Links
Organisations
- Action for Blind People
Action for Blind People is an expert national organisation, ensuring blind and partially sighted people receive practical support in all aspects of their lives. Last year we introduced 21,000 people to our services.
- Artsline
Artsline is a disabled led Charity established twenty-five years ago to promote access for disabled people to arts and entertainment venues promoting the clear message that access equals inclusion. Initially this was achieved by campaigning with other disability arts organisation.
- Full Circle Arts
Full Circle Arts is a North West based arts organisation that is led by disabled people. It works nationally with partners to provide creative solutions for inclusion of disabled people in aspects of the cultural industries and the arts.
- RNIB Website
An organisation supporting blind and partially sighted people. RNIB are the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss.
- RNID Website
RNID is the largest charity working to change the world for the UK’s 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people. We do this with the help of our members, by campaigning and lobbying, raising awareness of deafness and hearing loss, providing services and through social, medical and technical research.
- UnLtd
UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.
Resources
- Adverse Camber Productions
Adverse camber productions brings top quality storytelling to arts venues, rural touring networks, literature festivals and storytelling promoters.
- Deaf 247
Directory of British Sign Language and deaf related resources.
- Deaf Station
Information resource and news service in British Sign Language.
- Extant Arts Cultural Evolution
Extant is Britain's only professional performing arts company of visually impaired people, Extant has become an innovation in arts management and creative practise, bringing a unique cultural perspective of visual impairment to broaden employment, training and Consultancy through the Arts.
- Signed Stories
A major web initiative for deaf children and their families. ITV is making the best of British books available free on the Internet with British Sign Language translation.
- STAGETEXT
STAGETEXT provides captioning for theatres and other arts venues to provide access to live performances for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people.
- VocalEyes
VocalEyes - Nationwide audio description company for blind and partially sighted people providing access to the best in the arts.
Theatres
- Curve
Leicester's state of the art theatre, designed by world renowned architect Rafael Vinoly is based in the heart of the new Cultural Quarter on Rutland Street. Curve features two auditoria, one with 750 fixed seats while a 350 seat auditorium will provide a versatile smaller space. When the 32 tonne steel walls separating the stage and the foyer are lifted, the stage will be visible from street level.
- Derby LIVE
Derby LIVE is Derby City Council's new model for the delivery of the performing arts in Derby. The organisation will stage a range of performing arts across the city, including at a range of high-quality, large-scale outdoor venues.
- Nottingham Playhouse
At Nottingham Playhouse we make bold and thrilling theatre. It is world-class, made in Nottingham and as diverse as our community.
- Red Earth Theatre
Red Earth makes new and devised theatre that is visual, physical and inclusive. We make theatre for audiences of all ages, specialising in work for children and young people.
- The Royal Centre
Over 200 years ago, the Theatre Royal was envisaged by two Nottingham lace dressers, William and John Lambert, as a 'temple of drama'...a place of "innocent recreation and of moral and intellectual culture". In 1865, after six months of building and at a cost of £15,000, the new Theatre Royal was completed. The Classic facade and Corinthian columns still dominate Nottingham's city centre skyline.
The Theatre Royal's success after its renovation paved the way for the Royal Centre's second phase, the construction of a state-of-the-art Concert Hall on the site of the old Empire.
