The Disability Information and Resource Centre

The Australian Institute for Performing Arts (AIPA) is proud to offer passionate singers and dancers the opportunity to express their own ‘Glee’ and the joy of self-expression and creativity, in a unique project entitled “Expressions”. Performers with be given the opportunity to rehearse a show in Sydney, Australia and then travel to LA to perform it and take classes with industry leaders who will inspire them and teach them new and exciting techniques and enable them to express their individuality and talent in an encouraging and supportive environment.

This programme has been designed for teenagers and young adults who live with a disability.

The program is for Australian performers between the ages of 14 – 35. The group will perform a show at various exciting venues. They will also have an opportunity to perform with other teenagers who will be on tour and make up other GLEE Club Australia casts. Everyone will tour together and work together – which should be a rewarding experience for all.

View a poster for the program.

http://www.performingartstours.com.au/gleeclub-expressions-talent-project-usa-dec-2011.html

Company@ will be holding auditions for two positions for the Company@ Performance Ensemble on Friday 27 May 2011.

Requirements for Auditioning

Everyone auditioning must be 18 or over and a client of Autism SA.

Time & Place

The auditions will be held at Autism SA between 3:00pm and 5:00pm.

What’s Expected

Everyone auditioning will be required to perform a short monologue of their choosing. (This can be read if there is no time to memorise).

Other Info

To register your audition please contact Katharine Annear at Autism SA on (08) 8379 6976. Everyone will be notified of the result of their audition by letter. Auditions can be negotiated for people with language difficulties.

Humour really is the best medicine, which is why you should experience it for yourself in the upcoming fringe show ‘Cracking Up’. The show features people who have experienced mental health conditions sharing their stories and struggles through standup comedy. The show is based on the Canadian documentary ‘Cracking Up’ and was originally developed by David Granirer, a mental health support worker and comedian. Following this the MHCSA with funding from Arts SA have developed the highly inspiring and hilarious live show of ‘Cracking Up’. David Granirer states, “We use comedy to give consumers a powerful voice and help reduce the stigma and discrimination around mental illness”.

According to the ‘Cracking Up” team, “If you can laugh at yourself then it is the show for you… and if you can’t laugh at yourself then you definitely have to see ‘Cracking Up’”. First hand communication with someone who has experienced a mental health problem is known to be a highly effective method of influencing the way people think and subsequently reducing stigma. This is truly what the show accomplishes although you will be so busy laughing you won’t know it.

The idea around ‘Cracking Up’ is to laugh at the setbacks and consequently rise above them says Granirer. It has been internationally proven that laughter has both physiological and psychological benefits including helping to relieve fear and reduce stress.

As a result of having fallen through the cracks that present through various mental health conditions, the ‘Cracking Up’ team of stand up comedians will take over the stage to tickle your funny bones with their witty, bold, reflective and amusing stories.

Filled with a diverse range of comedians with different stories to share the ‘Cracking Up’ team invite you to laugh out loud with them and appeal to your comedian within. Come rally at the Box Factory in an intimate easy to find venue where you can bring your funny bones, your laughter and your smiles and continue to prove that laughter really can be the best form of medicine.

Featuring: Helen Keene, Abner Bradley, Kathryn Hall, Ceridwyn Owen, Sharon Cheney, Kim McKenzie, Donna Schilwa, Kylie Harrison and the vocal talents of Vocal Lunacy.

Location: The Box Factory – 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide SA 5000

Dates: 25, 26, 27 February 2011

Times: 8.30pm to 9.45pm (1 hour 15 mins)

Costs: $10 each – Carers Free

Tickets available at FRINGETIX 1300 374 643 www.adelaidefringe.com.au

Further enquiries to MHCSA: Ph: 8212 8873 or 0406 980 962
Email: openyourmind@mhcsa.org.au Web: www.mhcsa.org.au.

The Cracking Up! flyer.

The Rainbow Sessions are moving to the

DUKE OF BRUNSWICK HOTEL
207 Gilbert Street City
(just west of Morphett Street)

Opening Night

and the first of the free weekly sessions will be on Thursday 16th  September 7.30 – 11pm.

There’s no pa system or microphones, just singers, musicians and patrons performing around tables, creating a hearty join-in atmosphere.

So gather your friends, bring your voices and instruments and prepare to have the time of your life.

View the flyer here.

For more information contact Tony Doyle on 8212 0390 or tdoyle.visions@bigpond.com.

The Tutti Choir and the Choir of Hard Knocks (now known as the Choir of Hope and Inspiration) are presenting a single performance of Happy Together.

When

Sunday 19 September 2010 at 4.30pm

Where

Adelaide Town Hall
128 King William St, Adelaide

Bookings through BASS Ph 131 246 or www.bass.net.au.

Adults $30, Children and Concession $20.
Carers free with companion card.

All proceeds help keep these choirs singing.

Have a look at the flyer.

Two performances of Brink Productions‘ upcoming show HARBINGER will feature Live Theater Captioning.

Some information on HARBINGER from Brink Productions:

Brink Productions’
HARBINGER
by Matthew Whittet

It’s a rare and thrilling treat when contemporary, blood-soaked horror disgraces the stage, andHarbinger does just that. A tender ‘boy meets girl, girl eats boy’ love story caked in crimson humour, Harbinger by Matthew Whittet is as hilarious as it is unsettling. A nightmarish dreamscape and black comedy rolled into a rich theatrical brew. Think David Lynch meets Flight of the Conchords. Think Hitchcock meets True Blood. Think Freddy Krueger meets – actually, stop thinking and start preparing for what will be the funniest, juiciest, most disturbing theatre experience of 2010, or possibly even your life…

Aug 31 – Sept 11 (previews from 27 Aug)

Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre

BOOKINGS: bass.net.au | 131 246

Sat 4 Sept Live Captioning for matinee and evening performance

Thurs 9 Sept Pre-show briefing for visually impaired patrons

The SoundWaves Contemporary Music project, run by Tony Doyle Visions, is the new contemporary music project for people with a disability that offers a monthly performance event as well as 2 workshop sessions per month to develop your skills.

SoundWaves Events are held on the last Thursday of the month from 11am till 2pm at the Folk Centre, on the corner of South Road and George Street, Thebarton.

SoundWaves Workshops are held on the first and third Thursdays of the month at the same time and place as the Events.

The workshops on the first Thursday of the month will focus on electronic music and DJ-ing. The workshops on the third Thursday of the month will focus more on live performance, including the use of various technologies.

The Workshop on 19th August will be run by Robert Petchell and will be the usual length, from 11am till 2pm.

For more information contact Tony Doyle Visions at (08) 8212 0390 or www.tonydoylevisions.com.au.

Tutti Arts presents a tragicomic exploration of the ways in which young people with disabilities struggle to find love and companionship in a bleak world of tenements and pop songs.

30 July – 7 August, 7.30pm

Tickets $20/$15 concession, Groups of 10 or more $15

Companion Card accepted

• Preview 30 July, 7.30pm
• Premiere 31 July, 7.30pm
• Wednesday 4 August, 7.30pm
• Thursday 5 August, 7.30pm
• Friday 6 August, 7.30pm
• Saturday 7 August, 7.30pm

For more info call (08) 8422 6511

Tutti is presenting a show entitled The Broadway Spectacular!

With the Tutti Choir and soloists, and the Unley Concert Band.

Saturday July 3rd at 7.30pm and Sunday July 4th at 2.30pm.

More information in the flyer.

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.