You are invited to an exhibition of the art of Art Therapist and Phd Student Faith Thorley, entitled “The Art of Embracing Change”.
At the North Adelaide Community Centre at 176 Tynte St, North Adelaide.
The exhibition will run from November 1st to 10th and then from November 15th to December 16th.
All art works are for sale. Part proceeds of the exhibition will go to the Mental Health Coalition of SA to promote art making for mental wellness.
Three young, disabled dancers are directing short new dance works for Restless Dance Theatre.
Now in its third incarnation, Debut 3 will see three outstanding members of the company work as Directors to develop their own individual choreographic styles.
This season of work is united by the theme: ‘The Butterfly Effect’. Each of the dance works demonstrates how small changes in one part of a complex system can have a dramatic effect elsewhere.
Directors Andrew Pandos, Jianna Georgiou and Lorcan Hopper and will collaborate with experienced, professional mentors: Philip Channells, Tim Rodgers and Larissa McGowan.
These new short works are a chance for the three directors, all emerging disabled artists, to explore their own ideas and gain experience whilst having the guidance and direct feedback from their mentors.
Director Lorcan Hopper notes “[Debut 3 has helped me] learn to put myself out there and take risks, and to challenge myself.” Debut 3 is a fantastic opportunity for professional development, marking a significant milestone in these three exciting emerging artist’s careers.
The casts of each work will be made up of dancers from Restless Dance Theatre’s Youth Ensemble and Restless Central community workshop program, all aged between 15-26, and dancers in their first year at Adelaide College of the Arts.
Restless Dance Theatre is Australia’s leading dance company that integrates disabled and non-disabled artists to create dance theatre and dance education programs.
Debut 3 will be presented at the Restless Studio, 234a Sturt St. Adelaide at 7.30pm on Friday 11th November and 3pm & 7.30pm on 12th November 2011. Tickets are $10 and $5 concession.
The performance on Friday 11th November will be audio described for vision impaired audience members and Auslan interpreted.
For bookings, telephone Restless Dance Theatre on 8212 8495 or email bookings@restlessdance.org for a booking form.
For media enquiries please contact Artistic Director, Philip Channells on 0432 073 304 or email philip@restlessdance.org.
30 November 2011, 11am-2pm
connect! is the annual disability arts party of No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability. It’s a huge party to celebrate the performers’ death defying feats of imagination. It’s a showcase for performances from each of the workshops. It’s live music, dancing, a BBQ, prizes for creative hats, and plenty of shade. connect! is also a safe place to try out new performance ideas, so you’ll always be surprised and entertained.
Come celebrate NSA’s 8th annual disability art party this year. Entry is only $5 and accompanying support workers free.
For more info call (08) 8363 5970 or contact.us@nostringsattached.org.au or www.nostringsattached.org.au/disability-arts-events.html.
Are you a creative person who needs skills in networking and planning events?
Do you identify as having a disability?
Do you want business skills that compliment your creative passions?
The Disability and Arts Transition Team (DATT) and the Community Arts Network of SA Inc. (CAN SA) invite disabled artists and arts-workers to join in training that contributes to a Course in Business Skills for Creative People (Code 40594SA).
Only 12 places are available SO BE QUICK AND REGISTER!
The training will be delivered on 2, 3, 8 November for disabled artists and on 16 – 18 November for Auslan users. If you successfully complete the course you will be awarded a Statement of Attainment that is nationally recognised.
No prior qualifications are needed for you to undertake this workshop.
The Festival of Unpopular Culture Presents
2pM Sunday 16th of October // FUC hUB (Adelaide College of the Arts @ Light Square Cnr Currie & Morphett St)
A panel of disabled and non-disabled artists and thinkers will engage in a one hour discussion focusing on the notion of disability, arts and mainstreaming.
For full details, download the flyer.
In 2011, ADEC will again be proudly presenting ArtAbility® to the public, with support from the City of Melbourne.
The exhibition will run from 5th to 12th December, and will be located at The Atrium, Federation Square, as it has been in years past. This exhibition unites a range of talented artists of all ages from a variety of cultures.
This year’s theme is Freedom, and it is anticipated that interpretations of this theme will be presented in a variety of mediums including paintings (oil, acrylic, ink), sketches, sculptures, tapestries, photographs and poetry.
