Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "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.
• "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.
• "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."
• "Interview with Alison Bennett"
  Dr Alison Bennett is a senior lecturer in photography at RMIT School of Art specialising in expanded photography, webXR, queer and feminist creative practices. Interview Summary Alison Bennett, an artist and academic, spoke about her work in expanded photography, their experiences with autism, and the intersection of disability discourse with queer activism in their life and work. Their current project, vegetal/digital, arose from their experiences during the pandemic and connects audiences with plant sentience through interactive digital art. Alison also discussed the political nature of their work, aiming to shift ontological frameworks and exploring new modes of engagement through art. They reflected on the significant cultural changes regarding neurodiversity in the last few decades, highlighting the growing self-advocacy among autistic artists and their increasing impact in the arts.
• “Arts Access Victoria – Annual Report 2000-01”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 1997”
• "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 - Eye Music - Press Release"
  Tutti Arts 'Eye Music' 2014 Press Release - reads, in part “The Tutti Production EYE MUSIC is an inspirational piece of music theatre about Jem Hartgen who accessed the services of Novita for many years, and who was also a member of the Tutti Performing Arts Program and the renowned Tutti Choir”
• “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”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1991”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter June 1988”
• "Accessible Arts - Second Skin 2013 - Program"
  Accessible Arts - Second Skin 2013 - Program - reads, in part "Choreographers Sue Healey, Dean Walsh and Philip Channells worked with more than 20 dancers to devise three short dance works traversing duets between camera and dancer, sub-aquatic space and states of dress and undress. The end result is Second Skin, a studio showing at Bangarra Theatre, where dancers will shed their layers and expose what's underneath their skin."
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1995"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1995 - Mission, Aims, Brief History, Chairperson’s Report, Treasurer’s Report, Executive Officer’s Report,1995 Program Outline, Partnerships, Resources, Financials
• "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
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter Christmas Edition1988”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter June1989”
• "Arts Access Victoria - News 2019 - 2024, captured 2024"
  Arts Access Victoria - News 2019 - 2024 - includes updates on announcement of new CEO Josh Pether, Nebula, Stella Young Award 2024, Transmit Futures, AAV Flashback, Making Space grants
• "Arts Access Victoria - Creating change, captured 2024"
  Arts Access Victoria - Creating change, captured 2024 - Information about AAV programs, training, consultation, resources
• "Artspeak: Newsletter for the Arts and Regional Cultural Issue Network of the Central West - Spring 1995 Iss2"
  Artspeak: Newsletter for the Arts and Regional Cultural Issue Network of the Central West - Issue 2 Spring 1995
• "Tutti Ensemble - Invitation to Launch of Tutti Arts 2006"
  Tutti Ensemble - Invitation to Launch of Tutti Arts 2006
• "A Frame Exhibition And Art Auction 2009"
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• "Tutti Arts - Website - Annual Reports 2010-2019, captured 2021"
  Tutti Arts Annual Reports 2010-2019, captured 2021
• "Access Arts - Visual Arts Workshops"
  Website reads "Our Visual Arts workshops provide participants with a supportive, inclusive and creative environment to engage with various artforms, encouraging positive social interaction, a strong sense of community, and artistic expression of each individual."