Tag: Deaf Awareness

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Charity secures funding to increase awareness of deaf access to the arts

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Arts charity Stagetext has received a £20,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to help raise awareness of deaf access to arts and culture in the South East of England. The project will support Stagetext’s team of ambassadors to build relationships with deaf groups and deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people across the […]

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Campaign champions access to the arts for deaf audiences

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An arts charity is championing access to the arts this week for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences, as new data reveals that increasing numbers of people are using captions and subtitles to improve their event experience. Captioning Awareness Week 2023 is being organised by Stagetext, and will see arts venues across the country […]

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Public backs call to increase access to the arts for deaf audiences

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Check out this positive news story: according to a new poll, the British public are overwhelmingly in favour of putting on more captioned and subtitled performances and events for deaf people. The news comes as the arts charity celebrates Captioning Awareness Week, a campaign which will see theatres, museums and galleries hold captioned and live subtitled events throughout November.

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Groundbreaking HIV film launches for deaf community

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The latest from the home of positive news features the launch of a new British Sign Language and subtitled version of the award-winning ‘Life Growing Up’ film

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Subtitled shows bring theatre alive for hard of hearing

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An arts charity has been celebrating a campaign this week which saw arts venues in England put on special captioned and subtitled performances for those hard of hearing and deaf.

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