Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Tutti Arts - Website - Artist Collectives, captured 2023"
  Tutti Arts Website Artist Collectives captured 2023 - includes links to information about Company AT, Sit Down Shut up and Watch, The Sisters of Invention, and artist profiles
• "Tutti Arts - Website, captured 2023"
  Tutti Arts Website captured 2023 - includes About, Arts Programs, Artists & Collectives, Events & Gallery, Contact, and NDIS pages, with links to information about information about Acting, Dance, Music, Screen, Visual Arts, Choir, Kids & Youth programs
• "Tutti Arts - Website - Arts Programs, captured 2023"
  Tutti Arts Website Arts Programs captured 2023 - includes information about Beats Workshops, Let’s Dance, Dance, Screen, Quirkestra, Music Experience, Voice Specialist, Radio Tutti, Open Studio, Tutti Choir, The Gathering Wave, Club Tutti, Company AT, TKY Visual Arts, AT This Place programs
• "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)
• "Bec Young Chief Executive"
  Announcement of new CEO of Access2Arts, South Australia, Rebecca (Bec) Young, in 2022
• "Access2Arts Access Resources Audio Description"
  Access2Arts Access Resources Audio Description - includes video example of audio described performance, and information about services and training - reads, in part "Access2Arts has a pool of highly trained and experienced Audio Describers. Our service operates on a fee-for-service basis. We are happy to provide custom quotes for any job, large or small, in any medium and artform. Information about audio describer training can be found on our training page."
• "Access2Arts Artist Space artist development program as first added to website 2016"
  Access2Arts Artist Space, 4 March 2016.Includes information about Access2Arts "Artist development program creates activity and opportunities to support and stimulate Deaf and disabled artists’ professional practice and develop arts projects that explore new territory. Access2Arts supports emerging and professional artists in the following areas: Contemporary arts practice; Deaf arts and disability arts; Professional skills development; One-on-one artist consultations; Innovative arts projects; Information, forums, training; Auspicing services"
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Video UNCRPD Article #19 Living independently and being included in the community "
  Access2Arts Article #19 Living independently and being included in the community - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoqeaDFEjlE
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Video UNCRPD Article #27 Work and employment"
  Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts video on United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Article #27 Work and employment - reads, in part "Article #27 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities that deals withWork and employment, told by Deaf and disabled people. An Access2Arts Production made possible with support from the City of Adelaide."
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Video UNCRPD Article #30 Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport"
  Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts video on United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Article #30 Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport - reads, in part "Article #30 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities that deals with Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport, told by Deaf and disabled people. An Access2Arts Production made possible with support from the City of Adelaide."
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Video UNCRPD Article #5 Equality and non discrimination"
  Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts video on United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Article #5 Equality and non discrimination - reads, in part "Article #5 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities that deals with Equity and non-discrimination, told by Deaf and disabled people. An Access2Arts Production made possible with support from the City of Adelaide.
• "Quippings presents Risky Business"
  Reads, in part "Risky Business is the Quippings crew daredevils taking over the Melba Spiegeltent with our cabaret wordfest game show extravaganza!"
• "Arts Access Australia appoints Emma Bennison (2012) and Megan Shand (2017) as CEO"
  Prior CEO Kate Larsen statesin 'Disability Leadership: If You're Gonna Talk the Talk .... ABC: Ramp Up, 30 March 2012' - "Now, I love my job. I'm good at it. I think that I've been useful here. But on the same day I accepted the position last February I also did something else. I gave notice of my resignation, and undertook to hand over the organisation by the end of 2012. The reason? Because I believe that Arts Access Australia should be led by a person with disability."
• "The Other Film Festival launched in 2004"
  In 2004, Australia’s first international disability film festival, The Other Film Festival, was launched at the Melbourne Museum. In 2022, Screen Australia began providing funding for festival.
• "The first Arts Activated conference takes place"
  Accessible Arts NSW started biennial Arts Activated conferences in 2007 "to inform, connect and activate people and organisations involved with Australia’s arts and disability sector" https://aarts.net.au/arts-activate/
• "Australian Film Commission created"
  In 1975, the Australian Film Commission was created, providing grants for film and television projects.
• "The first known disability-led activism occurred in 1971 when John Roarty formed a committee among the residents of Weemala nursing home."
  John Roarty, who had cerebral palsy, was a resident of Weemala nursing home for 35 years. In what would become known as the first known disability-led activism, John formed a residents committee to fight against maltreatment and to fight for control and choice over their daily lives.
• “The Deaf Film Society creates the documentary ‘Our World’.”
  In 1970, the Deaf Film Society created a documentary called ‘Our World’ on the lived experience of people who were d/Deaf. The Adult Deaf Society assisted with the project.
• “7-part series ‘Fair Go’ produced by Film Australia”
  In 1981, Film Australia produced a 7-part series, called Fair Go, on Australians with mental and physical disabilities and how it impacted their lives and the lives of their families. “Each program is presented from the viewpoint of the person with the disability and demonstrates the practical implications of coping with a disability in daily life at home, in the community, in the workplace or at school.” Film Australia was consolidated into Screen Australia in 2008.
• “House Gang debuts on SBS”
  In 1996, a comedy television series debuted on SBS called ‘House Gang’ featuring three actors with intellectual disabilities.
• “The first Focus on Ability film festival held in 2009”
  In 2009, the first Focus on Ability film festival was started by the CEO of NOVA Employment, Martin Wren. (NOVA is a Sydney-based disability employment service.) FOA holds events in Australia’s major cities and welcomes entries in open categories as well as a schools category and international section.
• “The Art of Difference Disability and Deaf Arts Festival takes place in 2009”
  The Art of Difference Disability and Deaf Arts Festival in 2009 featured visual, performing, literary and new media artists as a two-week international arts festival.
• “Access Arts Achievement Award inaugurated in 2014”
  Access Arts announced a $10,000 Achievement Award in 2013 and first awarded the grant in 2014 to actor Doug Robins. Other recipients since then have included writers, musicians, visual artists, theatre makers, and multi-disciplinary artists. The funding goes to a Queensland artist with disability to “create, develop, present, produce, exhibit and/or tour their work.” Access Arts describe it as “a game-changing opportunity for Queensland artists, arts workers and producers to extend the life of an existing work or create a new one!”
• “Studio A established in 2000”
  Studio A (NSW) was established in 2000 to create access and opportunities for visual artists with intellectual disabilities; their in-house artists’ “practices range from painting and drawing to sculpture, textiles and digital media”. In their own words, “At Studio A, we are dedicated to professionally empower artists with disability and have their voices heard within contemporary Australian culture.”
• “The paralympic arts festival, Invincible Summer, is held in conjunction with the 2000 Paralympic games”
  In 2000, Sydney held the Paralympic games. The paralympic arts festival, Invincible Summer, featured comedy, dance, film, art, music, theatre, and street performance, featuring collaborations between artists with and without disabilities.