Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "DADAA Art Works Key Findings: Employment in the Arts for People with Disability – Current Status, Barriers and Opportunities (2012)"
  Reads, in part, "This document provides a short overview of the full Art Works report, which captures the results from national research into employment levels, barriers and strategies around employment in the arts for people with disability. The report was produced in response to one of the key focus areas of the National Arts and Disability Strategy, released in 2009."
• "The Other Film Festival - Writing on Film and Disability - Online"
  The Other Film Festival Writing on Film and Disability - includes ‘Mind’s Eye” Re-envisioning Mental Health in the Arts’ by Adolfo Aranjues; ‘I know it shouldn’t matter, but do you think I’m pretty’ by Naomi Chainey; ‘The Other Film Festival – Disability, Comedy & Subverting Expectations’ by Alastair Baldwin; ‘Filmdis Q&A with Dominick Evans’ by Jax Jacki Brown
• “The Broughton Art Society is founded in 1965”
  The Broughton Art Society was established in 1965 by Ian Broughton (as The Arts Society for the Handicapped). Broughton, who had muscular dystrophy, was a resident at The Home for Incurables. BAS offers community-based art classes to adults living with disability.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2012-13"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2012-2013 – discusses year in review, report from the CEO, Strategic priorities, funding overview, statement of outcome, about the Australia Council including The Governing Council and the Board, Structure of the Australia Council; financial review and discussion of Access Champions group focused on key actions from the 2011–13 Disability Action Plan, including programs for increased participation by artists with disabilities and to develop technical capacity and digital literacy for both operational and artistic activities, funding for exhibition of artists with disability work, premises and Australia Council website accessibility, and participation at national and international arts and disability forums.
• Brisbane Powerhouse
• Sarah Tracton
• Raquel Ormella
• Melissa Noonan
• Liz Jones
• Ludmila Doneman
• Belinda Andreussi
• "Queensland disability fact book for arts and cultural organisations - DADAA National Network and Australia Council (1998)"
  https://disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net/s/DAHA/item/9586
• “Australia Council praises NSW Theatre of the Deaf and provides some funding to the Deaf theatres throughout the 1970s”
  The 1976/77 Australia Council annual report stated: "The NSW Theatre of the Deaf is a significant achievement. The only funded organisation in Australia working in nonverbal theatre, its production of King Lear received widespread praise. This company is now accepted as operating in a legitimate area of theatre rather than performing mime works for the deaf. This offers wide scope for innovation." The Council’s 1977/78 annual report recorded that it granted funding to the NSW Theatre of the Deaf “towards salaries of artistic director, deaf director, and tutors’ fees in 1978” for $25,000; the “presentation of theatre pieces (mime, clowning, puppetry) in public performance” for $2,500, and “towards costs of a production in 1978” for $4,000. It also awarded $1,980 to Queensland Theatre of the Deaf “towards the cost of transporting company to Sydney for seminar with NSW Theatre of the Deaf”. Drama Resource Centre (Victoria) received $2,840 “to develop student theatre at Victoria School for Deaf Children” and $630 went to Children’s Activities Time Society (Western Australia) for the “cost of deaf mime artist, Rae Gibson, to undertake four week visit to Melbourne and Sydney to work with deaf artists”. The following annual report for 1978/79 recorded that the Council granted $25,000 to the NSW Theatre of the Deaf “towards salaries of artistic director, administrator and tutors” in 1979. The Council also awarded $1,800 to the Queensland Theatre of the Deaf towards a salary for Geoffrey Rush to work with the company in 1979. The 1979/1980 Australia Council annual report mentions funding “provided for a playwright-in-residence at the NSW Theatre of the Deaf.”
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2008-09"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2008-09 - discusses letter from chairman, year in review, from the CEO, How we achieved our outcomes, About the Australia Council, Governance, Organisation, Accountability, Workplace and Financial statements but no longer listing grants of organisations or individuals however discusses the DADAA WA radio play “The Proper Shoes” - a series of stories written by young women with a disability, was first broadcast nationally on ABC Radio and then invited to tour the play as part of the TRASNA Festival of Inclusive Theatre.
