What you need to know to provide touch tours at arts events

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Accessibility to the Scenic Arts

2 calificaciones

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Accessibility to the Scenic Arts

2 calificaciones

Is your show accessible? When we ask about accessibility to shows, most people think about access for wheel chairs: the sitting arrangements and where their WC is accessible. When we ask for more details, people usually think about producing a show where persons with disabilities are performing, for example producing a show where there is some dancing with people on wheel chairs. Accessiblity for us is a comprehensive concept that goes from purchasing a ticket through an accessible website to catching the bus back home after the performance on accessible public transport. Accessible webs, accessible web content, accessible transport, subtitling, audio description... the possiblities are endless. Why is this course useful? To make the venue and the production accessible to all citizens, and specially to persons with disablities. The course will go through the many accessible services you can offer, and how to implement them in your venue or your production. The final aim is to mainstream accessibility so all people have equal access to culture.

De la lección

IMPLEMENTING ACCESS FACILITIES AT ARTS EVENTS TO ENSURE INCLUSION FOR ALL

This unit is about putting the knowledge about the access facilities presented in Unit 3a into practice, and covers the general and specific practical steps involved in implementing the access facilities in advance of the event, on the day of the event and after the event.

Introduction2:36

Providing access facilities at arts events to ensure inclusion for all 15:29

Providing access facilities at arts events to ensure inclusion for all 24:53

Braille, Large Letters and Easy Read5:22

Audio description, audio introduction and audio subtitles5:32

What you need to know to provide touch tours at arts events4:03

Surtitles Captions SDH5:58

Sign language interpreting4:55

Relaxed performances4:24

Conoce a los instructores

Pilar Orero
Titular de universidad
Área de Traducción e Interpretación
Sharon Black
Research Fellow and Tutor in Translation and Interpreting
Queen's University Belfast
Anna Matamala
Profesora
Dept. de Traducción e Interpretación y de Estudios de Asia Oriental

Hello everyone and welcome to this video tutorial

on what you need to know to provide touch tours at arts events.

Many of the tasks involved

fall into the same five categories as presented in the previous video tutorial:

scheduling, working with audio describers, fulfilling the technical requirements,

spatial organisation and navigation, and communication and staff training.

However, the first thing to think about is scheduling.

Try to arrange for a touch tour as far in advance as possible,

and liaise with the creative team or theatre company

to agree on the time of the touch tour.

Touch tours are usually held

one to one and a half hours before the performance.

Make sure that all venue staff are aware of the date and the time

of the touch tour.

You will also need to arrange for the audio describer to visit the set

to see the props, costumes and furniture and meet the stage manager.

They will choose items for the touch tour, excluding items which are fragile,

may be dangerous, or which may reveal too much about the plot.

It�s also important to decide

who will introduce the touch tour and who will take part.

As for the spatial organisation and navigation,

it�s crucial to make sure that ushers and other front of house staff

are trained to assist patrons with getting around the venue,

and particularly with getting to and from the agreed meeting place

for the touch tour and the auditorium or other location of the touch tour.

Ushers or other staff must also be trained

to assist patrons with getting on and off the stage if necessary,

and to ensure guide dogs are looked after while patrons are on the stage.

When it comes to organising the promotional material for the event,

it�s good practice to include information on the touch tour

when posting the audio introduction and programme notes in Braille,

Large Letters or Easy Read to patrons who have requested them,

including the date, time and meeting place and how to book a place on the touch tour.

You should also promote the touch tour

using a range of traditional, online and social media

and make all promotional materials accessible.

Moreover, all staff should receive training on touch tours,

and box office staff should be trained to know how to inform patrons

about touch tours, including the date, time, meeting place,

how to book places for patrons, and who to contact in the venue

when patrons or audio describers arrive.

When the day of the performance arrives,

check that the items shown to the patrons on the touch tour

are well spaced out on the stage

and that there is plenty of room for patrons to move around.

Provide chairs on stage for patrons who may need to sit down during the tour.

Also, check that a member of the technical team will be present

during the touch tour to ensure that the stage is well lit.

It�s important to make sure that the routes used during the touch tour,

such as from the meeting place to the stage, are clear and free of trip hazards.

Also, don�t forget to make sure there are bowls of water

and a green area available for guide dogs.

Finally, check that the technical, front of house and box office staff

know about the imminent touch tour and are aware of their responsibilities.

Once the touch tour is over, it is important that patrons are assisted

with picking up headsets for the audio description,

going to the bathroom or bar, and getting to their seats

in time for the audio introduction to the show.

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