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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

What’s the difference between captions and subtitles?

In everyday life, the words ‘captions’ and ‘subtitles’ are often used interchangeably. At Stagetext we distinguish between three different types of captions and subtitles, because they are produced in different ways. Theatre captioning is for scripted performance – prepared and cued live by a theatre captioner Live subtitling is for unscripted speech – produced live … Continued

Theatre Access 2021 report published

Between May and August 2021, VocalEyes, Stagetext and the Centre for Accessible Environments ran a survey of UK theatregoers who use access facilities, services or support. Over 500 people responded and shared their views on a range of other factors that would influence their decision to return to theatres. They also told us about their experiences of digital … 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

Audience Access Alliance call on UK arts venues to build back for all

Stagetext urges industry to check reopening plans against 10-point checklist to ensure deaf, disabled and neurodivergent audiences are not left behind. Stagetext is today joining the call on the UK’s theatres, museums, galleries, and other arts venues, to check their reopening plans against a 10-point checklist published by the cross-sector Audience Access Alliance. The Audience … Continued

Deaf Awareness Week 2021

This year Deaf Awareness Week is focusing on ‘Coming Through it Together’ and throughout the week the online campaign will engage and encourage people to celebrate d/Deafness, raise awareness of best practice and use the week for demonstrating change and positivity. We wanted to take this week to highlight everything we can do to help … Continued

Enjoy performances from smaller venues with Scenesaver

Live theatre can be absolutely amazing – a wonderful spectacle to experience – but just missing a few wordsfrom a performance and mean you lose a huge amount. Scenesaver brings you their free to use, theatre streaming site showing a great selection of subtitled performances from offwestend and small venues across the world. There are … Continued

Online Event | Join us for a coffee and discover online events

Slice yourself a piece of cake, pour some coffee, and join us online to find out all about Stagetext and how we’re making events accessible during the lockdown. Are you missing out on seeing theatre shows, museum tours, or talks? We’re inviting you to join us and discover how you can watch shows and attend … Continued

Make sure you’re accessible in 2021!

It’s been a strange and busy year and it’s not over yet……. We’re starting to see more venues taking a step back into live performances, but online talks and shows are still being delivered so that audiences can be engaged in these difficult times. If you’re planning any event for the new year you need … 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

Press & Media

Press and Media We are always happy to talk about Stagetext in any capacity, so if you have a press enquiry about our work or are looking for a media interview then please get in contact using the details below. For media enquiries and interviews: Rachel Jele – Head of Advocacy and Engagement Email | … Continued
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