Love audiobooks? Podcasts? Heard of audio dramas? Umm… Let's change that! Audio Drama – aka audio description, aka AD – is film and television as...

Audio Drama

Location:

The Great Hall, Level 5, Tower Building
2007 NSW
Australia

Venue:
Vivid Ideas Exchange - UTS, The Great Hall
Audio Drama
Audio Drama

Featuring

Holly Craig

Holly Craig

Holly Craig is an emerging Sydney Based dance artist and performance maker. Drawing on their lived history of Blindness, Holly creates participatory movement based experiences translated through creative Audio Description, written texts and sound. Their works explore and agitate societal notions of agency, identity, power and connection.

Nastasia Campanella

Nastasia Campanella

Nas Campanella is the ABC's disability affairs reporter. Nas started her career at the ABC as a cadet journalist in Sydney in 2011 and has worked as a newsreader, reporter and senior producer for triple j and other ABC platforms. Nas has also undertaken projects with ABC International Development.

Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis is Australia’s most famous landscape architect and TV presenter who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people – he knows how to bring out the best in both, and takes great pleasure in bringing them together. His holistic approach is all about gardening, the soil, and the soul.

Kevin Geldard

Kevin Geldard

Kevin started with Red Bee Media Australia in 2014 as a captioner before helping the Audio Description team in 2015 and then fully committing exclusively to AD from 2020 onwards. His team, split between Australia and the UK, have helped facilitate the launch of AD for broadcast since 2020.

Travis Cardona

Travis Cardona

Travis Cardona is an Internal Production Producer at SBS/NITV where he produces an Indigenous NRL show. After studying at NIDA, Travis worked as an actor on stage and screen. In 2013 Travis started at SBS as an Indigenous stakeholder relations advisor, then moved to NITV as a content producer. 

Access and Inclusion

  • Audio Described - Audio description is a service provided for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Trained audio describers give live, objective, verbal descriptions.
  • Auslan Interpreted - Auslan interpreted events are for audiences who are Deaf and use Australian Sign Language (Auslan) as their primary means of communication. Experienced Auslan theatre interpreters stand to the side of the stage and translate what the speakers are saying or Auslan signing the text and dialogue live. Audiences requiring this service are seated in the section closest to the interpreter to ensure good sightlines.
  • Captioning - Captioning is the text version of speech and other sound that can be provided on television, DVDs, online videos, and at cinemas and theatres.
  • Hearing Loop - A hearing loop (sometimes called an audio induction loop) is a special type of sound system for use by people with hearing aids. The hearing loop provides a magnetic, wireless signal that is picked up by the hearing aid when it is set to 'T' (Telecoil) setting. Many venues have an induction hearing loop system. Check if your venue has this system.
  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.

Event Details

Love audiobooks? Podcasts? Heard of audio dramas? Umm… Let's change that! Audio Drama – aka audio description, aka AD – is film and television as you’ve never seen it before. Discover how AD can change your perspective on screen-based entertainment.

Join us for a showcase of ADs – standalone audio versions of popular films and television shows – followed by a panel discussion with AD experts, fans and film-makers. Discover how AD can change your perspective on screen-based entertainment.

Like a turbo-charged audiobook – AD is an audio-only version of film and television with bespoke narration describing onscreen action that isn’t obvious from the production’s audio. AD frees its audience from screens, allowing them to enjoy film and television while they’re out and about, travelling, gardening, cleaning, working, etc. It’s also fantastic for helping reduce screen time.

At this Audio Drama event, you will have the chance to experience AD as intended – as standalone audio entertainment, without the distraction of the visuals. A selection of AD clips from popular films and TV shows will be played, then discussed by a panel of AD enthusiasts, including AD professionals, filmmakers, distributors and AD consumers.

This panel session is ideal for sighted and non-sighted audience members. Delve into the finer points of experiencing film and TV through AD, and quiz AD creators about their art.

AD is available worldwide on television, cinema, online, and DVD and Blu-ray, and also at live events like the theatre, galleries and festivals (including Vivid Sydney!) but many Australians are unaware of its existence, let alone its potential as an alternative film and TV experience.

AD has significant entertainment potential for the wider community, and is particularly useful for people who are blind or have low vision as it provides visual information they would otherwise miss. Come and open your ears.

This FREE event is presented by Vivid Ideas in collaboration with the ABC, SBS, Stan, Accessible Arts, Blind Citizens Australia, the Fred Hollows Foundation, Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, Red Bee Media and The SubStation.

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Access and Inclusion

  • Audio Described - Audio description is a service provided for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Trained audio describers give live, objective, verbal descriptions.
  • Auslan Interpreted - Auslan interpreted events are for audiences who are Deaf and use Australian Sign Language (Auslan) as their primary means of communication. Experienced Auslan theatre interpreters stand to the side of the stage and translate what the speakers are saying or Auslan signing the text and dialogue live. Audiences requiring this service are seated in the section closest to the interpreter to ensure good sightlines.
  • Captioning - Captioning is the text version of speech and other sound that can be provided on television, DVDs, online videos, and at cinemas and theatres.
  • Hearing Loop - A hearing loop (sometimes called an audio induction loop) is a special type of sound system for use by people with hearing aids. The hearing loop provides a magnetic, wireless signal that is picked up by the hearing aid when it is set to 'T' (Telecoil) setting. Many venues have an induction hearing loop system. Check if your venue has this system.
  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.

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