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Deaf Awareness Week Round-Up

Every year Deaf Awareness Week gives us an opportunity to talk about the experience of being deaf, deafened, or hard of hearing. This year’s campaign asked us to explore the theme of inclusion within the community and how it impacts our lives. We began this year’s campaign by asking our audiences “What does inclusivity mean … Continued

Hidden Hard of Hearing Community Revealed by Lockdown Captioning

Public back increasing captioned performances and events as venues re-open Two-thirds (67%) of the public sometimes find it difficult to hear what is happening when watching TV or live performances, according to new research. [1] But as Captioning Awareness Week begins, the rise of captioned live performances and video calls during lockdown has given people … Continued

Help us build our archive

Stagetext is 21 Years Old in November! Celebrate with us and help us build our archive We are incredibly proud of all the performances and events we’ve made accessible over the years, and we couldn’t have done it without all our fantastic supporters, users, staff, volunteers and clients involved with Stagetext over the years. The … Continued

It’s Our 20th Birthday

Words of support from our friends and audience Everything we do here at Stagetext is for the benefit of our users and it means so much to us when they let us know about their experiences. For our birthday we’d particularly like to thank Hala Hashem, who has taken the time to share some poems … Continued

Lockdown online events must be accessible to deaf audiences

Call comes amid mental health concerns about Deaf and those with hearing loss as UK heads into another lockdown. A charity is calling on venues and performers to ensure they don’t forget about the 12 million people with hearing loss as the arts sector adapts to another lockdown. Stagetext, which provides captioning and live subtitling … Continued

We can now offer up to 50% off our digital subtitling service

Thanks to the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, we are now able offer subsidies for small and community led arts and culture organisations to subtitle their digital work. The grant, distributed by the National Lottery Community Fund, means we can offer up to 50% off subtitling pre-recorded videos, including short social media videos through to whole theatre … Continued

Donmar Warehouse’s ‘Blindness’ Now Available for Download

As the lights change at a major crossroads in a city in the heart of Europe a car grinds to a halt. Its driver can drive no more. Suddenly, without warning or cause, he has gone blind. Within hours it is clear that this is a blindness like no other. This blindness is infectious. Within … Continued

The latest update from Melanie Sharpe

So, I thought it would be a good idea to put pen to paper or in my case fingers to keyboard and update you all once more as to what is happening at Stagetext. Despite lots of venue closures, event cancellations and the lockdown I can honestly say that “a lot has been happening”. We … Continued

“My armchair has become my new theatre seat”

Michelle Hedley, a long time caption user and supporter of Stagetext, discusses her experiences with online theatre, how the lockdown has affected her, and what the closure of theatres would mean to her. My parents brought me up to appreciate theatre, and I particularly fell in love with musicals, but I would always have to … Continued

Stand Up Comedy with Soho Theatre on Demand

Soho Theatre On Demand brings you the best shows from London’s most vibrant producer of new theatre, comedy and cabaret. Their latest collection of subtitled shows include stand up specials from comedians like Nish Kumar, Mae Martin, and Dane Baptiste. See the full collection of their subtitled shows with their on demand service: www.sohotheatreondemand.com/collections/SubtitledFilms

Supporting the arts during the lockdown

We know it’s going to be a tough few months as we all adapt to working from home and finding new ways to reach audiences outside of our usual spaces. If you’re uploading shows to YouTube, creating videos for social media, or looking to reach larger audiences online, it is important to keep your work … Continued

Peter Pullan writes about the Puppet Theatre Barge

Last month one of our founders, Peter Pullan, went along to see the double bill of ‘The Three Pigs and The Wolf’ and ‘Captain Grimey’, at the Puppet Theatre Barge. It’s not often you find accessible puppet shows, let alone accessible puppet shows on a barge, so Peter has kindly written about his experience and … Continued
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