Disability Arts History Australia

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• “Incite Arts (NT) established in 1998”
  What would become Incite Arts (Northern Territory) was established in 1998, known at that time as the Alice Springs Youth Arts Group (ASYAG). “ASYAG was formed as a response to a locally identified need for a vehicle to express young people’s stories in a valid contemporary cultural context.” In 2004, the organisation adopted the name InCite Youth Arts Inc and was incorporated as a not-for-profit. The following year, they became the host and auspice of Arts Access Central Australia (AACA), an arts and disability committee. The organisation’s name was revised once again in 2013, becoming Incite Arts.
• "The Australian Council for the Arts established in 1968"
  The Australian Council for the Arts was established in 1968. This came after a push during the late 1960s for better support of the arts in Australia. The Council replaced the Elizabethan Trust as Australia’s main arts body, although the Trust continued to receive funding from State governments. The Council was later given statutory authority in 1975 and called Australia Council. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is recognised as a key political supporter of the arts. The election of Whitlam (serving from December 1972 to November 1975) gave unprecedented and considerable attention and funding to an arts policy which would establish an Australian cultural identity raising international awareness. The Australian Council for the Arts received an unprecedented $14 million in funding in the 1973/74 budget. This was “more than double the allocation the bodies out of which it evolved had received the year before. The Council’s allocation was increased by a further 50 per cent in the 1974/75 Budget."
• “Arts Project Australia is founded in 1974”
  In 1974, Myra Hilgendorf OAM founded Arts Project Australia, an organisation whose aim is for artists with an intellectual disability to have their work presented in a professional manner. In 1984, Arts Project moved to Hawthorn, Melbourne and started a studio workshop program. The organisation became an Incorporated Association in 1986. In 1994, Arts Project Australia artists exhibited their work internationally. Exhibitions occurred at MADMuseé and Centre d’Art Differencié in Belgium. Artist Julian Martin was selected for the Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition. Arts Project published an education/slide kit in 1994 called ‘Between the Lines: Visual Arts and Intellectual Disability’. The organisation first published ‘Outline: News from Arts Project Australia’ in 1996. Arts Project Australia was recognised by the National Gallery of Australia in 2013 for having international significance.
• “Arts Access Australia established”
  Arts Access Australia was established in 1992 as a national body for arts and disability with funding support from the Australian Council for the Arts.
• "Australia Council for the Arts (2022) Australia Council releases Towards Equity: a research overview of diversity in Australian arts."
  Reads, in part "The Australia Council for the Arts have released their critical new report Towards Equity: A research overview of diversity in Australia’s arts and cultural sector. This overview gathers published and unpublished data and research on representation within the arts and cultural sector in Australia."
• ”Bree Hadley, Donna McDonnald (Eds.) (2019) The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media. Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge, London; New York.”
  “In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies – including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law – and disability arts, culture, and media studies has developed. The two fields have worked in tandem to offer critique of representations of disability in dominant cultural systems, institutions, discourses, and architecture, and develop provocative new representations of what it means to be disabled. Divided into 5 sections:- Disability, Identity, and Representation; Inclusion, Wellbeing, and Whole-of-life Experience; Access, Artistry, and Audiences; Practices, Politics and the Public Sphere; Activism, Adaptation, and Alternative Futures - this handbook brings disability arts, disability culture, and disability media studies – traditionally treated separately in publications in the field to date – together for the first time.”
• "Australia Council for the Arts (2014) Australia Council Promotes Disability Leadership in the Arts. Australia Council for the Arts. 25 June 2014."
  Reads, in part "The Australia Council for the Arts is presenting a suite of activities from next month to develop the leadership skills of people with disability and enhance their access to leadership roles across the cultural sector."
• "Commonwealth of Australia (2014) National Arts Disability Strategy Evaluation 2009–2012. Canberra: Meeting of Cultural Ministers: National Arts and Disability Implementation Working Group."
  Reads, in part "The first evaluation was completed in October 2013 and explores the Strategy's outcomes from October 2009 to December 2012. The Evaluation Report includes input from the Australian, state and territory governments, following targeted consultation with arts and disability stakeholders. The Evaluation Report was endorsed by cultural ministers in October 2014."
