Creative Projects
Many of the varied creative projects supported by Arts Access SA have local community links. These projects are designed to foster the integration of people with disabilities, break down barriers of social isolation and create stepping-stones between disability and mainstream cultures. Workshops held primarily in metropolitan areas, though we are seeking ways to better connect with regional SA, provide an opportunity for people to explore techniques in a variety of artforms, meet others and discover personal and creative skills.
High Beam Global
Evolving from our near 10 year old successful biennial High Beam Festival, we have now revised and established it as an annual event as part of the Adelaide Fringe. The move to March has been made as it will help grow our audience, profile and potential for international participation. It includes works by people with disabilities, about people with disabilities and shows which provide increased accessibility such as the use of Auslan and surtitles.
High Beam Global 2008 ran from 22 February to 9 March.
For events to be included within High Beam Global, their proposals had to feature one or more of the following elements:
- Create by and/or for people with disabilities
- About disability
- Showcase best practise in making the arts accessible, e.g.: through use of Auslan, surtitles.
Visit our High Beam Global website
Club Cool
Last Sunday of the month – 12 to 4pm (except December)
The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel
59 Port Road Hindmarsh South Australia - who is on this month
Admission: $5, FREE for Arts Access SA members
Clubhouse SA lunch & entry to Club Cool $10 Tickets at the door
Now in its twelfth year, Club Cool is an ongoing, socially integrated musical event held the last Sunday of every month at one of Adelaide’s leading live music venues, the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel.
Club Cool provides a smoke-free, friendly and inclusive environment with a mix of people with a disability, their friends, families and carers as well as the broader public.
Combining music, creativity and fun Club Cool provides both top quality musical entertainment and participation to audiences as well as a showcasing opportunity for disabled artists’ work from across the sector.
In 2006, Arts Access SA and The Gov won the South Australian Small Business Award in the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnerships Award.
We want young people with a disability to get involved with the show and Club Cool. If you’d like to volunteer, ring Arts Access SA on 8224 0799.
Watch Club Cool’s TV Commercial
For more info, call Arts Access SA on 08 8224 0799
Cool Projects
Access 2 Cool
The highly successful Club Cool Day Options has grown into the exciting Access 2 Cool project. Club Cool Day Options took place in 2006 at Bedford where Club Cool popular DJs, MC Frost and DJ Dubarama; plus Eva Sifis and Andrew McNicol worked as a team to help participants to create original rap and songs. Many of these creations were performed by participants at Club Cool Under Lights, as part of High Beam Local.
Access 2 Cool has taken the idea a step further. MC Frost, DJ Dubarama and Andrew have in 2007 travelled far and wide to work with participants on their home territory. In these workshops participants learned how to create their own backing tracks from samples. They then worked on the words for a song or rap and finally recorded their creation. We look forward to hearing some of these new creations this year at Club Cool.
Visual Arts
Arts Access SA is committed and keen to make a long-term impact to the State’s disability visual arts sector. We are keen to develop pathways to professional or personal development, new projects that will fill existing gaps and also the establishment of a major visual arts gallery and facilities for professionals and recreational / amateur participants with disabilities.
Since late 2006, Arts Access SA has taken a renewed interest in developing visual arts opportunities and exhibitions, from that three significant programs have evolved:
- A-Frame Art Exhibition & Auction
- Hallway Gallery
- High Beam “Off the Wall”
A-Frame Art Exhibition & Auction
An annual exhibition and competition for all South Australian artists with a disability, with 50 works selected by three leading South Australian artists with expertise in the disability visual arts sector. The 50 works selected are displayed and auctioned in December at the Adelaide Festival Theatre Foyer
View the 2007 A-Frame artworks
Hallway Gallery
In the hallway of Arts Access SA, an intimate gallery space has been established to solely exhibit artworks by artists with a disability. On a monthly basis, exhibitions rotate.
Artists interested in having their works displayed at the Hallway Gallery or other spaces, please contact Phil Noack, philn@artsaccess-sa.org.au or call 8224 0799.
Radio Cool
1pm Sundays on Radio Adelaide 101.5 FM
Radio Cool, the voice of Arts Access SA on Radio Adelaide 101.5FM can now be heard every Sunday from 1.00 to 2.00pm. Presented by Arts Access SA’s enthusiastic volunteers, it discusses and showcases arts and disability in South Australia, nationally and internationally.
Listen the the Radio Cool theme
The program produced by our volunteers features events listing, interviews and music performed by South Australian and Australians with disabilities. If you have events or music you liked played on Radio Cool, please contact Arts Access SA.
Radio Cool is strongly aligned with Club Cool, our long-term contemporary music event which we will also broadcast live from Club Cool at 'The Gov' each month.
If you would like to have your event promoted or you are a musician with a disability and have contemporary music for airplay, please get in touch with Arts Access SA.
We want young people with a disability to get involved with the show and Club Cool. If you’d like to volunteer, ring Arts Access SA on 8224 0799.
Download the Radio Cool poster
Radio Cool Presenters: (view bios)
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Disability Arts Advocacy Project (Reins, Rope & Red Tape)
This project is currently under review. If interested, please contact Arts Access SA’s Executive Director, petert@artsaccess-sa.org.au
Disability Arts Advocacy Project, formerly known as Reins, Rope & Red Tape is an advocacy and cultural action project for emerging disabled artists. It is designed to mentor disabled artists, creating a place for exploration and experimentation looking at the relationships between arts, leadership and disability activism, using a mentoring model that combines features of group and individual mentoring.
Arts Access SA recognises that there is a need for a new generation of disability activists. While change on a political level is not the goal of this project, the skills that support change practices are. Change at a cultural level can be effected through the arts.
Please email an expression of interest including your Name, Postal Address, Telephone and Email to petert@artsaccess-sa.org.au.