Disability Arts History Australia

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• Arts Project Australia
• “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”.
• "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
• Melbourne Fringe Festival
• Nerida Weller
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2016"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2016 – Australian works screened include The Globe Collector (2012) 7min Summer DeRoche; Super (2014) 7min Samara Hersch; Gimpsey (2015) 12min Sofya Gollan; All of the Above (2016) Distinctive Options 3min; Auslan Music video (2016) Arts Access Victoria 3min; Chop Secret (2016) Distinctive Options 2min; Mum's Place (2015) Brigid Canny 6min; Mrs Bean and the Security Guard (2016) Distinctive Options 3min; The Stars (2015) Heidi Everett 5min; Archie (2016)Heidi Everett 5min; The Darkness (2016) Paul Khoury 6min; Ballarat - My Town (2016) Barry Devine 5min; Listening Eyes at Manus and Nauru (2016) Selwyn Hoffman 4min
• “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.
• Asia Pacific Wataboshi Music Festival
• Asia Pacific Wataboshi Festival
• Wataboshi Festival
• Wataboshi Music Festival
• Madeleine Little
• "The Other Film Festival - Website, captured 2018"
  The Other Film Festival website, captured 2018 - with links to About and Archive pages, and 2016 Festival report
• "The Other Film Festival - Creating Change"
  The Other Film Festival Creating Change webpage, captured 2022 - reads, in part "The Other Film Festival is a groundbreaking disability-led program that has put Deaf and Disabled people at the centre of the Australian screen industry for almost 20 years. The days of Deaf and Disabled people being erased, misrepresented or under-employed by the mainstream have gone. We encourage the screen sector to embrace inclusive production structures and processes, including paid employment opportunities and career pathways for Deaf and Disabled screen practitioners and performers."
• Theatre of the Deaf
• Australian Theatre of the Deaf
• State Library of Victoria
• "The Other Film Festival Revisited 2020"
  The Other Film Festival 2020 Revisited - information about the Festival, program, achievements, including in 2020 writers room activity, daily screen writing prompt tasks, and events relating to climate change
• "The Other Film Festival Revisited 2021"
  The Other Film Festival 2021 Revisited - Information about the Festival, program, achievements, including in 2021 tour to Western Australia, Industry Resources, and Platforms for artists
• "The Other Film Festival - Writing on Film and Disability"
  The Other Film Festival Writing on Film and Disability - includes Mind’s Eye” Re-envisioning Mental Health in the Arts’ by Adolfo Aranjues; ‘I know it shouldn’t matter, but do you think I’m pretty’ by Naomi Chainey; ‘The Other Film Festival – Disability, Comedy & Subverting Expectations’ by Alastair Baldwin; ‘Filmdis Q&A with Dominick Evans’ by Jax Jacki Brown
• Restless Dance
• Dean Michael
• Nerrida Weller
• "Arts Access Victoria - The Other Film Festival, captured 2022"
  Arts Access Victoria - The Other Film Festival - 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."
• Focus on Ability Film Festival