DADAAWA is positioned as the primary Arts and Disability infrastructure in WA, providing cultural access to over 2000 West Australians with disabilities and or mental illness per year. Critical to DADAAWA’s role is the provision of audience development programs across WA to ensure that the 20% of the population who experience disabilities and or mental illness have access to the large gamut of community arts, exhibition, performance and screening opportunities available within the mainstream and through that opportunities to connect with audiences and self advocate through the arts.
Dadaa’s Arts development program staff work toward the artistic and professional development of the people involved in its programs. From music, dance and fine arts, to performance and new media, all the Arts development programs seek a full engagement with an art form and a solid pursuit to push participation and stretch individual capabilities.
All of the Arts Development programs have public outcomes, whether they be exhibitions, Music CD’s, interventions, Theatre performances or films. Art meets the community and the efforts of those involved are shared with a broader sphere of people, opening a dialogue and awareness to the community of people living with a disability and the art they make.
Dadaa Inc employs professional artists. These artists fulfil the role of teacher, mentor, artistic guide and ensure a connection and exposure with the broader artistic community.
Dadaa’s Freight Gallery and Focus exhibition spaces are located in Fremantle and Midland, they along with community exhibition and performance venues ensure that with the support of Dadaa, artists with disabilities have access to professional and community based venues, curatorial and installation support and importantly access to the arts economy.
The arts development programs are made possible via the contribution of our project partners. Lotterywest, Healthway, ArtsWA, and Australia Council for the Arts. These partners ensure we continue to manage, coordinate and staff our programs, facilitating the production of cultural processes and outcomes by people living with a disability or a mental illness.
On just about any Friday night throughout the year, you can be assured that some where in the State DADAAWA will host and exhibition, performance, video screening or radio play, ensuring that the cultural contribution of people with disabilities is positioned to grow new audiences for these artists.
In the 2007 – 2012 period DADAAWA is please to commence the FREIGHT Community Access program, designed to resource artists with disabilities and or mental illness from across WA to gain supported access to DADAA’s FREIGHT Gallery in Fremantle
Artlink’s secondary objective is to maintain family and carer wellness through 44 weeks of respite per year.
For more information on times and classes click on the link below.
ARTLINK Program link
As one of the largest employers of professional and emerging CCD and arts practitioners in WA, DADAAWA works to add value to the WA arts community through:
DADAAWA recognizes the core values that professional and emerging CCD and mainstream practicing artists bring to the communities with whom it works; The roles of the artist as catalyst, facilitator, investigator, consultant, driver and guide are critical in meeting the cultural development needs of the complex individuals with whom DADAAWA works.
In the coming period 2007 – 2012 DADAAWA seeks to expand the support structures and opportunities currently available to the artists within our employ through:
Dadaa’s Arts development program staff work toward the artistic and professional development of the people involved in its programs. From music, dance and fine arts, to performance and new media, all the Arts development programs seek a full engagement with an art form and a solid pursuit to push participation and stretch individual capabilities.
All of the Arts Development programs have public outcomes, whether they be exhibitions, Music CD’s, interventions, Theatre performances or films. Art meets the community and the efforts of those involved are shared with a broader sphere of people, opening a dialogue and awareness to the community of people living with a disability and the art they make.
Dadaa Inc employs professional artists. These artists fulfil the role of teacher, mentor, artistic guide and ensure a connection and exposure with the broader artistic community.
Dadaa’s Freight Gallery and Focus exhibition spaces are located in Fremantle and Midland, they along with community exhibition and performance venues ensure that with the support of Dadaa, artists with disabilities have access to professional and community based venues, curatorial and installation support and importantly access to the arts economy.
The arts development programs are made possible via the contribution of our project partners. Lotterywest, Healthway, ArtsWA, and Australia Council for the Arts. These partners ensure we continue to manage, coordinate and staff our programs, facilitating the production of cultural processes and outcomes by people living with a disability or a mental illness.
On just about any Friday night throughout the year, you can be assured that some where in the State DADAAWA will host and exhibition, performance, video screening or radio play, ensuring that the cultural contribution of people with disabilities is positioned to grow new audiences for these artists.
In the 2007 – 2012 period DADAAWA is please to commence the FREIGHT Community Access program, designed to resource artists with disabilities and or mental illness from across WA to gain supported access to DADAA’s FREIGHT Gallery in Fremantle
ARTLINK Program
Artlink operates as a respite program
providing school aged children with special needs access to engaging
arts based activities.
Artlink’s secondary objective is to maintain family and carer wellness through 44 weeks of respite per year.
For more information on times and classes click on the link below.
ARTLINK Program link
Artists Support
DADAAWA’s primary role is to provide access to the arts and cultural life of WA for people with disabilities and or mental illness, critical to this access is DADAA’s staff of permanent, contract and part time artsworkers, who underpin the entire DADAAWA program.As one of the largest employers of professional and emerging CCD and arts practitioners in WA, DADAAWA works to add value to the WA arts community through:
- Delivery of customized Arts and Disability Training programs;
- Access to professional development, formal and informal mentoring programs;
- Commitment to sustained localized employment opportunities in both regional and metropolitan Perth;
- Provision of local program coordination and management structures;
- Provision of artistic licence and creative control;
- Access to theoretical, production and technical resources;
- Competitive wage and salary conditions;
- Salary packaging;
- Insurances and superannuation
DADAAWA recognizes the core values that professional and emerging CCD and mainstream practicing artists bring to the communities with whom it works; The roles of the artist as catalyst, facilitator, investigator, consultant, driver and guide are critical in meeting the cultural development needs of the complex individuals with whom DADAAWA works.
In the coming period 2007 – 2012 DADAAWA seeks to expand the support structures and opportunities currently available to the artists within our employ through:
- The development of an Arts and Disability and CCD library;
- Annual program of critical debate;
- Increased web capacity and development of interactive web components;
- Increased emphasis on the production of Arts and Disability resource publications;
- Annual residential training program;
- Development of resource and production equipment library;
- Development of legal, copyright and moral rights library;
- Strategies through which to better position broad artistic input from the State and national CCD and Arts sectors;
- Development of strategies through which to develop self supporting teams of artists with a strong emphasis on peer support and professional exchange;
- Development of working links between disparate artistic staff across the State;
- Implementation of stronger collaborative process between Managers and artistic staff on pre project development and design;
- More actively engage artistic staff in evaluation, review and policy development;
- Build core artistic ensemble;
- Devise and implement strategies to facilitate artists placement across program areas to maximize resources and allow cross fertilization across program disciplines;
- Provide physical space and paid time for artistic staff to dialogue about the work (Internal / External)
- Establish common CCD and Disability language across staff to facilitate greater understandings between staff;
- Build and disseminate artists register (Online) to maximize internal and external employment opportunities for Artsworkers working within Arts and Disability;
- Provide Artsworkers within the DADAAWA stable with greater access to State, national and international forums and exposure to the great diversity of practice that lies beyond DADAAWA;
- Promote WA Arts and Disability practitioners and Artsworkers with greater exposure within DADAAWA’s publications;
- Formally recognize the contribution made within DADAAWA by its’ artistic staff, celebrating their contribution;
- Maintain a commitment to the employment of emerging WA artists through:
- Program placement;
- Training and mentoring;
- Continued employment opportunities;
- Inclusion within critical debate.
