The Disability Information and Resource Centre

The Julia Farr Association is holding a forum for parents of children aged up to 17 years who live with disability.

The event will be held at Our Space: 104 Greenhill Rd Unley on Tuesday 10th August between 11am-1pm. The forum is aimed at parents interested in their children having the same choices and opportunities as their non-disabled peers.

The forum is an opportunity to share your ideas, aspirations and concerns, access useful information and meet other parents. More details can be found in the flyer.

Please fill out the registration form and either fax to (08) 8373 8373, email to admin@juliafarr.org.au, or phone (08) 8373 8333 if you require further information.

The Julia Farr Association (JFA) Noske Christmas Fund is now receiving applications for the 2010 round.

The fund is a small annual distribution, which has been developed to carry out the wishes of the late Mr Noske who generously set aside funds to enable people living with disability (who meet the eligibility criteria) to celebrate Christmas. Grants are limited to no more than $200 per applicant and will be allocated at the discretion of the JFA Trust Fund sub-committee.

The Julia Farr Association will distribute the funds each year and will call for interested candidates prior to the Christmas period.

The JFA is releasing the grant in July to allow people time to complete their applications, to then be considered, with funds to be distributed during the Christmas season.

This is a great little grant which has the potential to really help a person celebrate the good things in life during the festive period. Applications for funding can take many forms and might be thought of as a personal gift, travel to see family/friends or a special item. Preference will be given to applications which fund items of special importance to the individual. These items will be funded in preference to communal Christmas parties as these events are generally seen as the responsibility of the personal support agency.

Funding is limited to less than $200 per applicant and will be allocated at the discretion of the JFA Trust Fund sub-committee. No guarantee of funding is given and the total funds available are limited. Part funding may be allocated.

Those Eligible to apply are people who:

1. live with physical disability, acquired brain injury or degenerative neurological disorder; and
2. who it would be reasonable to conclude is currently/formerly or could have been eligible (including those in community based accommodation) for association with Highgate Park (formerly Julia Farr Services, the Julia Far Centre, Home for Incurables); and
3. who are in receipt of a disability support pension or equivalent; and
4. who uses this application form, appropriately completed, thus giving their consent to disclosure of all details set out on the application form to Australian Executor Trustees as the trustee of the Noske Estate.

To apply candidates need to submit a completed application form to the Julia Farr office by 5pm Wednesday, 25th August 2010.

For more information please contact Rachel at rachell@juliafarr.org.au or 08 8373 8306.

For the first time Disability SA are inviting clients, families and carers of people with disabilities to their bi-annual conference. The day for people with disability, families and carers is Wednesday 13 October 2010.

More information is available here www.sa.gov.au/disability/2010conference.

IDEAS NSW announces their competition for the hottest inclusive night club event in New South Wales, happening on the 27th August at Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour.

SenCity is a multi-sensory, multi-faceted, special event for people who are hearing impaired and deaf and with any other ability or disability.

During this spectacular event the emotions and passions of music are converted to all senses.

Special techniques employed at this event include an imported vibrating dance floor, so that people can really feel the music. The vibrating dance sensors are attached to the amplifiers so that the entire dance floor responds to the frequency of the music. Sign singers interpret lyrics.

Visual Jockeys, Food Jockeys and Aroma Jockeys are on hand to provide aroma compositions to interpret music for other senses.

The chill space has side performances to engage other senses like hairdressers, makeup artists and masseurs.

To be part of the 1000 (over 18yrs) people attending this one-night-only experience you can win tickets sponsored by Ideas NSW by:

1. Registering your email at http://sencitywin.wordpress.com/ so that you can be kept updated on the event.

2. Provide one of two entry options:

(a) Submit a video of an original dance off which incorporates the IDEAS SMS number which is 0458 296 602, interpreted however you would like. Your entry must then be uploaded to SENCITY WIN Facebook fanpage at www.facebook.com/sencitywin.

3. Submit an original still photo shot of yourself displaying the IDEAS SMS number which is 0458 296 602, at the most creative spot that you can think of. Your entry must then be uploaded to SENCITY WIN Facebook fanpage at www.facebook.com/sencitywin.

To upload images/video simply go to the write a comment area at the top of the SENCITY WIN Facebook fanpage site and click on the photo/video link, browse for your photo/video and click share. All entries must be uploaded before the end of the promotion period. The promotion will end at 5.00pm (AEST) on the 20th of August 2010.

There a five double passes for each category. Please make sure you read the terms and conditions available at http://sencitywin.wordpress.com/ before you enter. For more information call IDEAS NSW on 1800 029 904 or email prmedia@ideas.org.au.

The Julia Farr Association is conducting a survey on the experiences of people living with disability, called Tellus.

The Tellus survey asks questions that don’t get asked anywhere else, such as:

• “Have you made new friends or acquaintances in the last six months?”
• “Is the level of support you receive enough to help with your personal needs?”
• “What are the main things stopping you from living the life you want?”

Without revealing your personal details the results of the survey will be collated so that your experiences and views can have an impact on the decisions that affect you.

How to participate

On Line Survey

You can complete the survey online by clicking here. The survey is also linked from the Julia Farr homepage.

