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Advanced Vandalism - a solo exhibition of graffiti art by award winning artist, Duel

April 23rd - May 4th has something cool happening in Northcote’s art district in inner Melbourne. Kick Gallery, renowned for it’s contemporary art, have a solo exhibition called Advanced Vandalism featuring the works of award winning mural artist, Duel. Duel featured in the cult Australian graffiti documentary, Sprayed Conflict and his work […]

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The sensory world of a nostalgic artist - Chameleon Arts and Jennifer Roussin

  Jennifer Roussin is on the autism spectrum and runs her own business, Chameleon Arts which is one of the businesses listed on http://www.auties.org .  She is a mother, an artist and a lover of nature.  Here we discuss our different sensory worlds and their relationships to our lives as artists on the autism […]

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Artism, autism and a family on the spectrum - the life and times of Jane Strauss.

Jane Strauss is a photograph, a woman diagnosed with Asperger’s, a mother of 5 children with autism spectrum issues and someone who has turned her autism into artism. She is one of the many fascinating people listed on http://www.auties.org . Here’s our interview.

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Donna Williams’ April 2008, 48 hr, Poetry Challenge

Each month I send out a challenge for those on my mailing list to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours. People CAN’T send names (yes, everyone wants one named after their […]

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Musical richness in the lap of poverty - TR Kelley of the Raventones speaks out.

TR Kelley is one funky woman on the autism spectrum and one of the interesting people listing on http://www.auties.org . Part of a great sounding group, The Raventones, she has two albums on CD Baby and iTunes and is a passionate, humorous, and radical blogger from a world most don’t think about. […]

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Ghost writing and elves under the refridgerator - the amazing talent of Aspie writer Kimberly Tucker

Kimberly Tucker first entered my life quietly through a door in a cute living doll’s house in Connecticut. I was a newly published author on a publishing tour in the US and in Connecticut for my first ever public lecture at Trinity College. Kimberly was an undiagnosed woman with Selective Mutism and severe […]

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How can an autie be an actor? I asked veteran Aussie actor, Ron Hedgecock.

Ron Hedgecock, one of Australia’s oldest diagnosed Aspies, is 72. He’s an Aussie actor, a lecturer in Phrenology and Art History and a public speaker about living with Asperger’s Syndrome. Here’s our interview:

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Donna Williams’ March 2008 Interactive Poetry Challenge

OK, thanks to all those who sent in 1-2 word poem titles in the March 2008 poetry challenge.

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Adelaide Fringe Festival March 2008

Edinburgh has it’s Fringe Festival and so does our own Aussie City of Festivals – Adelaide, South Australia. This Fringe Festival promises something really unique and to find out about it I interviewed Aspie colleague, Katharine Annear , an ASD Advisor with Spectrum Advisory Services
who works for Autism SA.

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Donna Williams’ January 2008 interactive Poetry Challenge

Thanks so much to those who sent in poem titles for the recent 24 hour poetry challenge. Here’s the poems.

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