Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Tutti Arts - Say No More - Program"
  Tutti Arts - Say No More' 2018 Program - reads, in part “To create this unique work over 60 women from Malaysia. Indonesia and Australia. of all ages wirh and wirhour disabilities came together in mid 2017 to talk about what is happening for them as women now. The stories sha1·ed by women in all three countries shared the common themes of family. Marriage and women's relationship to the state. This informed the conceit of the wedding reception as a setting for the theatre work. and also became a starting point for the films and installations that grew from the later workshops.”
• "The Arts and Disability No Date #2"
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• "Tutti Arts - Holdfast Choir - Chocolat and Chocolate - Invitation"
  Tutti Arts - Holdfast Choir 'Chocolat and Chocolate' 2001 Invitation - reads, in part “The Holdfast Choir invites you all to an afternoon of music and indulgence! This Sunday October 21st , 2001 the choir are having a very chocolatey fundraiser.”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Autumn 2001”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Autumn 2000”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 2000”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 2001”
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1999"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1999 - ACE Magazine, Issue 22, October 2000, includes Annual Report 1998 - Chairpersons' Report, Treasurer’s Report, Executive Officer Report, Consultancy, Regional Networks, Partnerships, Resources, Training, Financials
• "Interview with Joanne Braddy"
  Joanne Braddy is a disability Advocate with lived experience and creates honest and insightful work about her experiences of anxiety and depression, as a way of breaking down stigmas that stand in the way of healing through painting, drawing, and ceramics to create emotive self-portraits. Interview Summary Joanne is an Australian visual artist with a 15-year career. She began creating art as an outlet for her mental health struggles and her work, which encompasses drawings, paintings, sculptures, and poetry, helps others by bringing awareness to mental health issues. Joanne finds a lack of accessibility with literacy and industry understanding but she remains motivated to exhibit her work and reduce mental health stigma, expressing the need for a supportive gallery to represent her. Despite these challenges, she aspires to have her substantial body of work seen more broadly and possibly go on tour, with the help of a mentor to guide her through the complexity of the art industry.
• "Tutti Ensemble - Holdfast Choir - Concert Program 2002"
  Tutti Ensemble Holdfast Choir Concert Program 2002 - reads, in part "“The choir began an initiative of Minda Inc In August 1997wllh Pat Rix as leader. In four and a half years we have grown from a small choir of 12 intellectually disabled people and two support workers at Minda enjoying choral singing as a recreational option, to a diverse group of over 70 singers and musicians. In the last two years, the Tutti Holdfast Choir has become a model for c:mmunity cultural development and promotion of diversity.”
• “Restless Dance – Annual Report 2010"
  Restless Dance Theatre Annual Report 2010 - Company History, Chair's, Artistic Director’s, Dancers’, and Company Manager Reports, Members and Board, Financials, information about productions ‘Beauty,’ ‘Next of Kin,’ other performances and workshops, Supporters
• "Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre - About Us, captured 2019"
  Webpage reads, in part "Sprung Integrated Dance Theatre Inc is a not for profit community organisation providing dance and theatre training and workshops for people with a disability. We use a collaborative and disability-led process to develop inspiring dance theatre works that explore the human condition and promote a more inclusive society."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Annual Report 2022"
  Back to Back Theatre Annual Report 2022 - Chair’s Report, international premiere of film SHADOW, continued international touring of original stage show THE SHADOW WHOSE PREY THE HUNTER BECOMES, continued touring GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH and THE DEMOCRATIC SET, premieres of new screen works FIRST RESPONDERS (ABC) and WHATEVER SCARES YOU (SBS), immersive installation DREAMS FEEL REAL WHEN YOU'RE IN THEM from Theatre of Speed, CAMP training weekends, creative development of new Back to Back work MULTIPLE BAD THINGS, ensemble member development of their own works.
• "DADAA Accessibility Services Webpage, captured 2023"
  DADAA Accessibility Services Webpage, captured 2023 - reads, in part "Working towards larger social and political goals of cultural democracy, DADAA offers services that are designed to facilitate access to arts and cultural activity for artists and audiences with disability."
• "High Beam Festival Program 2007"
  High Beam Festival Program 2007 reads "High Beam Global is bigger, bolder and brighter than ever before. An array of exciting artists will dazzle you with art across every medium and will challenge your every sense. This festival recognises that people with disabilities are artists in their own right and prominently includes them within the mainstream Fringe program for the first time."
