Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Alirio Zavarce
• Alicia Jane Steele
• Alice Nash
• Alexandra Hudson
• Alexandra Ellen
• Alex Guthrie
• “Production company A2K Media founded in 2007, as a 'a Disabled-led production company, creating connections that entertain, educate, and empower'”
  A2K Media is “a Disabled-led production company, creating connections that entertain, educate, and empower.” In 2024, A2K launched their Disability Justice Lens course, which teaches screen professionals how to bring disabled people onto their productions and make their workplaces more accessible and empowering.
• “Australian Caption Centre opened in 1982”
  The Australian Caption Centre was opened 13 September, 1982. A tour took place at the Australian Caption Centre in Sydney in the 1990s; the video (now available on YouTube) explains how the Centre worked. In 2005, the Centre sold its commercial operations including the captioning services to Red Bee Media and formed Media Access Australia.
• "Screen Australia (2023) Seeing Ourselves 2: Diversity, equity and inclusion in Australian TV drama. Screen Australia"
  Reads, in part "Screen Australia has released new research into diversity on Australian screens, titled Seeing Ourselves 2: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Australian TV Drama. A follow up to the landmark 2016 study, Seeing Ourselves 2 examines the diversity of main characters in 361 scripted Australian TV and online dramas broadcast between 2016 and 2021, how this compares to the Australian population, and what has changed since the previous Seeing Ourselves report."
• "Screen Australia (2016) Seeing ourselves: Reflections on diversity in Australian TV drama. Screen Australia"
  Reads, in part "Whose stories are our TV dramas exploring? Screen Australia has benchmarked current levels of diversity in Australian TV drama and explore the challenges and opportunities involved in making TV drama more broadly representative of Australian society."
• "Katie Ellis (2019) Disability and Digital Television Cultures Representation, Access, and Reception. London & New York: Routledge."
  Reads, in part "Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception."
• "Katie Ellis (2016) Disability Media Work: Opportunities and Obstacles. London: Palgrave."
  Reads, in part "Elevates disability media discussions beyond representation and access by considering employment and discriminatory attitudes in the media industry"
• "Crossroad Arts StrategicPlan 2022-2025"
  Crossroad Arts Strategic Plan 2021-2025 - includes Vision, Mission, and Goals, Artistic Program and Artists, Community, Markets, Board and Staff, Partners, Impact
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report Archive 2005-2011"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report Archive 2005-2011
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Reports 2013-2014"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Reports 2013-2014
• "Hannah Gadsby: Nanette| Official Trailer | Netflix"
  Hannah Gadsby: Nanette | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix - reads, in part "Behind every joke, there is a story. Hannah Gadsby’s award winning “Nanette” comes to Netflix June 19."
• "Tutti Arts - Website - Annual Reports 2010-2019, captured 2021"
  Tutti Arts Annual Reports 2010-2019, captured 2021
• "Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode Three - Flood Audio Described"
  Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode Three 'Flood' Audio Described - Reads, in part "As part of the Unbroken Land 2020 program, the ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble have created a series of short films, telling their stories about water. From the dramatic storms with thunder and lightning, water flowing from the sky and flooding the rivers, to that good feeling of the rain on your skin…Water everywhere!"
• "Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode Five – Rain"
  Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode Five 'Rain' -Reads, in part "As part of the Unbroken Land 2020 program, the ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble have created a series of short films, telling their stories about water. From the dramatic storms with thunder and lightning, water flowing from the sky and flooding the rivers, to that good feeling of the rain on your skin…Water everywhere!"
• "Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode Four – Storm Audio Described"
  Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2020 Episode Four 'Storm' Audio Described - Reads, in part "As part of the Unbroken Land 2020 program, the ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble have created a series of short films, telling their stories about water. From the dramatic storms with thunder and lightning, water flowing from the sky and flooding the rivers, to that good feeling of the rain on your skin…Water everywhere!"
• "Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2016"
  Incite Arts - Unbroken Land 2016 - reads, in part "The vision for this years’ UNBROKEN LAND was to create art that is about a world we want to live in and not the one that is currently shown us in much of popular culture. So much is overwhelmingly negative and self-perpetuating. We are told we are a divided, racist, intolerant and bigoted society."
• "Hannah Gadsby: Something Special | Official Trailer | Netflix"
  Hannah Gadsby: Something Special | Official Trailer | Netflix - Netflix.com/HannahGadsbySomethingSpecial - reads,in part "Emmy and Peabody Award winning comedian Hannah Gadsby is back for their third Netflix comedy special, Something Special, and it's a feel good show. Seriously. In this smart and dare we say...feel good set, the comedian talks about a wedding (theirs!), more than one traumatic encounter with a bunny and much more. Filmed at the Sydney Opera House, Something Special premieres globally on Netflix on May 9."
• "Headliners - IMBD"
  Headliners' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Musician and fervent campaigner for inclusion, access and equality, Elly-May Barnes leads the quest to create two bands made up entirely of musicians living with disability."
• "House Gang - IMDB"
  Reads, in part "House Gang is an energetic and irreverent domestic comedy with a naughty sense of fun. Featuring three remarkable young actors, each with an intellectual disability, it takes an unconventional look at "family" in the 90s. Above all else House Gang celebrates diversity-you don't need to have a disability to be challenged by the problems of modern life. And being "normal" doesn't give us sole rights on love, sex, ambition, or laughter."
• "Alicia - IMDB"
  reads, in part "Seven years earlier, an 18 year ALICIA was seriously injured in a car accident. It was her brain rather than her body which suffered. This tells the story of her long journey of recovery. Not content with just regaining a 'normal life', Alicia pursues her original dream of becoming an actress."