Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Australia Council (1999) Access All Areas: Guidelines for Marketing the Arts to People with Disabilities. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080720180431/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/publications/disability_and_the_arts/access_all_areas_guidelines_for_marketing_the_arts_to_people_with_disabilities"
  Australia Council 'Access all areas: guidelines for marketing the arts to people with disabilities' 1999 - reads, in part "Access all areas: guidelines for marketing the arts to people with disabilities For most people, the decision to be exposed to the experience of an arts event is a simple one. You go, because you choose to go. Providing that choice to people with disabilities is the issue of Access all areas. This guide is intended to be practical, covering actions which are within reach of arts organisations, especially marketing officers and their departments. How to identify this audience, how to reach them and how to provide what they want is the key advice contained in Access all areas."
• "Parkinson's Queensland (2015) Research Study finds Dance has positive benefits for people with Parkinson’s, 4 March 2015, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20150311153726/http://parkinsons-qld.org.au/danceforpd/"
  Parkinson's Queensland -Research Study finds Dance has positive benefits for people with Parkinson’s (2015) - reads, in part "Now, in exciting research findings, Parkinson’s Queensland, in conjunction with Queensland Ballet and research undertaken by QUT and The University of Queensland (UQ) demonstrate that Queensland Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s program had positive physical, social, cognitive and emotional benefits for participants affected by Parkinson’s."
• "Bree Hadley (2017) Disability theatre in Australia: a survey and a sector ecology. Research in Drama Education, 22(3), pp. 305-324.”
• "Juliette Peers (2022) The ArtLink Archive Project: Inside the 'Outsider' Issue, 42(2)"
  "In 1992–93 ArtLink published Naïve & Outsider Art centring on themes linked by their shared invisibility in mainstream discussions. While the title obviously references art historian Roger Cardinal’s 1972 book Outsider Art, (after Jean Dubuffet’s ‘Art Brut’ or ‘raw art’), this outlying status was described by ArtLink’s founding editor Stephanie Britton in 2022 as ‘…the context changes, but at the time the concept [of various practices lying beyond the mainstream] functioned as a catch up on things that had been under the radar for decades already... [we were] collating a wide range of ideas'[1], a group of practices that existed but were hardly recognised in published texts. Looking back across ArtLink’s history, Naïve & Outsider Art offers much to think through about the magazine’s own platform, intentions and the trajectories of those practices foregrounded thirty years ago under what are now troubling rubrics."
• "Mary Hutchison (2005) Making the Journey: Arts & Disability in Australia. Sydney: Arts Access Australia."
  Reads, in part "A collection of inspiring examples of how to include people with disabilities in the arts, as participants, creators and organisers"
• "Tutti Arts - Website - Strategic Plan 2023-2026 captured 2023"
  Tutti Arts Annual Reports 2023-2026, captured 2023 - reads, in part "Established in 1997, Tutti Arts is South Australia’s only multi-arts organisation where learning disabled, and neurodiverse artists create visual art, theatre, music, screen, dance and experiment with art and technology. Tutti Arts has grown, changed, rearranged, and developed over time. Tutti now works with more than 200 learning disabled and neurodiverse artists, with over 340 artist engagements every week across 3 Creative Hubs (Brighton, Port Adelaide, and the Barossa), and online. Tutti is the home for renowned disability-led collectives The Sisters of Invention, Company AT and Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film & Media Festival and has supported the career paths of many disabled artists. The Tutti Arts Centre was opened in Brighton 2020. In 2022 Tutti opened a new Regional Hub in Nuriootpa."
• "Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts presents Beats Workshops"
  Access2Arts - You Tube - Access2Arts Beats Workshops - reads, in part "Lead by its learning disabled participants, the workshops offer the chance to get creative and connect with the world through digital technology and contemporary popular culture."
• “‘Arts and Disability: A Research Report’ published in 1995”
  In 1995, ‘Arts and Disability: A Research Report’ was published. Des Walsh and Juliet London were commissioned by the Australia Council to prepare the report. However, they found little information that was relevant to the theme of the report. In addition to a review of existing literature, they met with people involved in arts organisations, disability organisations and organisations dedicated to both, as well as funding bodies. Walsh and London outlined the different ways that disabled people interact with the arts: as artists, consumers, and through art therapy. They also recognised the “negative or unduly limiting notions attached to arts in relation to disability” (12). Overall, they found “no conclusive evidence […of a] widely shared, articulated concept of a ‘disability arts’ movement in Australia” at that time. The report was intended to inform meaningful policy going forward. They made recommendations related to buildings and physical barriers, leadership, education and training and action plans.
• "Commonwealth of Australia, 2018. Research Overview: Arts and Disability in Australia. Barton: Department of Communication and the Arts, Cultural Ministers Council. Available from: https://www.arts.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1761/f/research_overview_of_arts_and_disability.pdf."
