On Tour (mid – late 1990s)

Arts Access Victoria studio programs were starting across Victoria. Art Day South began in Dingley Village in 1994. It’s still running today! Art Day West also started during this time. By the late 1990s AAV’s Saturday morning studio program had outgrown the AAV office.

AAV’s training and consultancy services grew during this time. AAV taught subjects as part of the Advanced Certificate in Residential and Community Services. A Diploma of Arts – Small Companies and Community Theatre also included AAV subjects.

People moving around stalls on burke street

Weave Movement Theatre was born from the AAV Moveable Dance Project and continues today under the leadership of Janice Florence.

AAV was involved in the popular Club Wild events during this time. Club Wild went on to become the Wild at Heart organisation.

A visual arts exhibition, BodySuits, toured nationally between 1997 – 1999, and resulted in commissions and new opportunities for artists.

Over three years AAV worked on a Cultural Exchange program with China. Delegates visited AAV from Jilin province to learn about community arts practice. Then facilitating artists from AAV visited Jiangsu province, Jilin province and Beijing. AAV ran workshops with Disabled children in schools over four weeks.

1n 1999 AAV moved to a new office at 24 Eastern Road, South Melbourne.

AAV was an early adopter of the internet. The first AAV website launched as part of VicNet in 1995.