You might want to consider creating an Accessibility Pack for your event – to prepare audiences for what’s to come. Accessibility Packs are low cost ways of detailing accessibility in your show.

They can include:

• Access info about the venue – eg wheelchair access, toilets, step count leading to entrance, photos or video of what the venue looks like inside and outside
• Info in getting to the venue – eg public transport routes, parking
• Content of the show – eg characters, plot, themes, content warnings for distressing content
• A script – for people who need subtitles or transcript
• Support helplines – eg Lifeline phone number, QLife details, Arts and Wellbeing Collective details
• Contact details
• Even stating what’s not accessible can be useful – for example, the event will be live streamed online, but won’t be captioned at the time. It will be saved, and uploaded with captions at a later date.

Here is are some examples of an access pack from a previous Fringe artist:

Accessibility and Relaxed Performance FAQ _ Artemis_ Utter Mess.pdf

https://www.lefreaktheshow.com/accessibility

Your Access Pack can be done on a Word document and saved to Google Drive or Dropbox, or could be another format like a website or blog post.

If you have a show at Festival Hub, the information on our Accessibility Page under ‘Trades Hall Access’ will come in handy.

Your venue might already have similar guides to access – and if they don’t, you could send them your Access Pack for their future events.

If you have any questions about creating your Accessibility Pack, please feel free to email our Access Advisor Carly Findlay at [email protected], or the Artist Services team at [email protected].