Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Competitions- List - 2001 Mar. Pg18-20"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Competitions- List - 2001 Mar. Pg18-20
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression -Grants And Competitions- List - Iss19, Pg13"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Competitions- List - Iss19, Pg13
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Competitions- List - Iss21, Pg24"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Competitions- List - Iss21, Pg24
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Funding- List - 2002 Jul, Pg24-29"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Funding - List - 2002 Jul, Pg24-29
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression -Grants And Training -List - 2002 Nov, Pg54-67"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Grants And Funding - List - 2002 Nov, Pg54-67
• “Inaugural High Beam festival in 1998”
  High Beam was a biennial community-based disability arts festival. It was a joint initiative of SPARC Disability Foundation and Arts In Action (through the direction of Tony Doyle). (Arts in Action later became Arts Access SA.) The 10-day event was the first of its kind in the Southern hemisphere, attracting around 20,000 people at each festival. The festival showcased theatre, dance, comedy, and music. Some celebrity artists included Adam Hills and David Helfgott. The inaugural festival (1998) invited Swedish Disability Theatre Company Mooms Teatern to perform; the company also conducted workshops with a disability-led Australian theatre company, No Strings Attached. This first festival was also the site of Tutti's first public performance as a choir.
• "A number of theatre companies are established in the 2000s"
  A number of theatre companies were established in the 2000s, particularly towards the end of the decade. Some key companies in disability theatre or inclusive arts practice to emerge in the 2000s are: Second Echo Ensemble (2005, integrated, often producing work in partnership with the Tasmanian Theatre Company), Ever After Theatre Company (2006, performers with disability), Rollercoaster Theatre Company (2007, performers with disability), DirtyFeet (2008, inclusive), and Blue Roo Theatre (2009, performers with disability).
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Back to Back Theatre - I Don’t Want To Live In Lara Anymore- A Play About Becoming Independent - Iss2, PG13-14"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Back to Back Theatre - I Don’t Want To Live In Lara Anymore- A Play About Becoming Independent - Iss2, PG13-14
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Peter Ross - Article: Arts Extraordinaire -1993 - Iss8, PG14-17"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Peter Ross - Article: Arts Extraordinaire -1993 - Iss8, PG14-17 - reads, in part "Arts Extraordinary Celebrating Where The Arts Can Take You is Australia's first arts festival to celebrate the diverse creative talents and artistic skills of people with disabilities."
• "Opening Doors To Creativity"
  Opening Doors To Creativity: Arts for People with Disabilities in South Australia, by Laurie Strathdee, Field Officer, Arts in Action, 1 September 1989. This study finds that "greater physical access, more affordable arts, more relevant information about the arts and greater social acceptance need to be developed to enable people with disabilities to develop their artistic potential," and makes the case for funding Arts in Action to employ a Community Arts Officer to support people with disabilities to achieve their full artistic potential.
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Helen Connors - Article: A Matter of Opinion - Article - Iss19, Pg8-9"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Helen Connors - Article: A Matter of Opinion - Article - Iss19, Pg8-9
• "Arts Project Australia - Inspiring Creativity 2013 - Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Project Australia - Inspiring Creativity 2013 - Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "Please contribute to the creative journey of our artists by making a tax deductlble gift before the end of the flnanclaf year."
• No Strings Attached
• "The first ACT DisAbility Arts Festival is held"
  In 2004, the first ever ACT DisAbility Arts Festival was held as part of International Day of DisAbility celebration.
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Jack Skidmore - Creative Writing: A Fishy Story - Iss17, Pg13"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Jack Skidmore - Creative Writing: A Fishy Story - Iss17, Pg13
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression -The Final Word: Two Poems By Gail Louise - 2000,Pg10"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression -The Final Word: Two Poems By Gail Louise - 2000, Pg10
• "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.
• Madeleine Little
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: Video Making Project At Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre - Iss15, Pg9"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Article: Video Making Project At Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre - Iss15, Pg9
• “Australia Council grants funding for projects about disability or for disabled participants throughout the 1970s”
  The 1974/75 Australia Council annual report states $1,350 in funding granted to Spectrum Films (NSW) to "develop a screenplay for a feature film of the social pressures on a deaf mute”, as well as a $4,500 travel/study grant to Lloyd Nickson (QLD) "to attend summer schools in children's theatre and theatre for deaf children (USA and UK) for six months". In the same year, the Council reported Bryan Gracey as one of numerous individuals in receipt of Experimental Film funding for his short film ‘The World of a Blind Child’ (1975) about the emotional and physical difficulties 10-year-old Peter faces and how he navigates his disability. In the 1974/75 financial year, Australia Council’s crafts board awarded $1,288 to the Wheelchair and Disabled Association (NSW) for "Jewellery making tools and equipment". The 1979/1980 Australia Council annual report describes the following funding: "As in previous years, a grant was given to the Braille and Talking Book Library for its Braille Book of the Year.”
• Bernette Redwood
• "First ABS Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC)"
  An ABS Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC) starting in 1981 and made people with disability more 'visible' for services and highlighted differences of experiences.
• "Kath Duncan, Gerard Goggin, Christopher Newell (2005) ‘Don’t Talk about Me... Like I’m Not Here': Disability in Australian National Cinema. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine.146/147, pp. 152-159. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.043842788583710"
  Reads, in part "Disability is a central cultural identity and category in Australia, but this is not often realized. We seek to make a contribution to conversations and critical analyses of disability in Australian culture through an exploration of a privileged national cultural form, namely film. The trope of disability looms large in late twentieth century Australian cinema, and yet cultural comment on these ‘disabled’ scripts and performances has not yet considered a disabilities studies perspective. Accordingly, in this article we combine our different perspectives on disability and film into an account of how specific films use disability. In particular, we analyse key films from the 1990s as examples of powerful displays of bodies and personhood." References a range of films, including Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991), Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, 1992), Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer, 1993), Muriel's Wedding (PJ Hogan, 1994), Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996), Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001), My One Legged Dream Lover (writer Kath Duncan with dir. Penny Fowler-Smith, Christine Oslen 1998), Pins and Needles (writer Genni Batterham with dir. Barbara Chobocky, 1979), Riding the Gale (Genni Batterham with dir, Hugh Piper, 1987), Dance Me to My Song (writer Heather Rose with dir. Rolf De Heer, 1998), Heather Rose Goes to Cannes (Chris Corin, 1999), Myself When Fourteen, (Ivor, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill 1989),Film of Circles, Squares, Triangles, Lines and Dots (Arthur and Corinne Cantrill 1981), Rainbow Diary (Arthur and Corinne Cantrill 1984), House Gang (Mandy smith, 1997), Quentin Crashes Big Brother (Quentin Kenihan, 2002), Quentin, World at My Wheels (Quentin Kenihan, 2000), Ability Trek (Jacob Baldwin 1998)
• “The report ‘Inquiry into Health Services for the Developmentally Disabled and Psychiatrically Ill’ (aka the Richmond Review) is published by the NSW Government.”
  In 1983, the seminal NSW Government report, ‘Inquiry into Health Services for the Developmentally Disabled and Psychiatrically Ill’ was published. The NSW inquiry, also known as the Richmond Report due to its chair, David T. Richmond, revolutionised the institutional landscape by explicitly linking disability services to human rights for the first time in Australia and highlighting the critical need for advocacy "mechanisms" that actively allowed people with disabilities to "speak for themselves."
• Jane Trengove