• "Tutti Arts - The Black & White Project Exhibition - Program"
  Tutti Arts - 'The Black & White Project' Exhibition 2020 Program - reads, in part "The Black & White Project is a visually dramatic exploration of polarities by artists based at Tutti Arts Brighton studios. Works chosen reveal how individual artists have employed imagination and a broad range of mediums to create an exciting contemporary exhibition about contrasts that is both sophisticated and striking."
• "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2022"
  "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2022 - links to 'About' page which reads in part "Fusion Theatre is an inclusive company based in Dandenong, in the south east of Melbourne, Australia. The membership of the company reflects the rich diversity of our community," and pages on Governance and Support, Ensembles, Our Work, Diversity Workshop, and Media
• "Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop, captured 2022"
  Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop page, captured 2022 - reads, in part "Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop is a professional learning experience that explores themes of inclusion, diversity and social justice. Through applied theatre, drama, and stories, participants are provided with opportunities to reflect on how they might identify barriers to inclusion and contribute to a more inclusive society."
• "Janice Rieger, Jasmien Herssens, Megan Strickfaden, Bree Hadley (2019) International Inclusive Film Screening, DfA Week (with films from Finland, Canada, China and Australia)."
  "The inclusive international film screening included films from Australia, Finland, Canada and China that represent different kinds of abilities, disabilities, inclusion and exclusion through material culture, architecture, urban spaces, landscapes and design. This screening was about access, inclusion and community outreach and included live audio descriptions and Auslan interpretation. The Film screening was separated into two parts with a total of 9 films screened: Part 1: ‘Seeing’ things from a Different Perspective, which included the films: Bakala, Australia (Aboriginal); Eske, (Finland); Musical Notes (Canada); Visitability #1 (Canada) Part 2: Part 2: Temporal and Embodied Encounters: Design, Disability and Slowing Down, which included the films: Smoke Time (Canada & China); Visitability #2 (Canada); Heel of a Time, Canada; Visitability #3 (Canada) ; Wandering on the Braille Trail (Australia)."
• "Bree Hadley, Katherine Dionysius, Sarah Boulton (2019) Vis-Ability: Audio descriptions. In Vis-ability: Artworks from the QUT Art Collection. QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld, pp. 45-53."
  "Bringing together a selection of recent acquisitions from the QUT Art Collection ,Vis-ability has been conceived as a project to broaden understanding of the lived experiences of people who are blind and people with low vision. Drawing on research in QUT's Creative Industries Faculty, Vis-ability proposes alternative ways of engaging with the collection, considering how technologies can deepen our understanding of vision and challenging our sight-driven experience of art. In this essay, QUT artist scholar and audio description author Associate Professor Bree Hadley, curator Katherine Dionysius, and blind artist and exhibition guide Sarah Boulton examine the principles, processes, and challenges of producing audio descriptions and associated engagement strategies to enable creative new forms of audio encounter with visual art works."
• "Janice Rieger, Bree Hadley, Katherine Dionysius, Michael Whelan (2019) VIS-ABILITY: Audio Description of Brown, Green and Cattapan's 'War and peace #7: Empire' (2011)."
  "This is an audio description of Lyndell Brown, Charles Green and Jon Cattapan's artwork 'War and peace #7: Empire', narrated by Dr Bree Hadley and recorded by Michael Whelan. This recording was produced in partnership with QUT Creative Industries Faculty for the exhibition, 'Vis-ability' at QUT Art Museum, from 11 May to 4 August 2019."
• "Rawcus - Small Odysseys - Program"
  Program for Rawcus work 'Small Odysseys, reads, in part, "Small Odysseys grew out of an interest in working with scale and how our sense of our own size, significance and power can shift sometimes very quickly. We have been inspired by the sculptural work of artists Ron Mueck and Slinkachu (Little People in the City) , both of whom employ scale to reveal the emotional world of their subjects and inform our relationship to them."
• "NuunaRon Art Group - ‘Seven Spirits’ Artwork Story by Paul Constable-Calcott"
  First Peoples Disability Network NunnaRon Art Group - ‘Seven Spirits’ Artwork Story by Paul Constable-Calcott - reads, in part "The 'Culture is Inclusion' art exhibition showcases art work by the NuunaRon First Nations art group, with a lived experience of disability, telling their stories of resilience and strength through connecting to their culture"
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2007"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 2007 - Vision, Chair’s Report, Chief Executive Officer’s Report, Accessible Arts’ People, Strategic Outcomes, Service, Arts Programs, Training, Western Sydney Project, Audience Development, Information and Public Relations, Cultural Partners
• "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."