The Disability Information and Resource Centre

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.

Download the event poster here.

No Strings Attached and the Disability & Arts Transition Team present

Burlesque with Maude Davey

12pm to 3pm

Saturday 13 November 2010

St Peter’s Town Hall
Banquet Room
101 Payneham Rd, St Peters

“What you need to do is unlock ways of being or moving in the space…(and you can) unlock stuff that you would never ever find if you said, be sexy.”

– Excerpt from Link disability magazine, August 2010.

Maude Davey presents her second workshop for Deaf and disabled women. This workshop requires absolutely no prior experience. Those who attended the first workshop are welcome to attend this one.

There are 15 places only. Please contact DATT to discuss your access requirements. An Auslan Interpreter will be arranged given prior notice. Running time is 3 hours with rest times. Cost $10 each. Further information will be given to those who want to attend.

To book a place call DATT (08) 8231 09010 or datt@cansa.net.au.

For more info on Maude visit www.nostringsattached.org.au/maude-davey.html.

Check out the August 2010 issue of Link disability magazine for a fantastic article on Maude’s work in Burlesque!

www.linkonline.com.au/issues/2010/august/index.shtml

No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability is holding a character based comedy show called “A Touch of Compost” on Saturday October 30 at Higher Ground in Light Square.

A Touch Of Compost is a series of works put together with the guidance of some of the best comedians in Adelaide along with a cast of extremely talented No Strings Attached Theatre Of Disability performers who will endeavour to make you laugh, cry and wonder why……

The show will be hosted by the honorable Robbie Butternob.

4pm to 5.30pm.

Tickets can be purchased from the door for $10.

You can have a look at the flyer for the event 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 No Strings Attached community theatre company is presenting a special benefit performance of My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Adelaide Fringe this year.

Two of the artists in Tom the Loneliest have been nominated for 2009 Melbourne Green Room Awards (Theatre-Independent category):

• Duncan Luke for Male Performer
• Kerry Ireland for Lighting Design

Duncan has been a member of No Strings Attached since 1994. Kerry is the current creative producer of the Feast Festival.

In order to celebrate this recognition No Strings Attached invites people to attend My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Adelaide Fringe this year.

When and Where

5pm Sunday 28 February 2010

Adelaide Centre for the Arts

39 Light Square, Adelaide

The show runs 90 minutes. Tickets are $20, and $10 of every ticket sold goes directly to support No Strings Attached programs.

To attend the benefit performance please complete this Ticket Order Form and email it to nostrings@ozemail.com.au by Thursday, 25th February.