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Focus On Ability Film Festival
- Kerryn Poke
- Katrina Pimm
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"Interview with Jeremy Smith" Jeremy Smith is a Senior Producer in Western Australia at Performing Lines, has a long career across community, experimental and performing arts, is a disability advocate and previously worked in Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia) as Director – Community Arts and Experimental Arts. Interview Summary Jeremy Smith has vast experience in the arts including working as a director with Australia Council (Creative Australia). Jeremy is currently an arts worker in the performing arts sector. While Jeremy lives with Achondroplasia, he has not always identified as disabled however a transformative project for the 2016 Perth Festival led him to embrace his identity as a disabled person with pride recognising the complexities surrounding personal identification with disability. Jeremy talks about artists and organisations he finds inspirational who are leading change in the disability arts sector and his motivation to also advocate for inclusion and the evolution of public perception of disability arts work. -
"Interview with CB Mako" CB Mako is a non-fiction, fiction and fanfiction writer and disability advocate. Interview Summary cubbie||CB Mako is a creative practitioner and disability advocate who emphasizes the importance of accessibility in the arts, advocating for digital inclusivity and the elimination of ableist practices. cubbie pushes for systemic change so that future generations, like their disabled child, don't have to fight for access to art and literature. Success for cubbie is defined by the progress made when institutions include disability in their funding, competitions, and programming. Using the pen name CB Mako and going by pronouns cubbie/they/them, urges non-disabled artists, particularly from communities of colour, to proactively incorporate access in their work. - Julian Tremayne
- Josh Kyle
- John Tonso
- John Olsen
- Jim Longley
- Jess Keepence
- Jenny Newstead
- Jeanette McHugh
- Jason Davidson
- James Morrison
- Glen Shepard
- Gillian Rankine
- Gian Slater
- George Teleporos
- Geoff Crowhurst
- Faith Thorley
- Esther Hayes
- Emma Bennison
- Dale Frank
- Donna Wild
- David Urquhart