Team Play. Collaborating and co-creating theater with visually impaired people | training.

We would like to invite those who lead workshops/theater groups for an exercise in openness. We will start by opening our heads. We will think about what stereotypes we know about visually impaired people. We’ll think about what we may be afraid of when dealing with them or what issues inhibit us from opening our classes to this audience. We will also think about how we can open up the space.

You will leave the workshop with practical tips that will help you take care of the accessibility of the space, including in places that are far from the ideal of architectural accessibility. We will also talk about opening collaborative spaces. You will learn and practice the principles of assisting the blind. You will try your hand at audiodescription. You will learn what to keep in mind when conducting activities that include people with visual impairments. We will talk about opening our teams. Together we will create a model of a team made up of visually impaired and sighted people. We’ll think about how to take advantage of opportunities and meet challenges to discover the full potential of diversity.

For whom.

For people who run workshops/theater groups in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie region and would like to include people with visual impairments.

Presenters:

Katarzyna Peplinska-Pietrzak
Theater educator, accessibility coordinator and trainer, audiodescriber of theater and dance, director. She works at the Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theater in Krakow. Creates creative programs and conducts workshops for children, youth, seniors and people with disabilities and g/deaf. Author of 3 social innovations in the field of theater and dance: “Senses in Motion. A model of choreography for the blind”, ”Open Stage. Self-advocates in theater” (a model for accessible theater education), ‘Theater: a laboratory of the senses’. She directed the multisensory performance “My First Space Odyssey” for children aged 0-24 months, and the dark performance “In the beginning there is tenderness” with integrated audiodescription and with the participation of blind and sighted actors. She is interested in sensory design.

Artur Bylinski
Social activist, breaking language barriers related to blindness on his channel Becoming Blind Tutorials. By day, he is involved in tourism and education at the Invisible House in Torun. He has worked with NGOs, cultural institutions and training, including: Studio for Sustainable Development, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Butterfly School Bilingual Elementary School and Artus Court Cultural Center in Toruń.

Registration:

Participation in the training is free of charge. To register your desire to participate, fill out the registration form by October 2: https://forms.gle/zwSxiZ7WBWJLdvuGA

Participation is determined on a first-come, first-served basis, and each person will receive an email confirmation of participation within 5 days of submitting the form.

The training is part of the Young Theater Continues project.

Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for Promotion of Culture – a state purpose fund.

Subsidized from the budget of the Local Government of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.