Training Information Day Structure of the day

Introduction: Matthew Cock Experiences of audio description: Toby Davey The VocalEyes ethos and the work process: Andrew Holland The course: Roz Chalmers Lunch The theatre programme: Marina Elvira Observation skills Describing 2D and 3D objects Task setting: Describing sets We believe that blind and partially sighted people should have equal opportunities to experience and enjoy art and heritage • Audio description (live, recorded, in theatres, museums, heritage sites) • Training – mostly at and for specific venues, in visual awareness, guiding and audio description • Raising awareness in sector • reports, such as State of Museum Access 2019, and State of Theatre Access 2019 (coming soon) • Guidelines, written with our User Panel • Raising awareness and marketing to the audience VocalEyes

• Charity, reporting to a Board of Trustees • Core team of 6 • Chief Executive • Marketing and Audience Manager • Museum Programme Manager • Theatre Programme Manager • Programme Officer • Finance Manager (p/t)

Office near Elephant and Castle, in London SE1, shared with Stagetext, who provide captioning in theatres and museums for d/Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people. Funding

• Around ½ of our income is ‘earned’ – i.e. from the fees we charge theatres and museums for the services • Around 1/3 of our income comes from a grant from Arts Council England, as a ‘National Portfolio Organisation’ (NPO), and specifically a ‘Sector Support Organisation’ (SSO) (current funding round 2018- 2022) • The rest (1/6) is from other fundraising –amounts of normally £1k- £5k from charitable trusts and foundations. We have a strategy of cost-relieving fundraising, e.g. for print, braille and audio production costs, touring fund rather than for projects. VocalEyes Theatre AD (2018-19)

• 202 audio-described productions. Prior to this, we’ve delivered between 166 and 182 performances each year since 2014-15. • Around 50% in London, 50% outside London, touring • Around 130 different productions VocalEyes Theatre AD (2018-19): venues 1/3

Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue, Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Criterion Theatre, Curve Theatre, Derby Theatre, Doncaster CAST, Duchess Theatre, Grand Opera House, Belfast, Lighthouse Theatre, London, Novello Theatre, Malvern Theatre, New Theatre, New Victoria Theatre, New Wolsey Theatre, Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Opera Holland Park, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, Sadler's Wells, Savoy Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, The Gielgud Theatre, Theatre by The Lake, Keswick, Theatre Royal, Newcastle, Theatre Royal Norwich, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, Prince Edward Theatre (1) VocalEyes Theatre AD (2018-19): venues 2/3 • Apollo Victoria, Hexagon, Reading, Hull New Theatre, Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House, Lyceum Theatre, Milton Keynes Theatre, Natural History Museum, Open Air Theatre, Palladium Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre, Playhouse Theatre, Prince Edward Theatre, Sadler's Wells, South Bank Centre, The Lowry, Theatre Royal Nottingham, Unicorn Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre, Wyndham's Theatre (2) • Aylesbury Waterside, Battersea Arts Centre, Marlowe Theatre, New Victoria Theatre, New Wimbledon Theatre, Sunderland Empire Theatre, Theatre Royal Brighton, Trafalgar Studios 1, Vaudeville Theatre (3) • Duke of York's Theatre, Kiln Theatre, London, Palace Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, Orchard Theatre, Palace Theatre, Victoria Palace Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre (4) VocalEyes Theatre AD (2018-19): venues 3/3

• Bridge Theatre and the Noel Coward Theatre (5) • Almeida Theatre (6) • Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court (7) • Harold Pinter Theatre (8) • New Theatre, Oxford (11) • Shakespeare's Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (14) VocalEyes Theatre AD (2018-19): festivals

• Greenwich + Docklands Festival (GDIF) • Milton Keynes International Festival • Liberty Re-imagined • Unlimited, South Bank Centre A Moderate Soprano Disney's Aladdin Keep A Streetcar Named Desire Doctor Faustus Killer Joe A Very Very Very Dark Matter Dr Dolittle King Lear Absurd Person Singular Dreamgirls Kinky Boots Adam Ear for Eye La Traviata All About Eve Edward II Les Miserables Allelujah! Emilia Little Shop of Horrors Alys Always English Touring Theatre Othello An Ideal Husband Everybody's Talking About Jamie Love's Labour's Lost Annie Eyam Macbeth Approaching Empty Fame: The Musical Machinal Aristocrats Hairspray Madagascar As You Like it Hamilton Mamma Mia Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Hamlet Matthew Bourne's Cinderella Berberian Sound Studio Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 1 Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and 2 Blood Brothers Measure For Measure Calendar Girls Holy Sh!t Miss Saigon Caroline or Change Home I'm Darling Misty Company Icarus Consent Inheritance Part 1 and 2 Motown The Musical Correct Instructions For Assembly Jack and The Beanstalk Much Ado About Nothing Cyprus Avenue Jersey Boys My name is Lucy Barton Julius Caesar Dance Nation Nine Night Dirty Dancing Northern Ballet The Nutcracker Shipwreck The Son Snow White Northern Ballet Victoria The Tragedy of King Richard The Second Son of a Preacher Man Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre Spamalot The Way of The World Northern Ballet: The Little Mermaid St Nicholas The Wider Earth Northern Ballet: The Three Musketeers Still No Idea The Wild Duck One for the road / New World Order / Strictly Ballroom The Winslow Boy Ashes to Ashes Summer and Smoke The Woods Orpheus Sweat Othello The Cane The Writer Peter Pan The Comedy About The Bank True West Robbery Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales Two Noble Kinsmen The Curious Incident of The Dog Vivald's Four Seasons Pinter 3: Landscape / A kind of Alaska in the Night-Time Pinter 4: Moonlight / Night School The Dark Night of The Soul War Horse Pinter 5: The Room / Victoria Station / The Height of the Storm White Teeth Family Voices The Impotance of Being Earnest Wicked Pinter 6: Party Time / Celebration The Jungle Winter's Tale Pinter 7: A Slight Ache / The Dumb The King and I Waiter The Lieutenant of Inishmore Pity The Lion King Quiz The Little Matchgirl Red The Lover/ The collection The Phantom of The Opera Rifco: Dishoom! The Play That Goes Wrong Rock of Ages The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Rumplestiltskin The Restful Rebel’s Ball • Around 30 describers currently • They deliver on average 15 AD performances each year, in a range of 3-40. • All shows involve 2 describers, though some follow the ‘single-supported’ model • Some describers also work on the Museum and Heritage programme, Open House, voice work • Pay: £435, up to £525 for a single-supported. Other lower fees for repeats, updates, re-works • Expenses: accommodation, travel outside London • Allowances: travel (London) • Allowances: food (different sums for different periods away from home) • All (?) of our describers also do AD for clients independently of VocalEyes, and many do other work in related or other fields (e.g. captioning, teaching, workshops, consultancy, training) • At least 130 theatres across the UK offer audio description services for their productions, and we estimate around 1,000 audio-described performances are delivered each year. • Mix of VocalEyes, other small companies, individuals, and ‘in-house’ volunteers