Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• ".. Inflight"
  Invitation reads ".. Inflight - A photographic exhibition resulting from a short series of choreographic workshops directed by South Australian independent artist with a disability, Philip Channells."
• "Tutti Ensemble - Department of Collective Laughter - Promotional Flyer"
  Tutti Arts - Tutti Ensemble - 'Department of Collective Laughter' 2006 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "Join Laughter mass every weekend. Check out examples of contagious laughter. Watch laughter-explosions spread like prairie fire through the city. Become infected! Converted!"
• "Club Cool Under Lights"
  Flyer for Club Cool Under Lights "Adelaide's hottest and hippest disability dance party for 2006 with groOvy music from J-Hoe, the Fine Lines Band, MC Frost, DJ Dubarama & Club Cool Day Options"
• "Access2Arts Artist Interviews"
  Access2Arts Artist Interviews
• "Access2Arts Project Archive"
  Access2Arts programs as at 2022
• “Arts Access Victoria – Diversity – 2007 ”
  Postcard, reading “Diversity: 1 in 5 people live with disability, 1 in 6 people experience hearing difficulties, 1 in 5 people live with mental health issues” on the front, with “1 in 5 Australians has a disability. What om I doing to be inclusive?” on the back with space for the user to write a message and send to a recipient.
• “Arts Access The Other Film Festival 2018 Invitation”
• "Access Arts - Move Over Beethoven"
  Flyer for "Move over Beethoven - this is caberet"
• "Greetings!"
  "Greetings!" One page review of highlights for Arts in Action in the year 2000.
• "High Dreams at The Queens: an aerial sculpture installation"
  Flyer reads" High Dreams at The Queens: an aerial sculpture installation - the artistic oucome of a community project lead by Evette Sunset"
• "NuunaRon Queensland"
  Webpage for First Peoples Disability Network NuunaRon Art Group, with video introducing where Paul Constable Calcott introducing the group, reads in part "NuunaRon is a group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists and emerging artists living with disability."
• “Arts Access Victoria – Bandmates Victoria - Promotional Card"
• "Interview with Astrid Edwards"
  Astrid Edwards is a writer, publisher, lecturer, podcast host and disability advocate. Interview Summary Astrid Edwards, a former teacher and policy consultant, discusses in the interview how she pivoted her career towards writing and literature after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 32, inspiring her to focus on work she loves. Astrid talks about writing at RMIT University, working with a diverse cohort of students, (many of whom have disabilities or are writing about trauma), which she finds rewarding. Though her work includes advocacy roles and a focus on disability, she does not wish to be defined solely by her illness, emphasizing the importance of allowing disabled individuals the freedom to explore and create beyond their disabilities. Currently, Astrid says she is a judge for the Stella Prize and discusses exploring a potential PhD about publishing and climate fiction, expressing a passion for addressing climate change within her work.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2015-16"
  Australia Council - Annual Report 2015-16 - discusses year in review, strategy, funding, and key facts, including "18% identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 6% identified as experiencing disability", and running Sync Leadership Program for artists with disability
• "Quippings presents Risky Business"
  Reads, in part "Risky Business is the Quippings crew daredevils taking over the Melba Spiegeltent with our cabaret wordfest game show extravaganza!"
• "Santa Claus Is Autistic"
  Reads, in part "Santa Claus is Autistic He makes a list and checks it twice Featuring the Spectrum Singers." Santa Claus is Autistic was independently created by Oliver Hetherington-Page.
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - My Life, My Story Creative Development (2020)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - creative development of first digital production My Life, My Story (2020) - reads, in part "My Life, My Story is a timely, poignant and uplifting narrative highlighting the personal journeys of four inclusive artists, from community isolation to public recognition for their creative abilities, determination and joyfulness."
• "Salubrious Productions Website, captured 2007"
  Salubrious Productions website, captured 2007, promoting a diverse range of artists and entertainers - bands and ensembles - across genres.
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - Song Circle (2014)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - Blue Roo Theatre in collaboration with Opera Queensland Song Circle (2014) Judith Wright Centre - reads, in part "Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. proudly presents, Song Circle. This creative collaboration with Opera Queensland/Open Stage programme created 12 original songs about the ensemble artists vision of independence. Song Circle is the debut production from artistic collaboration between The Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. and Opera Queensland’s Open Stage.
