Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - Soft (2002), uploaded 2016"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - Soft (2002)
• "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."
• “Australia Council grants funding for projects about disability or for disabled participants throughout the 1970s”
  The 1974/75 Australia Council annual report states $1,350 in funding granted to Spectrum Films (NSW) to "develop a screenplay for a feature film of the social pressures on a deaf mute”, as well as a $4,500 travel/study grant to Lloyd Nickson (QLD) "to attend summer schools in children's theatre and theatre for deaf children (USA and UK) for six months". In the same year, the Council reported Bryan Gracey as one of numerous individuals in receipt of Experimental Film funding for his short film ‘The World of a Blind Child’ (1975) about the emotional and physical difficulties 10-year-old Peter faces and how he navigates his disability. In the 1974/75 financial year, Australia Council’s crafts board awarded $1,288 to the Wheelchair and Disabled Association (NSW) for "Jewellery making tools and equipment". The 1979/1980 Australia Council annual report describes the following funding: "As in previous years, a grant was given to the Braille and Talking Book Library for its Braille Book of the Year.”
• "Commonwealth of Australia (2019) Key Results of the 2018 Public Consultation: National Arts and Disability Strategy. Canberra: An initiative of the Meeting of Cultural Ministers"
  Reads, in part "Between 24 September and 3 December 2018, people shared their stories and ideas about arts and disability in Australia. The Meeting of Cultural Ministers asked to hear these ideas and stories. The Meeting of Cultural Ministers is made up of the Cultural Ministers from the Australian Government and state and territory governments. The statistics in the report all come from the online survey. These ideas and stories will help Ministers to make a new National Arts and Disability Strategy.
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2010 - Necessary Games by Sophie Hyde (2009)"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2010 - Necessary Games by Sophie Hyde (2009) - reads, in part "A triptych from Restless Dance Company about our human need to connect and the urgent games we play."
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• NSW Crippled Children's Association
• Seymour Centre Theatre
• Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association (MDAA)
• Multicultural Disability and Advocacy Service
• Australian Theatre For Young People (ATYP)
• Vivid Sydney
• Autism Australia
• Sydney 2002 Gay Games and Cultural Festival
• Museums and Galleries Foundation
• Powerhouse Museum
• NSW Writers Centre
• NSW Community Arts Association
• SBS
• Sydney Corporeal Mime Theatre
• Southern Media Co-operative
• Concert Care
• NSW Society for Crippled Children
• "Rawcus - Song for a Weary Throat"
  DL promotional card for Rawcus work, presented at Melbourne International Arts Festival, 'Song for a weary throat'
• "Accessible Arts and Noise - AART-BOXX - Framing Gravity Exhibition 2011 - Program"
  Accessible Arts - AART-BOXX Framing Gravity Exhibition 2011 Program - reads, in part "Framing Gravity addresses 'the forces that be' as factors which do not just impact upon us, but through our interaction with them, define who we are. The creative 'shaping' of the world by the artists in the exhibition reveal dedicated artistic processes reinforcing the full spectrum of our experience."