Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "Boram Lee, Ruth Rentschler, and Shin-Eui Park (2022) Connect2Abilities: Staging Virtual Intercultural Collaboration during COVID-19 in Amanda Cachia ed. Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation. London: Routledge, 45-58"
  Reads, in part "As a pilot project, Restless Dance Theatre in Adelaide, Australia and SNU MUSIC in Seoul, Korea collaborated to create a digital performing arts piece entitled Dialogue for Six Strings."
• "Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre - About Us, captured 2019"
  Webpage reads, in part "Sprung Integrated Dance Theatre Inc is a not for profit community organisation providing dance and theatre training and workshops for people with a disability. We use a collaborative and disability-led process to develop inspiring dance theatre works that explore the human condition and promote a more inclusive society."
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2015-16"
  Australia Council - Annual Report 2015-16 - discusses year in review, strategy, funding, and key facts, including "18% identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 6% identified as experiencing disability", and running Sync Leadership Program for artists with disability
• "It's Fine, I'm Fine - IMDB"
  It's Fine, I'm Fine' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "A suburban psychologist and her patients explore love, loss, obsession, anxiety, and an uncertain future, while grappling with how to persist and find magic in the world."
• Royal Blind Society of NSW
• Royal Blind Society Sydney
• Anne Kwasner
• David Serisier
• Liz Pemberton
• Disability Arts History Australia Launch 2025 - 3 Page Information Sheet
• Juliet London
• "Tutti Arts -10th Anniversary Concert Program"
  Tutti Arts 10th Anniversary Concert Program - Reads, in part, “Tonight we are thrilled to have Peter Goers and 891 ABC Adelaide broadcasting our 10th Anniversary Concert for this Is truly an important South Australian community event. Tonight we celebrate the first decade of an arts organisation which grew from a small seed planted at Minda Inc in August 1997 into an inspiring arts organisation which regularly involves over 200 South Australians in five levels of the performing and visual arts. Today, Tutti continues transforming the lives of people with a disability and others, through singing and music, and tonight we invite you to be part of that journey.”
• SBS
• "Access Arts - News and Events"
  Access Arts News and Events, captured March 2022, including Access Arts Achievement Award Winner, Access Arts Achievement Awards 2021 Applications Open, Visitors and Earth Footprints Exhibitions, Undercover Artist Festival Program, and SYNC Leadership Program.
• "Tutti Arts -Tutti Kids - Kids and Youth Program Showcase 2016 - Program"
  Tutti Kids and Youth 2016 Showcase Program – reads, in part "The Tutti Kids and Youth Program provides Adelaide's only out of school hours arts program where young people living with disability are invited to develop their creativity through singing and song-writing, music, dance, movement, drama and theatre skills.”
• "Tutti Arts -Tutti Kids - Kids and Youth Program Showcase 2017 - Program"
  Tutti Kids and Youth 2017 Showcase Program – reads, in part "The Tutti Kids and Youth Program provides Adelaide's only out of school hours arts program where young people living with disability are invited to develop their creativity through singing and song-writing, music, dance, movement, drama and theatre skills.”
• "Tutti Ensemble Newsletter Term 4 2006"
  Tutti Ensemble Newsletter Term 4 2006 - reads, in part "For the last two years, the Tutti Office and Tutti Arts have been based at the Rogerson Building at Minda. During September and October, with the help of many Tutti volunteers, we prepared and painted the rooms in Galway House and made our new home attractive and comfortable for Pat, Rachel, Myf, Annalies, tutors, and volunteers who, with our talented artists, make everything work so well."
• Julie Barratt
• Rayce Coyte
• Stella Collier
• “Access Arts establishes the SAFE Grant”
  In 2007, Access Arts established the SAFE Grant – Sacred Angel Funding Empowerment. It is a one-off grant for $1,000 to “emerging and professional artists with disability living in Queensland. It is designed to fund the costs (up to $1,000) of attending conferences, training courses, events or mentoring to help enhance an artist’s professional career.” The SAFE grant was established by Peter Vance, whose wife Marilyn passed away from angiosarcoma. In 2019, Choice, Passion, Life (CPL) “committed to upholding the legacy of Peter and Marilyn for an additional 10 years”.
• "Access Arts Annual Report 2016"
  Access Arts Annual Report 2016 - Brisbane Outsider Artists (BOA), First Nations Projects, Visual and Performing Arts Programs, Community Workshops, Professional Development, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Grants and Awards
• "History of Queensland Theatre of the Deaf"
  History of Queensland Theatre of The Deaf. Queensland Deaf Society Superintendent Leslie Abnett’s proposal for a Queensland Theatre of the Deaf in 1974, initiated via arrangement with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to have the National Theatre Trust perform in Brisbane and for a workshop at La Boite Theatre in 1974. Formation Founding Committee (Kerry Prior, Mary Gibbs, John O’Donnell, Leslie Abnett as Office Bearers, Lloyd Nickson as Artistic Director, Keith Puddlefoot as Technical Director, and N. Bricknell, R. Hilsdon, K. Donnell, M. Bergman, P. Arnold, A. Lynch, D. Villis as Committee Members). Company Aims, Workshops at the Queensland School for the Deaf, rehearsals for a core adult group and a junior group at the new D.M. Chadwick Hall at the Queensland Deaf Society at Newmarket in Brisbane – production history including changes in Artistic Director (from Llyod Nickson in 1975, to Nickky Bricknell in 1977, to Ken Donnell in 1979). Company technique, stated as “Our Technique is a combination of Visual Language, Sign-Mime (visual vernacular), Mime and the Spoken Word – a blending of hearing actors and conventional acting ideals with imaginative mime, expression and manual language of the Deaf.”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1992”
• Chris Finnen