Disability Arts History Australia

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• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Autumn 2000”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 2000”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Autumn 2001”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 2001”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access News The Blue Edition 2005"
• "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
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2005"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2005 - Board and staff, supporters,about arts project australia, president's report, director's report, studio manager's report, exhibitions report, financial reports - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia was founded in 1974 as an organisation dedicated to supporting people with disabilities to become practitioners in the visual arts and to promote their work as integral to the broad spectrum of contemporary arts practice"
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1974-75"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1974-75 lists funding to Spectrum Films for a screenplay on social pressures of deaf mute, grant to Lloyd Nickson to attend theatre for deaf children (USA & UK), funding to Wheelchair and Disabled Association (as it was known 19for jewellery making tools and equipment, and Arts Council of Australia/Victoria (as it was known 1966-1998, before name changed to Regional Arts Australia) for salary of assistant and utilities for Arts Access Program
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2007-08"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2007-08 - discusses letter from chairman, year in review, from the CEO, Excellent and Distinctive Art from various artforms, Access for all Australians from various artforms, A strong and vibrant arts sector including artist’s earnings, philanthropic support and arts sector development, About the Australia Council, Governance, Organisation, Accountability, Workplace and Financial statements but no longer listing grants of organisations or individuals however discusses the DADAA WA radio play “The Proper Shoes” - a series of stories written by young women with a disability, was first broadcast nationally on ABC Radio and then invited to tour the play as part of the TRASNA Festival of Inclusive Theatre.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2010-11"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2010-2011 – discusses year in review, letter from chairman, vision, list of council staff, message from the CEO, Strategic priorities, funding overview, statement of outcome, about the Australia Council including governance, boards, organisation, accountability, workplace; financial review and discussion of the Commonwealth Disability Strategy with a review of how the Disability Action Plan 2008–2010 addresses Australia Council roles of policy adviser, purchaser, provider and employer and how Council is committed to the National Arts and Disability Strategy adopted in October 2009 with ministers agreeing on four priority areas of action -addressing barriers, supporting practice, developing audiences and improving policy.
• "DADAA Annual Report 2015-2016"
  DADAA Annual Report 2015-2016 - Chairperson and Executive Director’s Reports, New premises, NDIS, Workshops, Exhibitions, Performances, Screenings, Freight and Focus Galleries, Online Gallery, Online Broadcasts, stARTSpeak, Art Link Programs for Children and Young People, Awesome Festival, Nexus Arts Grants, Professional Mentorships, Financials
• "Incite Arts Disability Engagement Policy and Action Plan 2020-25"
  InCite Arts Disability Engagement Policy & Action Plan, reads, in part "People with disability are a key focus of InCite Arts. When we say we work with people with disability, we mean anyone with sensory or physical impairments, hidden impairments, intellectual or neurological impairments or mental health issues. We welcome and value the participation of people with disability in all areas of our work, and we aim to make sure that people with disability have full access to our program, organisation and venues."
• "Betsy and I"
  Page reads, in part, "BETSY AND I: CONVERSATIONS WITH MY WALKER By Alexandra Ellen is indelabilityarts latest production. Led by ensemble member Alexandra Ellen, BETSY AND I is a live performance piece that follows the relationship between Ivy and her wheelie walker, Betsy."
• "Indelability Arts - Wilbur The Optical Whale - Digital Program"
  Digital Program for Indelability Arts show by Karen Lee Roberts, Wilbur the Optical Whale - reads, in part, “Wilbur the Optical Whale" is a 'tale' about friendship, acceptance and celebrating difference. Wilbur and Cecil are BFF's. They are inseparable...or are they? One day while playing hide and seaweed, they are set upon by the Starfish Meanie Gang! How do they get out of this one? Join Wilbur and Cecil and help them in their quest.”
• "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."
• “Restless Dance – Annual Report 1997"
  Restless Dance Theatre Annual Report 1997 - reads, in part "The Company's activities were evenly distributed between high profile performance and community based workshops. Restless hos consolidated itself os on independent leader in youth performing arts in Australia. It is well managed and well skilled using local, interstate and overseas artistic talent to blend the skills of the Company members. Highlights include Sex Juggling, the tour of northern South Australia and the Northern Territory and Kin" - includes Financials and News Clippings
• "Tutti Arts - Kimberley Sellers and Scott Pyle - Monsters and Fairytales Exhibition - Invitation - Promotional Card"
  Tutti Arts - Kimberley Sellers and Scott Pyle 'Monsters and Fairytales' Exhibition 2012 Invitation / Promotional Card
• "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.”
