Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Peter Magner
• Phillip Going
• Mandy Johnstone
• Jasmin Jacobson
• Bill Heathwood
• Becky Down
• Andrew Coote
• "Australia Council for the Arts (2014) A Million Dollar Commitment to Artists with Disability. Australia Council for the Arts. 28 October 2014"
  Reads, in part "Australia Council Chief Executive Officer Tony Grybowski made the announcement today at the Arts Activated Conference in Chatswood, Sydney. Mr Grybowski said the decision to extend the dedicated arts and disability funding was made after a successful pilot was run earlier this year."
• NuunaRon
• NuunaRon formerly with First Peoples Disability Network
• Blue Roo Theatre Company
• "Accessible Arts and Tin Sheds Gallery - AART-BOXX 2008 - Program"
  Accessible Arts and Tin Sheds Gallery- AART-BOXX 2008 Program - reads, in part "AART.BOXX is an exhibition and cultural initiative that highlights the current and diverse art practices of young and emerging artists with a disability. Initiated by Accessible Arts, the peak arts and disability body in NSW, AART.BOXX aims to extend and challenge current discourses within contemporary art by including art practices that are informed by cultures of disability. These artists are a creative force whose unique voices are often marginalized within the broader cultural context."
• "Blue Roo Theatre - Productions, captured 2022"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - Productions, captured 2022 - reads, in part "Blue Roo performances and activities assist the performers, through a mentoring process to learn performing arts skills. The performers learn acting techniques, chorus work, voice, singing, movement, dance, different styles of performance-melodrama, clown, tragedy, commedia dell’ arte, visual and physical theatre" - with information about PERFORMANCES TO DATE (including A Midsummer Night's Dream 2021, Boss 2021, Around 2019, Time To Go 2018, Sea 2018, Now 2017, Orpheus and Eurydice 2016, The Bulimba Opera 2015, Song Circle 2014, Darcy O and the Browbeat Factory 2013, Flood Country 2012, The Last Night at the Grand 2011, Sugar Cane Ball 2010, Lily Pilly Letters 2009), COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE (including Hotel Pantelone, A Waddle of Ducks, Capitano Pretends Again 2015), MELODRAMA ENSEMBLE, COLLABORATIONS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - SongCircleReport"
  The Song Circle Evaluation Report (2014), written by Kirsty Martin, reads "In 2013 a creative partnership was formed between Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. and Opera Queensland’s Open Stage. The Arts Queensland and Centacare Disability Services Queensland funded partnership resulted in ‘Song Circle’, a song-based production performed over three days at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane."
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Video UNCRPD Article #19 Living independently and being included in the community "
  Access2Arts Article #19 Living independently and being included in the community - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoqeaDFEjlE
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Video UNCRPD Article #27 Work and employment"
  Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts video on United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Article #27 Work and employment - reads, in part "Article #27 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities that deals withWork and employment, told by Deaf and disabled people. An Access2Arts Production made possible with support from the City of Adelaide."
• "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."
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Video UNCRPD Article #5 Equality and non discrimination"
  Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts video on United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Article #5 Equality and non discrimination - reads, in part "Article #5 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities that deals with Equity and non-discrimination, told by Deaf and disabled people. An Access2Arts Production made possible with support from the City of Adelaide.
• "Access Arts - Community Arts programs 2014"
  Access Arts Community Arts program. Page, reads, in part, "Access Arts’ Community Arts workshops provide members with a supportive, inclusive and creative environment to engage with various art forms, encouraging positive social interaction, a strong sense of community, and artistic expression of each individual." Information about workshops, exhibitions, events, and partnerships.
• "Bree Hadley, Katherine Dionysius, Sarah Boulton (2019) Vis-Ability: Audio descriptions. In Vis-ability: Artworks from the QUT Art Collection. QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld, pp. 45-53."
  "Bringing together a selection of recent acquisitions from the QUT Art Collection ,Vis-ability has been conceived as a project to broaden understanding of the lived experiences of people who are blind and people with low vision. Drawing on research in QUT's Creative Industries Faculty, Vis-ability proposes alternative ways of engaging with the collection, considering how technologies can deepen our understanding of vision and challenging our sight-driven experience of art. In this essay, QUT artist scholar and audio description author Associate Professor Bree Hadley, curator Katherine Dionysius, and blind artist and exhibition guide Sarah Boulton examine the principles, processes, and challenges of producing audio descriptions and associated engagement strategies to enable creative new forms of audio encounter with visual art works."
• "Janice Rieger, Bree Hadley, Katherine Dionysius, Michael Whelan (2019) VIS-ABILITY: Audio Description of Denise Green's 'Saar elegy: Opposites' 2014."
  "This is an audio description of Denise Green’s artwork, ‘Saar elegy: opposites’ (2014) narrated by Dr Bree Hadley. This recording was produced in partnership with QUT Creative Industries Faculty for the exhibition, 'Vis-ability' at QUT Art Museum, from 11 May to 4 August 2019."
• "Amanda Cachia (2022) Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation. London: Routledge"
  Reads, in part "This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access."
• "Arts Project Australia - ENews - 20120829"
  Arts Project Australia - ENews - 20120829
• "Arts Project Australia - I heart rock Exhibition 2016 - Promotional Card"
  Arts Project Australia - I heart rock Exhibition 2016 - Promotional Card - reads, in part "Featuring a selection of artists from the Arts Project Australia studio alongside external contemporary artists, i heart rock (rock is the total work of art) is a playful exploration of fandom, nostalgia and homage through art devoted to and about rock music."
• "Arts Project Australia - Fully Booked Exhibition 2010 - Promotional Card"
  Arts Project Australia - Fully Booked Exhibition 2010 - Promotional Card - reads, in part "A unique insight into collecting, Fully Booked reflects upon the inclusive philosophy of art patrons who support a broad spectrum of cutting edge, contemporary artists. Showcasing new commissions by Lou Hubbard ('Dog, Dogged', a digital video work) and skateboard art from Arts Project Australia artists."