flamboyance (/flamˈbɔɪəns/) noun:
The COVID19 crisis has shaken many in our communities, particularly its Deaf and disabled members. People are feeling alone but fearful of being part of large gatherings. In response, Access2Arts and fibre artist Richard Boyle (AKA the Gay Hooker) devised an art project that would encourage community participation while maintaining social distancing.
As a participatory-art project, Flamboyance invites participants to create crocheted Flamingos to include in a collaborative exhibition of the work as part of Adelaide’s LGBTIQ+ FEAST Festival. The project seeks to connect people and communities in creating art even while socially distanced as a result of the COVID 19 virus. Using the pattern people are shown how to crochet their own flamingo figure that they can send to Access2Arts to include in an installation that showcases the community’s Flamboyance (FYI – The collective noun to describe a gathering of flamingos is “flamboyance”). The flamingos were designed to be quick to make, easy to post and use a small amount of materials.
Working from crochet pattern created by Richard we invite people to come together and crochet their own flamingo to mail to Access2Arts. These contributions will ‘flock’ together to create an exhibition of fibre flamingos to be shown in the Adelaide City Library in November as part of the 2020 Feast Festival.
DOWNLOAD a flamingo pattern using Australian/UK stitch terms HERE (pdf, 1MB)
DOWNLOAD a flamingo pattern using US stitch terms HERE (pdf, 975kb)
To find out more or to register your interest in being part of the Flamboyance participatory art project, email your name, address and a contact phone number to flamboyance@access2arts.org.au, or download a pattern and get your flamboyance on.
Flamboyance is supported by the Adelaide City Library, as part of the Feast Festival.
Our friends at the Mental Health Coalition of South Australia (MHCSA) have launched their program for Mental Health Week 2020! This year, Mental Health Week will be taking place from October 10 to 17 2020.
Some of the events taking place this Mental Health week include:
Artists In Conversation: Live Interview at City Library
When: Saturday, 26 September 2020
Access2Arts is thrilled to be partnering with MHCSA and mindshare to host exciting creative conversations for the general public, interviewing local artists with lived experience of mental illness, and reflecting on creativity and community for wellbeing.
Audio & Transcription Online from October
mindshare Instagram Takeovers
When: 10-17 October 2020
make sure you follow @mindshare.sa on Instagram! You’ll be able to tune into our interactive Instagram takeovers by local lived experience ambassadors and mindshare artists all Mental Health Week.
Poetry For The Terrified: Zoom Workshop
When: Saturday, 10 October 2020. From 2pm-4pm
Poetry can be a powerful form of self-expression and is a great way to support wellbeing—improving mood, strengthening cognitive health and fostering positive self-reflection. This year, mindshare is hosting an online poetry workshop led by spoken word legends Alison Paradoxx and Wallis Prophet.
Intrigued? Check out the full program on MHCSA’s website!
Developing a career as a writer can be hard. As part of Access2Arts’ Thank driting development project for emerging disabled writer, we hosted the ‘Thank Forum for Disabled Writers’ where four writers shared their thoughts on developing as a disabled writer.
Now, Access2Arts has turned their presentations into four podcasts so that even if you missed the Thank Forum you can tune in to get insight into how you can build your writing practise into a career.
“You want to make sure you’re remembered in the right way and not in the wrong way.”
By Kate Larsen
DOWNLOAD a podcast of Kate Larsen’s Thank presentation (26MB, MP3)
DOWNLOAD a transcript of Kate Larsen’s Thank presentation (24kb, DOCX)
“Personal branding is telling people what you do and why you do it. It shows people who you are!”
By Carly Findlay
DOWNLOAD a podcast of Carly Findlay’s Thank presentation (25MB, MP3)
DOWNLOAD a transcript of Carly Findlay’s Thank presentation (23kb, DOCX)
“I earn my living from writing, don’t ask me to write or talk for free”
By Gayle Kennedy
DOWNLOAD a podcast of Gayle Kennedy’s Thank presentation (32MB, MP3)
DOWNLOAD a transcript of Gayle Kennedy’s Thank presentation (24kb, DOCX)
“I’ve neither the time, energy or desire to read work that supports […] dominant views of disability…”
By Gaele Sobott
DOWNLOAD a podcast of Gaele Sobott’s Thank presentation (26MB, MP3)
DOWNLOAD a transcript of Gaele Sobott’s Thank presentation (24kb, DOCX)
The Thank Forum for Disabled Writers was held on Sunday 7 July 2019 at the Adelaide City Library and was moderated by Jessica Alice, Director of Writers SA.
