Welcome to our audio described and tactile tour events page.
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Coming up:
- 15 Nov, 7.30pm: Guewel, experience a multi-sensory journey through ancient Senegalese cosmology. Seven years in the making, this immersive performance blends music, dance, spoken word, and ritual rhythms to explore life’s beginnings, endings, and our shared human experience. Designed for all senses, Guewel invites audiences to feel, hear, and connect deeply with its ancestral energy, at Arts House, North Melbourne. Tactile tour at 6.30pm, audio described performance 7.30pm.
- 19 Nov, 7pm-9pm: The Talented Mr. Ripley, from playwriting icon Joanna Murray-Smith comes this ravishing adaptation of the twentieth century’s most glamorous thriller, at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne. Tactile tour at 6pm.
- 28 Nov 7.30pm & 29 November 2pm: Kaleidoscope by City of Voices at Balam Balam, 15 Phoenix St, Brunswick. A roving performance across the Balam Balam site, meet a rabble of rebels - born from the bricks of Balam Balam Place. They’re here to hunt for the broken bits and test the limits of law and gravity. Join their technicolour rebellion and discover what happens when you dare to defy the rules and fly free. VV Describer Guides are available to provide one on one guiding and audio descriptions. Duration 1 hour. Preshow tactile tour starts 30 minutes before show.
- 30 November 5pm: One Night Only by Rawcus Theatre and Jackson Castiglione at Northcote Town Hall, 189 High St, Northcote. Each night an ordinary citizen takes on the role of the Protagonist, playing out the story of their life before our eyes. With the Rawcus team as their supporting cast, the Protagonist jumps backwards and forwards through time, reenacting the pivotal moments large and small that have shaped who they are. Tactile tour at 4pm, followed by audio described performance at 5pm. Duration 1 hour.
Other links to news, opportunities, articles and online audio described works:
Audio described short films by Top Design 2024 students:
Don't Burn the Toast by Lucas A Taylor
Full playlist of all Top Design 2024 student works can be found here.
'Between Two Sites- Audio Described' winner of the Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards 2024
Audio described artworks of Our Place: 20 years of Town Hall Gallery online exhibition, Boroondara Arts
Design Fringe Tactile Tour 2023 review by Alan Bartlett, with accompanying photos and descriptions
Sublime Stim exhibition by neurodivergent artist Mishka.
Between Two Sites exhibition by Bogong Centre for Sound Culture
Between Two Sites radio broadcast on Behind the Scenes Vision Australia radio
Power Up! by Fog Theatre, an Arts Wellbeing Collective Vitae Veritas project.
Other Power Up! audio, transcripts and feature articles can be found here.
