Come join Quiplash for an intro session on integrated audio description for circus and movement. Be prepared to move, play, explore and (of course) describe!
Friday 13th October 2023 1pm – 5pm, with breaks each hour.
At The Galleries: 25 Union street, Bristol, BS1 3XD.
The workshop took place at The Circus City Hub – The old TK Maxx on the third floor of the Galleries, next to Poundland.
Come join Quiplash for an intro session on integrated audio description for circus and movement. Be prepared to move, play, explore and (of course) describe!
This session will be a mix of provocation and improv games that help you learn how to structure audio description. Be prepared to explore sound and words alongside visuals and movement.
For artists of all disciplines working in performance – theatre makers, circus artists, drag artists, live artists, producers all welcome.
Accessibility info:
The building has step free access and there is an accessible toilet opposite the workshop space.
The galleries has a car park and disabled spaces are on level D.
Here’s more info on The Galleries facilities: https://www.galleriesbristol.co.uk/facilities/
Please don’t come if you have had recent close contact with Covid or any symptoms.
Masks welcome! For questions on access, please email: hospitality@bristolcircuscity.com
Watch a short introductory talk about Audio Description that Amelia made for Disability Arts Online here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sELKxZkCpU
A bit about Quiplash:
Quiplash is a queer, disability led consulting and performance company headed by actual queer crip married couple Al and Amelia Lander-Cavallo.
Quiplash has two strands. We have a creative performance and art branch, making accessible performances that platform queer disabled creatives. We also consult and train other industry professionals on accessibility, disability awareness and disability justice. In both strands, we work from an access first perspective meaning that accessibility is our highest priority and is at the forefront of how we work. This perspective informs our creative practice and overall principles.
Operating at the intersections of queerness and disability, we ultimately believe that making truly accessible work is a radical and creative act that can enrich artistic work and create equity and inclusion for d/Deaf disabled and neurodiverse individuals across the LGBTQQIA+ spectrum.
Image description: Photo of Amelia and Al as their drag alter egos Ophelia and Tito Bone. They are in the middle of… some kind of cleaning activity. Ophelia (Aka Al) is a beautifully round drag thing in a beautifully round, pastel pink dress and matching pink bowl cut wig. They have painted their face white with dramatic Glittery blue eyeshadow, thin black brows, pink cheeks and lips. They look calmly towards the camera with one hand on Tito’s (Amelia’s) shoulder and the other on Tito’s right butt cheek. Tito is a slim, white drag king with buzzed brown hair, blue glitter eyebrows and beard, matching blue shirt and gold trousers. Tito is bending forward at the waist, lovingly pushing their butt into Ophelia’s crotch. Tito’s left hand rests on their thigh and their right holds a large spray bottle of anti-bacterial cleaner which they point towards something off camera. Tito’s facial expression is saying something like “to get clean, you have to get dirty first, AMIRITE?!”