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Funded arts and disability projects increased for 2011
The number of arts and disability programs and projects receiving funding from Arts NSW for 2011, indicates increased artistic merit within the sector as well as growing opportunities for people with disability to participate in the arts in quality ways.
Sancha Donald CEO Accessible Arts said, “It is exciting to see progress being made in the quality and range of arts and disability projects receiving funding. These projects offer people with disability opportunities to be involved in a range of art forms - theatre, visual arts and music are well represented. We will continue our relationships with the successful recipients throughout 2011 to support and promote their programs and projects.”
Among the successful recipients, Camden Creative Studios received $20,000 for projects referencing history and embracing creativity and social cohesion for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Camden Creative Studios is a facility that combines digital and traditional arts at Camden. In 2008 they received the Accessible Arts Local Government Cultural Award.
The Sylvanvale Foundation received $25,000 for ‘Studio West’, a pilot project for artists with intellectual disabilities to work alongside professional artists in a studio environment at Campbelltown Arts Centre. The project aims to provide and evaluate a practice based, arts education centre where participants are supported to engage fully with the wider visual arts community.
Riverside Theatres in Parramatta received $25,000 to fund the first year of a three-year appointment for a part time creative director/coordinator to coordinate and develop the workshops in the arts for people with disability WAPD program.
The creation and presentation of a production How to Lose Sight received $45,000. This show, about four people who are blind, will be produced by Michal Imielski (Blind, as you see it) and will tour to four houses in Sydney.
Orange Regional Conservatorium received $44,426 to develop a one-week residency and performance project ‘Rewriting the Score.’ This project will involve 15 professional musicians with and without disabilities, to create and develop a world music genre performance program with the theme of inclusivity.
The Crack Theatre Festival received $13,592 to create two access streams at the 2011 festival in partnership with Accessible Arts. Accessible Theatre will produce a series of events featuring artists with disability and Audience Access will improve the Festival’s accessibility for audiences with disability.
The Orange Health Service received $30,000 for an arts, health and wellbeing project that will put artists and arts workers into the broad health context of the redeveloped Bloomfield Hospital Campus to work with patients, to develop site specific works.
The Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, are funding 16 projects throughout NSW in 2011, and two projects will directly engaging people with disability.
A partnership between Multi Task Human Resource Foundation and Tra La La Blip received $20,000 to grow the delivery of Tra La La Blip’s socially inclusive electronic music program for people with disabilities in Lismore.
The Tuleen Group’s Art in the Garage project received $20,000 to deliver a 3D mural project, to facilitate the transformation of 2D images into 3D forms by working collaboratively and through one-on-one instruction with artists with disabilities in the Bega Valley Shire.