16 November 2016
Twelve months ago StageTEXT arranged its first ever “Captioning Awareness Week”. Many people responded by bringing both the CAW and StageTEXT’s work to the attention of family, friends, neighbours, colleagues or contacts.
Such was the response that this week is the second Captioning Awareness Week, which has already gained considerable attention. The Stage published an editorial last week encouraging the more widespread adoption of captioning across more venues across the country:
https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2016/the-editors-view-dont-be-closed-to-captioning-possibilities/
StageTEXT’s CEO, Melanie Sharpe appeared on London Live TV describing the progress being made by StageTEXT in affording greater access for many of the 11 million people in the UK (and more) who unnecessarily struggle to derive full benefit from Arts and other cultural activities for want of captioning being made more widely available.
Throughout the week a number of venues in London and around the country will be having captioned performances and a number of the stageTEXT team will be attending venues in London such as the National Theatre, the Young Vic and the Wellcome Collection to help promote awareness of the extent to which captioning is already available and how far it may yet become more widely and easily available.
If you are deaf or suffer from any hearing loss and want to help you can:
- Relay this message to others to whom this may be of interest
- Visit the StageTEXT website: http://www.stagetext.org to learn more about StageTEXT Captioning Awareness Week, where and when captioned performances are taking place and how to register support for the initiative.