Ready, Steady… Let the count down begin!

A photo of an actor on s sway pole holding a flower, text reads the garden, graeae, push me.Today we start our pre-advent countdown – always keen to get in ahead of the game.

We have 24 short films and we have 24 days until United Nations International Day of People with Disability. Makes sense then to profile one short film a day, each day up until 2nd Dec – and what about on the 3rd…? Oh you’ll have to wait and see for that!

This year’s International theme is: Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all and we are proud to think PUSH ME makes its own mark, showing that in the arts at least, barriers can be removed, climbed over, avoided or simply redefined, allowing disabled artists deliver high quality work as equals with their non-disabled artists peers.

So to start the ball rolling, the first 90 second short we are profiling is the first film we made with Graeae and Strange Fruit, focusing on The Garden.

Jenny Sealey, the artistic director of The Garden, takes us back to the roots of this hypnotic aerial outdoor piece created by Graeae, the boldly inventive disabled-led theatre company in collaboration with world-renowned Melbourne-based performing arts company, Strange Fruit.

Go on. It’s only 90 seconds.