
• "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."
• Alex Jones
• "Australian Theatre of The Deaf - Castles in the Air - Poster"
  Poster for Australian Theatre of The Deaf show Castles in the Air - reads, in part "Castles in the Air' is a series of short stories, comedy skits, images and songs."
• Gerard Goggin
• "Interview with Kath Duncan"
  Kath Duncan is a writer, a director, a provocateur, a visual artist, a comedian, a producer, a journalist, a radio broadcaster and disability advocate. Interview Summary Kath Duncan is an experienced and prominent figure in the disability arts community with a passion for experimental performance arts, having witnessed the beginnings of the disability arts movement in Australia and participated in its evolution. Her art is inherently political, shaped by her unique perspective as a congenital amputee. Kath firmly believes in the inherent creative revolutions and endless inspiration within all impairments. Kath highlights the ongoing struggles within the disability arts sector, including high unemployment rates for disabled individuals, systemic barriers, and the need for disabled leadership in arts organizations. While cherishing the milestones and transformative experiences she's had, Kath calls for significant systemic changes, emphasizing the importance of team playing and collective work to support and grow the disabled artist community.
• "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."
• Incite Arts
• InCite Youth Arts