Disability Arts History Australia

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• “The 1985 New Directions Report is released”
  People with disabilities and their families participated in the review for the first time as part of a comprehensive consultation process. The resulting report ‘New directions: report of the Handicapped Programs Review’ was released in 1985. It indicated the need for change in disability policy culture of how people with a disability rights and capacities to realise their individual capacities for development.
• Access Arts
• Arts Access Society Inc. (Victoria)
• Arts Access Victoria
• “Deaf film ‘A Silent Agreement’ is released in 2017”
  The Deaf film ‘A Silent Agreement’ was released in 2017 (written and directed by Davo Hardy). This romantic drama features a profoundly Deaf human rights activist and his filmmaker boyfriend with a speech impediment. It is said to be the first Australian film to feature Auslan as the main dialogue. Some scenes are entirely in Auslan. Screen Australia calls it the “first Australian film to feature Auslan.”
• “The Australian Government’s Creative Nation policy released in 1994”
  ‘Creative Nation’ was released in 1994. This was the first ever cultural policy formally developed by an Australian Government. Alongside a number of art forms, the policy included establishments like libraries in its definition of culture and pledged $250 million in funding to cultural organisations.
• "Undercover Artist Festival Program Released 2021"
  Undercover Artist Festival 2021, curated by Festival Director Madeleine Little, including Lauren Watson’s Nerve, Andi Snelling’s Happy-Go-Wrong, Naavikaran’s Brown Church, Oliver Hetherington-Page’s The No Bang Theory in the ‘Creative’ program track, and work by Timothy Orton, Mitchell Runcie and Allycia Staples from The Sunshine Troupe in the ‘Community’ track.
• Creative Australia
• Australia Council
• Australia Council for the Arts
• "Arts Project Australia - Works From The 1985 Program For Moderately To Severely Intellectually Disabled Artists 1986 --Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Project Australia - Works From The 1985 Program For Moderately To Severely Intellectually Disabled Artists 1986 --Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "ARTS PROJECT AUSTRALIA is pleased to invite you to view the works from the 1985 program for Moderately to Severely Intellectually disabled artists at St. Martins Theatre Gallery,"
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1985-86"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1985-86 - discusses functions and objectives, structures, process and membership of Council, Council Committees and members, Board Members, Assessment panels, staff lists, organisation chart, main activities of Council and its Boards, and includes financial statements and lists of grants made including grants for programs, workshops, tuition and skill development for disabled people in community arts, grant for Theatre of the Deaf Playwright, travel/study grant, Braille Book of the Year award and establishing audio visual gallery accessible to deaf and blind.
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1998"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1998 - ACE Magazine, Issue 20, 1999, includes Strategic Plan, 1998 Annual Report, 1998 Accounts, What's on & Info, with Staff, Strategic Plan includes Guiding Principles and Key Directions, Annual Report includes Aims and Objectives, Chairperson Report, Treasurer Report, Executive Officer Report , Consultancy, Regional Networks, Partnerships, Resources, Administrator Report , Financials
• Timothy Orton
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter Vol.1 August 1985”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter Vol.1 August 1985 - The Wider ContextCrafts Research – Aardvark Project, Reaching Out conference in Washington DC, conference in Bellagio, Italy, Programme - "A Day in the Life of Parkville Psychiatric Unit” video, Community programmes including Reaching out Cartwheel – Access Arts QLD - 'Cast Off' production, project – “Fair Play”, Arts Access Committee - Melbourne Zoo programme, Activities
• "Kevin Byrne AM leads protest outside Parliament House"
  The activist Kevin Byrne AM led a protest outside Parliament House. This coupled with the release of the Richmond Report led to the Hawke Government’s Handicapped Programs Review, which in turn led ‘New Directions: Report of the Handicapped Programs Review’.
• "Bree Hadley (2017) Disability theatre in Australia: a survey and a sector ecology. Research in Drama Education, 22(3), pp. 305-324.”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1985”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter Vol.1 No.1 1985”
• Arts Project Australia
• Cheryl Daye
• Dr Cheryl Daye
• Cheryl Day
• Bree Hadley
• "Screen Australia (2023) Seeing Ourselves 2: Diversity, equity and inclusion in Australian TV drama. Screen Australia"
  Reads, in part "Screen Australia has released new research into diversity on Australian screens, titled Seeing Ourselves 2: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Australian TV Drama. A follow up to the landmark 2016 study, Seeing Ourselves 2 examines the diversity of main characters in 361 scripted Australian TV and online dramas broadcast between 2016 and 2021, how this compares to the Australian population, and what has changed since the previous Seeing Ourselves report."