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The Disability and Arts Transition Team invite visual artists to get

unBOUND – an art sale that won’t let you be framed-in.

If you are an artist with a studio full of unframed work and identify as having a disability GET REGISTERED to take part in the unBOUND art sale being planned for December 2011.

Conditions for Registration

1. You must have least 20 items of unframed 2D work (on paper, canvas, photography, working drawings, sketches, works in progress, etc),
2. Identify as an artist with a disability,
3. Be willing to offer each work for sale for less than $100.

To find out more or to get a Registration Form, contact the Disability and Arts Transition Team by email to unbound@cansa.net.au, by phone on 08 8231 0900 or text to 0488 372 378 by 2nd November 2011.

Download the flyer for the event.

Resilience in Change

Conference date: 6-9 September 2011.

TheMHS is an annual, international, mental health conference. This year Adelaide is proud to be hosting this one week conference at the Convention Centre. Adelaide Health Services and the Mental Health Coalition (MHCSA) are working together to select a range of visual artworks. This call to artists invites you to submit an application to be selected for this showcase of the cream of South Australia’s creativity and inspiration from emerging and established artists who have lived experience of mental illness.

• To be viewed by 1500 + national conference delegates and others
• Works will be offered for sale with a 20% commission
• No entry fees, and free entry for artists to the opening and networking opportunity

Entries are called for to stand for Pre-Selection by a panel. If pre-selected, your work will then need to be delivered to an agreed venue for viewing by a moderation panel. Approximately 30 pieces will be selected for TheMHS Conference in September.

The theme is “Resilience in the Midst of Change”, your work should respond to the theme in some way.

Photos of up to 4 works can be submitted for selection (2D mediums only). The majority of selected works will be up to 1 metre x 1 metre in size, however larger, quality works will certainly be considered.

Registration closes Friday 1 July 2011

Click here for the registration form.

Enquiries to the Big Circle at the MHCSA

1/408 King William St, Adelaide 5000

T: 8212 8873 F: 8212 8874 E: bigcircle@mhcsa.org.au.

d4d are holding a word and visual arts competition with $2000 in prizes!

Entrants to the competition will need to express what their perfect South Australia for people with disabilities is.

Entries can be in one of the following categories:

1. Word Arts – essay or poetry (500 words or less) or video or sound recordings (5 minutes or less)
2. Visual Arts- painting, drawing, photography or sculpture

The competition is open to everyone. Individuals with disabilities, carers, support workers and interested people as well as groups (classrooms, families, day options groups, organisations etc) are all invited and encouraged to enter.

Entries close 20 February 2011.

For more information, including instructions on how to enter, download this information sheet from d4d.

A media release from Dignity for Disability:

MEDIA RELEASE, 3rd December 2010

My Perfect South Australia for People with Disabilities

Today on International Day of People with Disability, Kelly Vincent MLC is thrilled to launch Dignity for Disability’s “My Perfect South Australia for People with Disabilities” Word and Visual Art competition.

The competition offers $2,000 in prizes and encourages people living with disabilities, their families, carers and supporters to express their ideas as to a perfect South Australia for people with disabilities.

‘This competition idea essentially comes from my own love of words and art, and my belief that they are powerful tools in shaping the world around us,’ said Ms Vincent.

‘We’ve all heard of “Unmet Needs” where people are waiting for essential services like mobility aids, accommodation and respite, but what exactly does that mean for people and their lives and what is the perfect solution?

‘Today is a day of celebration and this competition is about celebrating people with disabilities as part of our world. However, it is also about their struggles and frustrations and gives people a chance to express their perfect South Australia for people with disabilities in a way that we may not have heard or seen before.

‘It’s about breaking the mould, and giving people with disabilities a different kind of voice – one that the Government cannot ignore.’

Entrants may use word or visual arts to express their ideas and entries close on 20 February 2011. Winners will be announced on 20 March 2011, one year to the day of the historic election that saw Kelly Vincent elected as South Australia’s youngest and first ever Member of Parliament to use a wheelchair.

Further information and a competition entry form can be found at d4d.org.au

Male, Female, Disabled is an exhibition of work by emerging artist Evangelia Karageorgos.

www.mfdisabled.weebly.com

Language is a tool that is used to separate people with disabilities from ‘normal’ society, and to negatively characterise their experiences as being different and separate.

This is a series of work that challenges societies perception of people with disabilities and challenges the wide spread use of ‘disabalist’ language.

Official Opening

Sunday February 20th 2011, 2pm to 5pm.

To be Opened By

Kelly Vincent (D4D candidate and MP)

Venue

Carclew Youth Arts
11 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide 5006

Exhibition Dates

Friday February 18th to Friday March 13th 2011
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

$1 out of every $10 made from the sale of this work will go to a disability service in South Australia.

An evening of Wine, Food and Art.

Nibbles, wine, beer, soft drinks, sample stalls.

Art, music, silent auction, raffles.

Music provided by Chris Finnen and Tin Fish George.

All funds raised go to Conductive Education SA.

Mark Lobert Gallery
111a Lipson Street Port Adelaide

October 23 2010 from 7.30pm.

Cost $25 per head.

Phone Sharon Holms on 8356 6335 for further details.

You can also view the flyer.

The Mental Illness Fellowship of South Australia (MIFSA) is presenting the Schizophrenia Awareness Week Art Exhibition.

Artists can choose whether to exhibit or sell their work. Artists will receive 100% of all works sold.

Entries are open to anyone who identifies as having a mental illness, their family, carers (including friends who take an active role in mentoring or caring for someone who lives with an mental illness).

Date

Tuesday 18th to Saturday 22nd May

Location

Vital Statistix Theatre
11 Nile Street
Port Adelaide

Launch

18th May 2010 6pm to 9pm

Viewing

18th to 22nd May 2010

10am to 5pm

Further information

RSVP MIFSA on 8378 4100 or see www.mifa.org.au/mifsa

Publicity contact: Simone Phippen, MIFSA Team Leader Wayville Activity Programs, 8378 4100.

You can also use an art lodgement form, a ticket order form for the opening and an information sheet on acceptable artwork sizes.

You can also read this flyer about the exhibition.

The Art Exhibition is now open!

This annual event raises the profile of South Australian artists living with disability and also artists whose material explores themes relevant to the disability community.

This year’s theme is Human Rights, and has attracted many submissions.

Open until 30th January 2010 9am – 5pm, Mon – Fri

at Julia Farr Association, 104 Greenhill Rd, Unley  SA

For any queries regarding the Art Exhibition please  contact Rachel Lawson, Officer Co-ordinator at the Julia Farr Association on (08)  8373 8300.