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SitDownShutup&Watch Film and New Media Festival. seen to your  friends

http://tutti.org.au/film-media/sdsuw-film-festival/            

https://www.facebook.com/groups/233713110068412/members/

  
The SitDownShutup&Watch Film and New Media Festival is led by a steering committee of learning disabled film makers and artists living in Regional South Australia and Adelaide. 
Our vision is to live in a world where learning disabled people achieve their creative dreams and screen their work in Times Square, on iPhones and on every screen inbetween.
Our aims are to:
Form a community of like-minded learning disabled film makers and new media artists who can teach others
To have our voices heard and to be taken seriously
Get other learning disabled people to express themselves creatively through digital arts and technology. 
Encourage other learning disabled people in the wider Australian and global community to connect, making physical location far less significant for our social relationships.
To become a force for social change. New Media has already been successfully used to agitate for political change eg Free Tibet Campaign, Free Hugs Campaign, the Indymedia Movement, the Occupy Movement - and we want to follow that model. 
Tutti is the umbrella organization and the project is also supported by Yorke and Lower North Health and the Barossa Council.
Inspired by the Tutti initiated 2011 residency of a team from the disability led Oska Bright Film Festival in Brighton U.K., disabled artists from Tutti, ‘Superstars’, (from the Mid North of South Australia) and the Barossa Valley, have formed a committee to create Australia’s first learning disability-led  film festival.

Supported by Tutti, Newman’s Own Foundation, Mid North Health, The Barossa Council and Country Arts SA, the committee meets monthly in Gawler to plan workshops with other disabled artists in Regional South Australia in the lead-up to the first proposed Sit Down, Shutup and Watch Film and New Media Festival in 2014.

The committee members are: Chair: Lee Witczak, Vice Chair: Aimee Crathern, Samantha Charles: Secretary, Matthew Wauchope, Liam Wilkins, James Kurtze and Ryan Thomas.

SitDownShutup&Watch Film and New Media Festival. seen to your  friends

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Tutti Ensemble <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">arts</a> http://www.tutti.org.au/ · 2008 to present
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About Tutti Ensemble

The Tutti Ensemble is a recognised leader in community cultural development and disability culture in South Australia. Tutti offers opportunities to both disabled and non-disabled people of all ages to become involved in a range of concerts and <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">music</a>-theatre events through its socially inclusive choral program.

In addition Tutti offers talented school leavers and emerging artists with a disability full-time professional training across a broad range of artistic disciplines.

Entry Points

The Tutti Choir – a community choir employing integrated methods of choral training (weekly)

Club Tutti – a singing group for up to 30 participants (weekly)

Tutti Arts – a five day per week Day Options program in the Performing and Visual Arts, including digital <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">design</a> and music. This program enables young adult artists with a disability to expand their skills as singers, musicians, actors, writers, painters and sculptors. 

Tutti Kids – an after school Music/ Drama program for primary <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">school</a> age children with a disability (weekly)

Country Choirs – Tutti provides ongoing support, mentorship and combined performance opportunities to several choral groups in South Australia. These include: The Clare Big Country Choir, The White <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">House</a> Choir in Nuriootpa and the Gathering Wave Choir in Mount Barker.

Tutti’s overarching goals are:

To provide disabled artists with skills which facilitate artistic growth and professionalism in the performing and visual arts.
To create opportunities for disabled artists to earn income from their <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">work</a>.
To challenge the arts and wider community to recognize and include the unique talents and vision of people who have long been marginalized.




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James Kurtze's walking animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3dyvRAczGc 


James Kurtze_3-Headed Snow Man <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">Animation</a>.m4v

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kg0R6t09nM 



James Kurtze_Multi screen Movie - Tutti Arts.m4v

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ULZkTzhQA&feature=related 

James and Dexter Aliens.m4v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYH_xQYA80A&feature=related 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGFVspqBQ10&feature=related 
Real2Real - Dr Spot Makes Cat Burgers.


