3CR celebrated International Day of People with Disability with 12 hours of radio produced and presented by people with disabilities, from 6am to 6pm on December 3 2009.
Turn up your Radio!!
12 hour broadcast: The 12 hour broadcast was financially supported by the City of Melbourne Metro Access Initiative, a partnership between local government and the Department of Human Services.
6:00 - 7:00 am Welcome with Faaolo Utumapu
Faaolo Utumapu kicked off the day with highlights from The Field Great Debate – Is Life Improving for People with Disabilities? Featuring Stella Young (No Limits), Julie Phillips (Manager, Disability Discrimination Legal Service), David Craig (Executive Officer, Action for Community Living) and Adam Jones (Volunteer Solicitor, Disability Discrimination Legal Service). Listen to 6 am Kick-off
7:00 - 830 am The Breakfast Show with Helen Gwilliam and Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell present the Breakfast Show featuring a critical review of media coverage on disability.
7:00 - 7:30 Breakfast Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell with guest Lesley Hall, CEO AFDO – Is genuine reform on the political agenda?, Shut Out, National Disability Strategy, Immigration Review, and Lifelong care productivity Commission Inquiry. Tom Shakespeare, British sociologist and activist on disability identity. Listen to Breakfast 7:00 - 7:30 am
7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell with guest Rebecca Feldman, Project Officer with Youth Disability Advisory Service about LiveAccess – accessible venues for live music and Carman Parsons, Referrals Access and Equity Policy Officer at Victoria Legal Aid-making justice more accessible and Chris Morris about Launch of DiVine – Victoria’s first online community for and by people with a disability. Listen to Breakfast 7:30 - 8:00 am
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell present The Front Page – a critical review of media coverage on disability on IDPWD and an events roundup. Adaptive Tech Talk with Scott Nixon and Deb Lewis (Statewide Vision Resource Centre). Listen to Breakfast 8:00 - 8:30 am
8:30 - 9:00 Building Better Lives
Campaign to change human service policy and practice related to young people in nursing homes (YPINH) Somewhere to live, Someone to love and Something to do with Stuart, Jason, Anje and Michelle from the Summer Foundation. Listen to the program
9:00 - 9:30 Youth Disability Advocacy Service
Rebecca, Stuart, Jess and Liz from the Youth Disability Advocacy Services (YDAS) talk about the situation facing people with disabilities trying to access Uni’s and Tafe’s. Listen to the program
9:30 - 11:00 Talkback With Attitude
Featuring a powercut! and a panel: Kerry Presser- National Disability Services Victoria, Adam Jones – Volunteer Solicitor, Disability Discrimination Legal Service, Denise Allen – former State Member of Parliament Includes Anne and Lilian’s story – Anne and Lilian became friends 20 years ago when they met through a program that matched people leaving long term institutional care with people in the community, to foster friendships. Anne and Lilian talk about their friendship. Listen to the program
11:00 - 12:00 Disability Sports and Culture
Kon Kiryakudya (President of Wheelchair Handball Victoria and a DJ with Club Wild) – talks about the importance of sport in his life. Aussie Hands, Elizabeth Serpell (Vice-President) and Kate Doughty (patron) talk about the Melbourne-based Aussie Hands Foundation, which supports and provides information for people born with a hand difference. Angela, Cameron and Tanya from Compass Clubhouse talk about this unique club in Northcote for people recovering from Acquired Brain Injury, where the members run the club and manage their own recovery. Jim Blake- Landscape designer and musician from Lakes Entrance in Gippsland, Victoria. Five years ago Jim had an accident which left him with quadriplegia and changed everything about his life. Jim shares his story and his blues-singing and harmonica. Listen to the program
12:00 - 1:30 Live Broadcast from Federation Square
Live Outside Broadcast from Access My Ability – a joint Travellers Aid and Wheelchair Sports Victoria event at Melbourne’s Federation Square to raise awareness and to acknowledge the abilities and achievements of people with a disability in the wider community. Kon Kiryakudya and Helen Gwilliam speak with Wheelchair Sports Victoria CEO Rob Anderson and Travellers Aid CEO Jodie Willmer. Listen to Fed Square 12:00 -12:30
12:30 - 1:00 Federation Square Live
Phineas Meere and Paul Gianni (Grit Media – The Boldness) in discussion with Bronwyn Morkham (Australian Federation of Disability Organisations) on the Shut Out Report and the UN Convention on Rights for People with Disabilities. Listen to Fed Square 12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30 Federation Square Live