• Caroline Ellison
• "Weave Movement Theatre formed"
  Weave Movement Theatre was formed in 1997 following a series of workshops (organised by Arts Access) led by Adam Benjamin, director of CandoCo, a world-renowned inclusive dance company. Janice Florence was asked to facilitate classes prior to the workshops.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1980-81"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1980-81 - discusses members of council, standing committees and board reports as well as financial statements, grants lists, publications and programs particularly focused on the 1981 International Year of the Disabled Person (IYDP) including accessibility, integration and raising awareness of barriers of disability in arts, with funding for research, art exhibitions, theatre, film (“Stepping Out”), dance (“Life, Images and Reflections”), craft, and literature; conference, seminar celebrating IYDP.
• "DADAA Annual Report 2011-2012"
  DADAA Annual Report 2011-2012 - information about Vision, Mission and Goals, Chairperson and Executive Director’s Reports, Staff list, Participation, Programs including the Lost Generation Project, Sculptures by the Sea Tactile Tours, StARTSpeak, Art Link Children and Young People’s programs, Aging & Disability, Fourth International Arts And Health Conference, WA Disability Arts Grants Program, Regional Development and Consultancy, Partners, and Financials
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2017-18"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2017-2018 – discusses Rawcus and Julia Hales as examples of highquality work - reads, in part "Through our Disability Action Plan we continued to build the capability of our staff, including Easy English and the continuity of our audio description group. "
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2022"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2022, in conjunction with Alter State, Arts Centre Melbourne - films include Sparkles (2020) Tina Fielding and Jacqueline Pelczar; My One Legged Dream Lover 1999 Kath Duncan; Imagined Touch 2022 Jodee Mundy, Heather Lawson, Michelle Stevens; The Dos and Don’ts of Getting Married 2022 Karen Jackson and ARC Disability Services; Archiving the Body 2021 Lisa Prowd Tim Crafti Tszuki
• "Back to Back Theatre - Annual Report 2012"
  Back to Back Theatre Annual Report 2012 - Report from Chair and Executive, tours of GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH, FOOD COURT, SMALL METAL OBJECTS and THE DEMOCRATIC SET, presentations of Hell House and Mermaid, creative development for new work LASER BEAK MAN, networks and industry events, research articles and chapters by Benjamin Wihstutz, Theron Schmidt, and Josephine Machon, doctoral research by Caroline Ellison, George Catsis, Deborah Pollard, and Matt Hargrave, Arts Victoria research on "Economic Impact of Victorian Cultural Sector" by Judy Morton, Good Foundations "Research on Operational Funding Models in the NFP Sector" by Paul Murnane and Stephen Penny,” and University of Melbourne McArthur Research Fellow research by Kalissa Anna Alexeyeff
• "Tutti Ensemble - Holdfast Bay Community Choir Newsletter - Newsletter One - 1999"
  Tutti Ensemble, Holdfast Bay Communitty Choir, first newsletter distributed by Tutti Ensemble and Minda Inc disability service organisation in 1999 - reads, in part "Welcome to our first newsletter. We hope this is the first of many to come. We intend to put out a newsletter every two months to keep people informed on what is happening in the choir. Articles or information from choir members are welcome."
• "Arts Disability Technology Library Workshop"
  Internet demonstration; imaging and photography; creative adventures with computer technology; music (includes performance and demonstration by Chris Finnen)
• "Dot2Dot - Working in the arts with young people with and without disability"
• "Arts Project Australia - Sidney Myer Fund Permanent Collection Exhibition 1999 - Program"
  Arts Project Australia - Sidney Myer Fund Permanent Collection Exhibition 1999 - Program - reads, in part "The Sidney Myer Fund Permanent Collection is one of the only collections of artwork by people with intellectual disability in Australia."