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  • Date and time: Wednesday 4 December 2024, 2pm to 5pm
  • Location: TFTV/011 Large Rehearsal Room, School of Arts and Creative Technologies East, Campus East, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to School of ACT Students and Staff
  • Admission: £1, booking required

Event details

Join Jenny Sealey, artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company, for an exploration of the whys, the whats and the hows of making theatre artistically accessible. Graeae is an international leader in accessible theatre, pioneering new ways of working. This session will be part talk and part practical, providing insights into how to place access at the heart of theatre-making.

A BSL interpreter will help facilitate the event.

About the performer

Jenny Sealey OBE

Jenny Sealey OBE has been Graeae’s Artistic Director since 1997. She has pioneered a new theatrical language-‘aesthetics of artistic access’ experimenting with bilingual BSL(Bristish Sign Language) and English, prerecorded BSL, creative captioning, in ear/ live audio description methods. Two, The Fall of the House of Usher, peeling, Bent, Blasted (2005), Diary of an Action Man, Blood Wedding (Japan) Romeo and Juliet in Japan and Bangladesh and most recently at Shakespeare North Playhouse and Theatre y the Lake. are particular examples. Graeae’s ethos, the aesthetic and placing of Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists centre stage has engineered a cultural shift and influenced and changed how the wider mainstream creative industry work nationally and internationally. Outdoor productions include Against the Tide; The Iron Man; The Garden, and This Is Not For You as part of 14-18Now with disabled veterans. Jenny co-directed the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony alongside Bradley Hemmings (GDIF). The same year she won the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award.

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible

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