James Kurtze wins grant
http://australiacouncil.placestories.com/story?id=7400522 

by Tutti Ensemble Inc
Fri 30th September, 2011
Tutti is extremely proud to announce that James Kurtze, one of Tutti’s Visual Artists has been awarded a Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Emerging Artist Grant for skills development with mentorship in New sMedia. James has also been selected to exhibit his art work on the Adelaide Festival Centre building façade as a large scale projection, and as an installation in the Arts SA windows on Hindley Street, during the SALA Arts Festival in August 2011. His installation, consisting of a spooky setting and moving image, will be in the Arts SA window from Wednesday 3 August. James’s photography will be exhibited at the Tutti SALA Festival event Tutti Visual Arts and Design 2, opening on Tuesday 9 August at the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, The Hawke Centre, Uni SA City West Campus. For James, being part of the Tutti Multi Arts Program has made a tangible difference to his life. Over three years he has had the opportunity to develop his artistic skills, earn income from his work and speak at national conferences. James says, “I am inspired by horror, doom, comedy and technology. I believe in having a good sense of humour – it is important to laugh at the world and yourself. Music from videogames, cartoons, real life and dreams get my imagination going when I make art.” A key producer with the Australia Council since 2006 and an award winner in the inaugural Music in Communities Awards 2008, Tutti is a pioneer in providing a career in the visual and performing arts for people with a disability through Tutti Arts, a day options program run in partnership with Minda Inc.


james Kurtze Cat Patterns
http://ps3beta.com/story/18407 


adelaidereview
http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/search/James%20Kurtze 



Everybody in the house of art
September, 2011
The house of art has many rooms. Stephanie Radok looks at the growing strength of “outsider” art in South Australia.


In the maelstrom of art that is SALA in Adelaide, where in answer to the question “Love Art?” you may well say with exhaustion “not any more!”; Where every window and door opens onto images and there is drawing on the stage (go Thom Buchanan), drawing off the stage, projections, installations (go Ryan Sims), events, performances (go Monte Masi) and art encounters of every cutting edge and soft edge kind are prolific, protean, profuse and profligate, we admit art into our lives in quiet and noisy ways, as fun, as stimulation and as totally necessary furniture for living.
During the chaotic, overflowing energy of SALA, in a quiet space in the Hawke Centre, the Tutti Visual Arts Program held a two hour forum on the state of art in the disability sector. Speakers included Colin Rhodes, Dean of Sydney College of the Arts, author and Director of STOARC (the Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection) based at the University of Sydney; Sue Roff, Director of Art Projects Australia in Melbourne; and Coordinator of the Tutti Visual Art Program, artist and educator, Mel Fulton as well as Tutti artists. The Visual Arts Program was founded by Fulton in late 2005 at Tutti, already well-known for its performing arts program founded by Pat Rix.
In 2010 the Tutti exhibition at Pepper Street Gallery won a SALA The Adelaide Review/Rip It Up Publishing Special Art Award. This year their show at the Hawke Centre included terrific Transformer paintings by Scott Pyle and entertaining Dexter the Cat works by James Kurtze who also did a “horrific” work in the window at ArtsSA.
Creativity for disabled artists means visibility, acclaim, an outlet for energy and the chance of making an income. There are now studios around the world that support and promote the work of disabled visual artists. Roff pointed out that Thérèse Rein, who is now their patron, saw a supported studio in San Francisco and asked why we don’t have one of those in Australia. The answer, of course, was that we do. Arts Projects Australia began back in 1974. Tutti Visual Arts has a long way to go to catch up 
with Arts Projects which has an archive and gallery. The potential for emphasis on the individual as an art practitioner is where Fulton sees the strength of the supported studio program.
A question raised by Rhodes was whether “outsider” artists are to be always emerging and never established, and whether they can enter the mainstream and have the sort of careers that other artists have. Success in the art business is unpredictable and the mainstream can be very crowded. If disabled artists are classified as “outsider” artists this means they can be collected and shown in that well-established global category as well as in the “other normal” category which actually gives them two bites at the art cherry.