  Reads, in part "The Research Overview brings together published and unpublished data and research about arts and disability in Australia, and case studies highlighting arts and disability practice around the country. The Research Overview is part of the evidence base for a renewed National Arts and Disability Strategy. The evidence gathered here will be complemented by submissions and survey during a national consultation in 2018."
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - Song Circle (2014)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - Blue Roo Theatre in collaboration with Opera Queensland Song Circle (2014) Judith Wright Centre - reads, in part "Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. proudly presents, Song Circle. This creative collaboration with Opera Queensland/Open Stage programme created 12 original songs about the ensemble artists vision of independence. Song Circle is the debut production from artistic collaboration between The Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. and Opera Queensland’s Open Stage.
• "Juliet London and Des Walsh (1995) Arts & Disability: Report Australia Council: Surry Hills."
  Juliet London and Des Walsh - Arts & Disability, Australia Council 1995 - Reads, in part "The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that 18 per cent of the Australian population has a disability. There is a basic lack of data on participation in the arts by artists with a disability. No figures were available on the number of people with disabilities applying for grants from the Australia Council or from State or Territory arts agencies. The current dearth of statistical information needs to be overcome by systematic and sustained research."
• "Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Dave King - Article: DADAA - Disability in the Arts/Disadvantage in the Arts- Iss5, Pg3"
  Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression - Dave King - Article: DADAA - Disability in the Arts/Disadvantage in the Arts- Iss5, Pg3reads, in part "DISABILITY IN THE ARTS/DISADVANTAGED IN THE ARTS AUSTRALIA (DADAA) is a group of artists/art workers who represent the states and territories of Australia. Its members are representatives from those groups who work towards artistic empowerment and filling the creative needs of people with disabilities - that is to name a few, ACCESSIBLE ARTS and ARTS ACCESS. All the current members attended a meeting in July. They all work with people with disabilities and three have disabilities. The inaugural meeting was held in late 1990. This group was formed to facilitate and maintain a responsive external overview of the trends in the arts for those experiencing disadvantage or a disability."
• "DADAA Annual Report 2022-2023"
  DADAA Annual Report 2022-2023 – Chair’s and Executive Director’s Reports, People, Partners, Arts and Client Services, Projects including 4:48 Psychosis, Digital Art for Life, Exhibitions, Financials
• "Accessible Arts - Avenues into Creativity for People with Disability 1986- Report"
  Accessible Arts - Avenues into Creativity for People with Disability 1986- Report - PANEL ON 'WHY THE ARTS - Joan Hume: Why the Arts? An overview of the Need; - Lydia Fegan: Citizen Advocacy INFORMATION EXCHANGE - Who's Who - What's Happening SPECIFIC PROJECTS - Jo Caust: Arts Access Society Melbourne; - Angelika Pechloff: Good Time Junk Machine; - Laura Hastings-Smith: Adolescent Medical Unit Children's Hospital, Camperdown ON ART - Pam Fairburn: Cromehurst Special School OPEN SESSION: COMMUNITY GROUPS- Rozelle Arts and Drama Group: Sue MacDonald; - Art Reach: Melissa Lee VIDEOS - Linda Dyer: Activities Research Department, RNSH- Arts with the Aged: Jana Cattanach; The Ward Game- Laura Hastings-Smith: Adolescent Medical Unit; Children's Hospital, Camperdown; ENTERTAINMENT: 'Finger Ballet' - Chin Yu; PUTTING IDEAS INTO ACTION - Jana Cattanach: Artist in Residence, Tweed Shire Council; - Margot Currey: Community Artist/Sculptor; - Nan Bosler: Co-ordinator of the Narrabeen Community Learning Centre & Northern Beaches Creative Leisure Movement; ACCESS: OBSTACLES AND SOLUTIONS! - Ellen Bynum: Accessibility Consultant; - Lis Pack: Royal Blind Society; - Wendy Miners: Recreation Project Officer, AAMR; INTEREST GROUPS - Drama & Movement - Alison Lee; - Computer Art - Duncan Wallace; - Music - John Broomhall, Wollongong; - Silkscreen - Nina Angelo; - Craft - Branka Kringas
• “Arts Access Victoria – Leading Change (2005-2009)"
  Arts Access Victoria - Leading Change (2005-2009) - During the mid to late 2000s, Arts Access Victoria (AAV) was recognised by Australia Council for the Arts as a key producer, supported the Deaf Arts Network (DAN), ran The Other Film Festival (TOFF),
• "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)
• Dance Integrated Australia
• Auspicious Arts
• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
• Sydney Festival
• NSW Society for Crippled Children
• Platform
• Flow Festival
• Ignition Theatre Training
• Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)