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News
Nebula at City Square
MSO hosts music workshops for Deaf students
What Turnbull means for the arts
NDIS certainty for Victoria
Audio description on the agenda
iTunes expands audio description
Redefining the (able)body
Refusing limits in the UK
Edinburgh Fringe put to the test
Captions draw crowds in Florida
Actor champions inclusive theatre
Bold Beauty invites new perspectives
What's On
Emotions at Skin Gallery
RAG Theatre
Access tours at the NGV
Vinh Nguyen at Monash Youth Film Festival
Strumarama
Wallara: Colour the World
Taming of the Shrew
Glimpses at La Mama
Opportunities
ARTSTARTER
Arts Learning Forum 2015
Open Your Eyes
Ignition Theatre
is theatre...
Call for LEAD proposals
Yarra City Arts Exhibition Program
City of Casey Arts Spaces Program
eNews Issue #16
6 October 2015
Nebula thinks Outside the Box at Melbourne Fringe
Outside The Box was 10 sunny, lively days of accessible art in and on Nebula
at Melbourne’s City Square, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival!
Nebula, Arts Access Victoria’s portable and fully-accessible contemporary art
space, overflowed with art, including Deaf Slam Poetry—one of Concrete
Playground's top ten picks of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. People of all
ages and abilities learned Auslan poems, joined tea ceremonies, cartooned
with Brent Harpur and exercised to '80s hits with Deanna from Art Day South.
Thank you to the many who came out to watch, participate and create with us!
News
MSO hosts music workshops for Deaf students
On Thursday 23 July, students from the Victorian College of the Deaf (VCD)
joined music educator and workshop facilitator Karen Kyriakou and
British-born practicing and profoundly deaf musician Danny Lane for a day of
musical exploration with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
The aim of the workshop was to open up the world of music to Deaf children
and give them inspiration to compose and perform their own music.
Read more about this exciting program...
Image courtesy of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
What Prime Minister Turnbull means for the arts
Over at ArtsHub, Richard Watts examines new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's
form on the arts, as arts leaders launch a campaign to persuade the new PM to
rethink the budget cuts to Australia Council and former Arts Minister George
Brandis' National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA).
Read more from Richard Watts on ArtsHub...
Image: Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Veni/Flickr
NDIS Certainty for Victoria
The Victorian Government has secured the future rollout of the NDIS across
Victoria after signing a bilateral NDIS Agreement with the federal government
on Wednesday 16 September 2015.
The NDIS will roll out across Victoria from 1 July 2016, meaning big change
for people with disability, their families and carers.
Read more about the NDIS rollout in Victoria...
Audio description on the agenda
Vision Australia representatives met with MPs in September as part of the
ongoing campaign for the inclusion of audio description on Australian TV.
Of the campaign, Vision Australia’s general manager of advocacy and
engagement Maryanne Diamond said, “Audio description has been available on US
television since the late 1980s...Australians who are blind or have low
vision have been advocating for decades for audio description on television,
but it remains out of reach."
Read more about the push for audio description...
iTunes Australia expands audio description offering
Media Access Australia reports that there has been a small development in the
availability of audio described movies from Apple iTunes in Australia, with a
number of Disney/Pixar films including Brave, Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo
now available with audio description.
Early this year, Media Access Australia released Access on Demand, a report
on the accessibility of video-on-demand (VOD) services in Australia and other
countries. Click here to download Access on Demand.
Read more about audio description on iTunes...
Redefining the (able) body
Inspired by the strong and vibrant presence of artists with disability at
Melbourne Fringe, Yoni Prior—a lecturer in the School of Communication and
Creative Arts at Deakin University and board member of Back to Back
Theatre—recently wrote a piece for The Conversation on 'redefining the (able)
body'.
Read Yoni's article on the arts and disability...
Image: Weave Movement Theatre. Photo: Paul Dunn
Refusing limits: Why the government must fund disability arts
On The Guardian (UK), theatre writer Lyn Gardner delves into the exciting
growth of the disability arts scene in the UK, currently under threat due to
government austerity programmes.
"The growing visibility of disabled arts... has not happened by accident but
because there has been money to support artists... It is an example of what
happens when the funding system decides to take an interest rather than
ignoring an area of artistic practice."