Thank was supported by funding received from the SA Government’s Department of Premier and Cabinet. The Thank Forum for Disabled Writers was supported by the Adelaide City Library.
At Access2Arts we are always keeping our ear to the ground listening for the tastiest morsels to delight even the most discerning audiophile. So when we received these hot-picks from our UK friends at VocalEyes we just had to share them.
Enjoy immersing yourself in these audio treats. And be sure to tell us what you think. We love hearing your thoughts.
Innovative audio describer and a natural-born storyteller J.J. Hunt joins Christine Malec, a perpetually inquisitive member of the blind and partially sighted community who’s always wondering about something. Together their discussions plunge into current events and topical issues to explore the content of important images, and help place vivid descriptions in their cultural context. Lively, hard-hitting, witty, vibrant, and fun, this is a podcast conversation with a view!
Talk Description to Me is a new podcast hosted by Christine Malec and J.J. Hunt. Get an earful.
Flight Paths, a by UK theatre-makers Extant is brought to life on screen for the first time in a new digital retelling of the 2019 production, co-commissioned by The Space, premieres on 15 August.
Combining animation, aerial movement and creative audio description, Flight Paths is inspired by the Goze, blind female storytellers and musicians who travelled the length and breadth of medieval Japan making a living from performing epic tales. Through interactive navigation by the Goze, viewers will journey through a unique, multi-sensory experience of Japanese cultural history and storytelling.
Learn more about the Goze on the Extant website, and read the interview with blind anthropologist Professor Kojiro Hirose from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, who has a particular interest in the history of blind people in Japan.
In Extant’s 2019 production, two blind women took centre stage sometimes on aerial silks, sometimes with their feet firmly on the ground but always surrounded by voices, music, stories and ghosts. Read about the making of the production, with articles by the co-directors of Flight Paths, Maria Oshodi, Artistic Director of Extant, and Kumiko Mendl, Artistic Director of Yellow Earth Theatre.
Jim Kohn will lead a live audio-descriptive Zoom tour taking in at least 10 pieces from the De Young’s permanent collection. This ‘Connections’ tour highlights objects connecting traditional native cultures with contemporary times.
Duration: 1 hour. Join the Zoom call from 6:00AM ACST, Adelaide time on Friday 14 August (Thursday, 13 August 13, 1:30PM PST, San Francisco Time)
https://zoom.us/j/94116402560 (Meeting ID: 941 1640 2560, Password: 948041)
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hopera, musical “Hamilton” is taking the world by storm. Hamilton is the story of America’s Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and helped shape the very foundations of the America we know today. The score blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and Broadway – the story of America then, as told by America now.
The production of Hamilton now available on Disney+ was filmed at a performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in 2016 and features the original cast. It runs for
If you want to hear what the buzz is all about, listen to the Audio Introduction, available in mp3, that has been specially written for the Disney+ production.
If you want to get more audio description in your life check out what audio described offerings await you in Adelaide, presented by Access2Arts.
Arts Access Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Hall as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Hall has a long history of engagement with the Australian arts sector. He has been Chair of the Brisbane Writer’s Festival and the Queensland Conservatorium within Griffith University, and a Board member of Queerscreen. He also played a key role in setting up the Namatjira Legacy Trust, working with family and community in Alice Springs.
A lawyer by trade, Hall brings to AAA 20 years of management experience across both commercial and non-profit organisations. He also has personal experience of living with disability, ensuring AAA’s continued commitment to disability leadership.
AAA Chair Belinda Locke said she is looking forward to a transformative era for AAA under Hall’s guidance.
“Matthew comes to AAA at a pivotal point in time for the organisation, and for the arts sector as a whole,” Locke said. “While there are indeed challenges ahead, I am excited by the opportunity presented by Matthew’s appointment. The Board and I look forward to working with Matthew as he leads the transformation of the organisation into a new era of delivering equal opportunity for cultural and creative participation and contribution for all Deaf and disabled Australians.”
“I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Interim CEO Bev East, who has provided instrumental support to the organisation over the past four months,” Locke said. “The AAA Board and staff wish you the very best for the future.”
Hall holds Bachelors of Arts and Laws and a Master of Law, and has completed post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School. He now lives in rural NSW in the historic village of Burrawang, where he pursues his passion for landscape photography.
SOURCE: https://artsaccessaustralia.org/arts-access-australia-appoints-new-ceo/
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