ArtAbility® is now in its 7th year. It provides a high profile platform for artists to express themselves in a way that transcends language, race, age, physical and mental health challenges. Many up and coming artists have gone on to host their own exhibitions after taking part in ArtAbility®, and artworks have been purchased by many high profile customers and are on display in public and corporate venues around Melbourne.
ArtAbility® is proudly sponsored by Federation Square, Hope For the Future, Jen Clark Design, the Victorian Multicultural Commission, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship.
If you would like to be involved in ArtAbility®, either as an artist, or as a sponsor, please contact the Artistic and General Coordinator, on 9480 1666 or via email at artability@adec.org.au.
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ADEC ArtAbility® 2011
The Atrium, Fed Square
From: Monday 5th of December 2011 To Monday 12th of December 2011
If you are a disabled artist, arts worker, volunteer, someone who works within communities or someone who would like to, this course is for you.
The Disability and Arts Transition Team (DATT) and the Community Arts Network of SA Inc. (CAN SA) invite disabled artists and arts-workers to join in training that contributes to a Course in Business Skills for Creative People (Code 40594SA).
The modules The People Factor (CUTPH08B) and Plan and Program Events (CVPPE06B) will be offered over three days (2, 3 and 8 November 2011) between 10am and 4pm each day. Workshops are hands on, practical and designed to be relevant to participants.
DATT is able to support participants further by offering each module for a fee of only $25/module (usually a module can cost up to $150). Undertaking both the modules offered will cost $50.
Only 12 places are available SO BE QUICK AND REGISTER!
If you are interested in taking part in this training opportunity contact Martin at DATT by email (msawtell@cansa.net.au) or phone (08) 8231 0900 to receive an enrolment form.
Please note: These workshops will be delivered entirely in Auslan on separate days (16-18 November)
From Arts Access Australia:
A new National Cultural Policy for Australia is being developed and you are invited to have your say.
The Federal Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean, has released a discussion paper on the National Cultural Policy that asks how the Australian Government should support arts and culture over the next 10 years.
You can read the discussion paper at http://culture.arts.gov.au
Help us make sure that arts and disability stays on the agenda!
To have your say…
There are a number of different ways you can tell the Government what you think should be in the National Cultural Policy.
We’ve made some notes on what we think should be included (see below). Feel free to copy or adapt these to make your own response. And ask your friends to do the same. Help us spread the word to get our voices heard!
Option 1: Fill in a short online survey…
The survey is also available in Word or PDF format and can be sent to culturalpolicy@pmc.gov.au or National Cultural Policy, Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, PO Box 6500, Canberra ACT 2600.
Option 2: If you have more to say, then you can make an online submission…
The submission form is also available as a Word or PDF document and can be sent to culturalpolicy@pmc.gov.au or National Cultural Policy, Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, PO Box 6500, Canberra ACT 2600.
Option 3: Join in one of the NCP roundtable discussions happening round the country.
Melbourne: 10th of October, 6 to 8pm at Arts Access Victoria (222 Bank Street, South Melbourne). RSVP to RSVP@artsaccess.com.au
Sydney: 13th of October, 9:30am to 3pm at the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House. RSVP to Pia at pia@beyondempathy.org.au or 02 6772 0101. Or follow the debate on Twitter…
Have your say ends at midnight on the 21st of October 2011.
Arts and disability in the National Cultural Policy
Arts and culture plays an important role in the lives of all Australians. But not all Australians are able to participate in it equally.
The National Cultural Policy should actively demonstrate its commitment to improving access and opportunity for people with disability to engage in the arts at all levels: from attending as a member of an audience, to being employed within an arts organisation, to taking on a leadership role or working as a professional practicing artist.
The only area where disability is explicitly mentioned within the NCP Discussion Paper is in Goal 1. We call on the Government to ensure that disability is adequately represented in all areas of our National Cultural Policy. We must use this opportunity to make sure that Australia’s arts and culture is accessible for everyone to enjoy.
Goal 1: To ensure that what the Government supports – and how this support is provided – reflects the diversity of a 21st century Australia and protects and supports Indigenous culture.
All Australians should have the opportunity to participate in the cultural life of the nation, regardless of our abilities, age, gender, cultural and linguistic diversity, or geographic location.
The strategies needed to help meet this goal include:
- Authoritative national leadership on arts access and inclusion for people with disability.
- Including the findings, strategies and recommendations of the National Arts and Disability Strategy within the National Cultural Policy, rather than making it an appendix to it.
- Introduction of ongoing, dedicated funding for artists with disability.
