Welcoming blind and partially sighted patrons to your venue
Before the accessible performance, be sure to go through these tips for welcoming blind/partially sighted people to your venue.
Before the accessible performance, be sure to go through these tips for welcoming blind/partially sighted people to your venue.
Project overview We are working with Tir Morfa special school and the film enterprise group they have set up in the school ReACTions to run screenings for the whole school. The school has around 120 pupils, which includes children with moderate and profound learning disabilities. The screenings take place at Rhyl Little theatre, home to … More
Developing Inclusive Youth work requires no extra special sets of skills, but in the case of working with children and young people who are deaf this would require learning Sign Language. In fact there’s nothing ‘special’ going on at all. Inclusion is just good practice. it is a ongoing process and not an end in … More
Accessible, subtitled shows enable film fans with hearing loss to ENJOY rather than endure cinema. For a few hours, the disabling barrier is removed. Last year more than a million attended accessible UK shows!
Accessible Screenings UK is a listing site to help you find information on accessible screenings in UK Cinemas.
The CEA Card is a national card scheme developed by the UK Cinema Association for UK cinemas. The scheme was introduced in 2004 and is one of the ways for participating cinemas to ensure they provide a consistent voluntary approach to making reasonable adjustments for disabled guests when they go to the cinema. Around 90 … More
Ashleigh Hibbins and Maya Sharma share their recent learning around disabled access, audiences, artists and art.
This is an annual report that provides facts and figures about the incomes and living circumstances of households and families in the UK.
In this report, we look at UK cinema admissions by age, cinema-goers’ film preferences by age, gender, geographical location and socio-economic status, and film consumption by ethnicity and disability.
Disability need not be an obstacle to success. I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life. Yet it has not prevented me from having a prominent career in astrophysics and a happy family life.