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September 2011
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26 September 2011	The Other Film Festival awarded triennial funding from City of Melbourne Arts Access Victoria has confirmed a three-year funding commitment by the City of Melbourne to support The Other Film Festival, Australia’s only disability film festival. City of Melbourne’s Arts and Culture Program has committed $45,000 per year to the festival for the next three years, a 12.5% increase over previous triennial funding for the festival.
16 September 2011	Community forum on CaptiView in cinemas to be held in Melbourne CaptiView is an individual closed captioning device which has received mixed reviews from Deaf and hearing impaired users. Melbourne community group, Action on Cinema Access (AOCA), is hosting a forum on the use of CaptiView units that are being adopted by accessible cinemas.
08 September 2011	First accessible Australian digital movie released It may not be opening night but it may as well be for captioned and audio described movie fans that have been waiting weeks to see the hit Australian movie Red Dog on cinema screens.

August 2011
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25 August 2011	Broadway theatre becomes autism friendly USA: The Broadway based Theatre Development Fund (TDF) is piloting a new program to make theatre accessible to audience members on the autism spectrum.
02 August 2011	Hoyts announce five new accessible movie locations Hoyts has notified the Accessible Cinema Advisory Group that it is on target for the rollout of new captioned and audio described screens from this Thursday, 4 August.

July 2011
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15 July 2011	Round-up of accessibility in WA To celebrate Media Access Australia’s first year in Western Australia, let’s take a look at the state of accessibility in WA and some of the events coming up.
06 July 2011	Federal Government announces support for Arts Access Australia Arts Access Australia, the national peak body for arts and disability, has been granted $500,000 by the Australian Government to continue its work in improving access and participation in the arts by people with a disability.

June 2011
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24 June 2011	Italian project provides cinema captioning via Samsung smartphones and tablets ‘Leggi il film’, ‘read the film’ in Italian, is a joint project by Italian hearing impaired association FIADDA and Universal Multimedia Access to provide captioning in Italian cinemas via an app for Samsung devices.
22 June 2011	DeafTechNews releases instructional videos on CaptiView and Captionfish US technology review group DeafTechNews has created two short instructional videos on CaptiView and Captionfish.
17 June 2011	Tickets to audio described theatre session in Perth available until 12 July Ticket sales for the Black Swan State Theatre Company’s audio described performance of Rising Water will close on 12 July.
Blind and vision impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Cinema and the Arts 10 June 2011	Accessible Cinema Advisory Group releases second communiqué The Accessible Cinema Advisory Group (ACAG) met in late May to discuss the continued rollout of accessible cinema locations across the four major cinema chains of Hoyts, Village, Greater Union/Event/Birch Carroll & Coyle and Reading.
Blind and vision impaired Cinema and the Arts 10 June 2011	ABC’s 7.30 program highlights Screen Australia’s audio description policy Screen Australia’s announcement yesterday of its new audio description policy for feature films was highlighted on last night’s 7.30 on the ABC.
Blind and vision impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Cinema and the Arts 09 June 2011	Screen Australia announces new audio description policy Screen Australia, the Federal Government’s funding body for the screen production industry, has announced a new funding condition that requires films to be delivered with audio description.
Blind and vision impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Cinema and the Arts 09 June 2011	New Broadway theatre accessibility initiative A new partnership between Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts and arts access provider G-PASS means visitors to New York will have the opportunity to enjoy more Broadway shows.

May 2011
Date Published	News headline and description
Blind and vision impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Research & Policy 31 May 2011	Media Access Review progress page launched Today Media Access Australia launched a new webpage in our Research and Policy section detailing the progress which has so far been made on the Media Access Review recommendations.
Deaf and hearing impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Deaf and hearing impaired TV DVD Cinema and the Arts Research & Policy 30 May 2011	Report on captioning in the European Union released The European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH) has released a report which looks at levels of captioning on audiovisual media across the European Union.
Blind and vision impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Cinema and the Arts 24 May 2011	World-leading arts access conference in USA in August The annual Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) conference will be held this year in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Blind and vision impaired Deaf and hearing impaired Cinema and the Arts 20 May 2011	Australian festival director takes cinema access across the globe Film and festival director Rick Randall, Artistic Director of The Other Film Festival, has travelled to Israel where he will participate as keynote speaker at a forum on cinema access.
TV DVD Cinema and the Arts 17 May 2011	RNIB international audio description study findings released The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has released the results of a study which looked at whether audio description produced in other countries would be acceptable to blind and vision impaired users in the UK.
Cinema and the Arts 16 May 2011	Audio described contemporary art tour at Art Gallery of NSW The Art Gallery of NSW is holding an audio described tour of the new John Kaldor Family Gallery on Sunday, 22 May at 1:30pm.