Phineas Meere and Paul Gianni (Grit media- The Boldness) in discussion with Garry Prigg (The Cerebral Palsy Education Centre) and Paul Deany (Disability Rights Fund) on International development and People with Disabilities. Listen to Fed Square 1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00 pm Shut In Campaign
People with an intellectual disability talk about the campaign. Ray Groves, Jane Houser, Des McIntosh and Luke Stone from AMIDA and Reinforce Self Advocacy groups. Listen to program
2:00 - 2:15 pm Radio Electric Recording Project
Twelve people with intellectual disability recorded a series of eight short sound pieces including a radio play, collages of spoken word with music as well as some songs. Featuring Anthony and Rose Turtle Ertler. Listen to program
2:15 - 2:30 Sue O'Neill
Founding member of the Brimbank Multicultural Community Choir Sue O’Neill told her story of independent living and taking part in community life. Listen to the program
2:30 - 3:00 Selene Matthews and Akash Temple
A collaboration between Selene and producer Akash Temple creates a unique orchestration of urban poetry and trip hop.Listen to the program
3:00- 3:15 Rebecca Maxwell
Melbourne based author of “Blind and Busy: Life Stories of People who use Braille” and past president of the Society of Women Writers. Rebecca Maxwell speaks about the importance of Braille and the barriers between society and the visually impaired. Listen to the program
3:15 - 3:30 Gerrard Gosens
Faaolo Utumapu, a post-graduate student from Samoa, interviews paralympian, distant runner and goalballer – Gerrard Gosens, about his recent experiences on Dancing with the Stars. Listen to the program
3:30 - 3:45 Matthew Bowden
The Last Taboo – the sexual rights of people with disability. Matthew is Executive Director of People with Disability Australia. Mathew’s address was recorded as part of the first national conference of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations May 25th and 26th 2009. Listen to the program
3:45 - 4:00 Jason Anderson
Jason is an advocate for appropriate supported housing for young people with disabilities. He spoke to 3CR about the challenges disability or serious illness present for marriage and relationships. Listen to the program
4:00 - 4:15 Patricia Woodcroft-Lee
Patricia has low vision and has volunteered over the past few years to support people with vision impairments in East Timor, and particularly the school for the blind Fuan Nabilan. Patricia talks about the challenges for people with visual impairment or blindness in Timor, the unwillingness of aid agencies to recruit people with disabilities to work overseas and transfer their skills, and misunderstanding about Albinism (Albino), the condition which lead to her own low vision. Listen to the program
4:30 - 4:45 Kate Hood
Kate Hood is a writer and voiceover artist, and reads one of her short stories, based in her own experience of disability. Listen to the program
4:45 - 5:00 Anne Carson
Melbourne author and poet Anne Carson has been writing and performing for a number of years, and has a strong commitment to raising awareness of the needs of people with disability through her art. Anne has written a book fictionalising her long friendship with and advocacy for a woman with intellectual disability, and gave a reading for 3CR for International Day of People with Disabilities. Listen to the program
5:00 - 5:15 Maree Cowan
Maree Cowan is an activist for bipolar disorder and has written a collection of poetry about her own experiences with mental illness. Maree read seven of her poems that describe her own journey with bipolar. Listen to the program
5:15 - 5:30 Wesabi
Wesabi offers peer support for people with ABI or stroke in the western suburbs, and clients of the SCOPE St Albans day program. Ria, George, Mal, Larissa and Barry recorded their stories for IDPwD 2009. Listen to the program
5:30 - 6:00 Tihai
Melbourne ensemble Tihai with their performance of the classical Hindustani Raga – Kirawani. Tihai are Girish Makwana (on tabla) Savvy Battacharya (sarod) & Nicholas Buff (saxophone). Recorded live in the 3CR Studios. Listen to the program
Close to 70 individuals and 20 different organisations were involved in planning, developing and recording for the day. It was a huge success and a great celebration of the diversity of the disability community. Thanks to everyone involved for making it so...
See also IDPwD Program Grid 2010
The broadcast continues 3CR’s legacy of promoting the rights of people with disabilities, to empower people to create their own media content and to enable our own voices and views to be heard in a media landscape, which focuses almost exclusively on the non-disabled.
