Celebrate Captioning Awareness Week with the 18 Million
Captioning Awareness Week (11th to 17th November) helps us to raise awareness of text-based deaf access and how arts and cultural venues can support the 18 million deaf, deafened and hard of hearing adults in the UK. One in three of us could benefit from subtitles and captions to experience the joy of live theatre, to sing along with our favourite musicals, to take guided tours around museums, or to see our favourite authors speak at festivals.
This year marks Stagetext’s 24th anniversary. We’ve worked hard over the last quarter of a century to advocate for and provide deaf access for theatre, live performances, talks, museum tours, book festivals, comedy shows, films and videos.
Celebrate theatre captioning and live subtitles in arts and culture
- Captioning Awareness Week celebrates text-based deaf access to arts and culture
- The week-long campaign raises awareness of theatre captioning and subtitling and challenges misconceptions around deaf access
- We share stories about the positive impact theatre captioning and live subtitling have had on deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people’s lives.
- During the week we work together with theatres, arts and heritage venues across the UK to promote accessible theatre shows, talks and tours.
- Through Captioning Awareness Week, we encourage arts, culture and heritage venues and organisations to support the 18 million deaf, deafened and hard of hearing adults and change lives.
We are the 18 million
If you are one of the 18 million adults in the UK who is deaf, deafened and hard of hearing, find out how we can get involved.
See a captioned show
Celebrate Captioning Awareness Week by attending one of the many captioned or live subtitled events during 11-17 November.
Arts and Cultural Venues
If you work for an arts or cultural venue or organisation and would like to find out more about text-based deaf access, we are here to support you.
Sign up to our FREE Deaf Awareness Training
If you’re an arts or culture professional, we invite you to our free Deaf Awareness Training Day in Gorleston Pavilion in Norfolk on 12 Nov.
Be the first to know
Sign up for Stagetext’s newsletter to stay in the loop about upcoming captioned shows and live subtitled events.
Online Webinar
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Find out more about what it means to produce deaf accessible subtitles with our online webinar.
Become an Ambassador
Our ambassadors are volunteers who help support our work and are the voice of arts-loving caption and subtitle users across the UK. If that sounds like you, get in touch!
Captioning Display Standards
Not sure where to start or brushing up on your accessibility standards? Have a look at our guidance to make sure that what you’re offering is the best quality for your audiences.
Make a Donation
Make a donation to Stagetext to support our ongoing efforts to make the arts accessible to all. From a one-off or monthly donation, to running a marathon, there are so many ways you can make a difference to the work that we do.
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Want to get involved? Get in touch – we’d love to hear from you!
Venues: We work with venues throughout the year, offering training sessions and free resources, including the Captioning Display Standards.
Captioned Events: See all the captioned events happening on our What’s On page.
