Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Accessible Arts - Career Advancement, captured 2022"
  Accessible Arts - Career Advancement - reads, in part "We’re here to empower the creativity and careers of arts practitioners with disability right across NSW. We do this by providing a range of professional development programs for both artists and arts workers."
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: House Gang -1993 - Iss8, Pg5"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: House Gang -1993 - Iss8, Pg5
• "Access2Arts (SA) established in 2009"
  Access2Arts (SA) was established in 2009. In their own words, “following on from many years of work by the Community Arts Network SA (CANSA), a project was created within Arts SA called the Disability Arts Transition Team. This led to our establishment as an independent body to represent, advocate and respond to the needs of the arts and disability sectors.” The organisation became incorporated in 2013. They are the body for arts and disability in South Australia.
• “The 2010s sees numerous new disability performing arts companies established”
  The 2010s saw the establishment of several new disability performing arts companies and collectives, both professional and community-based, across the country: Beyond the Square (NSW, 2011), ‘stArts with a D’ Performance Ensemble (NT, 2011), Theatre on Wheels (VIC, 2011), Can You See Me? Theatre (NSW, 2012), Company AT (SA, 2012), Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre (NSW, 2013), Screech Arts (QLD, 2014), IndelibilityArts (QLD, 2015), AHA Ensemble (QLD, 2015), Murmuration (NSW, 2015), Raspberry Ripple (VIC, 2015), Deafferent Theatre (VIC, 2016).
• Digby Webster
• "Accessible Arts - Promotional Card- 2007"
  Accessible Arts - Promotional Card - 2007 - reads, in part "There's something happening across Western Sydney The Accessible Arts Vision A society in which people with disabilities can contribute to and fully experience the arts and cul􀀩 ral life. "
• "Accessible Arts - Promotional Card - 2008"
  Accessible Arts - Promotional Card- 2008 - reads, in part "There's something happening across Western Sydney The Accessible Arts Vision A society in which people with disabilities can contribute to and fully experience the arts and cul􀀩 ral life. "
• “Sit Down Shutup and Watch, a screen festival for people with learning disabilities, is launched in 2014”
  In 2014, Tutti Arts launched Sit Down Shutup and Watch (SDSW). SDSW is a collective led by people with learning disabilities; They present a biennial international screen festival which features the work of disabled creators. The committee also hosts workshops and online resources.
• "ARTAbility Conference"
  The national Disability and Arts Disadvantage and the Arts Australia (DADAA) committee was established in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1991, and – as described in the Access Arts Annual Report 1992 – at the inaugural meeting of this group in 1991, Access Arts offered to organise a conference for the group in 1992, with funding from the Queensland Performing Arts Trust, at the Queensland Cultural Centre - the Access Arts Annual Report 1992 says “Drawing on the experience of the Queensland ARTability conference of 1990 enabled Access Arts staff and members to be fully involved in the planning of the conference. It was a big success. Access Arts has also set up the Queensland DADAA network.”
• "Access Arts - Sound Circles"
  Flyer reads "Access Arts and its partners across the state are hosting Sound Circles workshops in Brisbane, Cairns, Innisfail, Caboolture, Atherton Tableland, Sunshine Coast and the South Burnet. No auditions, No judging panel, No rejections, No prizes... just lots of good vibrations! Come along and join in the fun where you'll explore sounds, rhythms, improvisation and presentation in a unique music workshop experience."
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1979-80"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1979-80 discusses members of council, standing committees and board reports as well as financial statements, grants lists, planning for the nternational Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) 1981 including publications of a study to identify options of disabled gaining greater access to the arts and programs and grants for Braille and Talking Book Library for its Braille Book of the Year, salaries of staff and funding for production of “The Threepenny Opera”, workshops and travel costs of NSW Theatre of the Deaf, funding for residents of the Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home for the intellectually handicapped who gave a performance at the Sydney Opera House
• "Accessible Arts - PromotionalFlyer - 1986-87"
  Accessible Arts Network - Promotional Flyer - 1986-87 - reads, in part "It is network's intention that Accessible Arts Network will act as a "springboard" from which people can develop ideas and projects and the confidence to pursue themselves."
• “The arts sector is forced to adapt in the face of COVID-19 lockdowns”
  Government-enforced lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic saw arts events cancelled and disability arts organisations temporarily close physical premises as social distancing rules came into play. While Coronavirus 19 restricted social contact, there were some benefits that arose such as increased digital access for social connection, online ordering accessible via screen readers and home delivery, virtual tours of art galleries, online choirs, and telehealth appointments.
• “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.”
• Powerhouse Museum
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1984-85"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1984-85 - 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 increased artist fees working with minority groups including disabled, fees and costs for artists in Arts Access Society, costs of program for Access Arts (National) cost of playwrights for disabled theatre, and theatre of the Deaf with additional grant support and tours of NSW regional areas for Theatre of the Deaf (NSW).
• "Restless Dance - Central Workshop"
  Restless Dance Theatre website, 'Central Workshop,' captured 2020 – reads, in part, "Restless Dance Theatre presents a series of dance workshops, for people aged 15-26 years with and without disability. The workshops involve creating movement in a safe and fun environment where the participants’ ideas become dance. No experience is necessary, just the desire to take part. Workshops are open to people with and without disability and are led by highly experienced tutors in an accessible space."
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2013"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2013 - Values, Artistic Director’s and President’s Report, Programs, Productions and Exhibitions, including ‘Their Shadows in Us’ and ‘Bangkok to Brighton’ Exhibitions, ‘The Square Project’ music and performance program, and Sit Down, Shutup & Watch Film Festival, Board, Staff, and Artists, Financials
• "David Throsby, Katya Petetskaya (2017) Making Art Work: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia, Australia Council for the Arts, 2017."
  Reads, in part "Making Art Work: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia by David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya is the sixth in a series carried out independently over thirty years by Professor Throsby at Macquarie University, with funding from the Australia Council. The series tracks trends in the lives and working conditions of Australian artists over 30 years and identifies challenges and opportunities for artists’ careers into the future."
• “Production company A2K Media founded in 2007, as a 'a Disabled-led production company, creating connections that entertain, educate, and empower'”
  A2K Media is “a Disabled-led production company, creating connections that entertain, educate, and empower.” In 2024, A2K launched their Disability Justice Lens course, which teaches screen professionals how to bring disabled people onto their productions and make their workplaces more accessible and empowering.
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Pru Jobling - Article: Art And Disabilities -1993 - Iss8, Pg10"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Pru Jobling - Review: Art And Disabilities -1993 - Iss8, Pg10
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2019"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2019 - Chairperson's Message, CEO's Message, About Us, Our Team, Key Stats 2019, Testimonials, Arts Activated 2019, Career Advancement, Audience Development, Community Engagement, Regional NSW
• "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."
• "Simon Darcy, S., Hazel Maxwell, Simone Grabowski, Jenny Onyx (2019). Artistic Impact: From Casual and Serious Leisure to Professional Career Development in Disability Arts. Leisure Sciences, 44(4), 514–533. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2019.1613461"
• "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."