Your Building: Beyond Ramps and Toilets

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What message is your building giving out to D/deaf and disabled people about how welcome they are?

Focus on action-planning for smaller, achievable changes, rather than big capital projects. Leave equipped to take a tour of your building, spot some of the main barriers that D/deaf and disabled people face and remove them.

Suitable for anyone working in theatre, since we are all impacted by our physical environment. However, it is particularly relevant to those with responsibility for planning and implementing capital projects and for site management.

"I loved it so, so much, I've learned a huge amount."

"I feel really practically empowered to move forward with an action plan."

"Eye-opening and informative."

d/Deaf and Disabled Access for Audiences and Workforce in Theatre

Your Building is an additional module offered as part of our range of our range of training options to help you support d/Deaf and Disabled Access for Audiences and Workforce in Theatre.

Our additional modules delve into specific areas and are available as full day courses on request to those who have completed Removing Barriers: A Practical Introduction to Disability Equality or a similar foundation course.

Email events@soltukt.co.uk for further information and to express your interest.

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In this session, we will look beyond big, expensive capital projects and focus instead on action-planning for smaller, more achievable changes. The session will equip you to take a tour of your building(s), spot some of the main barriers that D/deaf and disabled people face and remove them.

Anyone working in theatre, since we are all impacted by our physical environment. However, it is particularly relevant to those with responsibility for planning and implementing capital projects and for site management.

LEARNING OUTCOMES – AT THE END OF THIS COURSE YOU WILL

be able to show an understanding of the sorts of obstacles D/deaf and disabled people face in the physical and sensory environments
have the beginnings of an action plan for removing barriers in your theatre
know how to talk about ‘access’ at your theatre, both within the organisation and in your outward-facing communications
have ideas for where to go for further information

Michèle Taylor is Director for Change at Ramps on the Moon, the Arts Council funded consortium of mid-scale mainstream theatres seeking to increase the number and visibility of D/deaf and disabled people in the industry. She has been delivering training in disability issues for nearly thirty years and has a background as a theatre practitioner, including work with Graeae Theatre. She is committed to ensuring that D/deaf and disabled people’s stories are told in our theatres.

Michèle’s training sessions are interactive and dynamic, with space to bring doubts, anxieties and concerns as well as strategies, ideas and enthusiasm.

Michèle is a registered member of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners.

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£180+VAT, Non-Members

£140+VAT, UK Theatre & SOLT Members (if booked from 02/02/19), ITC, FST, ABO and ABTT Members

£100+VAT, UK Theatre & SOLT members if booked before 2 January 2019

SPECIAL OFFERS

Reserve a place on all FOUR additional modules and pay for THREE places (different colleagues can attend different modules, they just need to have completed the Foundation module in advance) - email events@soltukt.co.uk to redeem offer

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