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Experience art and culture through audio description. Bringing art and culture to life for blind and visually impaired people at theatres, museums, galleries, heritage sites and online.

Moving Portraits – What Does It Mean To Be Me?

By With thanks to Stephanie Tyrrell from Sense and Toki Allison

Short synopsis: Moving Portraits was an inclusive screen dance film commissioned by Sense and was presented as part of Birmingham 2022 Festival. It captured and shared physical stories of people with complex disabilities, the film centres on the stories of people Sense supports. Each ‘portrait’ focusses on a dancer from our diverse community of people … More

My Sound Cinema

By With thanks to Elena Zini, Screen Language Ltd

Project title My Sound Cinema Short bio of organisation Screen Language Ltd offers accessibility and linguistic services for film including multilingual subtitles, captioning/descriptive subtitles, audio description, live captioning and BSL interpreting. We collaborate with external bodies and universities to investigate the new frontiers of accessibility, aiming to improve equality, diversity and inclusion in the film … More

7 Documentaries to Watch After Crip Camp

By Disability Visibility Project

If you recently watched Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and want to learn more here are 7 documentaries by Deaf and disabled people for you to check out. These films are available for either rental, purchase, or by subscription on various platforms and websites. You can find information about captions or audio description by going … More

Using a range of communication channels to reach disabled people

By Gov.UK

This guidance was written for government communicators but may also be useful to other communication professionals. We absorb a wide range of information every day through different communication channels, for example, radio, television, newspapers, advertising, internet and word of mouth. Some of these methods may be out of reach or inaccessible to some disabled people. … More

Supporting employees who are deaf or have hearing loss to thrive at work

By Action on Hearing Loss

This guide provides free information and tips to help organisations become welcoming to, and inclusive of, the 5 million people of working age in the UK who are D/deaf or have hearing loss.

The White Pube investigates: the impact of using social media

By Gabrielle de la Puente, The White Pube - commissioned by Unlimited

Why do artists use social media? How important is social media to an artist’s career? And if artists want to use it to their advantage, what do they need to do? In this report, Gabrielle de la Puente outlines the impact of social media on artists as a tool for work, networking, and creativity. The … More

Report: Online forum – Expanding online access to the arts for disabled people

By British Council

Bring Us Our Rights: Disabled People’s Manifesto

By Disability Wales

After months of work and collaboration with over 200 disabled people and activists from across Wales, Disability Wales are delighted to launch Bring Us Our Rights: Disabled People’s Manifesto this International Day of Disabled People! The manifesto highlights many key areas for advancing equality for disabled people as well as offering policy solutions. The manifesto … More

How Oska Bright is helping exhibitors welcome back learning disabled audience members

By Lizzie Banks, Oska Bright Film Festival - The Bigger Picture

Writing for The Bigger Picture, Oska Bright Film Festival Producer Lizzie Banks describes how they are supporting venues to welcome back learning disabled audiences with a new training scheme called Welcome Back.

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