Associate members

The following organisations are Associate Members of Arts Access Australia:

Club Wild
Restless Dance Company
Arts Project Australia
Back to Back Theatre
The Awakenings Festival
Arts Access Aotearoa
Karingallery
Junction House Inc
National Assoc. for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
VSA Arts

Club Wild

Club Wild is a fully accessible music 'n' dance party and more. Club Wild offers bands, DJs and performers the opportunity to better their stage skills while receiving recognition from enthusiastic crowds. It offers a great night out in a safe, friendly and accessible nightclub environment. Club Wild is based in Victoria, and has an annual calendar of shows in Melbourne and regional areas.

Restless Dance Company

Restless Dance Company is one of Australia's leading youth dance companies. Since 1991, the Adelaide based company has created dance theatre and run workshops driven by the participants with a disability.

Restless is generating a dance language that enables dancers with a disability to express human truths that communicate to everyone whether or not they have a disability. Performance works take as their themes issues in the lives of the dancers but are never 'about' living a life with disability or 'about' inequality.

Arts Project Australia

Arts Project Australia was established in 1977. It is a charity organization dedicated to the development of individual artistic expression of people with an intellectual disability and its recognition by the wider community. Project Australia is based on a respect for people's creativity. It provides opportunities for participants to develop artistic skills and awareness, and to have their work appreciated in a serious way. Arts Project Australia retails a number of publications, postcards and slide kits.

Back to Back Theatre

Back to Back Theatre is undoubtedly Australia's most unique theatre company. Based in Geelong, it has a full time ensemble of five actors who are perceived to have an intellectual disability. Back to Back makes new contemporary work from collaboration between its ensemble and the wider community of professional artists. The stories come out of the minds of the actors. Back to Back's art creates a view of the world not constrained by convention, logic or the imperative to be normal. The company acknowledges the individuals in the ensemble as original thinkers who function not in isolation but as unique and valuable contributors to the broader cultural and political debate.

The Awakenings Festival

The Awakenings Festival is an inclusive community event held every October in Horsham, Victoria. It is committed to improving access to the arts for people of all abilities. The first festival was held in Horsham in western Victoria October 1995. The Festival has evolved into a ten-day event, which provides a diverse range of opportunities to participants who travel from all over Australia to experience the "Awakenings magic". Celebrated pianist David Helfgott is the patron for Awakenings.

Read more at www.awakenings.horsham.net.au

Arts Access Aotearoa

Arts Access Aotearoa is a Charitable Trust which opens opportunities for people in New Zealand to create and perform their art. Arts Access Aotearoa works with organisations in the social service sector, and communities of people with limited access to the arts. Arts Access Aotearoa stimulates people to undertake arts projects, develop independent arts activities and develop partnerships with funding organisations and other art groups.

Karingallery

Karingallery is a visual arts gallery based in Melbourne, Victoria.

Junction House

Junction House is an organisation which provides recreational and educational services for adults with mild intellectual disabilities. It facilitates members to participate in group activities and be part of the community. It is a good place to make friends. There are various social groups, classes, and holiday camps offered by Junction House

National Assoc. for the Visual Arts (NAVA)

NAVA is the peak body representing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts and craft sector through advocacy, representation and service provision

VSA Arts

Founded in 1974 by Jean Kennedy Smith as an affiliate of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, VSA arts is an International organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The organization offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the visual arts implemented primarily through an affiliate network in America and 70 international affiliates in 67 countries.