- Conducting a full review and upgrade of our arts funding programs to make sure they’re accessible to all.
- Encourage and enforce compliance of the obligations that arts and cultural organisations have under the Disability Discrimination Act through monitored Disability Action Planning and support of a national Arts Access Award.
- Make sure that people with disability have a stronger voice in the decisions and organisations that affect us through cultural policy that supports and actively encourages participation at all levels of decision making (including senior management, leadership and governance roles).
- Building more active support and audiences for arts and disability practice and access to it by the entire population.
- Greater access and inclusion for Indigenous artists with disability, particularly due to the high level of disability experienced within our Indigenous communities.
Goal 2: To encourage the use of emerging technologies and new ideas that support the development of new artworks and the creative industries, and that enable more people to access and participate in arts and culture
Cultural policy needs to reflect the different ways that Australians take part in arts and creative activity.
The use of new technologies can go a long way to making our arts and culture more accessible to people with disability. But it is also important to note that while people with disability tend to be early adopters of new technologies, statistically we are still amongst the least likely to be able to afford them.
The Government has a role to make sure arts and cultural venues use new technologies to enhance engagement with their audiences, participants and collaborators and not as a way of offering people with disability a lesser service.
The strategies needed to help meet this goal include:
- Encourage and enforce compliance of the obligations that arts and cultural organisations have to provide captioning and audio description technologies.
- Ensuring that new technologies can’t be introduced at the exclusion of more traditional methods. For example, funding applications that can only be made online aren’t accessible to everybody.
- Increased emphasis on the use of new technologies to create new ways of making art and a commitment to funding innovative content.
Goal 3: To support excellence and world-class endeavor, and strengthen the role that the arts play in telling Australian stories both here and overseas
Australia’s diversity should be nurtured, supported and encouraged, and reflected in our arts and cultural activities.
The strategies needed to help meet this goal include:
- Commissioning new research to document the disability arts movement in Australia, our successful Australian artists with disability, and the benefits of participating in arts activity for people with disability.
- Increased investment in the arts and disability sector. A commitment of ongoing financial support from all three levels of government is required in order to redress the historical imbalance that has seen artists with disability receive fewer opportunities to develop their practice and professional careers.
- Promote excellence and encourage world-class standards above and beyond the major funded organisations and individuals. A diverse sector is a strong sector.
- Commitment to increasing representation of people with disability in our creative culture through funding organisations and artists to tell their stories.
- Encouraging organisations to stop casting non-disabled performers to depict people with disability on stage and on screen.
- Protection of the rights of those creating cultural works, including our freedom of expression, through effective policy and Australian copyright law. This is particularly relevant to artists with disability who work within a disability arts context, where themes relating to their own or a collective experience of impairment can be potentially confronting for some audiences.
Goal 4: To increase and strengthen the capacity of the arts to contribute to our society and economy
Every Australian has the right to experience and learn about the arts throughout our lives, and these experiences should be accessible for everyone to enjoy.
Participation in and access to arts and culture by people with disability is important to support a society that fosters creativity, innovation and community enrichment.
The strategies needed to help meet this goal include:
- Making sure that the new national curriculum is fully accessible to people with disability, to ensure all young Australians have access to this important arts education.
- Policing the accessibility of our arts education institutions to ensure accountability and to increase representation of students with disability at all levels of arts education.
- Recognising and resourcing alternative routes into arts education and employment, including volunteerism and mentoring.
- Ensuring that professional and aspiring artists and arts workers with disability have the same choices and opportunities to engage, practice and pursue a career in the arts as those without disability.
- Encourage and enforce compliance of the obligations that arts and cultural organisations have to be inclusive employers. Tap into the potential of the arts and cultural sector to lead the way in terms of inclusive, open employment for people with disability.
Make Your Artistic Match with JUMP in 2012! Apply for JUMP, the Australia Council’s National Mentoring Program for Young and Emerging Artists.
Are you a young Australian artist on the cusp of a great career? You’re producing excellent work in your artform, and know where you’re headed – but do you have the expert advice to match? Form a mentoring relationship with a professional artist of your choice and join a diverse national network of program participants and alumni making their mark on the industry.
Applications Close 28 October 2011.
Where: National
Who: Artists aged 18-30
Contact: Susan Gibb on (02) 8571 9065 or jump@carriageworks.com.au.
Website: http://jumpmentoring.com.au
The Disability and Arts Transition Team (DATT) have released the August 2011 edition of eNews.
In this edition:
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