People with a disability
The Cultural Engagement Framework celebrates our diversity and creates opportunities for all Australians to participate in our cultural life. It includes:
- Indigenous Australians
- People with a disability
- Multicultural Australia
- Young people
- Regional and marginalised communities
People with a disability
The Australia Council supports initiatives that provide opportunities for artists, participants and audiences with disabilities to engage in Australia’s arts and cultural life.
We recognise that opportunities to participate in and enjoy the arts for people with a disability may also be affected by issues relating to cultural diversity, youth, Aboriginality and living in regional or remote communities.
We aim to
- increase opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in and enjoy arts and cultural events
- increase access to support for artists with a disability
We provide
- advice to the Federal Government on the National Arts and Disability Strategy
- support to key arts and disability producing and service organisations
- support to implement our Arts and Disability Action Plan
- professional development of our staff with and through our Access Champions
Stories
- Music for the bionic ear
- From strength to strength for Back to Back
- Excellence is many-splendoured, pp14-15 Artery
- Dance triptych for restless youth, p 15, Artery
Current policy
Resources
Current
- National Arts and Disability Strategy
- National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy
- Fourth National Mental Health Plan
Archived
Access Tools
- Audio Description and Tactile Experiences
- Large Print
- Braille
- Auslan Interpretation
- Hearing Augmentation
- Captions
- Easy English
- Web Accessibility
Useful links
Arts and Disability Network
- Arts Access Australia
- Arts Ability ACT
- Canberra Arts Access Network
- Accessible Arts
- Arts Access Darwin
- Arts Access Central Australia
- Access Arts Queensland
- Disability Arts Transition Team (SA)
- Arts Action Tasmania
- Arts Access Victoria
- Deaf Arts Network Victoria
- DADAA WA
Arts and Disability
- Artists with a disability (Australia)
- Artist directory (VIC)
- Artworkers with a disability (NSW)
- Arts and disability organisations (VIC)
- Back to Back Theatre
- Crossroad Arts
- Ever After Theatre Company
- Interweave
- Milk Crate Theatre
- Rawcus
- Restless Dance
- Tutti Ensemble
- Weave Movement Theatre
- Wild @ HeART Community Arts
Arts and Disability Research and Publications
- Research hub – Arts and Disability Bibliography
- Raw Law – Your art, your rights
- Picture This: Increasing the cultural participation of people with a disability in Victoria
- Making the Journey
- Art and Wellbeing
Disability and Access organisations
- Media Access Australia
- The Association of Consultants in Access, Australia Inc
- Independent Living Centres Australia
- Vision Australia
- Guide Dogs Australia
- Deaf Australia
- Physical Disability Australia
- Aboriginal Disability Network
- Spinal Cord Injuries Australia
- Beyond Blue
- Black Dog Institute
- Alzheimers Association
- Cerebral Palsy: The Spastic Centre
- Brain Injury Australia
- National Council on Intellectual Disability
- Multicultural Mental Health Australia
- Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association
- Diversity Health Institute
- Multicultural Advocacy Liaison Services of South Australia
- Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities
- Further Disability Advocacy Agencies
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