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Sydney Festival provides captioned and audio described performances

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Sydney siders will have the chance to see open captioned and audio described performances as part of the annual Sydney Festival, held from 7-29 January.

Performances with audio description include Beautiful Burnout at the Seymour Centre, West Side Story at Sydney Opera House and Buried City at the Belvoir St Theatre. One session of each will be audio described via headsets for people who are blind or vision impaired.

Beautiful burnout and ‘Tis pity she’s a whore will be available with open captions for selected performances.


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Sydney’s iconic Belvoir St Theatre announces 2012 accessible performances

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One of Australia’s most enduring theatre companies, Belvoir, has announced audio described and captioned performances for 2012.

In working to ensure all its visitors have the same experience, Belvoir St Theatre will produce a number of accessible performances for next year’s season and has a priority booking service in place for these tickets.


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The Captioning Studio announces new theatre project for kids

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GoTheatrical! Kids is a new project that aims to increase access to children’s theatre performances in Australia through captions.

An initiative of The Captioning Studio, GoTheatrical! Kids will work with arts venues nationally, supported by equipment sponsor Harvey Norman, to live caption productions in 2012 that are suitable for children from Year 3 to Year 12.


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