Welcome to our audio described and tactile tour events page.
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May & June- Audio Described Performances in Melbourne:
VIGIL, by Outer Urban Projects. Audio Description & Tactile Tour- Friday 1 May. Arts House, North Melbourne
VIGIL is a polyvocal performance set on a crowded tram journey, bringing together multiple stories of people navigating safety, displacement, identity, and belonging in the city. It asks urgent questions about whose lives are valued and protected.
Performance Details
Tactile Tour: 6.30pm
Audio Described Performance: 7.30pm (duration 90 minutes)
Access Information
Audio description (and Auslan interpretation) is now provided on request through Arts House. Please ensure you book by 23 April.
Venue
521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Tickets & Booking
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/vigil/
Content warnings are available via the event link.
An Access Guide will be available for download prior to the event.
More information about Arts House accessibility:
https://www.artshouse.com.au/about-us/#accessibility-services
Enquiries:
NAAVIKARAN: THE MYSTIQ HOMECOMING. Describer Guide Services Available- Sunday 10 May. Bergy Bandroom, Brunswick
We’re excited to share that VV will be providing Describer Guide services for Naavikaran: The MYSTIQ Homecoming, featuring Naavikaran, who is also part of the VV audio description team. This is a homecoming concert and celebration of Naavikaran’s first national tour, with a warm invitation to the community to come together and share in music and art. This is a queer-friendly space, and audience members are welcome to bring stim toys or other self-regulation supports to help make their experience comfortable.
Event Details
Sunday 10 May
Describer Guides available: 6pm–9pm
Bergy Bandroom
64–68 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Near Jewell Station and accessible via the 19 tram
Tickets & Booking
https://bergybandroom.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/8c26577b-3434-4c81-ab26-3ca56c6adc1a?Event=234864
Accessibility
Our Describer Guide service provides real-time, in-person audio description to support blind and low vision audiences, offering detail, orientation, and context throughout the experience. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Booking is essential to access this service.
If cost is a barrier, discounted or comp tickets can be arranged. Please contact Nilgun at VV.
1154 DAYS, by Cheng Lei, Emma Valente and Clyde White. Audio Description & Tactile Tour- Saturday 30 May. Arts House, North Melbourne
1154 Days is a powerful performance work that traces lived experience, memory, and testimony over an extended period of detention and survival. Through a deeply personal and politically urgent lens, the work brings forward stories of endurance, resilience, and the ongoing impacts of Australia’s immigration detention system. It invites audiences into an intimate space of witnessing, reflection, and accountability.
Performance Details
Tactile Tour: 6.30pm
Audio Described Performance: 7.30pm (duration 60 minutes)
Access Information
Audio description (and Auslan interpretation) is now provided on request through Arts House. Please ensure you book by 21 May.
Venue
521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Tickets & Booking
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/1154-days/
Content warnings are available via the event link.
An Access Guide will be available for download prior to the event.
More information about Arts House accessibility:
https://www.artshouse.com.au/about-us/#accessibility-services
Enquiries:
THE SHEPHERDS, by Carly Sheppard & Alisdair Macindoe. Audio Description & Tactile Tour- Sunday 7 June. Arts House, as part of RISING
The Shepherds is a darkly comedic dance work following two “lost sheep” navigating Australian mythmaking, ancestry, and the legacies of colonialism. Blending humour, movement, and invented histories, the work explores how we reckon with the past and imagine more fertile futures. It is also presented as part of the inaugural Australian Dance Biennale.
Performance Details
Tactile Tour: 1pm
Audio Described Performance: 2pm (duration 70 minutes)
Access Information
Audio description (and Auslan interpretation) is now provided on request through Arts House. Please ensure you book by 23 April.
Venue
521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Tickets & Booking
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/the-shepherds/
Content warnings are available via the event link.
An Access Guide will be available for download prior to the event.
More information about Arts House accessibility:
https://www.artshouse.com.au/about-us/#accessibility-services
Enquiries:
MONSTEEN, presented by Infinity, Arts Centre Melbourne, SIGNAL and RISING. Audio Described Performance for Young People (13–17)- Saturday 13 June
VV will be providing Describer Guide services for MONSTEEN, a psychologically immersive performance created with and for young people.
Inspired by cosplay and RPGs, MONSTEEN is a collaborative world-building experience where teens step into a shifting school-day game. Four young cast members help catalyse the action, as participants build characters, form friendships and rivalries, navigate class politics, and move between secret hangouts, school life, and family dinner. As the game unfolds, players are invited to confront their “monstrous” side, asking what they see in the mirror, and whether they can embrace it.
Performance Details
Saturday 13 June
1:00pm performance (audio described)
SIGNAL
Northbank, Flinders Walk, Melbourne
Tickets & Booking
https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2026/festivals-and-series/rising/monsteen
Service Information
Describer Guides provide personalised, one-to-one support for patrons who are blind or have low vision. This includes a warm meet-and-greet on arrival, assistance on departure, sighted guiding if needed, a pre-show tactile tour, and live audio description throughout the immersive experience. Guides can also support navigation of the space and social, tactile, or spatial interactions.
Access Enquiries
Important Information
- This is a participatory work with a small audience capacity
- Participants must be 13–17 years old
- Participants aged 14 and under must be dropped off and picked up by a parent or guardian
Links to other news, articles and online audio described works:
Vitae Veritas interview with Vision Australia Radio about transforming accessibility at Midsumma Festival
Travelling Touch Tour trailer of Victoria's Pride Street Party, Midsumma Festival 2024
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.
