Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• National Gallery of Australia
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1990-91"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1990-91 - discusses objectives, organisation chart, year in review, support for artform development, main activities of Council and its Boards, and includes financial statements and lists of grants made including grants for Self Advocacy tor Intellectually Disabled, programs, artists and playwrights in residence and resource development and an increase of Australia Council staff with disabilities following Equal Opportunity Employment program.
• "Arts in Action Annual Report 2004"
  Arts in Action Annual Report 2004, describing the organisation’s work, including the 2004 High Beam Festival, an artistic program including visual arts workshops, music club and choir.
• Suzanne Becker
• Josh Dowse
• Joshua Dowse
• "Tutti Arts - Website - History, captured 2007"
  Tutti Arts Website History captured 2007 - reads, in part "Led by Pat Rix, SA’s recently announced Local Hero for her work as founder and leader of Tutti in the Australian of the Year Awards, Tutti Ensemble Inc is a successful arts and educational organisation for people with a disability, their families and the wider community now into its 10th year. Inspired by the musical term tutti - meaning everyone will now perform together after only a few have been allowed to play, Pat began Tutti as a singing group of nine people with an intellectual disability in 1997 at Minda Inc. That original group has now grown into a music community of well over 150 people. Tutti became incorporated as the Tutti Ensemble Inc, a not for profit organisation with charitable status, in 2001."
• Sunnyhaven Disability Services
• “Arts Access Victoria – Annual Report 2000-01”
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1991"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1991 - includes Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Program Director's Report, 1991 Exhibition Report, Scenes from the Studio Workshop, Financial Reports, Acknowledgements and Thanks - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia began in 1974 as an arts based advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities. A major reason for the formation of "the Art Project" (as it was then known) was the insight on the part of its members that many people who have an intellectual disability displayed aptitude and talent in the visual arts, and that the flexible conventions of these arts forms could provide access to a variety of means of expression and communication, even when more common forms, particularly linguistic, were difficult for them to utilise."
• “Tutti Arts – End of Year Concert 2018 – Program”
  Tutti Arts – End of Year Concert 2018 Program - reads, in part “'Tutti' means everyone. Tutti is South Australia's only multi arts organisation where artists with a learning disability create visual art, theatre, music, film, new media and installations for a growing local and international audience. Tutti also offers disability-led collectives like Company AT, The Sisters of Invention and Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film & New Media Festival a rare opportunity to work in an artistic and administrative environment.”
• "Tutti Arts Newsletter Term 1 2005"
  Tutti Arts Newsletter Term 1 2005 - reads, in part "Tutti Arts, the first vocational program for young artists with a disability in Australia began last October in partnership with Minda Inc."
• Robert Plant
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1987-88"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1987-88- 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 eight Boards, and how council endorsed a code of practice for arts organisations working with people with disabilities, equal employment opportunities and includes financial statements and lists of grants made including grants for programs, projects, performances and promotion and reading for Royal Blind Society and Brail and Talking Book Library
• "Tutti Arts - Rites Of Passage Concert - Program"
  Tutti Arts 'Rites Of Passage Concert' 2012 Program - reads, in part "Tutti is Australia's first Inclusive choir and takes its name from the musical term 'Tutti' meaning everyone. From Its origins as a small singing group at Minda, the original choir has grown into a vibrant independent multi arts organisation ( Tutti Inc), deeply connected into the disability and mainstream arts worlds of South Australia and beyond. With Its strong commitment to access and inclusion, Tutti Is both a grass roots nurturer of disabled artists and a creator and presenter of high quality work which brings disabled artists, diverse communities and professional artists together for high quality performances and exhibitions.”
• "Australian Theatre of the Deaf - Company History"
  Australian Theatre of the Deaf Company History, on Arts Access Victoria website, captured 2015 - Includes information on history, from funding from the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and the Australia Council for the Arts to support Nola Colefax, Adam Salzer, David London, and Colin Allen to start the Theatre of the Deaf in the 1970s, to highlights in more recent work in the 1990s and 2000s - for example first Australian Deaf musical “The Sign of the Phantom” (1995); bi-lingual play “Deaf and Gay” at Sydney Mardi Gras Festival (1999); Deaf cabaret show “Dislabelled” at Adelaide Cabaret Festival (2002); production of “There and Back” at Sidetrack Theatre (2005); commissioning and production of “The Cat Lady of Bexley” by Sofya Gollan and directed by Caroline Conlon (2006)
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Autumn 2001”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 1997”
• "Tutti Arts - Tutti Voice Newsletter September 2009"
  Tutti Arts - Tutti Voice Newsletter September 2009 - reads, in part "Congratulations to Tutti's amazing team of staff, artists, and volunteers who have recently presented three outstanding artistic events: the lively and colourful launch of the Extensions exhibition at the Bay Discovery Centre for SALA, the Let it Shine concert on 19 July at Christ Church, North Adelaide, and an extraordinary work in progress performance of Doghouse aka The Psychology of Loneliness at Restless Big Space in June. Special thanks to Mel Fulton, Juha Vanhakartano, Philip Griffin, Daisy Brown, and Jonathan Bligh for their creativity and leadership of these profile-raising events."
• “Arts Access Victoria - Nebula - Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Access Victoria - Nebula - Information about Nebula, the first fully accessible portable arts space developed for disabled artists in Australia, with flexibility to provide workshop, gallery, or performance space anywhere in Victoria
• “Arts Access Victoria - Nebula - Promotional Poster - 2020"
  Arts Access Victoria - Nebula - Promotional Poster - 2020 - Information about Nebula, the first fully accessible portable arts space developed for disabled artists in Australia, with flexibility to provide workshop, gallery, or performance space anywhere in Victoria
• "Access Arts - Brisbane Outsider Artists 2008"
  Access Arts Brisbane Outsider Artists (BOA) Studio/Programs page, with information about artists, and exhibitions, and examples of work
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter September 1989”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1990”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter June 1990”