http://tuttinewmedia.blogspot.com/2011/11/james-kurtze-nintendo-dsi-images.html 

http://www.tutti.org.au/uploads/file/Tutti_NL_Dec%2010_Tutti.pdf 

Emerging Tutti visual artist, animator 
and film maker, James Kurtze, finds 
inspiration from popular culture and 
uses Nintendo DS, the Simpsons and 
various game worlds as springboards 
for his ideas.
This year he was invited to speak 
at two major national conferences, 
and showed his most recent work, 
Kenny and the Castle, a humorous 
horror film about Kenny, a lonely 
young man rejected by his parents, 
who leaves home and finds a castle 
in a forest.
“I was a bit nervous about speaking, 
but it wasn’t a bad experience as 
people were interested and asked 
lots of questions.”
One day I’d like to make a longer 
version of Kenny and the Castle, 
with more action, blood and doom 
and my dream is to make more 
movies and one day go to America 
to work and help with voices on the 
Simpsons.”


aarts Speakers
http://www.aarts.net.au/arts-activated-conference-2010/speakers/ 

James Kurtze is a lover of all things technical. He enjoys creating complex mashups, videography and film-making. His major project with the Tutti Ensemble Digitech program has been creating a 19-minute documentary of a trip his family made to India to collect James’ new brother from an orphanage there.

http://www.aarts.net.au/arts-activated-conference-2010/speakers/ 

DISABILITY LED VIDEO AND ANIMATION PROJECTS
Philip Griffin, SA / Trisha Ferguson, SA / James Kurtze, SA
Presentation
The Tutti Ensemble is a recognised leader in community cultural development and disability culture in South Australia. In 2007, Tutti Arts started the digitech training program for young people with intellectual and learning disabilities. The program explores the possibilities of using digital technology to develop skills and produce artwork in various digital media including animations, documentaries and music-videos. Tutti artists are engaged across all aspects of the production. The digitech program facilitates collaboration between artists, for example a musician and two visual artists are working together on a music video, and involves all sectors of the Tutti Arts program including visual and performing arts. Two Tutti artists and the lead artist will show an exciting range of work and discuss how the work was created.

Spooky DSI
http://ps3beta.com/story/18385 









THE TUTTI NEWSLETTER	December 2011

Happy Christmas
It's hard to believe Christmas is upon us with all its joy and what seems like a gazillion performances! Tutti is alive with singing and end of year celebrations across all programs and there is much to celebrate. Since our last newsletter visual artists have participated locally and internationally, with emerging Restless Dance Threatre Directors for Debut 3 in Adelaide, also in the DATT initiated Unbound Exhibition at Juxtapose Gallery and the wonderful Outsider Art Exhibition curated by Stefan Maguran at West Torrens Council Chambers, which Hot Tutti opened with a sizzling performance.

In Prague at Inventura's Conquering Public Spaces Conference, James Kurtze spoke about his work Dexter The Spooky Cat and presented it to a large, receptive audience of leading disability arts practitioners from all over Europe. A week later at the 2011 Oska Bright Film Festival in Brighton, UK, James and Lee Witczak (Chair of our newly formed learning disability led SitdownShutup&Watch Film Festival Committee) spoke on a panel and presented a bursary award to an emerging UK filmmaker. The 2011 Oska Bright Film Festival was a wonderful experience for all who attended, bubbling with impressive ideas and brimming with interesting film makers from all over the world. The South Australian contingent included Lorcan Hopper from Restless Dance Theatre who we spent lots of time with and the excellent organisation and accessibility of the festival provided the best possible conditions for everyone to participate. The range and quality of films shown was inspiring, and we were delighted that Jason Crowhurst's video clip 'Fulsom Prison Blues' was a finalist for the Festival Favourite Award. Well done Jason! We South Aussies came home full of ideas and ready to get to work on our own film and media festival inspired by Oska Bright's visit to Australia earlier this year. Hats off to Carousel and the Oska Bright team for their outstanding leadership in disability led arts and increasing exposure to the orginal and downright amazing work of learning disabled film makers and media artists across the world. Just brilliant!

On behalf of all Tutt's artists and staff I take this opportuntity to thank your for your support during 2011 and for believing in us. We wish you a safe, happy and restful festive season. Pat Rix

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