Events

Events performances and arts icon On the Events page, you can find out about performances, exhibitions or other arts events you can go to.

Map icon You will find out where it will happen.

Calendar icon You will find out the date, day and the time.

Accessibility icon You find out what access is offered.

Ticket icon You will find out the ticket prices and where to buy your tickets.

Enjoy going to see some awesome arts!

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Posted: Tuesday 6 September, 2016

Media Representation – Me Before You

A young women in a blue dress sits on a man's lap smiling at him. Her left arm wraps around him with her hand resting on the back of his wheelchair. The young man wearing brown suit smiles at her.

Earlier this year, Me Before You was released in cinemas. The film, based on JoJo Moyes’ 2012 best-selling book, explores the decision of a man who wants to end a life because of a severe disability. Will Traynor (played by Sam Claflin), who became a quadriplegic in a pedestrian accident,...

Posted: Monday 25 July, 2016

Tell me a story….

A women wearing a pink top stands in the foreground on the right side of the photograph. She is holding a white folder under her left arm. In her right hand she holds a pencil touching her chin. Her eyes are downcast looking and she looks beyond the edge of the photograph. In the background which is blurred two men sit at their work desks looking at her.

Stories have an amazing way of allowing us to see things in a different light. Here’s a story I heard this week. Research has shown that the most stigma and discrimination a person living with mental illness will receive is not from their family, friends or even their community. In...

Posted: Friday 27 May, 2016

10 Answers to Common Questions People Ask When Being Called Out for Using Ableist Language

The graphic shows the word “Ableism” in black letters on a white rectangle. Surrounding it is a red circle with a diagonal line across the word.

The economy has been crippled by debt. You’d have to be insane to want to invade Syria. They’re just blind to the suffering of other people. Only a moron would believe that. Disability metaphors abound in our culture, and they exist almost entirely as pejoratives. You see something wrong? Compare...

Posted: Thursday 16 July, 2015

Audio Describing A New Music CD

Emma Bennison sits beneath a bright spotlight within an otherwise dark room. She sits at a piano and sings into a microphone.

Guest Blogger: Emma Bennison I will be known to some of you as the Co-CEO of Arts Access Australia, but as as I have said previous blog, I am also a singer/song-writer. My new album, “Fine Line” is making history because I made it to be accessible to people who are blind or Deaf. The...