• Arts Access Victoria
• “Genni Batterham stages a protest at the opening of Bondi Junction railway station 1979, makes film in 1980”
  When Bondi Junction railway station opened in 1979, Genni Batterham staged a protest about the lack of accessible transportation options for individuals with disabilities. After receiving a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 1978, Genni became severely disabled very quickly. She did everything in her power to stop the disease's progression and was furious at being "consigned to the world of the disabled." The 1979 Bondi Junction protest was an important moment in the history of the Disability Rights Movement in New South Wales. The Premier, Neville Wran, later said that the experience led him to developing the Disability Taxi Service, the first public transport system designed for people with disability to be launched in Australia. Batterham then made the film ‘Pins and Needles’ (1980) with her husband Kim. Under the direction of Barbara Chobocky and with funding from the Australian Film Commission's Women's Film Fund, the film was screened in five different countries, took home first place at the 1980 Canadian Film Festival, and took home second place at the 1980 New York Film Festival. Genni and Kim would then collaborate on three further films about the phases of her life: Where's the Give and Take? (1981), Artreach (1982), and Riding the Gale (1987).
• “Salubrious Productions (QLD) established in 1999”
  Salubrious Productions (Queensland) was established in 1999. Salubrious is an agency for disabled artists, representing musicians, writers and composers, theatre performers and actors, visual artists, and technicians in the creative industries. The agency continues operation today. Their website describes them as follows: “Salubrious Productions is a Brisbane-based entertainment and production agency. We represent a core of more than 200 diverse acts and artists and draw further from a large network of professional artists throughout Queensland and Australia.”
• Theatre performance ‘Take Up Thy Bed & Walk’ integrates ‘aesthetic access’”
  The 2012 performance ‘Take Up Thy Bed & Walk’ designed by Gaelle Mellis and produced by Vitalstatistix proved that accessibility measures could be aesthetic. As Creative Australia describes it “is credited as Australia’s first performance work incorporating ‘aesthetic access’. It embedded the performer’s physicality and communication styles – and those of potential audiences – at the centre of the creative process. The work integrated audio description, captioning, sign language and interactivity uniquely into the core of the work.” Gaelle Mellis has said of the performance that “aesthetic access can be used in ways that add layer, texture, meaning and richness to a work. Art, at its simplest, is primarily about communication. Aesthetic access, at its simplest, is a form of communication that communicates to everyone.”
• “The National Disability Strategy 2010–2020 is launched and, later, Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031”
  The Australian Government launched the National Disability Strategy 2010–2020 in 2011. All levels of government were involved in a united national approach to improving life for people with disabilities, their families and carers. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was an outcome of this process. In 2021, the Disability Strategy Advisory Council was established and the most recent iteration of the strategy, Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031, outlines a vision for a more inclusive and accessible Australian society where all people with disability can fulfil their potential as equal members of the community.
• “The Australian Government announced a National Autism Strategy in 2022”
  In 2022, a National Autism Strategy was announced by the Australian Government. The Department of Social Services note that the strategy developed out of a “comprehensive co-design process.” Its objectives relate to social inclusion; economic inclusion; diagnosis, services and supports; and health and mental health. The strategy puts forth a “vision for a safe and inclusive society for all Autistic people. One where we support and empower Autistic people to thrive, in all aspects of life.”
• "Bree Hadley (2021) Ex/centric Fixations Project (theatrical play). In Sefel, John Michael, Slamcik Lassetter, Amanda, & Summerville, Jill (Eds.) At the Intersection of Disability and Drama: A Critical Anthology of New Plays. McFarland Publishers, Jefferson, USA, pp. 317-344.”
  "The Ex/Centric Fixations Project is a postdramatic performance work which renders the feeling of otherness visceral for spectators, without anchoring it any specific singlular experience of otherness, with the text unfolding with the musical flow and rhythm of a fugue state."