Read more from Lyn on disability arts...
Image: Jessica Thom aka Tourette’s Hero. Photo: Richard Saker
Edinburgh Fringe access put to the test
By most reports, this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival was to be its most
wheelchair-accessible event yet... so a volunteer from a Scottish housing and
care provider put the festival to the test.
Suhayl Afzal, a wheelchair user, says he saw signs of improvement, but warns
that progress is being made at “glacial speed” and that he faced multiple
access issues including heavy doors and cobbled streets.
Read more about Suhayl's experience at Edinburgh Fringe...
Image: Suhayl Afzal at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Photo courtesy of
www.scottishhousingnews.com
Captions draw crowds
In the US, the Florida Access Coalition for the Arts (FLACA) is seeing the
exciting results of their push for increased captioning for live performances
in South Florida venues.
Says FLACA founder Lew Balaban, "The last show of the season at Kravis
[Center for the Performing Arts] — it was Flashdance — the display broke.
People streamed out to the lobby to find out what happened. Kravis had no
idea that there were that many people there for the captioning. Not a clue."
Read more about FLACA's access success...
Image: Open captions at a Fort Lauterdale theatre. Photo: Carline Jean / Sun
Sentinel.
Actor champions inclusive theatre
A cast member in a Broadway revival of The King and I took to Facebook to
publicly shame audience members after witnessing a child with autism and
their mother being 'heckled' after making noise during a matinee performance
of the show.
Shared nearly 30,000 times, Kelvin Moon Loh wrote in his Facebook post, "I
believe... theater is created for all people. I stand by that... The King and
I on Broadway is FAMILY FRIENDLY and that means entire families- with
disabilities or not. Not only for special performances but for all
performances. A night at the theater is special on any night you get to go."
Read more about Kelvin's statement...
Bold Beauty invites new perspectives
The Bold Beauty Project is an innovative visual arts exhibition showcasing 20
women living with disability.
The exhibition will feature billboard-size photographs of the women, with
each model’s personal story placed next to her photo; the aim of the project
is to empower women with disability to redefine beauty through photography
and narrative expression.
Read more about The Bold Beauty Project...
Image: Claudia Gordon, Esq. (First black, female and deaf attorney in the
United States). Photo: DC Bold Beauty
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What's On
Emotions at Skin Gallery
You’re invited to attend the opening of Emotions by artist Kaz McGlynn.
Kaz is an artist from the Barwon Heads area who produces paintings,
sculptures, ceramics, public art installations and many creative products.
Kaz's work asks us to stop and enjoy the precious scenes that linger for just
a moment and then are gone.
Where: Skin and Cancer Foundation, Level 1/80 Drummond St, Carlton
When: Opening night on 8 October from 5pm
Exhibition runs 8 October–12 November
Cost: Free
Bookings: To RSVP, please email info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the subject
"ATTN: Rhonda Hodge" and your contact details by Wednesday 7 October.
Skin Gallery in an initiative created by Arts Access Victoria and The Skin
and Cancer Foundation.
RAG Theatre travels to Bendigo
RAG Theatre, an inclusive community theatre group, is travelling to Bendigo
in late October! RAG will present a short season of A Story of Moses and one
master class.
A Story of Moses, showing on 28 and 29 October, delves into the annuls of
history and brings to life the first-ever hero, Moses! WARNING: May or may
not contain any Moses!
Click here for more information on A Story of Moses
The master class is presented in two parts: part one covers how to set up an
inclusive theatre group; and part two will be a practical drama workshop.
Click here for more information on the master class
Access tours at the NGV
Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great at the NGV showcases the
innovation of Catherine the Great. The extraordinary works sourced and
commissioned by Catherine during her 34-year reign created the foundations
for the Hermitage—today considered to be one of the world’s greatest treasure
houses of art.
The National Gallery of Victoria is running audio described and Auslan tours
of the Hermitage collection in September and October.
Venue: NGV International
Location: 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
When: Saturday 10 October; 10.30am: audio described tour, 1pm: Auslan tour
Cost: Exhibition costs apply
More information: Click here for information on the exhibition, or click here
for more information on access at NGV International.
Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria
Vinh Nguyen finalist at Youth Film Festival
Vinh Nguyen, an artist with AAV's Satellite program, has been nominated as a
finalist in the Monash Youth Film Festival for his film Bus Stop.
The finalist films are being screened on Wednesday 7 October. Come along to
support the festival... and to put in your vote for Vinh for most popular
film! #VinhForTheWin
Venue: Village Cinemas Century City
Location: 285-287 Springvale Road, Glen Waverley 3150
When: Wednesday 7 October, 6:15 to 9pm
Cost: $10
Bookings/more information: Click here to go to the City of Monash website for
more information.
Image: Vinh Nguyen in a still from his film Bus Stop
Wild at Heart: Strumarama
Wild at Heart's next Strumarama night will feature a fantastic line up of
artists, including two iconic Melbourne rock bands The Bipolar Bears and The
Odd Bodds, spoken word and stand up comedy artists and a brilliant cast of
songwriters from across the city.
Be there for an unforgettable night!
Venue: Prince Of Wales Public Bar
Location: 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
When: Thursday 8 October, 7pm 'til late
More information: Click here to go to Wild at Heart's website
Colour the World at Frankston Arts Centre
Wallara will colour your world with an all-abilities concert on at Frankston
Arts Centre at 2pm on Sunday 18 October. The concert has a huge entertainment
line-up including: The Ambassadors, Colour Harmony Dance Collaboration,
WallaraTV and much more.
Venue: Frankston Arts Centre
Location: Cnr Davey St and Young Street, Frankston 3199
When: Sunday 18 October
Bookings/more information: Click here to go to the Frankston Arts Centre
website
The Taming of the Shrew
Melbourne University Shakespeare Company presents a new interpretation of the
classic story.
Five suitors compete for the hand (and love) of the two wealthy Minola
sisters. The suitors pull out all the stops to get the girl: flattery,
disguises, bribes, even a bit of violence, psychological torture and
starvation.
Far from the roll in the hay that people expect of Shakespearean comedies,
this Taming of the Shrew will draw attention to cycles of violence,
manipulation and nepotism that still exist in so many homes across Australia.
It may not be the Shrew we deserve, but it's the one we need right now.
Venue: Guild Theatre, Union House
Location: University of Melbourne, Parkville campus
When: 14-24 October. Auslan interpreted show Saturday October 24 at 7pm
Cost: Full $20/Conc $15
Bookings: Click here to book tickets via TryBooking or call Producer Matilda
Houlihan on 0424 110 768
Glimpses at La Mama
La Mama’s Explorations season is a special time of year where productions are
given three nights in the space to explore their practice and develop their
theatrical pursuits... this year, one of the productions is Glimpses, which
will hold an Auslan interpreted performance on Monday 19 October.
Venue: La Mama Theatre
Location: 205 Faraday Street, Carlton
When: October 17, 18 and 19
Cost: All tickets $15
Bookings: Click here for more information or to book tickets, or call 03 9347
6142.
Image: Rachel Edward and Alex Edward. Photo: Rachel Edward
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Opportunities
ARTSTARTER
Adults with disability are welcomed to join ARTSTARTER: workshops for artists
with disability at Hawthorn Arts Centre until 17 November!
School Term Workshops:
6 and 13 October – Puppetry
20 and 27 October – Ceramics
10 and 17 November – Photography
Where: Hawthorn Arts Centre
When: See above dates, workshops are from 9.30am – 12.30pm
Cost: FREE (includes materials and equipment)
Bookings: Contact Sabina Reynolds at sreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 03 9699
8299
Click here for more information on ARTSTARTER...
Image: Puppets, Penelope Bartlau, Barking Spider
AusCo presents: Arts Learning Forum 2015
What is arts learning and where are we headed?
This is one of the key questions to be explored at the inaugural Arts
Learning Forum, 25–27 November at Footscray Community Arts Centre.
The Australia Council for the Arts invites arts professionals with a role or
interest in arts education, learning or engagement to register for the forum.
This is an opportunity to hear from leaders in the field, exchange ideas,
insights and practices with peers from all areas of practice across Australia.