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter September 1991”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter September 1991 – "10 + 10" exhibition, Artward Bound exhibition, Weekend workshops for people with psychiatric disabilities, P-art-ICIPATE workshops, Mount Royal Hospital textile mural, Senior Citizens' Treasures exhibition, Fairly Women’s Prison “A Roof of My Own” video, Showbiz project - disabled performers become part of an integrated performance group, “Boordup - Feeling Good” exhibition, Pleasant View Drug and Alcohol Centre HIV video project, 'Women Over 60' - A Photographic Exhibition, “Arts Alive" booklet listing art activities for older people, Arts Access “Feast of Art” exhibition, A Visual Artists' Support Group established, membership
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1992”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter December 1992 – P-art-ICIPATE Expo'92, Cultural Exchange Program with China, Executive Director message, national DADAA conference, Arts Access studio – able to be hired, updates – resource centre, projects, Publication – “Rewind - Strategies for Integration in the Arts”, EASE staffing changes, membership.
• “Arts Access Victoria - Creative Arts Program Glenroy 1993 - Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Access Victoria - Creative Arts Program Glenroy 1993 - Promotional Flyer - Artists, Guest Artists, Participants, and Volunteers in Glenroy Creative Arts Program 1993
• “Arts Access Victoria - Creative Arts Program Glenroy - Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Access Victoria - Creative Arts Program Glenroy - Promotional Flyer - information about Creative Arts Program coordinated by Barbara Doherty at Glenroy Uniting Church Hall
• Australian Opera
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2015"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2015 - Project Reports
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - DL Promotion Card"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings' DL Promotion Card
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Program"
  InCite Arts ‘Strong Feelings Program - Acknowledgement of Country, Welcome, Information about stArts with a D Performance Ensemble, exhibition, film, photography, animation and opening hours, creatives, cast and crew
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Promotion Card"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings' Promotion Card
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Poster"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings' Poster
• "Incite Arts - Strong Feelings - Cast List"
  InCite Arts 'Strong Feelings 'Cast List, including Brandon Williams, Jey ‘Janice’ Carroll, Isaac Trew, Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Trew, Michael ‘Mickey’ Wallace, Fabian 'Miller' Miller, Caleb McMillan, Christopher Day, including Arrernte/Pitjantjatjara/Warlpiri identification of each cast member
• "Artability - Access Arts' Programs, Practice and Perspectives"
  Explains history, members rights, policies, arts pathways, training, classes, and planning to support these activities, plus information on programs – including Caberet Erratica, Cartoon Advocacy, Melrose Park Project, New Farm Park Mosaics, Visual Arts Exhibition, Explaining Discrimination Video Project – and examples of writing by Access Arts members
• "Access Arts Annual Report 2020-2021"
  Access Arts Annual Report 2020-2021 - Performing Arts Workshops, Visual Arts Workshops, Exhibitions, First Nations Projects, Undercover Artist Online program and grants, Access Arts grants and Awards
• "Tutti Arts - Choir - Broadway Spectacular - Program"
  Tutti Arts Choir 'Broadway Spectacular' 2010 Program - reads, in part "The show is rich in melodies and potent lyrics by Berlin, Coleman, Porter, Gershwin, Bernstein, Sondheim, Lerner and Lowe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and the Tutti Choir and soloists have worked with typical enthusiasm and joy to bring you their interpretation of the music."
• "Accessible Arts and Tin Sheds Gallery - AART-BOXX 2008 - Program"
  Accessible Arts and Tin Sheds Gallery- AART-BOXX 2008 Program - reads, in part "AART.BOXX is an exhibition and cultural initiative that highlights the current and diverse art practices of young and emerging artists with a disability. Initiated by Accessible Arts, the peak arts and disability body in NSW, AART.BOXX aims to extend and challenge current discourses within contemporary art by including art practices that are informed by cultures of disability. These artists are a creative force whose unique voices are often marginalized within the broader cultural context."
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2005"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2005 - ABOUT ACCESSIBLE ARTS, CHAIR’S REPORT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S REPORT, ACCESSIBLE ARTS’ PEOPLE, STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, SERVICES, Information, Training, Audience Development
• "Accessible Arts and Arts OutWest - Artability Music Workshops - Press Release"
  Accessible Arts and Arts OutWest - Artability Music Workshops 1995 - Press Release - reads, in part "Local musicians in Bathurst, Orange, and Dubbo are being sought by Accessible Arts Inc to run music workshops for people with disabilities. Free Music Improvisation training days for local artists, musicians, arts, and disability workers will also be run by Accessible Arts in October 1995. Anyone interested in participating is invited to attend the community consultancy meetings in each centre, held from Monday 11 September to Wednesday 13 September 1995."