Resources

Internal Documents:

The documents below have been informed by past events and experience and we update them as any new learning occurs – they are live documents. We are very happy for other people to use them and we encourage further input and suggestions – which can be emailed to all@boptheatre.co.uk.

If any of our internally developed docuemnts are not accessible to you, please get in touch and we will work with to establish potential ways we can help you access them.

• Accessible Event Planning Tool Kit: This document is a checklist that BOP use as a reference when planning events.

• Accessible Marketing Toolkit: This toolkit is a checklist that BOP use as a reference when creating marketing material.

• Access Statement Template: This is an example of one of the ways we might help someone to write and Access Statement. This is a way of communicating your access requirements in general or for a particular project or activity – for instance travel.

• Alt-text Advice: Some things to consider when you are writing your own alt-text into digital images

• Barriers to Access: A research project investigating the barriers faced by young disabled and D/deaf people in accessing Scottish youth arts provision. Written by Dr Matson Lawrence. To find out more about the research project, and to find plain text and easy read versions of the report click here.

• BOP Equalities Monitoring Form: This document is a preview of the questions we ask in our Equalities Monitoring Form. The version we send out to people who work with us is a Google Form, so the questions are check boxes that people can select. Circular icons for a question indicate only one option can be selected, square icons for a question indicate multiple choice is available.

• Freelancer Access Requirements Form: This is the form we send out to all freelancers we engage in work to ensure that we are made aware of any access requirements they might have. We are then able to more easily accommodate these requirements in a way that is useful for the individual. By sending it out to everyone we work with we ensure that even people who might not have raised their access requirements to us prior to that point are given an opportunity to update us on their personal situation.

• Freelancer Access Requirements Form (Digital): This form is a varyiation of the standard Access Requirements form, but has been adapted to focus on how to make digital working environments (such as Zoom) accessible to individuals.

• Live Captioning (Not for Zoom): Created by Electronic Note Taker Louisa McDaid, this document outlines the ways in which you can provide live captions for meetings held of providers such as Microsoft Teams or Google Meet.

• Live Captioning (for Zoom): Created by Electronic Note Taker Louisa McDaid, this document outlines the ways in which you can provide live captions for meetings or events held on Zoom.

• Mental Health Resources: This document is a list of external organisations whom provide support for people who may have be experiencing some porr mental health. Please remember, these are external resources and BOP does not have any control over the support they provide.

• Website Accessibility Guide: If you are developing and updating a website, this document contains some useful guidance for you to keep in mind in regards to making sure your website is as accessible to many people as possible.

External Links:

• CRIPtic Arts and Spread the Word: Being Hybrid – a guide designed to support time- and resource-limited organisations in working out what they need to do to offer the best hybrid programme possible.
• Graeae: ‘How to…’ videos for making accessible work online
• Shape Arts: resources to help improve your organisations confidence in working with disabled people, and making your organisation more diverse and inclusive.
• Theatre Tech BSL: The Technical Theatre BSL (British Sign Language) Project aims to promote technical theatre for Deaf people. They do this through exploring and translating technical theatre words and jargon into BSL. This in turn will provide greater access for Deaf people to training and employment in technical theatre.
• Touretteshero: A place to celebrate the humour & creativity of Tourettes. Website details the projects of Jess thom but also has a really insightful blog pieces about the experience of a disabled person living in constemporary society.
• The Big Hack: A guide on common mistakes with Alt-text that should be avoided.
• Unlimited: An arts commissioning programme that enables new work by disabled artists to reach UK and international audiences.
• We Shall Not Be Removed: An intersectional UK Disability Arts Alliance formed as anemergency response to the pandemic.

External Documents:

Demystifying Access

by Unlimited

A guide for producers and performance makers: how to create better access for audiences to the performing arts

Relaxed Performance Study

by Ciné-ma différence

A comparative survey of sixteen organisations delivering Relaxed-type performances in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland and France.

Enhancing relaxed performance: evaluating the Autism Arts Festival

by Ben Fletcher-Watson and Shaun May

Evaluation of the Autism Arts Festival’s attempt to develop the idea of relaxed performances further to create an entirely autism-friendly festival in Canterbury.