We are delighted to have been invited to participate in Arts Activated 2019 in Sydney this week. Our CEO Meagan Shand took the stage this morning to present on a panel on Arts Leadership & Disability. Thank you for having us, Accessible Arts!
This image shows Meagan speaking at a lectern on stage. She is tall, in her 50s with brown hair tied back, red lips, and a dark suit. Behind her is a screen with a powerpoint slide showing the Arts Access Australia logo and an image from our #RealMoneyRealJobs pre-election campaign from earlier this year. Also pictured is an Auslan interpreter, four seated panellists (three female and one male) and an empty chair.
#ArtsActivated2019
*ALERT!* Travel grants are now open for Meeting Place 2019!
If you're a professional/emerging artist or arts-worker with disability living anywhere in Australia, you can apply to get your flights, accommodation and event registration covered for Meeting Place 2019 in Canberra.
Happening on 1-3 December, Meeting Place is the only disability-led event of its kind. It brings together national and international arts and cultural leaders, arts-workers and artists to discuss and debate the latest in arts and accessibility in Australia. Applications close 16 September.
The Meeting Place 2019 Travel Grants are supported by Arts Access Australia's donors and Creative Partnerships Australia through their Plus1 program.
Meeting Place 2019 Travel Grants - now open
artsaccessaustralia.org
Travel grants are now available to assist with the costs of attending Meeting Place 2019, Australia's leading forum on arts and disability.
I been thinking l can more performance's artists from my day service performance's artists to come do.
I was thinking of going.
Lisa Mitchell
Arts Access Australia is delighted to partner with the Australia Council for the Arts for our inaugural AAA Industry Awards Night, to be held in Canberra at the close of Meeting Place 2019, on the International Day of People with Disability, Tuesday 3 December. The Australia Council will be presenting their new National Arts & Disability Awards for emerging and established artists on the night, with nominations for the awards open now!
National Arts and Disability Awards 2019-21
australiacouncil.gov.au
Closing date: Tuesday 1 October 2019 (11:59PM AEST)
I would like to be involved in this for Tuesday for international Day of people with a disability. I go to a day service called warringing and it is a disability service l could give them information about it to them.
Carmen Maddison
We are deeply saddened to hear about the closure of Ausdance National. At a time where arts funding is limited and artists are facing an uphill battle in the fight for fair pay and appropriate recognition for the cultural importance of their work, it is a blow to the Australian arts to lose the only national body advocating for dance. May the spirit of Ausdance National live on in the state-based Ausdance organisations.
Ausdance National announces its closure » Ausdance | Dance Advocacy
ausdance.org.au
Our mission is to educate, inspire and support the dance community to reach its potential as a dynamic force within local, national and international communities."...Wellbeing goes beyond just feeling happy. Wellbeing emerges when meaning is created from experiencing the whole spectrum of human emotion. Artistic expression is well placed to communicate this spectrum of emotion."
Great read on the connection between art and mental health.
Article via ArtsHub: bit.ly/2Zwywpm
The arts as an antidote to the loneliness epidemic
artshub.com.au
Experts say Australia is in the midst of a loneliness epidemic but music, dance, art and storytelling may cure societal ills.Copyright 2019 © Arts Access Australia.
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