Electronic Version of Survey

If you don’t want to complete the survey online Julia Farr can mail you a copy of the survey on CD. You can then use your computer to complete the survey and return the responses to Julia Farr on the same CD. To do this, please contact Alicia Fidock on 8373 8311 and she will send you a CD version of the survey with instructions and a reply paid envelope.

Paper Version of Survey

If you would to prefer to complete the survey on paper, please contact Alicia Fidock on 8373 8311 and she will send you the survey with a reply paid envelope.

Over the Phone

You can complete the survey over the phone by calling Alicia on 1300 857 327 (calls charged at a local rate). Alicia will read the questions to you over the phone and write down your answers.

Please contact Alicia Fidock on 8373 8311 or aliciaf@juliafarr.org.au with any further questions.

Please have your survey completed by the end of July.

The free SoundWaves launch event will be held on Thursday 24th June from 11am to 2pm.

SoundWaves gives you a taste of some of the artists and cotemporary music styles that you can become involved with through the SoundWaves contemporary music & disability project.

Further information here.

Tony Doyle Visions has a new website which you can view at www.tonydoylevisions.com. The site is currently under construction with more information to be added shortly.

SoundWaves is a new music project designed to create opportunities for people with disabilities.

Events are held on the last Thursday of each month

11am – 2pm

SA Folk Centre

Corner of South Road & George Street, Thebarton.

More information can be found here.

No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability and the Disability & Arts Transition Team are presenting a Burlesque Workshop.

Saturday 26 June 2010, 10am-1pm
The Restless Studio, 234a Sturt St, Adelaide

In June, Maude Davey (former Artistic Director of Vitalstatistix) will join No Strings Attached performer Rachel High and independent performer Emma J Hawkins to devise a “Burlesque for Two” for this year’s Feast Festival (13-28 November 2010). If you saw Circus Oz at the Fringe, you saw Emma J Hawkins enter as a stilt-walking ballerina.

IF you are interested, please sign up for this open Burlesque Workshop in June, for disabled and Deaf women with Maude Davey. 15 places only. Please contact DATT to discuss your access requirements. An Auslan Interpreter will be arranged given prior notice. Running time 3 hours. Cost $10 each.

For more info call (08) 8231 0900 or datt@cansa.net.au.

Co-hosted by No Strings Attached & Disability & Arts Transition Team (DATT).

About Maude Davey

Maude Davey worked in theatre, film and television as an actor, director and writer since 1985 and performs regularly with Finucane & Smith in The Burlesque Hour.

She is a founding member of the a capella/theatre group, Crying In Public Places with which she toured nationally and internationally. Film work includes Mathew Saville’s two films, Roy Hollsdottir Live and Noise and the 2009 feature, My Year Without Sex, by Sarah Watts. Recent TV credits include Chris Lilley’s Summer Heights High.

In 2002, she took up an appointment as Artistic Director of Vitalstatistix Theatre Company in Adelaide, where she directed such works as Tough Girls by Melissa Reeves, Checklist for an Armed Robber by Vanessa Bates, Wakaid Girl Lyndhurst Kid by Diat Alferink and Second to None, a large scale, site specific community celebration of the Indigenous and Maritime history of Port Adelaide.

From 2008-2009 she was Artistic Director of Melbourne Workers Theatre. In 2010, she will direct a new work with No Strings Attached.

The following information comes to us from Special Olympics Australia:

Dear friends and sports fans,

Special Olympics Australia and the police officers in the Law Enforcement Torch Run program are about to embark on our biggest awareness and fundraising campaign, 43 towns and cities in 29 days from March 19th.

The torch will travel across Queensland, NSW, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia leading into the opening ceremony of our IX National Special Olympics Games being hosted in Adelaide.

Our “Flame of Hope” torch will arrive in South Australia in Mt Gambier on 12th April and head through 15 towns in 8 days finishing at the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Special Olympics Australia National Games.

You and your teams/friends are all invited to celebrate with our SA Special Olympics athletes, coaches, fans and supporters in our “Run with the LAW” torch run and show your support. Together, we can all make a difference and continue transforming the lives of children and adults with an intellectual disability through sport.

Register today – Run, Donate or come and cheer our athletes on any of our legs as per attached flyer.

To view the torch run map, visit http://www.runwiththelaw.com.au/index.php/locations/sa

You can also download flyers, posters and sponsor me posters at http://www.runwiththelaw.com.au/index.php/fundraising/resources to promote your team

For more information and to register, please visit our website at www.specialolympics.com.au or www.runwiththelaw.com.au

Or contact me, Lisa hester – SOSA State Manager

Thanks again for your support, get ready to celebrate with us.

Lisa

SHine SA will be holding a network forum which will provide an opportunity to hear about some of the work being done by disability workers in the field of sexuality education.

When and Where

Thursday 8th April 2010, 2pm – 5pm.

Disability Information & Resource Centre (DIRC)
195 Gilles Street, Adelaide

For more details please look at the flyer.

Registration

By Friday 2 April

Tel: 8300 5317

Email: SHineSACourses@health.sa.gov.au

In Relation to the June Forum

If there are any disability workers who have been working with men with disabilities who are feeling romantically or sexually rejected, and you have been able to help make a difference for them, Ralph Brew would like to hear from you at ralph.brew@health.sa.gov.au.