Saturday, June 1, 2024
Captioning Options for Theatres - OC
MACT workshop at ArtistryLocation
- Accessible Entrance
- Accessible Parking Designated
- Accessible Restrooms
- Accessible Seating
- Wheelchair Accessible
Schedule and Tickets
The workshop is offered by the Minnesota Association of Community Theatres. Cost is $25 (MACT member $20). To register or to request accessibility accommodations, go to https://mn-act.net/index.php/about-us/training-workshops/ . For more information, call Jon at 612-819-0949 or email. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
About the Show
June 1, 2024
How is your theatre or cultural arts organization serving members who can’t hear all the words? Captioning can be an option. At this workshop, learn what local theatres and cultural groups are doing to provide Open (Scripted) Captioning to serve audience members who don’t hear as well as they used to, or who are Deaf or hard of hearing. Hear what methods may work and be affordable for your organization: Presenters include:
- Laura Wiebers and Shelia Bland, two independent captioners who use free software to provide captioned performances at History Theatre, Park Square and Theater Latte Da.
- Erica Cook, a remote captioner who uses an app on patrons’ smartphones to caption Sue Scott’s shows at Crooners Supper Club.
- Alejandro Tey shares how Mixed Blood Theatre projects scripted captioning at EVERY performance.
- Rick Shiomi at Full Circle Theatre will discuss how they developed their captioning system.
- Charliey Libra at Lakeshore Players talks about how they caption their shows using an LED digital display.
- We’ll briefly describe more expensive captioning at the Guthrie, Ordway and Hennepin Theatre Trust, supertitles used for Minnesota Opera, Zoom options for captioning virtual shows or meetings, and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART).
Panelists will talk about:
- what captioning software/hardware they use,
- if they bought it, created it, got it free…,
- the timeline for getting a script, putting it into the proper format, seeing the show to fine-tune timing and script changes, etc.,
- what skills and equipment the captioner needs,
- what support/assistance/pay is provided by the theatre or venue,
- how many shows per production are typically captioned,
- responses from audiences,
- how arts organizations can introduce and market captioning to audiences.