Join us as we celebrate Deaf Awareness Week 2025 from Monday 5th to 11th May, with this year marking Stagetext’s 25th anniversary.
We’ve worked hard over the last quarter of a century to advocate for and provide deaf access for theatre, live performances, talks, museum tours, book festivals, comedy shows, films and videos, and will continue to do so for the 18 million adults in the UK who are deaf, deafened and hard of hearing.
One in three of us can benefit from subtitles and captions to experience the joy of live theatre, to sing along with our favourite musicals, to take guided tours around museums, or to see our favourite authors speak at festivals.
During and after the week, we’ll be hosting a free deaf awareness training event at Towner Eastbourne, and a free webinar with Digital Culture Network, sharing helpful resources (be sure to sign up!), and sparking conversations about making accessibility the norm, not the exception, across the arts, culture, museums and heritage sectors.
Get ready for a week filled with tips, good practice and captioned and live subtitled events, not just this week, but all year long.
In-person deaf awareness training
As part of Deaf Awareness Week (5 – 11 May), Stagetext is offering not one, but two free half-day course on deaf awareness training within arts and culture at Towner Eastbourne on Thursday 8th May. Offering support and advice to help make venues like yours more accessible. To find out more about all our training packages, visit our training page.
Free deaf awareness webinar
End-to-End Access: A Digital Approach to Inclusivity for Deaf Visitors, a free webinar hosted by Digital Culture Network and Presented by Oliver Webster, Head of Systems and Services at Stagetext on Thursday 15 May. It’s for anyone looking to improve their deaf accessibility and grow their deaf audience.
Caption your event
If you’d like to caption or live subtitle your event, we can provide more than two decades of deaf access expertise to help prepare your venue or organisation for a more accessible future.
Top Tips for deaf awareness
We came up with a list of our top tips for making venues more accessible. The Stagetext team has given their advice for how theatres, museums, galleries, as well as online and digital work can be made more inclusive.
Take a look at our resources
We have some useful resources to help you understand more about your deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences, with useful steps you can take towards embedding access throughout your organisation.
Why do we do it? Here’s what our users say:
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Want to get involved? Get in touch – we’d love to hear from you!
Venues: We work with venues throughout the year, offering training sessions and free resources, including the Captioning Display Standards.
Captioned and Live subtitled events: See all the events happening on our What’s On page.
