Disability Arts History Australia

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• Avni Dauti
• Alice Ewing
• Alexander Straub
• Alex Warman
• “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.
• “Flow Festival, Australia’s Deaf Arts festival, is founded”
  Flow Festival, Australia’s Deaf Arts festival, was founded in 2018 by Ramas McRae, Irene Holub, and Medina Sumovic. The Deaf-led biennial festival provides a groundbreaking and dedicated platform for established and emerging Deaf/Hard of Hearing artists. Flow is held in Victoria but is described as “Australia’s national celebration of Deaf arts and culture”.
• "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
• Pat Rix
• ACE Magazine
• Restless Dance
• Jodee Mundy
• “Sit Down Shutup and Watch, a screen festival for people with learning disabilities, is launched in 2014”
  In 2014, Tutti Arts launched Sit Down Shutup and Watch (SDSW). SDSW is a collective led by people with learning disabilities; They present a biennial international screen festival which features the work of disabled creators. The committee also hosts workshops and online resources.
• "Jodee Mundy Collaborations - Imagined Touch - IMBD"
  Reads, in part, "When two Deafblind women asked a theatre director to help them make a show about being deaf and blind, never in their wildest dreams did they imagine it would become an award-winning show."
• "IMDB Sparkles"
  Reads, in part "A 30-something-year-old Down syndrome woman leaves her past behind, and runs away from a small country town. Along her journey, she makes an unlikely friendship, teaching us all not to be afraid to celebrate who we are."
• “Restless Dance – Counterpoise: Dancing Against The Odds Program"
  Restless Dance Theatre ‘Counterpoise: Dancing Against The Odds’ Program 2023 – reads, in part “The work features 9 artists with and without disability from two ground-breaking companies, 'Restless Dance Theatre' and '29Dong Dance Theater', KOREAN MUSIC PROJECT collaborating on music. The collaboration process is documented by 'University of South Australia Connect2Abilities', for submission and screening at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival.”
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2020"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2020 – Highlights, President’s, Artistic Director’s, General Manager’s Reports, information on Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film and New Media and Choral and Kids & Youth Programs, Projects, and Exhibitions, including Stand & Deliver Showcase, Impersonal Space tour, The Sisters of Invention appearance at Undercover Artist:Online, information on Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film Festival, The Sisters of Invention, Company AT, Financials, Staff, Supporters
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2016"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2016 – President’s, Artistic Directors, Disability & Quality Manager's, Arts Manager Reports, information on Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film and New Media and Choral and Kids & Youth Programs, Projects, and Exhibitions, including information BEASTLY! International, Day of Song, Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film Festival, The Sisters of Invention, Company AT, Financials, Staff and Board Members, Supporters
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2019"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2019 – Highlights, President’s, Artistic Director & Ceo’s, Disability & Quality Manager’s Reports, information on Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film and New Media and Choral and Kids & Youth Programs, Projects, and Exhibitions, including information on Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film Festival, The Sisters of Invention, Company AT, Financials, Staff, Supporters
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Call For Entries 2014 - Promotional Card"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch' 2014 Call For Entries - reads, in part "The first disability-led film festival in the southern hemisphere"
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Promotional Flyer 2022"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch 2022 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part “Sit Down, Shutup & Watch is Australia’s first international film and new media festival featuring work made by people with a learning disability.”
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Promotional Flyer 2018"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch 2018 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part “Sit Down Shutup and Watch Australia's premier learning disability led film festival 19-20 October 2018 Angaston, Barossa Valley Two days of short films, talks, workshops and activities with a spotlight on immersive technologies."