Blacktown Arts is accepting new applications for two significant artist-in-residence opportunities. The Pat Parker Memorial Residency honours Patricia Parker’s (OAM) pioneering contribution to the development of community arts in Blacktown and beyond. This residency is open to artists with exciting ideas for innovative collaborations with communities in the spirit of Pat Parker’s passions including women’s rights, lesbian and … Read More
Artists living with disability
Accessing The Arts Group
ACCESSING THE ARTS GROUP ATAG’s Upcoming Meetings for 2017 Accessing the Arts Group (ATAG) is a professional development group for arts organisations and venues, aiming to provide both support and information to improve disability access and social inclusion. New members are very welcome to come along and participate in this discussion. Following up on their … Read More
Bondi Pavilion Theatre – Waverley Council
Bondi Pavilion Theatre has been in touch with TNN and has some space available for 2017 and is also taking bookings for 2018. If you’ve got a show ready for an audience get in touch to see what dates are still available this year or plan for next. Waverley Council are also accepting applications … Read More
Theatre-ing While Disabled: Intern Edition
Kate Langsdorf writes about why she never took an unpaid internship. In this Howlround series, Kate highlights some of the twenty theatre job titles she’s held over the years, rating them based on their level of awesomeness / non-awesomeness through the lens of her physical disability. Each position is ranked on a scale of one … Read More
Change of CEO at Accessible Arts NSW
Sancha Donald, Accessible Arts NSW’s long-standing CEO, will step down at the end of this month. Sancha has provided distinguished service to Accessible Arts as CEO for the past for 12 years. The list of her achievements across that period is extensive. She has been a tireless advocate for artists with a disability, particularly in … Read More
Join Tim Ferguson & the Australia Council for IDPwD
International Day of People with Disability at the Australia Council, with Tim Ferguson Join Tim and the Australia Council via livestream for the International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD), where their new Disability Action Plan 2017–2019 will be launched. The evaluation of the current Disability Action Plan 2014–2016 will also be released. Tim Ferguson, one of Australia’s … Read More