Disability Arts History Australia

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• "High Beam Festival Program 2006"
  High Beam Festival Program 2006 reads "High Beam is a 10 day integrated arts festival showcasing work inspired by or influenced by experiences of disability. Presenting both professional and recreational artists, audiences will see many of the world's most exciting and innovative achievements in arts and disability."
• "High Beam Festival Program 2000"
  High Beam Program 2000 reads "High Beam 2000 will he launched with an opening parade and concert that promises to he LOUD. IARGE and LAVISH! Weaving a rhythmical and colourful journey along King William Street through to Elder Park where the entertainment will begin. AS 22% of South Australia’s population have a disability, High Beam 2000 Festival presents an inspiring and unique opportunity for all South Australians to discover the wealth of talent within our midst and from abroad."
• "High Beam Festival Program 2004"
  High Beam Festival Program 2004 reads "Welcome to evolve High Beam 2004 – A stimulating and inspiring seven-day cultural experience for people with a disability, families, friends and support workers, artists with a disability, professionals working in the disability sector, art workers and others."
• Arts In Action
• "Undercover Artist Festival Program 2015"
  Undercover Artist Festival 2021, curated by inaugeral Festival Director Belinda Locke, including ‘People of Interest ‘by Daniele Constance, Fine Line’ with Emma Bennison, ‘ It's Not Easy Being Green’ by Karen Lee Roberts, ‘Schadenfreude’ by Alicia Jane Steele, Live Body Painting in the Green Room by Alicia Jane Steele, ‘The Rite of Spring’ by Second Echo Ensemble, ‘Ambition Road’ with David Truong and Donnelle Brooks, ‘Monster’ by Joshua Pether and Lynnette Voevidin, ‘Blonde Ammunition’ with Christina Youhanna, comedy from Thane Pullen, music from Barry Charles, ‘Putting on the Punk: Fantasy, Costumes and Photos’ with Ged Maybury, and film screenings and discussion panels
• "High Beam Festival Program 2008"
  High Beam Program 2008 reads "Australia's international celebration of Arts and Disability - COMEDY | THEATRE| MUSIC | VISUAL ARTS | COMMUNITY EVENTS"
• "High Beam Festival 1998 Poster"
  High Beam Festival Poster 1998 reads "High Beam Festival PRESENTED BY: SPARC DISABILITY FOUNDATION in association with ARTS IN ACTION INC"
• "Undercover Artist Festival Program 2017"
  Undercover Artist Festival 2017, curated by Festival Director Harmonie Downes, including “Here we all are, assembled” by Kathryn Ash, “The Grumpy Cripple” by Thane Pullan, “Environment Moves Me” by Eleonora Ginardi, “Rock ‘n’ Country Blues Show” with Steve Sparrow, “Inside”, by Wielding Theatre, “Explorations” by Vulcana Women’s Circus, “Stories So True” by Ged Maybury, “Whiplash” by Scott Wings, “Hotel Pantelone” by Blue Roo Theatre Company, “Alone with the Keyboard Kat” with Jeff Usher, “Love Me” by Indelability Arts, “Just Dance” by InsideOutside Dance Ensemble, “Ambition Road” with David Truong, “Morgan Stern” by Company of Rogues, “Sing It Out” with Leah Cotterell, “Tribal Disco Ball” by Velvet Pesu and Tichawona Noble Mashawa, “Songs from the Vault” by Donna Dyson and Friends””, “Unmasterclass” by Back to Back Theatre, “What Does Your Artist Statement Say About You?” workshop with Dr Kari Sullivan, “Disability Voices and Mainstream Stages” panel facilitated by Morwenna Collett.
• Undercover Artist Festival
• "High Beam Festival Program 1998"
• Rick Randall
• Richard Randall
• "The Other Film Festival - Website, captured 2011"
  The Other Film Festival website, captured 2011 - including a links to 2010 Festival Program in standard, plain text and Vision Australia formats, and a report on the 2010 Festival
• “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.
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2018"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2018 – Australian words screened include The Milky Pop Kid 2016 | 7min Johanna Garvin; Paul 2017 | 5min Kasimir Burgess; GEN(d)ERATION: ROMANY AND SASCHA 2018 | 3min Akasha Temple; Yulubidyi Until The End 2017 | 12min Nathan Mewett and Curtis Taylor; ODDLANDS 2017 | 28min Bruce Gladwin; re-cal-i-brate 2016 | 6min Brendan O’Connell; Halloween 2018 | 2min Thomas Iacono; A Royal Star 2014 | 17min Nicola Byrnes and Neil Triffett; Stim Your Heart Out 2018 | 4min Akasha Temple; Lipstick Fights 2017 | 3min Jon Mitchell; I see, You say... 2018 | 10min Ramas McRae; Jaspar 2018 | 7min Zoe Glen-Norman; All of You TV Show 2015 | 11min Artlife and Lindsay Cox; CAE Workshop films 2018 | 20min David Baker, Stacey Christie, Shea MacDonough, Shanah Robison, Philippa Nichol, Imogen Newhouse, Jonathon Goodfellow, Justin O’Brien; Love You Till I Die 2017 | 2min Rudely Interrupted; Gaslit 2018 | 9min Naomi Chainey; Defiant Lives 2016 | 1hour 24min Sarah Barton; Life is Short, Time is 2016 | 4min Constant aka LISTIC and Vanna Seang; Jeremy the Dud 2017 | 21min Ryan Chamley; The Holden Family 2014 | 4min Alex Skaftouros and Lindsay Cox; RADIAL - No Limits 2017 | 4min Festival & Theater Thikwa, Tamara Searle and Rhian Hinkley
• "The Other Film Festival - Website, captured 2017"
  The Other Film Festival website, captured 2017 - reads, in part "The Other Film Festival is the big party where everyone scores an invite! The festival programs provocative international and Australian cinema about the lived experience of disability and the Deaf community." - with links to About and Program pages.
• "The Other Film Festival - Website, captured 2022"
  The Other Film Festival website, captured 2022 - reads, in part "The Other Film Festival is a groundbreaking disability-led initiative that has put Deaf and Disabled people at the centre of the Australian screen industry for almost 20 years. Founded in 2004, it is Australia’s first international disability film festival and is a major artistic program of Arts Access Victoria."
• "The Other Film Festival - Website, captured 2019"
  The Other Film Festival website, captured 2019 - reads, in part "Since 2004 The Other Film Festival has been an agent for change and the first international disability film festival in Australia." - with links to About, Program, Tickets, Access, and Archive pages
• "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)
• Asia Pacific Wataboshi Music Festival
• Asia Pacific Wataboshi Festival
• Wataboshi Festival
• Wataboshi Music Festival
• Back to Back Theatre
• Stella Young