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			Audio Description Coalition Audio Description from A to Z 10 Steps to Creating and Maintaining a Successful Service Thursday, August 21, 2008 • 8 am-12 noon Broward Center for the Performing Arts Fort Lauderdale, Florida Information & Registration: access@kennedy-center.org How do we start an Audio Description service? Whether creating an in-house audio description service for a single performing arts presenter/producer or museum/ exhibit facility or creating a community-wide service for the various venues of multiple program providers, the essential steps to creating and maintaining a successful service remain the same. Audio Description from A to Z Answers Your Questions • creating an advisory board • hiring an audio description trainer • securing buy-in from decision makers • determining equipment needs • budgeting, fund raising, and marketing • training describers and involved staff • ongoing evaluation of the program and describers Presenters: Founding members of the Audio Description Coalition • Janet Zoubek Dickson, McCarter Theatre (NJ) • Ruth M. Feldman, Yale Repertory Theatre, (CT) • Celia Hughes, VSA arts of Texas, (TX) • Deborah Lewis, ELA Foundation (CA) • Michael T. Mooney, Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ) • Bill Patterson, Audio Description Solutions (PA) You might also want to consider this afternoon workshop ... Listen to a Bench, Chew on a Painting: Multi-Sensory Approaches to Museum Visits presented by Hannah Goodwin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Rebecca McGinnis, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens These pre-conference workshops are part of the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) Conference and open to the public. Participants may register for workshops without registering for the conference. Information & Registration: access@kennedy-center.org Click here for a printable flyer for this workshop.
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