Connect with ADNA
Arts and Disability Network Australia
Representing Artists of Lutruwita/Tasmania
Second Echo Ensemble (SEE) is proud to be part of Arts and Disability Network Australia (ADNA), strengthening the connection between Lutruwita/Tasmania and a national community of d/Deaf and disabled artists, arts workers and screen practitioners.
ADNA is Australia’s national, disability-led peak body for arts and disability. It brings people together across the country to strengthen advocacy, share knowledge, build connections and champion disability-led creative practice.
For SEE, being part of ADNA means helping ensure artists from Lutruwita/Tasmania are part of the national conversation, not from the edge of it, but as active contributors to what comes next.
We believe lived experience is expertise. ADNA creates another place for that expertise to be shared, connected and heard.
Artists: put yourself on the national map
Are you an artist, creative practitioner or arts worker?
ADNA has a national Community Directory and interactive map connecting d/Deaf and disabled artists, arts workers, screen practitioners, organisations, access consultants and allies across Australia.
Artists can create their own profile, including:
• your artforms and creative practice
• a short bio
• images of your work
• your website and social media
• ways people can contact you
It is free to add yourself.
Explore the ADNA Community
Join a Community of Practice
You do not have to solve everything alone.
ADNA runs national online Communities of Practice, bringing artists, organisations and practitioners together to share what they know, ask difficult questions, identify challenges and learn from each other.
Creative Access Community of Practice
For artists, access practitioners, producers, cultural workers and organisations interested in or experienced in creative access.
The group meets online every three months and shares approaches to making arts and cultural practice more accessible.
NDIS Arts and Disability Community of Practice
For individuals and organisations working with, or wanting to better understand, the relationship between NDIS funding and arts and cultural practice.
People with all levels of experience are welcome. The group meets online every three months to share knowledge, questions and strategies.
Have your say
National advocacy needs voices from all over the country.
ADNA invites artists, arts workers, organisations and community members to share their experiences, priorities and ideas. This helps inform advocacy, policy responses and conversations with government, funders and cultural institutions.
If something is getting in the way of your creative practice, or something is working and others need to know about it, this is one place to say it.
Tools for artists
ADNA also has a growing library of practical resources covering access and creative careers, including:
• access riders
• access and inclusion plans
• accessible content
• accessible performances and events
• working with d/Deaf and disabled artists
• networking
• mapping your creative career
• communicating the value of your work
Stay connected
ADNA shares news, events and opportunities from Australia’s arts and disability community.
A national network with Lutruwita in it
Second Echo Ensemble brings to ADNA more than two decades of integrated contemporary arts practice from Lutruwita/Tasmania.
We are interested in what becomes possible when access is not added after the art is made, when lived experience is recognised as expertise, and when disabled artists have the time, relationships and creative authority to lead.
Joining ADNA gives us another way to connect that practice with artists and organisations across Australia, and another way for Tasmanian artists to connect directly into the national conversation.
Updates
Tasmania’s Second Echo Ensemble joins Arts and Disability Network Australia to shape the future of Australian arts and disability culture.
Announcement:
Sarah-Mace Dennis, National Director Arts and Disability Network Australia and Kelly Drummond Cawthon, Creative Director Second Echo Ensemble discuss the announcement with ABC Radio Hobart Evenings Program.