Day 1 Saturday:
Experiential workshops
Principles & practice  of dance-movement for children with special needs.

Day 2 Sunday:
Workshops and theory
Introducing the language of movement, Laban Movement Analysis, for the special school context
Assessing dance movement programs in the special school context

Nebula is a revolution in inclusive design.  As Australia’s first portable arts space created with the needs of artists with a disability at the centre of its design, the Nebula studio adapts to the art and the artists.

By placing the needs and intentions of the artists at the centre of its function, Nebula can be transformed into a gallery, workshop / seminar space or performing arts venue.  In each capacity, Nebula accommodates any type of creative work produced by artists with a disability, offers opportunities for creating site-specific work, and can be used as a communal meeting place.  Through this space, artists with a disability can inject their work into the mainstream arts community.

This state of the art venue will be launched on Monday, March 5 at 6:00 pm in conjunction with ACMI’s William Kentridge: Five Themes exhibition and will showcase animations made by the artists, as inspired by Kentridge’s prolific work.

If interested in a private tour of Nebula, please register your interest with Ashley Molese either by phone at (03) 8640 6008, or via email at amolese@artsaccess.com.au to arrange a time.

Nebula will be open to the public from March 5 to March 10, 2012.  Times may vary.  For further information and to see the full Nebula program at ACMI, please visit http://www.acmi.net.au/nebula.aspx

NEBULA is a project of Arts Access Victoria’s Art Day South artists, created with the support of The William Buckland Foundation and Bendigo Bank. Arts Access Victoria acknowledges the support of Arts Victoria, Australia Council for the Arts and Department of Human Services.

APOCASTRIP WOW!!

21, 22 February 2012 

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Mat Fraser* and Julia Atlas Muz, the crazy blonde and the sealboy mutant, perform this traditional and genuine old time freak show act, woven together by subversive songs, comedy turns and cameos- a rollicking, cataclysmic cabaret sideshow striptease spectacular!

*Mat Fraser, UK performer extraordinaire, who trashes all disability stereotypes

http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/clubs/events/2421/apocastrip-wow

Win one of four free double passes!!!

Open to all new and existing Arts Access Victoria members

Have you signed up??!

http://artsaccess.com.au/access-program-2/become-an-access-member/

To be in the draw, email jflorence@artsaccess.com.au or phone 8640 6011 and leave your name and membership number.

Winners notified by 15 February

Venue:

The Gershwin Room

The Esplanade Hotel

11 The Esplanade, St Kilda

www.espy.com.au

Bookings:  

mail@espy.com.au 

phone: 03 9534 0211

Respite Victoria links you to the 8 regional disability respite websites in Victoria. Each regional website links you to the Respite Finder search (local and statewide), and has specific local information, news and events.

Opening night dinks and nibbles 6-9pm Friday Feb 17th

All participants will receive a $35 Coles Myer voucher for their time, and the participant completing the most reviews will be thanked on the website and receive a $200 Coles Myer voucher.

Lunch will be provided on each day and everyone involved is welcome to come have a few drinks with us after each session.

Using Grit Media’s new website, The Travelling Chair (www.travellingchair.net), we are now creating a user generated resource with detailed information about all types of accessible venues.

The website is already up and running and now needs users to get online and share their hard won knowledge of accessible places.

***We want details on the gaps between tables, the size of the accessible toilets, the height of the counter and all the other points you find to be important.

***Were you treated differently because you had a disability?  Were the staff helpful and happy to meet your needs?
We’ll be asking participants to gather and upload this information over the course of the competition.

We want you to give good reviews to those who’ve made the effort to be accessible for everyone, and name and shame those who need to get their act together.

By building up the Travelling Chair website as a resource, we aim both to share as much information as possible between people with access needs, and encourage retailers to make the changes necessary to make our city accessible to people of all abilities.

The Make Melbourne Accessible initiative will act as a kickstart for the Travelling Chair website, getting the initial reviews up for the Melbourne area, and encouraging new users to contribute to the site.

Sign me up!

To be a part of the Make Melbourne Accessible Initiative you will need to be available from 12pm – 4pm on at least three Saturdays between Feb 11 and Mar 3.

Request and return form to naomi@gritmedia.org.au or admin@gritmedia.org.au

or

Travelling Chair, Grit Media

GPO Box 571, Melbourne, 3001

Completed forms must be received by the Grit Media office on or before Tuesday 7th Feb

The first production for the year will be a new version of ‘The Wild Duck’ by Henrik Ibsen:

Winner of three Helpmann Awards (2011) and four Sydney Theatre Awards (2011), this taut, stripped-back rendition of a modern classic never lets up. Director Simon Stone has developed from a wunderkind of Melbourne’s indie theatre to an established force on Australia’s mainstages. Here he transplants Ibsen’s characters into the contemporary world in a new play tailor-made for an astonishing cast led by Ewen Leslie.
A bittersweet portrait of family dysfunction, deception and denial, The Wild Duck resounds for a new age.
Duration: 90 minutes no interval. Ages: 16+

For access requirements (wheelchair access or allocated seats for AD or Auslan performances) phone 03 9685 5111 or email boxoffice@malthousetheatre.com.au

• Arts Access Victoria will source and promote free entertainment offers from across Victoria.
• Arts Access Vic will source and promote discounted entertainment offers for members and publicise them in regular newsletters and bulletins
• AAV will offer heavily discounted Hoyts and Village cinema vouchers forindividual members, group members and clients and staff of organisation members.
• AAV supports the Arts industry to achieve accessible arts events which provide Auslan interpreting, audio description, captioning, improved physical access options, tactile tours etc.
• Free up-dates on accessible arts and entertainment opportunities, news flashes, quarterly newsletters.
• Help with members’ ticketing difficulties – call or email us
• Member assistance with a wide range of inquiries on access to the arts – call or email us. This information can be delivered in the specific accessible formats of your choice.
• We actively seek your feedback on poor access experiences and services at Victorian arts and cultural venues and follow up to improve the issues.
• The Access Service will carry out active campaigns and individual advocacy to increase your rights to participate in cultural activities.
• AAV is developing a Venue Guide that will give detailed access information about major Arts venues.

Membership

The Access Service offers individual, group and organisational membership. Now is the time to renew your membership or to take up membership for the first time.

For more information contact:

Janice Florence, Access Development Officer (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
jflorence@artsaccess.com.au / Tel 03 8640 6011   / TTY 03 9699 7636

Kath Duncan, Access Development Officer (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday)
kduncan@artsaccess.com.au / Tel 03 8640 6002 / TTY 03 9699 7636

See more information on the AAV website: http://artsaccess.com.au/access-program-2/become-an-access-member/