Audio Describer Training
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Audio Describer Training
This is a rare opportunity for an affordable two-day training to learn how to make shows more enjoyable and accessible for people with vision loss!
Audio description is a service that describes the visual aspects of events for people who are blind or of low vision. It’s a skill you can learn to serve your theatre — or use to earn money describing plays, films, parades, art and museum exhibits, parades, even eclipses. Learn the basics and get a chance to try describing scenes yourself. The main focus is on live performance, but all kinds of audio description will be included. Current audio description standards are included, along with resources to audio description networking around the country, possible continuing mentoring, and future opportunity for certification.
Skills needed: a good voice, quick mind to access apt adjectives and verbs, conciseness, ability to prioritize what’s important to say in a few words, time to preview a play, review a script and make notes, desire to share your love of theatre and the arts with people who can’t see.
Choose either set of dates:
Presenter: Celia Hughes, director of Art Spark Texas, has described hundreds of shows and trained dozens of new describers in Texas, at national Kennedy Center conferences, and previously in Minnesota. She is also on a committee developing audio description certification.
Cost: $80 (MACT members $70)
#1: Thursday/Friday, May 16-17,
9:00-5:00 both days in Minneapolis at Theatre in the Round Players, 245 Cedar Ave.
Click here to register for May 16-17
#2: Saturday/Sunday, May 18-19
9:00-5:00 both days in Minneapolis at the Minnesota Fringe office, 79 13th Ave. NE