Where: Footscray Community Arts Centre
When: 25–27 November
Cost: Tickets range from $150 to $375
Bookings: Click here to book your place at the Arts Learning Forum.
Click here for more information on the Arts Learning Forum...
Join Arts Access Victoria to Open Your Eyes
Are you a change maker interested in providing great access and opening doors
to new and diverse audiences? Do you crave artistic invention? Join Arts
Access Victoria on Tuesday 10 November for a training program that will open
your eyes to new ways of experiencing, planning and working with people with
disability.
If you work in arts and cultural management, customer service, artistic
programming, marketing and communications, education and learning or industry
leadership, this is the workshop for you!
Where: Arts Access Victoria
Location: 222 Bank Street, South Melbourne 3205
When: Wednesday 10 November 2015, 4–7pm
Cost: $160 (ex GST) per person for AAV members; $180 (ex GST) per person for
non members
Bookings/more information: Contact Tim Dakin, Industry Support Officer, on 03
9699 8299 or tdakin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Auslan interpretation available on request
Image: Delta Project dancer Elvin Lam. Photo: Pippa Dodds.
Ignition Theatre spaces
open for 2016
Ignition Theatre is for people with disabilities or individual learning needs
who love making theatre, performing, and working behind the scenes.
The Ignition Theatre ‘Industry Elective’ is a vocational training stream
within the Certificate I in Work Education course. It develops skills
relevant to working or volunteering in the performing arts and theatre
industries, as well as entry level skills for a broad range of other
industries.
Students can attend part-time for one year or full time for two years to get
the full certificate.
Click here for more information about Ignition Theatre or call Kathy Kondekas
or Leesa Nash on 03 9269 8390.
Image courtesy of Ignition Theatre
is theatre... term two enrolments open
Designed for young people aged 16+ with an intellectual disability, is
theatre is a weekly program for those who love the performing arts... and
it's back on for a second term!
If you like to create, enjoy a spot of improv and want to stretch your
imagination then this is the program for you.
Have fun and build confidence both individually and in a group setting. All
are welcome!
Venue: Bubup Nairm
Location: 99b Carlisle Street, St Kilda
When: Weekly on Thursdays from 8 October–13 December, 5–8pm
Cost: $300 for ten sessions and end of term performance
Bookings/more information: Click here for more information on is theatre, or
contact Lyndall Julian on 9209 6706 or jcaaaenquiries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Call for papers at LEAD arts access conference
The major conference for accessible arts, LEAD (Leadership Exchange in Arts
and Disability) will be held in Pittsburgh, USA from 1–5 August 2016.
LEAD is an event where leaders and newcomers in the field of access to the
cultural arts can meet and mingle with peers, learn about the latest
technological advances, get the straight talk on legal issues, and contribute
to the collective knowledge base of how to reach and engage audiences of all
ages and abilities.
The LEAD® program is now seeking high quality proposals to address topics
relevant to the purpose of the LEAD© program at the 2016 conference. These
proposals must be submitted by 16 November.
Click here to read more about LEAD and the proposal process...
Yarra City Arts Exhibition program open
City of Yarra is looking for artists to exhibit at Fitzroy Library and
Richmond Library as part of the 2016 Exhibition Program.
Applicants must submit:
Completed online application form
Images of previous or proposed works in one document (maximum 3 pages)
Professional CV (maximum 2 pages)
Submissions must be received by 5pm on Friday 9 October.
For more information about the exhibition program please click here, or
contact Louisa Marks on 9205 5029 or on louisa.marks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
City of Casey Arts Spaces program 2016
Applications are now open to exhibit in the 2016 City of Casey Art Spaces
Program. As well as the Civic Centre Art Space, artists are also able to
apply to exhibit at Casey’s newest art exhibition spaces recently installed
at the Cranbourne, Doveton and Endeavour Hills branches of the Casey Cardinia
Library Network.
Visual artists practising in a range of media including painting,
printmaking, photography, ceramics, small sculpture and jewellery are
encouraged to apply. Individual and group exhibition applications are welcome
from established and emerging artists.
Applications close 16 October 2015. For more information on the program,
click here.
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