The Disability Information and Resource Centre

Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is the peak organisation for women with all types of disabilities in Australia. It’s run by women with disabilities for women with disabilities.

WWDA is inviting women with disabilities in Adelaide to an informal get together to learn more about WWDA and to hear your thoughts on how things might be improved for South Australian women with disabilities.

Come along and meet WWDA’s President, Vice-President and other women with disabilities from Adelaide.

WWDA will be providing lunch and can also support participants with travel costs to and from the venue.

Where: Julia Farr Association, 104 Greenhill Road, Unley SA

When: Saturday, 16 October 2010

Time: 11am – 3pm

RSVP: Friday 1st October 2010

Contact: Shirley or Carolyn at the National WWDA Office

Phone: 03 6244 8288

Email: wwda@wwda.org.au

Please let WWDA know if you have any support, accessibility and/or dietary requirements.

Numbers are strictly limited, so get your RSVP back to WWDA as soon as possible.

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.

For several years, Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) has led a campaign to have the provision of adjustable-height examination beds made mandatory in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Standards for General Practices.

WWDA has worked on this issue alongside People With Disability Australia (PWDA) and in more recent times, the Physical Disability Council NSW (PDCN), and Council on the Ageing NSW (COTA), joined forces in this national effort. Support for the campaign was also given by the Australian Human Rights Commission. In late 2009, WWDA, PWDA, PDCN and COTA (NSW) developed a joint Submission to the RACGP as part of the consultations for the Review of the RACGP Standards for General Practices. The Submission clearly articulated the groups position that the provision of adjustable-height examination beds be made a mandatory requirement in the RACGP Standards for General Practices.

The collective Submission to the RACGP from WWDA, PWDA, PDCN and COTA (NSW) was finalised in late November 2009 and endorsed by more than 200 organisations and individuals (available at: www.wwda.org.au/subs2006.htm).

The RACGP has just released its draft 4th edition of the Standards which propose height adjustable examination beds do become mandatory. The Standards are draft at this stage and subject to a 3 month consultation phase.

For more information please read this media release from the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Please also read Women with disabilities need pap smears too!, which includes information about metropolitan cervix screening services and whether they have adjustable beds and a lift or hoist available.

Women With Disabilities Australia have released the first issue this year of their quarterly newsletter. You can find the newsletter in PDF, Word, text and Large Print formats here.

Community Small Grant applications for Pap Smear Awareness Week (Sunday 2 May to Saturday 8 May 2010) are now open.

These grants assist community and health workers to conduct promotional activities in their local communities.

The target group for the 2010 Pap Smear Awareness Week includes women with disabilities.

Community Small Grants are worth $500.

To Apply for a Grant

Application forms are available via the SA Cervix Screening website.

Applications close on Monday 22nd March 2010.

More Information

Please see the flyer.

Or contact:

Christine Gates
Ph 8226 8183 or email christine.gates@health.sa.gov.au
PO Box 287
Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Fax 8226 8190

The UNIFEM Gender Analysis Workshop for Women with Disabilities will provide women with disabilities with an introduction to gender analysis. Participants will consider key concepts and a selection of gender analysis frameworks, approaches, tools and questions.

Date

18th and 19th March 2010, 9.30am to 4.30pm

More Info and Registration

Registration was scheduled to close in late January, however registration will now stay open until all remaining places are filled.

To register, please complete the flyer/registration form.

Registration is free and will include a light morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

UNIFEM Australia: (02) 6285 8254 or www.unifem.org.au