• "Interview with Andy Jackson"
  Andy Jackson is a published poet focusing on disability and difference, has completed a PhD and is a lecturer of poetry and creative writing. INTERVIEW SUMMARY This is an oral history interview with poet Andy Jackson. Andy, who has Marfan syndrome, discusses how disability and visible difference have shaped his writing and poetry, explaining that he often writes about the meaning of the body within society. He emphasizes the importance of Disability Arts, noting a growing community of disabled writers and expressing the need for both disability-specific literary spaces and mainstream recognition. Andy also highlights the transformative role of online communities in creating networks for disabled individuals and the emergence of disability-focused literary journals, anticipating an anthology from a collaborative writing project he is involved with.
• "DADAA Find A Program Webpage, captured 2023"
  DADAA Find A Program Webpage, captured 2023 – includes information about Visual Art, Digital Art, Dance and Performance, Music, Children and Young Adult, and Mentorship programs
• "Sydney Festival - StickybrickS MEDIA RELEASE - 2006"
  Sydney Festival - StickybrickS 2006 MEDIA RELEASE - Reads, in part "By 2002 Northcott was infamous once again as a seething pit of violent crime, multiple murders and suicides, with residents traumatised and Sydney’s media swarming, ready to pronounce this community a blot on an otherwise perfectly-good-inner-city-real-estate-investment-opportunity. Northcott residents, however, refused to be tarred with the same media brush and began working with national arts organisation Big hART writing, researching, filming, composing, performing, painting and photographing."
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2018"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2018 – Australian words screened include The Milky Pop Kid 2016 | 7min Johanna Garvin; Paul 2017 | 5min Kasimir Burgess; GEN(d)ERATION: ROMANY AND SASCHA 2018 | 3min Akasha Temple; Yulubidyi Until The End 2017 | 12min Nathan Mewett and Curtis Taylor; ODDLANDS 2017 | 28min Bruce Gladwin; re-cal-i-brate 2016 | 6min Brendan O’Connell; Halloween 2018 | 2min Thomas Iacono; A Royal Star 2014 | 17min Nicola Byrnes and Neil Triffett; Stim Your Heart Out 2018 | 4min Akasha Temple; Lipstick Fights 2017 | 3min Jon Mitchell; I see, You say... 2018 | 10min Ramas McRae; Jaspar 2018 | 7min Zoe Glen-Norman; All of You TV Show 2015 | 11min Artlife and Lindsay Cox; CAE Workshop films 2018 | 20min David Baker, Stacey Christie, Shea MacDonough, Shanah Robison, Philippa Nichol, Imogen Newhouse, Jonathon Goodfellow, Justin O’Brien; Love You Till I Die 2017 | 2min Rudely Interrupted; Gaslit 2018 | 9min Naomi Chainey; Defiant Lives 2016 | 1hour 24min Sarah Barton; Life is Short, Time is 2016 | 4min Constant aka LISTIC and Vanna Seang; Jeremy the Dud 2017 | 21min Ryan Chamley; The Holden Family 2014 | 4min Alex Skaftouros and Lindsay Cox; RADIAL - No Limits 2017 | 4min Festival & Theater Thikwa, Tamara Searle and Rhian Hinkley
• "DADAA - The Lost Generation Project"
  DADAA - The Lost Generation Project 2007 - reads, in part "The project was conceived from a partnership between DADAA and the WA Disability Services Commission, which began in 2002. After working on 15 small projects, the partners decided to develop a large-scale project in 2007 to continue developing arts and cultural interventions with and for people with intellectual disability living in supported accommodation across the Perth metropolitan area. The project's rich CACD strategy has seen numerous successful workshops, exhibitions and related projects come to fruition in partnership with local governments and other community arts organisations.?
• "High Beam Festival Program 2000"
  High Beam Program 2000 reads "High Beam 2000 will he launched with an opening parade and concert that promises to he LOUD. IARGE and LAVISH! Weaving a rhythmical and colourful journey along King William Street through to Elder Park where the entertainment will begin. AS 22% of South Australia’s population have a disability, High Beam 2000 Festival presents an inspiring and unique opportunity for all South Australians to discover the wealth of talent within our midst and from abroad."