Manifesto

Write the Disabled future you envision. An Alter State Academy workshop at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Led by Arts Access Victoria, Andi Snelling and Transmit Futures ensemble

Join Andi and the Transmit Futures team from Arts Access Victoria in a creative workshop for students. Present your hopeful views of the future, working through the mediums of writing, drawing and performing.

About Andi Snelling
Andi Snelling is a multi-award-winning performer, writer, and director. She is a recent Australia Council for the Arts Future Leader and a highly sought after speaker and facilitator. She trained at prestigious UK drama school, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Her acting career highlights include: Edith in Picnic at Hanging Rock (BBC), Brinda in Neighbours (Fremantle Media), Ensemble in Crazy for You (London Palladium), and Inflight Voice for Qatar Airways. As a theatre-maker of four critically-acclaimed solo shows, Andi is known for capturing the human condition by exploring the personal as universal, with her 5x award-winning physical theatre show Happy-Go-Wrong still touring nationally, alongside her hit one-on-one poetry experience, type-a-poet. Andi’s directing credits include: Sheltered by Kathryn Hall (winner Best Theatre Weekly Award and Best Access Award, Adelaide Fringe 2023) and Same-Same 2.0 by No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability (nominated Best Ensemble, NZ Fringe 2022).

About Transmit Futures
Transmit Futures is a new performance ensemble with six emerging Deaf and Disabled artists. The ensemble has worked with Andi Snelling to devise a performance manifesto. The manifesto is centred on their lived experience and Deaf and Disabled futures. The ensemble members include Anthony Julian, Antigoni Hantzolos, Linnie Jane, Mark Smith, Michelle Write, Penny Pollard, with collaborative input from Kim Kaos.