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Arts students with disability faced harsh odds 40 years ago – what’s different now?

The Executive Director of one of our largest disability arts organisations, DADAA, identifies positive changes in tertiary arts training, but…

Undercover Artist Festival. Image: Morgan Roberts.
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Undercover Artist Festival: meet the stars and crew who bring it to life

In its tenth year, the Undercover Artist Festival continues to showcase performers with a disability – and wow audiences.

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Spreading empathy through interactive training

Rebus Theatre’s new and free training program will help autistic people and those with psychosocial and intellectual disability across the…

Second Echo Ensemble artists Bella Young, William Webster and Creative Director Kelly Drummond Cawthon. Young and Cawthon, two Caucasian woman, surround Webster, a man with his arms outstretched. Storytelling.
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20 years of storytelling – a bit differently

Tasmania’s Second Echo Ensemble celebrates its milestone, where a 20-year legacy of ‘every story counts’ is supported with creativity and…

‘How Art Works’ by Chloe Watfern. Watfern is shown in a photo on the left, a woman with pale skin and tied back brown hair, wearing large circular earrings and a blue and white circular scoop neck top. On the right is a cover of the book with a. Series of black and white prints with faces drawn on, and the title ‘HOW ART WORKS’
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Book review: How Art Works: Stories from Supported Studios, Chloe Watfern

Spotlighting artists with intellectual disabilities and their ways of art-making, ‘How Art Works’ is an insightful must-have for every arts…

Accessible Makervan that won at the 2024 Australian Good Design Awards. A photo of a white van with the words STEAM visible on its side and back. The doors are open to show are elements can be pulled out to provide access.
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Mobile makerspace for people with disabilities wins top design accolade

Access meets innovation with a mobile makerspace that delivers STEAM learning to people with disabilities.

Ability Fest. Five men in black T shirts are in front of festival crowd, one on the right is in a wheelchair, smiling and holding a microphone.
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Ability Fest returns and expands to Queensland

The music festival with inclusion baked into its DNA returns this October.

Sprung Ensemble member, Sinead Skorka Brennan in ‘O, How I Dreamt of Things Impossible’, 2020. Photo: Kate Holmes. A performer on a darkened stage with a colourful bodysuit. The performer lowered their body, supported by their arms and legs like a spider pose.
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What does a disability-led audition process look like?

With an ensemble call-out and funding for new work, Sprung Dance Theatre is building upon existing disability-led frameworks to expand…

'Little Murmur' to tour in Australia. Photo: Angela Grabowska. A young woman lies on the stage with a book in her hand and pages flying in the air.
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Dancing through the world of dyslexia

Developed with young audiences in mind, 'Little Murmur' by the UK's Aakash Odedra Company draws on life experiences of dyslexia…

Deaf Indigenous Dance Group dancers Leslie Footscray, Nathaniel Murray and others rehearsing in Cairns, 2021. Photo: Sean Davey. A black and white photo of First People dancers rehearsing in a room.
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Deaf Indigenous Dance Group celebrates 27-year history at State Library

The Far North Queensland Deaf Indigenous Dance Group empowers d/Deaf First Nations artists through Culture and dance.

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